TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND THE CREATION OF THE ALLIANCE MINIÈRE RESPONSABLE ?
PROFILE
TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND THE CREATION OF THE ALLIANCE MINIÈRE RESPONSABLE ?
My name is Romain Girbal and I am the CEO of AMR . Together with my business partner Thibault Launay , we started this mining project over four years ago .
Around five years ago , I decided to leave my job in London [ first a junior consultant with Glencore , then Director of legal department at Harvest Energy Limited ] because I had always felt that I possessed an entrepreneurial spirit and I wanted to
try and develop my own company .
My destination was Guinea . I moved there because I knew from my experience in the financial industry that this was a country that was ‘ waking up again ’. This means that there are so many opportunities and potential businesses links and industries to create and develop .
It didn ’ t start out with any specific mining focus . During the early days of AMR we analysed many different possible businesses in the country , but we were soon presented with an opportunity to develop a mining project and therefore we decided
8 May 2017