Cirriculum Vitae Of Edward Eduman Milne

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1 Cirriculum Vitae Of Edward Eduman Milne

2 Personal Details: Name: Sex: Address: Telephone: Edward Eduman Milne Male 527 Feather Falls Estate Furrow Road Krugersdorp (Home) (Cell Phone) Date of Birth: 18 February 1973 Age: Languages: Health: Martial Status: Driver s Licence: Hobbies & Sport: 40 Years English Afrikaans Excellent Married Yes Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Touch Rugby and Squash and Tennis

3 Education and Training: School: Highest Standard Passed: Tertiary Education: Qualification: Werda High School Durban South Africa Matric Exception University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa B.Comm Degree (Financial and Cost Accounting and Tax) Cost and Management Accounting Years attended: 1991 to 1995 Major Subjects: Financial Accounting Business Management Taxation & Auditing Cost and Management Accounting Economics Commercial Law Computer Science Statistics Employment History: I have close to 20 years working experiences in South Africa as well as the United Kingdom. My professional background has predominantly been finance although over the last 10 years I have been exposed to a number of senior management roles overseeing a multiple number of disciplines including Finance, Corporate Services, IT and Development of Property. Over my career I have been exposed to different business sectors although large part of my development has been within the Construction, Charity (Not for Profit), Development and Property sectors. Key companies contributing to my development has been Murray and Roberts, British Red Cross, Iglu.com, Genesis Housing Group, Circle Anglia Housing Group and Mintails.

4 1. Mintails Limited (South Africa) 04 January 2012 to Present Mintails Limited is a listed gold mining junior on the Australian stock Exchange. It owns a number of mining rights and prospecting rights in and around the West Rand of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields of South Africa. Mintails processes hard rock material as well as tailings through its gold beneficiation plants in Krugersdorp. Duties: Member of the Executive Committee, Chief Financial Officer As CFO I am responsible for all financial aspects associated to the company. This includes ensuring financial viability as well as production of all compliance requirements associated to a listed company. As my role reports to the Board of the company my duties require me to be a key member of the executive team of the company overseeing and implementing the strategic direction of the Executive. My duties has exposed me to the business of the company including the vision associated to Mine Closure, Environmental Rehabilitation, Treatment of AMD as well as a significant number of other key responsible areas topical to mining companies and their day to day operations. Mintails under guidance has established a Environmental Management Forum, furthered engagements with local government organisations as well as developed a supporting solution to the treatment of AMD on the West Rand facilitating discussions and engagements with TCTA as well as the Department of Water Affairs. Since joining Mintails the company s turnover has increased by 65% and total production of gold supporting the operations of the company has increased by over 35%. 2. Wandle Housing Association (UK) 1 November 2010 to 31 December 2011 Wandle is a housing association delivering affordable housing to low income families in South London. It owns and manages circa 6,500 properties and has a turnover of 40m debt of 300m and assets value in the region of 900m. Duties: Finance and Development Director I joined Wandle HA in November 2010 as Finance Director reporting to the Chief Executive and Board on all aspects of Wandle s finances. Taking full responsibility of overseeing the preparation of the financial statement, annual audit, finance strategy, capital accounting, day to day management of the Finance team as well as delivering all directors duties for Wandle HA. I took on the additional duties as the Development Director from March This required me to take ownership of the delivery of Wandle s development programme which has circa 550 completions in for 2011/12. I have further secured with my team the new development agreement for Wandle HA with the Homes and Community Agency for a new development programme over the next 3 years of funding delivering circa 350 new affordable homes with 6.5m grant funding.

5 Being part of the management team in a short period of time I have been able to contribute significantly to the development of the association and improve the overall operating environment. 3. Genesis Housing Group (UK) 11 February 2008 to 31 October 2010 Genesis Housing Group owns and manages a combination of over 40,000 properties within London and the Home Counties. It has an annual turnover of over 200m, debt of 1.5bn and asset of circa 2bn. Duties: Head of Investment and Strategy (Reporting to the Group FD) My duties include being responsible for the Group Financial Planning and the Development and Fixed Asset departments. Overall Investment decisions across the company were the responsibility of my department and allowed me to ensure consistent value add to the business through the evaluation of all new investment and development opportunities. 4. Circle Anglia (UK) 01 April 2004 to 8 February 2008 Company Background Circle Anglia is a merged organisation between Circle 33 and Anglia Housing Group in June It owns and manages over 50,000 properties across the UK. Its turnover is in excess of 200m and an asset book of circa 2bn. Duties: Director of Finance Circle Anglia Ltd and Circle 33 April 2007 to February 2008 My duties in this role required me to act as Finance Director and dedicated finance support to each of the two individual entities. Circle 33 is the largest RSL within the Circle Anglia Group and Circle Anglia Ltd as the parent company within the Group responsible for all corporate services department. 5. Genesis Housing Group (UK) 06 January 2003 to 25 February 2003 Duties: My duties included looking after the correct implementation of the new SORP (Standard of Reporting Procedures) issued to social landlords. These tasks comprise of the capitalisation of interest on new developments during the building period. 6. Murray & Roberts Foundries Group (South Africa) 04 April 2002 to 18 August 2002 Murray & Roberts is a construction and manufacturing company in South Africa. They employ over 10,000 people with subsidiaries across Southern Africa. I was employed by

6 the M&R Foundries group as System Coordinator. The Foundries group consists of 5 companies, all dealing in manufacturing for the automotive industry in South Africa. Some of their major clients are Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen SA and Paragon Metals Inc. Duties: My main duty was the implementation of a new financial package for the foundries group. The financial package was Impact Encore 5.1 (Syspro Software). I had to finalise the project plan for the implementation at the 5 companies in the group. This included choosing the correct supplier of the software and setting up meetings with each supplier to receive estimates of costs. I had to manage meetings with all managers involved in development of the project plan to coordinate implementation at each site. I had to develop an understanding of each entity s financial and manufacturing processes to tailor the software in certain areas to fit in with the companies reporting. I had to manage meetings and convince managers on changing certain aspects of their reporting to standardise reporting practices across the board for all the companies. These included for example their Chart of Accounts and Stock systems. I employed and managed two more staff in the implementation. This was necessary due to the manipulation of date from the old system and uploading it on to the new system. Special Achievements: I developed the implementation project and managed all aspects of the implementation. Budgets were established and managed to ensure that no unexpected costs were incurred. Strict deadlines were set and the project was completed within these deadlines during difficult periods in the financial year (i.e. Financial Year End and Year End Audit.) I decided on implementation at one site first and after completion the same system was rolled out at the other four sites. I was responsible for the training on the new system and documented some of the training modules used by the people. This project challenged my ability to organize and coordinate a large project, especially since it included different sites across South Africa. I was also placed in situations where I had to resolve conflict and persuade people of the advantages of implementing a new system. 7. Uncle Ed s 4x4 Catered Day Travel Adventures 01 November 2001 to 31 March 2002 This is a business venture started up by myself. It is aimed at tourist recreation in South Africa taking tourist to the Western Cape on day 4x4 trips into the mountains or dunes around the Western Cape. Special Achievements:

7 I wrote a business plan for the company. This defined my scope and nature of development. I did market research and developed a budget to calculate my breakeven point. I underwent specialised training in advanced 4x4 driving and applied for all necessary permits. Start-up costs were low and I achieved breakeven after two months. The business venture is still maintained by me for further development at a later stage. 8. Cancer Research Campaign (UK) 18 June 2001 to 4 July 2001 The Cancer Research Campaign is the biggest research organisation in the UK on cancer. They employ people across the country and manage all funds received for the research on cancer. 9. Croner CCH (UK) 17 April 2001 to 8 June 2001 Croner CCH is a Dutch owned publishing company. It specialises in electronic publishing in Health and Safety and Employment Law categories. It has an accounts department that employs more than 50 people in its London Office. 10. University College London (Institute of Ophthalmology) (UK) 25 September 2000 to 2 March 2001 Institute of Ophthalmology is a division of UCL. They specialize in research of the Eye and related diseases. There are about two hundred scientists and academics at the institute. Funding is government related based on their status received for the latest Research Assessment Exercise. Funding received from UCL is HEFCE driven. The Finance department consisted of Financial Controller, Senior Finance Assistant, Two Credit control clerks and a Debit control clerk. Special Achievements: All duties allocated to me were handled professionally and I had a good working relationship with all people involved. 11. British Red Cross Society (UK) 31 May July 2000

8 The Red Cross Society is the biggest charity organisation in the world. It supplies support to disaster victims across the UK and the rest of the world. It has projects running on a long-term basis for rehabilitating victims long after basic needs has been supplied. 12. Iglu.Com (UK) 17 January May 2000 Iglu.com is an e-commerce company working extensively in the Ski Market in Europe and America. The company was an inter-mediatory on-line booking and tour-operator company. It had approximately 40 employees and a total turnover of about 2m. Special Achievements: This opportunity offered a great scope of learning in new field of expertise for future application. In working for such a small and new company one gets involved in a variety of tasks within the business, and I gave a great deal of support to the Office Manager in the daily running of the office and the people working for the company. I had to set-up standard terms and agreements with suppliers on payments and ensure that all the money was collected for each client before they departed on their holiday. 13. Thompson Financial Services (UK) 11 October December 1999 Thompson financial is an international media company with an excess of 2000 people employed in the UK and Europe. I was employed in the accounting department for UK and Europe. 14. Consani Engineering (South Africa) 1 August August 1999 Consani Engineering is a manufacturing company in South Africa. Being part of the Murray and Roberts Group it formed part of the top five companies in South Africa with Turnover of more than 500m. Consani employed over a 1000 People on their premises in Cape Town. Consani Engineering manufactured Stainless Steel Tank Containers for the Export market worldwide. It also manufactures Bulk Storage and Wine Fermenting tanks. The manufacturing of these products mostly consist of Stainless Steel that is imported from Europe and the UK. The Financial Structure was as follow: Commercial Director, Financial Director, Cost Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Controller, Accountant, 3 Creditors Clerks and 1 Debtors Clerk.

9 15. Olivier Transport (South Africa) (1 February 1995 to 31 July 1995) As a transport broker I was co-ordinating a vast majority of heavy trucks all over the country. The company had their own fleet as well as several sub let vehicles. This was a temporary position after finishing my studies where I gained some valuable people skills. 16. Export Table Grape Farm De Doorns Vally (South Africa) (Study Holidays) The position of farm manager whilst studying gave me a feel of working with people and the demands they may have on a person. I was responsible for supervising a team of over 120 people on a farm whilst busy preservation of the grapes before harvesting them for the export market. I was responsible for keeping accurate records of the staff and also controlled their daily workload. This position required a lot of motivation of the staff to ensure they were performing their jobs productively.