They include the Gem Diamonds chief executive and former personal assistant to Harry Oppenheimer Clifford Elphick and the former JP Morgan bankers Mike Haworth Lloyd Pengilly and Ian Hannam...
Ian Hannam a former JP Morgan banker and City of London 'king of mining' who received a £450 000 (US$559 000) fine for insider trading in 2012 valued Timis's share in Pan-African Minerals at $400 mn...
Pengilly has also worked closely with banker Ian Hannam and a British former Ambassador to Pretoria Lord Robin Renwick (now Chairman of JP Morgan in South Africa) in a group that became known as the ‘trifecta’ because of its complementary skills in securing business and structuring deals...