DARRYLL CASTLE, chairman

With a background in engineering, Darryll has over 30 years’ experience across company leadership, project/operational delivery and transformation, technical planning and implementation, fund management, business development, and governance roles. US Vanadium’s former CEO, Darryll has served for a number of mining and production companies including as CEO of Trafigura mining, CEO of  PPC Cement, CEO of Anvil Mining (Listed in Toronto and Australia), and Chief Operations Officer at Metorex Group Limited.  He has also held multiple board memberships of listed and private companies. 

Darryll has led operations and projects globally including in Cuba, Spain, Peru, and particularly on the African continent, having run projects and companies in the DRC, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.  

He holds a B.Sc. Civil Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal; a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of South Africa; an MBA from the  University of Cape Town; and is a past Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.