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Stéphane A. Rigny
Stéphane A. Rigny has over 20 years of experience in originating, structuring, funding and developing industrial and natural resource projects in Africa. Mr.Rigny holds an MBA in Finance from HEC Montréal. He founded SARMIN Holdings Inc.("SHI") in 2014 and is currently the CEO of SHI. SHI is a private equity investment company focusing on the acquisition, structuring, financing and development of high value-added resources, infrastructure and energy projects in Africa. In his capacity as CEO of SHI, Stéphane acquired a participation in Spanish based AEE Power Corporation SL. through SHI’s subsidiary SARMIN Power Inc. SARMIN Mining Inc. ("SMI") of which Stéphane is Executive Chairman acquired a Potash exploration mining license in the Republic of Congo and a world class Bauxite Exploration license in Guinea. Prior to founding SHI, from 2005 to 2010 Stéphane founded Surstream Petroleum LTD., an E&P Oil Company which he successfully sold in 2010. From 2004 through to 2011, he was senior VP and later of President of MagIndustries Corp, a Toronto listed Mining and Natural Resources company. In 2011, Stéphane lead MagIndustries Corp. through a friendly take-over by a private Shanghai based group. Prior to this he was VP of Francophone Africa in the Project Finance division of Rand Merchant Bank ("RMB"), a leading South African Investment Bank.