Rory Harding

Rory is an experienced business development professional and originator. He has raised and introduced financing for businesses and developed projects in a variety of sectors; including manufacturing, energy, agriculture and mining. Prior to moving to Guyana, he worked in Africa for eight years where he built very strong political and commercial relationships in the West African region.

In 2011, Rory founded a mining services company, which until 2016, provided mining services to a TSX listed gold producer. Rory has also been involved in a number of projects in petroleum infrastructure, power production and mining exploration.

Rory has also spent time in Mexico working on a gold project and in Kenya, with an agricultural project. Rory has implemented business development for International Energy Trading Houses for whom he arranged local content partners and facilitated import of clean petroleum products and bunker fuels into the WAF market. Rory has also been the representative for two Chinese SOEs, with infrastructure projects currently under development.

Most recently, Rory has been running a west African representative office for Strand Hanson and has now moved to Guyana where he continues to represent Strand Hanson for South America & the Caribbean.