James Chabata brings more than 15 years of finance leadership in African mining, with hands-on experience in Mali, Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mauritius. He joins us from Montage Gold, where he built the in-country finance function for the Koné Project in Côte d’Ivoire. Before that, as Finance and Administration Manager at Leo Lithium, he helped take the Goulamina Lithium Project in Mali through construction and into production, setting up the tax structuring, banking, dual IFRS and OHADA reporting and internal controls, and he stayed on through the project’s sale to Ganfeng to support the transition. Earlier in his career he held senior finance roles with B2Gold in Mali, First Quantum Minerals in Mauritania, Resolute Mining in Mali and Teranga Gold at the Sabodala Mine, after starting out in audit at BDO in South Africa. James is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada, a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the UK, and holds an Honours degree in Accounting from the University of Zimbabwe.