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Marek J. Kreczmer, President
and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Kreczmer, M.Sc., P.Eng., has been a geologist and mining executive for
more than 30 years. He has worked for major and emerging mining industry
companies focused on uranium, base and precious metals. Mr. Kreczmer also
has extensive experience in corporate governance and administration as a
current and former director of several publicly listed mining companies.
In 1991, Mr. Kreczmer founded Tan Range Exploration Corporation (now
Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation), a company active in the Tanzania
region of Africa. He served as its President through to 2003. His professional
background includes work with Cameco Corporation, AGIP Canada Ltd.,
Granges Exploration Ltd., Hana Mining Ltd.., Soho Resources Corp. and
Northern Canadian Minerals Inc.
Mr. Kreczmer obtained a B.Sc. Honours (Mineral Deposits Major) from the
University of Ottawa and a Masters of Science specializing in mineral deposits
from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Association of Professional
Engineers of Saskatchewan and the Prospectors and Developers Association of
Canada (PDAC).
William D. Thomas, CFO and Director
William D. (Bill) Thomas has a lengthy career in finance and accounting for the
natural resource sector spanning more than thirty years.
Most prominently, Mr. Thomas held various successive management positions
with Kerr McGee Corporation’s China operations based in Beijing, China, ending
in 2004 with his final position as Director of Business Services. He was
previously General Manager (1999-2002), and Finance and Administration
Manager (1996-1999) of the company’s China operations.
Mr. Thomas previously worked as Manager of Fixed Asset Accounting for Kerr
McGee Corporation’s US operations (1996), as Finance Director of Kerr McGee’s
UK operations based in London/Aberdeen (1992-1996), and Kerr McGee’s
Canadian operations in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1984-1992), including the
company’s predecessor company, Maxus Canada Ltd., which was acquired by
Kerr McGee Ltd.
Over the course of his career with Kerr McGee, he has been involved in all
aspects of managing accounting, budgeting, HR, administration, IT, insurance,
taxation and other business support aspects surrounding oil and gas properties
for Kerr McGee.
In his early career Mr. Thomas also held senior management positions in the
finance divisions of Norcen Energy Ltd of Calgary, Alberta (1981-1984),
Dennison Mines Ltd of Ontario Canada (1978-1981) and Algoma Steel
Corporation of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada (1977). He was also a Senior
Auditor for the accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand in Toronto, Canada (1975-
1977).
For a brief period after leaving Kerr McGee, Mr. Thomas acted as a
self practitioner
in the accounting and finance field. In July 2007 he took on the role of
CFO for two public resource companies; Hana Mining Ltd. and NWT Uranium
Corp. Recently, Mr. Thomas resigned from NWT Uranium Corp. but continues to
serve as CFO for Hana Mining and has been appointed as CFO for Mainland
Resources (a US oil and gas public company) and Mira Resources Corp. (a
Canadian public company).
Mr. Thomas attained his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation from the
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1977. He holds an Honours
Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree from the University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
James Douglas Brown, Director
James Douglas Brown possesses over 35 years investment banking experience.
Mr. Brown began his banking career as a financial analyst with JP Morgan in London and New York. During the period from 1982 to 1997, he served with Citigroup and Banque Indosuez, focusing on transactions related to the Middle East. Since 1997, he has actively participated in the creation and management of hedge fund opportunities.
Currently, Mr. Brown is a principal of Grasmere Limited, a privately held advisory company, which specializes in distribution of hedge funds and corporate finance. In addition, Mr. Brown serves as a director of the following entities: LIM Asia Arbitrage Fund, a large Asian hedge fund; Eastern Capital Fund, a Russian equity fund; Lund Gold Ltd., a junior gold exploration company; and, since March 2007, Endeavor Energy Corporation (formerly Dujour Products, Inc.), an oil and gas exploration company. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Pacific Asia China Energy Inc. From July 2003 until June 2007, Mr. Brown served as a director of Inyx, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Since 2005, Mr. Brown has served as a director of Quest Oil Corporation.
Mr. Brown holds a law degree from Edinburgh University.
Ganpat Mani, Director
From 1994 to 2007, Mr. Mani held several senior marketing
positions with ConverDyn (a joint venture between Honeywell
International and General Atomics Corporation), culminating
in his role as Senior Vice President of ConverDyn. Mr. Mani
was responsible for maintaining relationships with major
nuclear utilities in Asia, Europe and the United States as
well as with enrichers in Europe and the United States. Mr.
Mani managed agents in the Far East and prepared position
papers and draft legislative language for, and represented
the company president in, meetings with U.S. government
departments (Commerce, Energy and State) and industry trade
organizations (ESA, NEI, WNA, WNFM, WNTI).
From 1987 to 1994, Mr. Mani
was Business Manager for Allied Signal, where he was
responsible for global sales, marketing, technical support
and research and development for a line of inorganic
fluorinated products.
Prior to his employment with
Allied Signal, Mr. Mani held a variety of positions with
Allied Chemical in the areas of financial management,
applications development, strategic planning and business
development.
Mr. Mani holds an MBA from
Rutgers University, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Technology
Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Loughborough
University, UK.
Richard M. Cherry, Director
Richard M. Cherry has over 34
years of experience in the nuclear industry, having worked
for several companies in areas of uranium mining,
production, conversion, marketing, and nuclear power
generation. He currently consults to the uranium industry.
From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Cherry
was President and CEO of Cotter Corporation and Nuclear
Fuels Corporation, which are both affiliates of General
Atomics Corporation. Mr. Cherry was responsible for all
aspects of Cotter's mining and milling operations in
Colorado, including uranium and vanadium production. Through
Nuclear Fuels Corporation, he was responsible for the
worldwide uranium marketing efforts of all uranium produced
by General Atomics' affiliates to customers in the United
States, Japan and Europe.
From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Cherry
served as Vice President of ConverDyn and Nuclear Fuels
Corporation. ConverDyn is a joint venture between Honeywell
International and General Atomics formed to market uranium
conversion services to large electrical utilities worldwide.
From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Cherry
served as Executive Vice President of UG U.S.A., Inc. UG
U.S.A is the U.S. subsidiary of the German uranium trading
company, Urangesellschaft mbH, based in Frankfurt, which
trades all forms of nuclear fuel. From 1986 to 1993, Mr.
Cherry served as Regional Director (Far East) of Sequoyah
Fuels Corporation, marketing the company's uranium
conversion services to clients in Japan, South Korea and
Taiwan.
From 1973 to 1986, Mr. Cherry held various engineering and
management positions with Kansas Gas and Electric Company,
where was responsible for the commercial and technical areas
required to secure nuclear fuel for the Wolf Creek Nuclear
Generating Station near Burlington, Kansas.
Mr. Cherry holds an M.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from Wichita State University and a
B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Oklahoma.
He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (State of Kansas).
Jas Butalia, Director
Mr. Butalia has over twenty-five years experience involving
Canadian and international tax consultation and planning
including, but not limited to, corporate and personal
taxation, mergers and acquisitions, U.S. taxation,
structuring of inbound and outbound transactions, and
structuring of tax planning for individuals pertaining to
offshore structures.
Mr. Butalia was a tax consultation
practitioner from 1976 to 2003 with BDO Dunwoody LLP, where
he was a partner from 1979. During January 2004 Mr. Butalia
retired from BDO Dunwoody LLP, and he currently practices as
an independent tax consultant.
Mr. Butalia served four years
on the tax committee of BDO Dunwoody LLP, including as
chairman, and also served four years on the tax committee of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia.
He has authored a paper for the British Columbia Tax
Conference hosted by the Canadian Tax Foundation, has
written income tax courses and presented seminars for the
Professional Development program of the Instituted Chartered
Accountants of British Columbia and the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Alberta, and has been a tutorial
leader for over five years at the School of Chartered
Accountancy of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
British Columbia.
Mr. Butalia also serves on the board of
directors of Beaumont Select Corporation, currently trading
on the TSX stock exchange in Canada. In addition, Mr.
Butalia has served as a director and as the Chief Financial
Officer of Zoro Mining Corp., a reporting company, since May
2007.
Henry Martyn Fowlds, Director
Henry Martyn Fowlds has over 39 years of experience in the
public financial markets. Mr. Fowlds worked as a registered
stockbroker for 37 years, beginning with Merit Investment
Corp. in Toronto, Canada in 1965. He relocated to Vancouver,
Canada in 1980 in order to establish the west coast offices
for Merit. In 1990, Mr. Fowlds joined the brokerage firm of
Georgia Pacific Securities. Mr. Fowlds served as Vice
President and sales manager of Georgia Pacific Securities in
Vancouver until 2003, when he left the brokerage business to
pursue a senior management role working for public companies
in the resources and mining sector.
Mr. Fowlds joined Dentonia
Resources Ltd. as Vice President and Director in 2004.
Dentonia is a Canadian mineral exploration company traded on
the TSX Venture Exchange. Since late 2004, he has also
served as the Vice President and Director of Vangold
Resources Ltd., a Canadian natural resource company traded
on the TSX Venture Exchange.
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