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37 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Global Awards 2019 united kingdom BENJAMIN STOIKOVICH CEO of Prairie Mining Limited FIRM PROFILE Prairie Mining Limited (ASX/LSE/WSE: PDZ) is a multi-project coal development company focused on the development and operation of the Jan Karski Mine in the Lublin Coal Basin and the Debiensko Mine in Upper Silesia. Located within the heartland of industrial Europe with large scale coal resources and excellent access to infrastructure, Prairie’s vision is to become Europe’s lowest cost supplier of premium coal to supply European industry. Prairie Mining Limited (“Prairie”)is a multi-project coal developer focused on the development and operation of the Jan Karski Mine (“JKM” ) and the Debiensko Hard Coking Coal Project (“Debiensko” ) in Poland. The Company is listed on stock exchanges in Australia (ASX), London (LSE) and Warsaw (WSE). The Jan Karski Mine The Jan Karski Mine (formerly Lublin Coal Project) is a large scale premium quality coal project with a current Coal Resource Estimate (”CRE”) of 728 million tonnes across four coal exploration concessions in south eastern Poland. On 8 March 2016, Prairie announced the results of a Pre-Feasibility Study for the Jan Karski Mine which confirmed robust project fundamentals including the potential to supply 6.34 million tonnes of premium coal into the heartland of industrial Europe and to do so at an average cash operating cost of US$24.96 per tonne - the lowest cash cost for coal delivered into Europe. Debiensko Debiensko is a world class hard coking coal (“HCC”) project situated in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in the south west of Poland, a strategic location in the steelmaking heartland of Europe. This high quality 100% HCC project is fully permitted with a 50-year mining concession, established on-site facilities including rail, road and power infrastructure, comprehensive historical drilling data and all environmental consents. On 16 March 2017 Prairie announced the Scoping Study for the fully permitted Debiensko mine which highlights Debiensko’s technical viability and robust economics to potentially be a large scale, low cost and long life premium hard coking coal supplier with 2.6 Mtpa saleable hard coking coal production from a maiden JORC Resource estimate of 301 Mt. ABOUT BENJAMIN STOIKOVICH Mr Stoikovich is a mining engineer and professional corporate finance executive. He has extensive experience in the resources sector gained from a unique career firstly as an underground Longwall Coal Mining Engineer with BHP Billitonwherehewas responsible for underground longwall mine operations and permitting, and more recently as a senior executive within the investment banking sector in London where he gained experience in mergers and acquisitions, debt and off take financing. He has Bachelor of Mining Engineering from the University of NSW; a Master of Environmental Engineering from the University of Wollongong; and a MSc in Mineral Economics from Curtin University. Mr Stoikovich also holds a 1st Class Coal Mine Managers Ticket from the Coal Mine Qualifications Board (NSW, Australia) and is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) in the United Kingdom. Mr Stoikovich was appointed a Director of the Company on 17 June 2013.