smythes credibility, page-27

Paulb - It's not his official CV.
It's details from a trent26 post, who has been doing some good research, but I don't know if it's factual re your sands query.
Please don't let any organised down ramp encourage you to sell your shares.
One poster on another forum came home on Friday to find his wife had sold their CVI shares after listening to a downramper who was suspended from Hot Copper and went elsewhere to continue posting. That is very sad.
If you have doubts, I'd recommend that you actually phone the company and have a chat to Mark Smyth or Paul Williams.


The official Directors spiel perhaps dispels the office connection, though Smyth is and has been an active member on many boards in his time.

Here's the current Directors credentials from the CVI website:

Directors
Mark Smyth

Chief Executive
(Appointed March 7, 2006)

Mark Smyth has over 40 years of experience in the natural resources sector, which commenced with Selection Trust in 1969 where he was part of the project development teams for Mt Newman iron ore and Agnew nickel projects in Australia. Since 1975 he has co-founded a number of companies involved in the exploration and production of gold, oil, gas and diamonds around the world.

Mr. Smyth operates from Perth, Western Australia, Dubai and London and is a member of the Ironmongers Company of the City of London. He has a law degree from Oxford University and is a solicitor in England and Wales, Hong Kong and several states in Australia.

Paul Andre de Chazal
Non-Executive Director
(Appointed July 19, 2007)
Mr de Chazal, who is based in London, qualified as a solicitor and was a partner involved for over thirty years in the international affairs of Simmons & Simmons, one of the world’s largest international law firms. He has acted for many substantial industrial and financial companies.

Mr de Chazal has been a director of a number of insurance companies and was for many years a director and member of the executive committee of the Belgian-Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.

Mr de Chazal is fluent in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English and has spent many years in Africa. Through his wide experience of international relationships, he will be invaluable in assisting in the protection of CityView’s interests in Angola and the Cameroon.

Nicholas Paul Hoexter
Non-Executive Director

(Appointed July 5, 2007)

Mr Hoexter is based in London and has been a senior member of BP’s HQ policy unit “think tank” and chief economist unit reporting to the main Board of BP.

Mr Hoexter has a wide international business experience and is particularly skilled at project evaluation, having been a member of the BP/Selection Trust takeover evaluation/negotiation team.

Mr Hoexter was Chief Executive of the in-house asset leasing company of BG plc.

Peter George Hunt Smith
Non-Executive Director
(Appointed July 3, 2007)
Mr Smith is a former international banker who served Westpac Bank for 40 years leading to a position as a Senior Manager Asian Banking & Oil & Gas.

Mr Smith has a large network of corporate clients and has attended many Government sponsored Trade Missions promoting Western Australia, as well as being responsible for opening an oil & gas office for Westpac in Houston, Texas.

Robert John Francis Brothers
Non-Executive Director
(Appointed December 4, 2007)

Mr Brothers is based in Hong Kong and for over 20 years, owned and operated large gas tankers and floating gas storage facilities through Beckworth Enterprises Inc, a ship owning group specialising in the carriage of liquid refrigerated petroleum gas. At one time Beckworth owned and operated 13 gas ships and was the largest shipowner of its type in the Far East.

Prior to working for his own account Mr Brothers was an executive director of of the substantial Hong Kong conglomerate Wheelock Marden & Co Ltd.