Leadership & Governance
Our governance framework brings together expertise across finance, mining, legal oversight, and strategic development to support disciplined decision-making and long-term value creation.
Overview
SMM is governed by a Board with experience across global banking, development finance, institutional governance, and mining operations.
The governance framework has been deliberately designed to meet institutional expectations from inception. The Board includes two independent non-executive directors and brings together complementary strengths across capital formation, risk oversight, development finance, legal and governance discipline, and technical mining execution.
The Board operates through defined governance committees that support oversight, accountability, and institutional discipline. This structure ensures that SMM's decision-making processes are aligned with the standards expected by international capital partners, development finance institutions, and sovereign counterparties.
Leadership & Governance
Board of Directors
The Board is supported by a broader advisory and governance structure with experience across legal, capital markets, and international partnerships.
Board Committees
The Board discharges its oversight responsibilities through three standing committees, each operating under defined terms of reference.
Governance, Nominations & Remuneration Committee
Responsible for the composition, effectiveness and long-term continuity of the Board and senior leadership. Its mandate includes:
- Board and committee composition, director independence and succession planning.
- The identification, nomination, induction and performance evaluation of directors.
- Executive and senior-management remuneration, incentive design, and alignment of reward with long-term value creation.
- Oversight of corporate-governance policies, conflicts of interest, and adherence to evolving governance standards expected by institutional and development-finance counterparties.
Risk Management & Audit Committee
Responsible for the integrity of financial reporting and for the Company's risk and control environments. Its mandate includes:
- Oversight of financial reporting and the integrity of published financial statements.
- The internal control framework, its internal audit function, and the appointment, independence and performance of the external auditors.
- The enterprise risk-management framework, spanning operational, financial, technical, regulatory, health-safety-and-environment, and country risk.
- Compliance with legal, regulatory and listing obligations, and oversight of the QA/QC integrity of technical, drilling and assay data underpinning the Company's disclosures.
Technical & Investment Committee
Responsible for technical assurance and the disciplined allocation of capital across the portfolio. Its mandate includes:
- The design of exploration strategy, drilling programmes, geological models, and assay results across the district portfolio.
- Oversight of independent technical validation, resource-estimation milestones and the progression of assets toward study-stage work.
- Evaluation of capital-allocation and investment recommendations against clearly defined technical and value-creation criteria.
- Assessment of new acquisitions, joint ventures and SPV-level transactions, including the structuring of asset-level partnerships.