Senior Management Team
Firestone Diamonds plc has a highly qualified management team with extensive experience in the exploration, evaluation and development of diamond projects.
Mr Ferriman is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 16 years of experience, including nine years in the mining industry. Prior to joining Firestone Diamonds, he was the group financial controller for Mwana Africa plc (now known as Asa Resource Group plc) responsible for reporting and control systems across the Group’s assets in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the DRC. He has extensive experience in public company reporting in the United Kingdom and the development and implementation of control systems for companies with assets based in southern Africa. Mr Ferriman holds an honours bachelor of accounting science degree from the University of South Africa and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Mr. Crozier is part of the senior leadership team and attends all Board meetings by invitation in his capacity as secretary, and general counsel to the Board. He was Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in March 2000 and has more than 20 years of experience in the mining industry, during which he worked for De Beers and Anglo-American in senior corporate counsel roles before joining Firestone Diamonds as general counsel in May 2015 as part of the owner’s team responsible for the construction and bringing the Liqhobong Mine into production. He is an experienced corporate, and commercial mining lawyer with extensive multi-jurisdictional experience in mineral exploration, mine development, project finance, debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and various regulatory regimes. In 2020 he was appointed as the Chief Legal Officer and Group Secretary when Firestone Diamonds delisted from the London Stock Exchange’s AIM. He holds a Baccalaureus Procurationis (BProc) and Baccalaureus Legum (LLB) from Nelson Mandela University and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Corporate and Competition Law from the University of South Africa.