Leonard Harris who has been appointed the Chairman of Vena’s Advisory Board is a 1949 Graduate Metallurgist from the Mount Morgan Technical College (Australia). After graduation, he worked at Mount Morgan, Mount Isa, and Radium Hill in Australia and at Taquah & Abosso in Ghana. He spent 18 years with Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru and New York as Senior R&D Metallurgist and Director of Metallurgy, two years as Mine Manager at Texada Mines in Australia and 21 years with Newmont Mining Corporation in New York, Denver and Peru as Vice President R&D, Vice President Metallurgical Operations, General Manager of Minera Yanacocha (the first GM), President and General Manager of Newmont Peru and Vice President and General Manager of Newmont Latin America. He was Chairman of the Peruvian International Gold Symposium on two occasions in 1994 and 2002, Chairman of the INFOMINA Conference in 2000 and Chairman of the 4th International Congress on Environmental Protection in Mining and Metallurgy in 2005. Mr. Harris was the chairman of the advisory board of Glamis Gold before joining their board.
