Mr Gooroodeo (Mahen) Sookun FCCA, MBA, CSK
Mr. Sookun is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Leicester (UK). He has served in private and public companies during the last thirty years as a Corporate Finance Executive, in Mauritius and across Africa, in diverse sectors such as Public Utilities, Agriculture, Textile, Real Estate and Mining.
In Mauritius, Mr Sookun has served as a Finance Executive at the Central Electricity Board, FUEL Sugar Estate, Palmar Textiles Ltd, and as Head of Finance of the largest Real Estate Development Company, Anahita Estates Ltd. Currently Mr Sookun is the Executive Director of SB ProConsult Ltd, a Chartered Certified Accountancy Firm, which provides accounting tax and advisory services to a range of local and international clients.
The international career of Mr Sookun started in 1999 as a Finance Executive in Sena Sugar Estates in Mozambique (project developed by a Mauritian Consortium). From 2005 to 2007, he was the Group Finance Manager of Titanium Resources Limited, a company involved in Mineral Resources Development and Mining in Sierra Leone and listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. From 2008 to 2013, he was also the Director, CFO and Secretary of Diamond Fields International Ltd, a public company listed in Toronto having mining assets across Africa. From 2012 to 2017, Mr Sookun has also served as Director and CFO of an Australian (ASX) listed company involved in Mineral Sands Exploration investments in Africa