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Cameron Belsher
Chairman, British Columbia, Canada
Senior Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Barristers & Solicitors (a law firm) since October 2007, previously a Partner, Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, Barristers and Solicitors (a law firm)
Re-appointment as Chairman - October 14, 2009 |
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Robert M. Byford F.C.A.
Independent Director, British Columbia, Canada
Robert Byford is a retired partner of KPMG LLP and Senior Vice President and Director of KPMG Corporate Finance Inc. He is an FCA in Canada and has had significant experience with numerous public companies during his 39 years in the tax and auditing world. Robert has acted as lead financial adviser on a wide range of finance, divestiture and acquisition transactions in many industry sectors. He was an elected Governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange and has been a frequent speaker on corporate governance, securities and finance matters. He is also a director of Western Copper Corporation and the Stone Crescent Charitable Foundation.
Appointed as a director – November 2009 |
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Mitchell Gropper Q.C.
Independent Director, British Columbia, Canada
Mitchell Gropper Q.C. is a partner in the Vancouver law firm Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy. He spent the majority of the previous 28 years with the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP, where he served as their Managing Partner from 1988 to 1990.
He is rated by LEXPERT as one of Vancouver’s leading lawyers in mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, mid-market advisory services, income funds and corporate commercial services. Mitchell was a member of the legal advisory group to the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation which advised the Government of Canada on the need for a national securities regulatory authority in Canada.
Despite his active professional practice,
Mitchell is also involved in the community and is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Foundation of Greater Vancouver.
Appointed as a director – November 2009 |
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Gordon Lawson
Independent Director, United Kingdom
Gordon Lawson was a founding partner of Pendragon Capital LLP, a London-based global event hedge fund from 1999 to 2006. For 13 years before that he was with Salomon Brothers/Citigroup, London where he was the head of Proprietary European Equity Trading.
Gordon is currently Chairman of the Ukraine Opportunity Trust plc., Chairman of Indochina Capital Vietnam Ltd, a director of two hedge funds and an advisor to Berens Capital, New York and Kempen in Amsterdam.
Appointed as a director – December 2009 |
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Simon Russell
Independent Director, British Columbia, Canada
Chief Financial Officer of Hy’s of
Canada Ltd (an owner and operator
of restaurants) since June 2006 and
Vice President of a private
investment company. Both are
based in Vancouver, Canada..
Previously Chief Financial Officer
of Natures Path Foods Inc.;
Previously Chief Financial Officer
of Mr. Lube Canada Inc.
Appointment as a
Director - July 1, 2006 |
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Richard Robinson
Independent Director, UK
Richard Robinson has been in the mining and metals industry since 1976. He was until October 2009 the Chairman of Metalor Technologies International SA, a Swiss global group covering all precious metals refining and downstream industrial products. Mr. Robinson was previously the Managing Director of Normandy LaSource SAS and CEO of Gold Fields Limited in South Africa and has extensive experience in all aspects of the precious and base metals industries. He is a director of a number of other companies and has been a director or representative on national and international representative bodies and research institutions. He holds a BSc (Hons)( Computer Science) from Natal University, South Africa and an MSc (Mineral Economics) from Queens University, Canada. Mr. Richard Robinson resides in Brussels, Belgium.
Appointment as a Director - January 11, 2008
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