Tony Kinsman – Chief Executive Officer

Tony Kinsman was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sohar Alumunium in 2004. He has been involved with the aluminium industry for the past 15 years with his immediate past employer Comalco, in Australia. In the past 10 years Tony has managed several significant projects including the upgrade of a smelter in New Zealand, two major developments of the bauxite mine at Weipa and several linked projects to create a new major expansion of the Boyne smelter at Gladstone. Tony has a degree in Engineering from Monash University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Management in Melbourne, Australia.

Michel Huot - General Manager, Operations

Michel Huot joined Alcan as an industrial engineer in 1976. In 1979, he was transferred to the Grande-Baie Smelter during construction and start-up, responsible for the implementation of the Maintenance Management System. In 1984, Michel became responsible for the Maintenance and Technical Services at the Shawinigan Smelter, again for Alcan. After an assignment as Health and Environment Manager in Jonquiere, from 1990 to 1993, he was transferred to the Kitimat Smelter as Human Resources Manager. In 1996, Mr. Huot became General Manager of the Grande-Baie Smelter where he spent six years. Most recently he was the Operation Vice-President at the Alouette Smelter during the construction and start-up of Phase II, before his appointment to Sohar Aluminium. Michel completed his engineering degree at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal University, and his masters degree in project management at Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi.

Niall O'Byrne - General Manager, Power Project

Niall O'Byrne began his career at the Nchanga copper mine in Chingola, Zambia, where he was Assistant Divisional Engineer in charge of maintenance and replacement of the main production plant. He then spent five years with Tara Mines in Ireland, where he was responsible for the total electrical commissioning of the new concentrator and load-out facilities, before taking over the day-to-day maintenance of all underground and surface electrical plant. Niall joined J A Kenny & Partners in 1982 as head of their electrical division and directed new projects involved mainly with power distribution in institutional facilities. In 1985, he joined Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) and remained with them until April 2005. At Alba, Niall was involved in all the company's major expansions including both expansions to line three, the power station for line four, the Coke Calcining plant and, finally as General Manager Expansion, responsible for the construction of the US$1.7 billion Line five project. Niall completed his primary and masters degrees at the National University of Ireland.

Paul Snyman - Chief Financial Officer

Paul Snyman is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years' experience as a CFO in the mining and minerals industry. After a period of around 10 years as the CFO for a large gold mining company in South Africa, Paul joined Billiton's Minerals Division where he was involved in a Mozambique mineral sands project feasibility before being appointed as Finance Director of Alusaf and Mozal and, later, as Finance Director of the Group's Manganese and Chrome Division. Paul led the project finance teams for both the Hillside and Mozal smelter projects.