Cecilia Silva, Simandou Commercial Director, Rio Tinto

Cecilia is a mining engineer and geologist and has worked for Rio Tinto for 6 years bringing 30 years of extensive experience in mining and metals working from operational to commercial sites including strategy, sales, pricing and marketing. Within this period Cecilia has spent 20 years working closely with Chinese stakeholders. Cecilia joined Rio Tinto […]



Franck Shulders, AMBER DEVELOPMENT

Diplômé d’HEC Paris et titulaire d’un MBA de Wharton (Université de Pennsylvanie), Franck Schulders est Managing Partner d’Amber Bauxite & Alumina. Il a été Head Trader en charge du Cobalt chez Glencore pendant 11 ans après avoir été Directeur Administratif et Financier au sein de filiales de groupe français de travaux publics au Congo Brazzaville […]



Alan CLARK, Consultant Bauxite CM Business Consulting

Alan Clark est le fondateur et le directeur général du CM Group, une société privée de conseil en recherche spécialisée dans l’analyse des industries mondiales des métaux de base et mineurs. Alan est ingénieur métallurgiste (Université d’Australie du Sud), titulaire d’un MBA spécialisé dans la gestion de la technologie (Université de Melbourne) et possède plus […]



Aguibou LY, Founder and CEO IBS GROUP

Started his career as a sales executive in the telecom industry out of clearwater Florida, from there deployed ITC Global presence in West Africa as Regional Manager, participated in the growing the business until its acquisition by Panasonic in 2015. Launched IBS group in 2010 as a mining services company and grew it to become […]



Derrick Hansen, General Manager, Procurement & Logistics, Rio Tinto Guinée

Derrick has 39 years’ experience in the resources sector, he brings with him broad commercial skills developed from diverse roles including maintenance & operations, procurement, capital projects, contracts management, supplier relationship management, local content development & supply chain optimisation, business transformation, procurement stream of business divestment and M&A integration.



Aboubacar MOUSTAPHA Mining Technical Expert, TotalEnergies

Aboubacar is a graduate of Ecole des Mines de Nancy (France) and holds a degree in mining engineering and computer science.  He started his career as an Engineer at the Ministry of Mines of Niger where he took part in the project of computerization of the country’s geological database in 1994. He then moved to […]



Saifoulaye BALDE, Directeur, BST

Saifoulaye est fort de 13 ans d’expérience dans le domaine des finances, de l’administration publique et de la gestion d’entreprise. Il a occupé différents rôles de premier plan , notamment à l’APIP et au FODIP. Titulaire d’un MBA de Sherbrooke University et d’un GDBA de la Molson School of Business de Montréal, Saifoulaye est depuis […]