Our team leverages decades of combined experience working in the natural resources sector in Africa and global developing markets.  

CHAIRMAN

Algy Cluff

The Company’s Founder and Chairman, Algy Cluff, has extensive experience and contacts obtained during 40 years’ of successful investing in the natural resource sector. 

In 1972 Algy Cluff formed CCP North Sea Associates to bid for North Sea oil licences in the UK sector and subsequently Cluff Oil Ltd, which acted as the management company for CCP. CCP discovered the Buchan Field, the 14th commercial oil field in the UK North Sea, in 1975. He then founded and became Chairman of Cluff Resources plc.

From the early 1980s, Cluff Resources plc began to focus on mineral exploration in Africa and made several significant discoveries including the largest gold discovery in Africa since the Second World War (subsequently the Geita Mine in Tanzania), the Freda Rebecca Mine in Zimbabwe and the Ayanfuri Mine in Ghana, prior to the acquisition of Cluff Resources plc by Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited in 1996. In the same year, backed by Anglo American Corporation, Algy Cluff founded Cluff Mining Limited (subsequently re-named Ridge Mining Limited), which was admitted to AIM in May 2000. Ridge Mining Plc was acquired by Aquarius Platinum Limited in 2009. Algy Cluff was the Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive of Amara Mining Plc from 2004 to December 2010, Executive Chairman until July 2011 and subsequently Non-Executive Chairman up to April 2012, when he stepped down to concentrate on Cluff Natural Resources.  In 2016, Algy published a memoir on his life as an entrepreneur.   

Peter Cowley, Advisor

Peter is a geologist with over 45 years of international experience in the minerals industry and has been involved in the discovery and development of a number of gold mines in Africa. He was previously Managing Director of Ashanti Exploration Limited, Group Technical Director of Cluff Resources Plc and Chief Executive Officer of Banro Corporation and Loncor Resources. He holds M.Sc and MBA degrees and is a Fellow of I.M.M.M.  He was also a Non-executive Director of Amara Mining Plc.

Matthew BeVier, managing director

Matthew is an experienced manager and investor in frontier markets and currently Managing Director at Cluff Mineral Resources Ltd based in Accra, Ghana.  Matt formerly was a senior consultant for Asia Pacific for The Morgan Samuels Company, an executive search and leadership consulting company based in Los Angeles.  During this time, he advised and consulted for leading natural resource companies throughout Southeast Asia from 2009 to 2016 while based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Vientiane, Laos.  He is fluent in Indonesian.  Matt started his career as a wireline field engineer for Schlumberger and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.