HORIZON 35

Team

Builders of strategy, ventures and capital, working with partners on the ground

Horizon 35 brings decades of experience in growth strategy, new-venture building, private equity and industrial commercialization to mining and processing in developing countries.

Mark W. Johnson

Mark W. Johnson

President & CEO

Mark co-founded Innosight, the growth strategy firm, with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, and has spent more than twenty years helping companies build new businesses and reinvent their business models. He is the author of Seizing the White Space and Reinvent Your Business Model, and co-author of Dual Transformation and Lead from the Future. He serves on the President's Council of BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

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Mitch Clark

Mitch Clark

Head of Operations

Mitch leads operations at Horizon 35, bringing experience in infrastructure development, industrial commercialization and strategic partnerships. His background includes advancing major infrastructure projects, scaling mineral-processing companies, and partnering with multinational corporations and industry leaders. He has helped secure significant public-sector funding and private-sector investment, as well as offtake agreements that support capital-intensive projects. He holds an MBA from Boston College and a degree in civil engineering from Brigham Young University.

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Mpumi Tshabalala

Mpumi Tshabalala

Analyst

Mpumi supports Horizon 35's research and analysis, including financial models and the materials we prepare for government partners.

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In place today

An independent technical partner, operator relationships and ties to government

Every technical decision is reviewed by an independent, internationally recognized mining consultancy. We work with experienced mining operators, and we have working relationships across Uganda's government and the BYU-Pathway community, whose students are part of the workforce these jobs are for.

Independent technical partner

SRK Consulting

An internationally recognized mining consultancy independently reviews our technical work, site by site.

Mining operators

Working relationships with experienced operators, including an operating tin mine ready to expand.

Government relationships

Relationships across Uganda's government, aligned with its goal of processing minerals at home.

BYU-Pathway community

Ties to a university network educating students in Uganda and across Africa.