Jocelyn Waller is a British national who is a founding shareholder and director of Sumatra Cooper & Gold. He graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge with a Master of Arts in History in 1965 and has since spent his entire career in the mining industry. For 22 years, Mr Waller worked for the Anglo American group and was involved variously with tin mining (Malaysia and Thailand), copper/cobalt (Zaire), potash (UK), tungsten (Portugal), exploration and metal sales (London). In 1989, he set up Avocet Mining and as its chief executive, he developed the Penjom gold mine in Malaysia and listed Avocet on the London Stock Exchange. In 2000, he set up Trans-Siberian Gold ('TSG') to develop gold projects in Eastern Russia, listing TSG on the AIM market of the LSE in 2003.
