IN THE STOPE
DAVID ROSSITER:
SUCCESS BUILT ON
ADVENTURE
The GeoGroup of companies recently celebrated their 30th anniversary
and to mark the occasion, Nicolaas Steenkamp met up with
Dave Rossiter, founder and non-executive director of the GeoGroup.
Congratulations on this milestone achievement, Dave. Could
you please tell us how it all started?
It all started 30 years ago when I bought the shares from my
two partners in Terra Monitoring, in the small drilling company
called Ground Mechanics, which we had started together in
1986. I changed the name to Geomechanics and since then it
has been hard work, adventure, innovation and more successes
than failures, that have brought us to this point.
Would you share some of the highlights and achievements the
GeoGroup has had over the last 30 years?
The highlights for me have been the projects we have
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successfully completed in difficult environments, on time and in
budget for large corporates, who demand a high level of safety,
quality control and production.
Taking on these challenging projects and being successful
at them, such as the Vale projects in Mozambique, The
Total projects in East Africa, the Anadarko projects in Palma
Mozambique, the World Bank funded hydro projects in
Malawi and Zambia, the Cahora Bassa projects and the LHDA
projects in Lesotho, have meant that we have grown and
matured, and looking back these have been our greatest
successes. These successes have led to our expansion and
allowed us to increase our diversity and capability. Another
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