3 January 2025
Goldplat plc
("Goldplat" or the "Company")
Appointment of Non-Executive Director
and
Appointment of Chairman
Goldplat plc, (AIM: GDP) the AIM listed Mining Services Group, with international gold recovery operations located in South Africa and Ghana, servicing the African and South American Mining Industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Cross to the board as an Independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
In addition, the Company has appointed Gerard Kisbey-Green, who was appointed as acting Chairman on 27 September 2024, as Chairman of the Company with immediate effect.
Further information on John Cross
John Cross had a long career as a Chartered Accountant and qualified Financial Advisor and has been consulting across a number of Industries, using his extensive accounting and business skill sets to provide analytical and structural advice to businesses and private clients operating in Australia and abroad. John has specialised in Acquisitions and Disposals and in identifying opportunities for business improvement.
Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1983, John has worked both in professional practice and in industry.
John Guy Cross, age 66, has not been a director or partner of any companies or partnerships during the past five years.
John Cross was a director of Boards and Surf Equipment Pty Ltd ("BASE") when BASE entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 30 June 2011. BASE was subsequently deregistered on 10 March 2014.
John Cross does not hold any legal or beneficial direct or indirect interest in the securities of the Company.
There is no further information required to be disclosed in respect of the above appointment pursuant to Rule 17 or Schedule 2 (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Gerard Kisbey-Green, Chairman of Goldplat commented: "It gives me great pleasure to welcome John as an independent director. I believe that with his substantial commercial and financial experience, John will bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the Board".
For further information visit www.goldplat.com, follow on X @GoldplatGDP or contact:
| Werner Klingenberg
| Goldplat plc (CEO)
| Tel: +27 (0) 82 051 1071 |
| Colin Aaronson / Samantha Harrison / Ciara Donnelly
| Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser) | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
|
| James Bavister / Andrew de Andrade
| Zeus (Broker)
| Tel: +44 (0) 203 829 5000
|
| Tim Thompson / Mark Edwards / Fergus Mellon | Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications | Tel: +44 (0) 207 129 1474 goldplat@flagstaffcomms.com |
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