Mr. Charles Mesnil is General Manager of mining company Lugamines, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Swiss national with a background in finance and project management, Mr. Mesnil has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in consulting in Paris, Frankfurt and Zurich, particularly in Mergers & Acquisition and Private Equity, before moving to Katanga in 2015.

Mr. Mesnil was a Senior Associate for Ernst and Young, Corporate Finance Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) both in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Mesnil then pursued is career in Private Equity as an Investment Manager at ViewPoint Capital Partners – the first private equity firm in Europe specializing exclusively on mature software technology companies in the growth capital - and as a Managing Partner at wine-focused investment fund Ecce Vinum Capital before investigating the opportunities to bring his sense of investment and his discipline of execution in DRC. This led him to join Lugamines as a General Manager, where he is responsible for the overall strategic planning, plan execution and project financing.