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Directors
C. Kent Jespersen
of Calgary, Alberta
Mr. Jespersen has director experience on many
boards of directors in the energy and technology sectors. He is
currently Chairman of CCR Technologies Ltd. and serves on the boards of TransAlta Corporation, Axia NetMedia Corporation and Matrikon Inc. He is
also past Chairman of North American Oil Sands Corporation, Geac Inc.,
C.D. Howe Institute and Institute of the Americas. He has been Chairman
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Peter Bradshaw
of Vancouver, British Columbia
Dr. Bradshaw has been Director, President and Chief Executive
Officer of First Point Minerals Corp. since June 1996.
Prior to starting First Point Minerals, Dr. Bradshaw was Vice President
of Orvana Minerals from August 1986 to August 1995 and Exploration
Manager for Australasia for Placer Dome from 1979 to 1986. He has been a
Director of the Company since May 2006. |
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Richard Garnett of Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Garnett spent the years of 1962 to 1990 working worldwide with the
Rio Tinto and, later, Anglo-American/De Beers group of companies, as
both a mining engineer and a geologist. Since then he has run his own,
Toronto based, mining consultancy company, Valrik Enterprises Inc., and
has been chairman or director of several mining companies. He recently
received the PDAC’s Thayer Lindsley award for the 1989 discovery of
Donlin Creek and he played a leading role in the 1994 discovery of
Voisey’s Bay. Dr. Garnett has been a director of the Company since
February 2009. |
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James Gilbert of Vienna, Virginia
Mr. Gilbert is President and CEO of Minera S.A., a private mining and
metals investment company, and has 20 years of experience in mining and
metals finance and investment. Prior to joining Minera, Mr. Gilbert was
the Chief Investment Officer of Gerald Metals Inc., the global
commodities trading firm based in Stamford, Connecticut. Prior to
joining Gerald Metals, he was a Director of the mining and metals
investment banking group at Rothschild Inc., in Washington D.C. and a
Director of Corporate Finance at Coopers & Lybrand in New York. Mr.
Gilbert has been a director of the Company and a member of the
Compensation and Nominating Committee since August 2009. |
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Bill Williams of Boston, Massachusetts
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Williams has been President and Chief Executive Officer since 2011,
he previously held the title of Vice President, Corporate Development of
the Company from March 2008 to December 2011. He received his Ph.D. in
Economic Geology from the University of Arizona after spending eight
years in the oil & gas industry with Tenneco Oil Company. Since then he
has held various positions in minerals exploration and project
development throughout the Americas with Western Mining, Northern Orion,
Phelps Dodge and Freeport-McMoRan. Prior to joining Orvana, he was Vice
President, Americas for Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation. |
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Robert Logan of Arizona,
USA
Mr. Logan runs a private investment company and sits on
both public and private company boards. Previously, Mr. Logan spent 20
years in investment banking based in New York, Toronto and London. His
banking experience focused on funding and risk managing significant
growth initiatives for many natural resource companies and projects. Mr.
Logan is a member of the National Assoc. of Corporate Directors and
holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He
has been a Director of the Company since December 2007. |
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Carlos Mirabal
of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Executive Chairman, Empresa Minera Paititi S.A.
Mr. Mirabal was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company
from March 2010 to December 2011 and a Director since October 2006.
Mr. Mirabal was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company
from October 2006 to February 2010. Prior to joining Orvana, Mr. Mirabal
was Vice President of Operations of Sinchi Wayra S.A. (formerly Compania Minera
del Sur S.A. (“Comsur”)), a Bolivian mining company. |
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Robert
Mitchell of Toronto, Ontario
Mr. Mitchell is a retired partner from Ernst &
Young LLP, rejoined as a Director of the Company in April 2007 and
is Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Mitchell was a Director of the Company from December 2003 to June 2006. He is also a director and
member of the audit committee of another public company. |
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Jorge Szasz
Mr. Szasz is an independent consultant. Prior to this, Mr. Szasz was Vice President Finance, Administration and Commercialization of Sinchi Wayra S.A., a Bolivian mining company. Mr. Szasz also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for ten years in Audit. He was a director and Chief Financial Officer of the Company from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Szasz rejoined as a director of the Company in February 2010. |
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Ronald Simkus
of Niagara, Ontario
Mr. Simkus is a retired independent Engineering Consultant and has more
than 35 years of experience in the international mining
industry, primarily in base metal ore processing technology. Mr. Simkus
has held high-level management positions in world-class operating
mines and served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Compania Minera Antamina
S.A. from June 2001 to July 2003 He has been a director of the Company
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