Callum Baxter25 Mar 2020 17:22
I would like to take the opportunity to laud the above whom, I suppose, was the indirect reason I invested in GGP. In early '17, on behalf of a daughter and with practically nil knowledge of shares, and zero of AIM, I was looking around for a more exciting investment that BT, BNC etc. when I came across an article about GGP.
As I now remember it, GH had just been appointed CEO, having previously been a non exec. director and on the board of other companies. Further research, which I admit I tend to be rather lazy about, revealed that this chap was no fool, in fact someone that appeared to be in demand and ambitious. His apparent appointee, CB, was a founding director of GGP, '05, and a geologist. Rightly or wrongly, I assumed that CB had approached GH stating that he had surveyed certain areas, liked what he saw, obtained the licences but realized he required someone with the right connections to progress the company. GH agreed 'to have a look' and became a non exec. director. Once he'd had a look, seen what they had, he agreed to become CEO. There was a slight aberation with EG and NM, which at present, excepting Apple, seems to have been forgotten but which, to my mind, if it induced NM to look must be worth something, but GH's confidence in 'the product' induced the purchase of Black Hills.
In summary, whilst GH is on the white charger leading us into the fray, and someone whom I have enormous regard for, it was probably the geologist, CB, who was likely to have been the main architect in the deciding the licences to seek.
I could be completely wrong, but I don't care, the outcome even at this early time would suggest the right decision, even if it was based on the wrong deduction.
My other CEO selection was Stephen Sanderson of UKOG in whom I have equal trust for a successful outcome, although, ATM, he is costing us a few paper bob. GLA.
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