1. GEOFFREY TAYLOR
21 Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool, L12 7LG
Mob: 07970 316250
Tel: 0151 2701321
Email: GTaylorB@Aol.com
PROFILE
A driven, naturally focused and highly successful senior management professional with the capabilities to drive
organisations and projects forward, utilising expertise within metal extraction mining and production processing, having
gained extensive international experience including an extensive period of time in Africa. A driven Leader with a wealth of
management experience who offers project leadership expertise and who can successfully transform failures into success.
Exposure across a number of additional sectors including oil and gas enables the continual demonstration of project
prowess that would enhance any forward thinking organisation.
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
● Senior management expertise
● Metal extraction mining and production
processing
● Project leadership
● Complex problem solving skills
● Partnership engagement
● Extensive international mining exposure
● Gold mining laboratories
● Leadership and supervision of multi-cultural
teams and environments
● Negotiation and influential skills
● Driven by best practice
EXPERIENCE
Jul 2013 – Date Independent Consultant Technical Projects Director – Alex Stewart International LLC (UK)
Key Achievements:
• Special assignments within West African region but particularly and logistically based from within Ghana
• Currently personally assigned to Bauxite mining project within Sierra Leone in collaboration with local government
officials there in Freetown and also in collaboration with Ghana civil contractors for multifunction shopping mall
build within Takoradi and trade fair build within Accra in tender stage with local government officials
Feb 2012 – Jul 2013 Special Projects/ Operations Director – Intertek Minerals Ltd (Ghana)
Key Achievements:
• Complete control of main Geochemical /assay laboratory HQ new site 5 acre “cradle to grave” project build in
Tarkwa, Western Region now functionally complete end of July 2013 and then transfer of staffs and operational
equipments thereafter (in scheduled non- disruptive product ion phases)
• Then Special Project s gold/ mineral exploration processing site/mine builds around neighbouring West African
countries in addition (i .e. Burkina Faso, Cote d`Ivoire, Mali , Sierra Leone, Liberia, French Guinea etc. ) to be
assessed but were suspended permanently due to gold pr ice collapse and so left the company after obtaining 40%
bonus payment for completion of project within personally revised Capex budget and timeline
Aug 2006 – Feb 2012 Alex Stewart International LLC (UK)
Gold, silver, platinum and mineral assay, Auditor and inspector for governmental and commercial clients, turnover: £2
billion, Employees: 20,000 (worldwide)
Overseas Consultant General/ Technical Manager
Key Achievements:
● Leads on complete government audit projects. Build and implementation of projects including equipment
installation, administration and staffing, liaises with stakeholders, produces 12 independent monthly reports to
Chief Government Minister of Mining, budget responsibility: £3m to £12m. To date, projects completed in Tanzania,

2. Zimbabwe and Zambia, also prepares gold audit equipment, construction and commercial project equipment
feasibility reports for future projects worldwide
● Founded and fully implemented the ASAGBC Gold Audit Programme for Tanzania
● Successfully ran the ASAGBC audit programme for six years. Programme handed over to Tanzanian Government in
2007 yielding national annual profits of over $120m, profits to Alex Stewart Group prior to handover amounted to
$60m p.a., spent a year training the Government Chief Chemist/MD and staffs so that it continued to be successful
and I was granted founder/VIP status of their now continually successful and expanded Gold Audit Programme to
date
● Full liaison with security company (Securicor) to implement all goldmine audit sample shipment logistics and on site
company security procedures on 24/7 basis
● Directly responsible for production of complete franchised gold/platinum audit programme specifically targeted at
foreign governments, with commercial adaptability if required. Scope of franchise could extend to environmental
mineral/toxicity monthly monitoring and reporting to recoup local compensatory claims against bad mining
practices
Jun 2002 – Jun 2006 Alex Stewart (Assayers) Government
Business Corporation (Tanzania)
Audits Tanzanian gold mines, provider of training for national chemists, on site auditors and administrators, employees: 75
Deputy General Manager/ Laboratory Manager
Key Achievements:
• Retrieved for Tanzanian Government all fraudulent tax revenue from mines by daily/weekly gold analysis assay and
monitoring of all on site mining practices by trained auditors/assayers
• Successfully recouped over £6m per month for Tanzanian Government
• Monetary success of the ASAGBC gold audit programme (which was a direct result of personally developed audit
• programme, technical structuring, logistics control and staff training to ISO 9000/2001 quality standards) caused
Tanzanian Revenue Authority to extend initial 3 year audit by further 5 years
• Expanded successfully the same franchise audit programme to gold and platinum in Zimbabwe in 2007/2008
• Commercially applied audit for ASA Zambia to copper assay in Zambia in 2009/2010 which directly doubled its
annual turnover and profitability margins
Additional Experience:
1996 – 2002 Managing Director/ Laboratory Manager – Alex Stewart (Assayers London) Ltd
1995 – 1996 Superintendent of CIL/ Gold Refining Production – Bakrchik Gold Plc (Kazakhstan/ Russia)
1994 – 1995 Production Superintendent– National Titanium Dioxide Company (Saudi Arabia)
1984 – 1994 Chief Production Manager – Lonrho Plc (Ghana)/ Ashanti Goldfields Corporation)
QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
HND (Chemistry) - Halton College of Technology and Further Education (1973)
French language read/write/speak proficiency moderate (1970 to date)
Professional Development:
Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemists (1974 to date)
Financial Budget Preparation Courses – Lonrho Plc (1990-1992)
XRF workshop on Bruker AXS SRS 3000 series and
Mineralogy/Gemmology certificate of competency
Obtained from Seamic Government Laboratory, Tanzania (2010)
HRD certificate in Project Management (2012)
Fully IT proficient in MS Office 2010 including MS Word, MS PowerPoint 2010 and also MS Excel 2010
Currently studying online with “The Learning People Group” for PMP certification
Also Prince 2 certification and MS Project 2013
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Language Skills: Basic Russian language ability, Swahili basic and Twi basic African language skills and speak, read and write
French at intermediate level