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Mr. Morley-Jepson has more than 35 years’ experience in the mining industry, within operations, project and business development in the precious metal sector. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Kinross Gold Corporation from October 2014 to December 2016, and as Senior Vice President, Operations, and Vice President and Regional Vice President - Russia, between October 2009 and October 2014. Prior to joining Kinross, Mr. Morley-Jepson served as Chief Executive Officer of SUN Gold, a privately-held gold mining company with interests in Russia and Kazakhstan. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Barrick Africa, Barrick Platinum South Africa and three Russian-based companies in the Barrick group, and spent several years with Placer Dome leading their South African project and business development efforts. He graduated in the faculty of Mechanical Engineering (HND) at the Technicon Witwatersrand now part of the University of Johannesburg. He has undertaken a number of technical, managerial and financial programs during his career, most notably the ‘Management Development Program’ at Graduate School of Business, Cape Town University and ‘Management in the Mining Industry’ at Witwatersrand School of Business, University of the Witwatersrand. Most recently (Feb 2012), Finance for Senior Executives at Harvard Business School.