Kenmare Resources plc announced the appointment of Ekaterina (Katia) Ray as an independent Non-Executive Director and member of the Remuneration Committee, with immediate effect on October 29, 2025. The Company also announces other changes to its Board of Directors. Katia has over 25 years?
senior-level experience in the mining sector, including with FTSE 100 companies in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. She has worked in a number of different commodities including industrial minerals, diamonds and platinum group metals. During her 15 years with Rio Tinto plc from 1993 to 2008, she held various senior positions in sales and marketing, business development and change management, and more recently she worked in business development for Anglo American plc.
Katia founded her own consultancy, KPNB Limited, in 2009, advising multinational corporations, private equity firms and information providers on strategy, M&A, change management and market entry. She was also a Non-Executive Director of Petropavlovsk plc from 2019 to 2020. She holds a Master of Science Chemical Engineering degree (British equivalent) from the University of Chemical Technology, Moscow.
Katia has had a number of voluntary roles, such as a Governor and a Nominations Committee member at the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust from 2018 to 2023 and a Business Advisor for Young Enterprise UK from 2018 to 2020.Graham Martin is retiring as a Director of Kenmare, with effect from 31 January 2026, having completed nine years on the Board. In light of Graham?s departure, the following changes will be made to Directors' responsibilities, which will take effect at that time:Elaine Dorward-King will become the Senior Independent Director,Katia Ray will become Chair of the Remuneration Committee,Deirdre Somers will become Chair of the Nomination Committee.
