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Senior Management & Directors
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Senior Management
Directors
Senior Management
Carlos Mirabal
of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Mr. Mirabal has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a
Director of the Company since October 2006. 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
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Malcolm King of Toronto, Ontario
Mr. King has been Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of the Company since February 2006, and was a
Director of the Company from May 2006 to December 2007. Mr King was
Vice President and Controller of the Company from June 2005 to
February 2006. Prior to joining Orvana, Mr. King was Chief Financial
Officer and a Director of IQ-Ludorum plc, and Vice President, Finance
and Vice President & Corporate Comptroller of the Telemedia group. |
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Bill Williams of Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Williams has been Vice President, Corporate Development of the Company since March 2008. 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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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
of the Board of the Company since December 2007. |
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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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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
Mr. Mirabal has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a
Director of the Company since October 2006. 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
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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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