Savannah Resources plc announced the appointments of Mary Jo Jacobi and Manohar Pundalik Shenoy as non-executive directors effective from 7 April 2022. Previously Mr. Shenoy acted as alternate director for Maqbool Ali Sultan effective from July 2016. Ms. Mary Jo Jacobi on joining the Company as an independent non-executive director will become a member of the Remuneration and Audit and Risk Committees.

Manohar Pundalik Shenoy will continue to serve as a member of the Remuneration and Audit and Risk Committees. Savannah also advises that both Maqbool Ali Sultan (non-executive director) and Murtadha Ahmed Sultanwho served as an alternate director for Imad Kamal Abdul Redha Sultan since July 2016 have retired from the Board effective from 7 April 2022. Ms. Mary Jo Jacobi is a business strategy and reputation management consultant with considerable experience advising clients in the natural resources industries.

She is also the non-executive director for focussing on employee engagement of The Weir Group plc. Mary Jo has held senior executive positions with BP America, Royal Dutch Shell, Lehman Brothers, HSBC Holdings, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. In the public sector she was appointed a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, one of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, Assistant United States Secretary of Commerce, and Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan.

She also has been a non-executive director of Mulvaney Capital Management, Tate and Lyle plc and the Ladies European (Golf) Tour and chair of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Mr. Manohar Pundalik Shenoy holds three professional qualifications, Chartered Accountant, Cost and Works Accountant; and Company Secretary, in addition to possessing a B.Com (Honours) in Commerce, Economics & Advanced Accountancy from Bombay University.