Hummingbird Resources plc’s investee and owner of the Liberian Dugbe gold project has appointed Brett A. Richards as chief executive officer with immediate effect.
The company holds a 53% interest in Pasofino Gold Ltd which in September was under a US$75 million offer.
Mr Richards has more than 37 years’ mining and metals industry experience in operational management, project development, construction, and corporate business development.
He has held several CEO positions in West Africa and led the construction and commissioning of three mines, two of which are located in West Africa and one in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Pasofino has granted Mr Richards one million incentive stock options under the company’s long-term incentive plan.
Hummingbird chairman Dan Betts is also chairman of Pasofino.