NAV Per Share: ZAc 687 (as at 31 December 2022)

Key Management

Adrian Banks

Managing Director of Product & Sales

Adrian is responsible for managing Gemfields’ entire rough materials supply-chain, which includes grading, quality assurance and the rough auction sales platform. He is a veteran of the coloured gemstone industry having spent a decade with Tanzanite One prior to joining Gemfields in May 2009…

Adrian Banks

Managing Director of Product & Sales

Adrian is responsible for managing Gemfields’ entire rough materials supply-chain, which includes grading, quality assurance and the rough auction sales platform.

He is a veteran of the coloured gemstone industry having spent a decade with Tanzanite One prior to joining Gemfields in May 2009 and being appointed to the board of Gemfields Ltd in August 2017.

He is well known and respected throughout the gemstone industry and has dealt widely with traders, dealers, governing bodies and retailers.

Adrian has overseen the Gemfields emerald and ruby auctions since inception and is looking forward to celebrating Gemfields 50th auction soon.

With a passion for the African continent, Adrian is always energised by bringing her most beautiful gemstones to the world.

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Emily Dungey

Group Marketing and Communications Director

Emily leads marketing and communications across the Gemfields Group, building consumer demand for responsibly sourced African coloured gemstones.

Strategically building a global presence for the Gemfields brand, Emily’s team initiates activations to educate consumers, raise awareness of Zambian emeralds and Mozambican rubies, and highlight Gemfields’ core values of transparency, legitimacy and integrity to revolutionise the coloured gemstone sector…

Emily Dungey

Group Marketing and Communications Director

Emily leads marketing and communications across the Gemfields Group, building consumer demand for responsibly sourced African coloured gemstones.

Strategically building a global presence for the Gemfields brand, Emily’s team initiates activations to educate consumers, raise awareness of Zambian emeralds and Mozambican rubies, and highlight Gemfields’ core values of transparency, legitimacy and integrity to revolutionise the coloured gemstone sector. In this endeavour, Gemfields’ marketing team creates collaborations with the arts and fashion worlds, selecting likeminded partners and international jewellery brands, including Fabergé, an iconic name with an exceptional heritage and a member of the Gemfields Group. Often surprising, unexpected and unique, these collaborations are chosen to promote consumer awareness, appeal and education of coloured gemstones, raising their profile and, in turn, providing greater benefit to their place of origin in Africa.

Emily joined Gemfields from her own marketing communications consultancy, where she partnered across the luxury sector to launch campaigns with brands from IWC Schaffhausen to Bentley, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph & Russo. Prior to this Emily’s career spanned luxury and charity, from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, where she led every new product launch for six years to redesigning Save the Children’s UK marketing performance strategy and managing the crisis response team. Emily lives in London and enjoys travel, attempting to grow plants and charcoal drawing.

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Toby Hewitt

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Toby is a corporate lawyer of more than 23 years’ standing. He has a background of working in international private practice (Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells) and has occupied senior in-house legal roles in the resources and energy sectors. A geologist by first degree, his expertise includes listed corporate administration and governance, cross-border M&A, commercial contracts, joint ventures, project development, equity capital markets and debt financing, compliance, intellectual property and high-profile disputes…

Toby Hewitt

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Toby is a corporate lawyer of more than 23 years’ standing.  He has a background of working in international private practice (Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells) and has occupied senior in-house legal roles in the resources and energy sectors. A geologist by first degree, his expertise includes listed corporate administration and governance, cross-border M&A, commercial contracts, joint ventures, project development, equity capital markets and debt financing, compliance, intellectual property and high-profile disputes.

Toby joined Gemfields in 2014 and has overall responsibility for the group’s legal affairs, including Fabergé, and is the company secretary of Gemfields Group Limited and a number of its subsidiaries.

Gemfields is transforming the coloured gemstone industry for the better, bringing new benchmarks for transparency and ethics, and Toby is proud to say that the legal department is at the forefront of that transformation. Whilst at Gemfields, Toby’s team was recognised in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Africa Teams in 2017 and 2018. He has also authored a number of journal articles of relevance to his work.

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Edward Johnson

Corporate Responsibility Director

Edward’s role as Corporate Responsibility Director sees him lead Gemfields’ work in creating a positive impact for the communities around its mines in Africa, as well as driving improvements across the coloured gemstone and jewellery sectors as a whole. To date, Edward’s career has focused on knowledge, ethics and integrity within the gem and jewellery industry, with an overarching drive to protect consumer confidence through responsible business practices.

Edward Johnson

Corporate Responsibility Director

Edward’s role as Corporate Responsibility Director sees him lead Gemfields’ work in creating a positive impact for the communities around its mines in Africa, as well as driving improvements across the coloured gemstone and jewellery sectors as a whole. To date, Edward’s career has focused on knowledge, ethics and integrity within the gem and jewellery industry, with an overarching drive to protect consumer confidence through responsible business practices.

Since entering the industry in 1993, Edward has held senior executive positions with the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) in London. He also has experience as a trade journalist, educator, gemmological consultant and jewellery appraiser in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Gemfields in April 2022, he ran his own consultancy delivering projects to advance responsible business practices and address ESG issues in the jewellery supply chain with clients including The World Jewellery Confederation, CIBJO.

Edward grew up in Africa, and his desire to create change on the continent stems from his upbringing there. He is a Graduate Gemologist from GIA and a member of both the Gemmological Association of Hong Kong and the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.

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Antony Lindsay

CEO - Fabergé (UK) Ltd

With 24 years of experience industry experience, Antony is a certified gemmologist of two globally leading gemmological associations, is a Freeman of the Worshipful company of Goldsmiths and served as President of the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) London Chapters Alumni from 2002 – 2005.

Prior to joining Fabergé, Antony held positions working for Graff Diamonds and David Morris International.

Antony Lindsay

CEO - Fabergé (UK) Ltd

With 24 years of experience industry experience, Antony is a certified gemmologist of two globally leading gemmological associations, is a Freeman of the Worshipful company of Goldsmiths and served as President of the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) London Chapters Alumni from 2002 – 2005.

Prior to joining Fabergé, Antony held positions working for Graff Diamonds and David Morris International.

Today Antony heads Faberge’s global renaissance as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Fabergé Limited. Mr Lindsay is based in London and has been with Fabergé since July 2010. In 2020 Antony was promoted to the Gemfields UK Ltd board of directors, in addition to his seat on the board of Fabergé.

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Kartikeya Parikshya

Managing Director – Mozambique & Ethiopia

KP, an economic geologist with a career spanning more than 30 years in the mining & exploration sector is highly skilled in mineral exploration, project Acquisition and project development. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Geology from IIT Mumbai obtained in 1987.

Kartikeya Parikshya

Managing Director – Mozambique & Ethiopia

KP, an economic geologist with a career spanning more than 30 years in the mining & exploration sector is highly skilled in mineral exploration, project Acquisition and project development. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Geology from IIT Mumbai obtained in 1987.

He joined Gemfields at its inception in 2004 and is presently located based in the London headquarters as the Managing Director responsible for operations in Mozambique and Ethiopia. Prior to this, he worked as the Director of Operations for South America & Asia and was responsible for analysing and reviewing prospective acquisition opportunities from geological, environmental, legal, social and economic perspectives and was actively engaged in the budgeting, planning and execution of new projects, and the exploration plans of the group.

KP also worked as the Head of Production, Planning and Exploration in Zambia, and was actively involved in the acquisition and development of the Kagem Emerald mine and subsequently the Montepuez Ruby Mine in Mozambique before moving to the group headquarters in London.

Before joining Gemfields in 2004, he worked for Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd of India (www.mecl.gov.in) in various capacities including as Project Geologist and Project Manager responsible for exploration and development of prospects pertaining to a range of commodities such as copper, gold, bauxite, caesium, lithium, rubidium, tin and tungsten.

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Prahalad Kumar Singh

General Manager – MRM

Prahalad is a mining engineer from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He also holds unrestricted First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency awarded by the Directorate General of Mines Safety, India. He has rich work experience spanning more than 22 years in the management and operation of large-scale underground and open pit mines…

Prahalad Kumar Singh

General Manager – MRM

Prahalad is a mining engineer from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He also holds unrestricted First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency awarded by the Directorate General of Mines Safety, India. He has rich work experience spanning more than 22 years in the management and operation of large-scale underground and open pit mines. Prior to joining Gemfields, he was associated with Hindustan Zinc Limited in India and Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia under the aegis of Vedanta Resources Plc. He rose to the level of Associate General Manager during his career with Vedanta.

Prahalad joined Kagem Mining Ltd in September 2014 as Project Manager and now leads the world’s largest emerald mining company as its General Manager.

He is an enthusiastic implementer of quality management tools such as IMS, Six Sigma, TQM, TPM and 5-S. With a deep understanding of the Zambian mining industry, he holds in-depth knowledge of mine safety regulations and the statutory framework, industrial relations, liaison, quality management systems and strategic cost management of large-scale mining operations.

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CV Suresh

Managing Director - Zambia

C.V. Suresh is a Bachelor of Technology in mining engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, a premier engineering institute in India. In a career spanning 37 years, he has developed expertise in all areas of mining operations. He has had the unique experience of working in the largest underground copper mine and the largest open pit iron ore mine in India, organising, executing and monitoring all project activities…

CV Suresh

Managing Director - Zambia

C.V. Suresh is a Bachelor of Technology in mining engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, a premier engineering institute in India. In a career spanning 37 years, he has developed expertise in all areas of mining operations. He has had the unique experience of working in the largest underground copper mine and the largest open pit iron ore mine in India, organising, executing and monitoring all project activities.

CV, as he is known to all, joined Gemfields in 2006 at its Chibolele mine in Zambia before moving on to Gemfields’ then new acquisition, Kagem, in late 2007.  As General Manager of Gemfields’ founding flagship mine, he led his team successfully to transform a loss-making company into a profitable one.

He was appointed Director Operations for Africa in 2015, based at the company headquarters in London and overseeing the operating mines in Africa, including the Montepuez Ruby Mine in Mozambique as well as Kagem.

CV joined the Board of Gemfields Limited in August 2017 as Managing Director, Zambia. In his present role, he is responsible for the world’s largest emerald mining company and its expansion to additional licence areas.

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