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| | | Jeff Lowe3
Independent Director
Mr. Lowe is a senior corporate finance, capital markets and corporate governance professional with experience acquired across a diverse industry base including mining, consumer products and telecom. Previously, Mr. Lowe served as Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Centerra Gold, and the Alderwoods Group (F/K/A Loewen Group International), as well as Assistant Treasurer for Noranda Inc. He has also held senior positions in treasury / corporate finance for Nortel Networks and George Weston Limited and recently launched a start up junior uranium Exploration Company. Mr. Lowe has also led a corporate turnaround and restructuring from bankruptcy proceedings, coupled with complex refinancings of the emergent company's capital structure. Mr. Lowe holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, is a Certified General Accountant and holds the accreditation ICD.D as a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
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| | | Ashis Basu1,4,5
Director
Mr. Basu as the Executive Vice President of GMR Energy Limited heads the Commercial & Contract function for the energy business and also heads the group's coal business, which currently includes development of a major thermal coal mine in Indonesia. Mr. Basu is a commerce graduate and a Chartered Accountant and brings nearly 25 years of rich working experience in the energy sector including power generation, transmission, distribution and coal mine development in the commercial, finance and business development areas. Prior to joining GMR Group in 2001, Mr. Basu was working for RPG Group, a major diversified industrial group in India (last position held was that of Chief Manager -- Finance) for nearly 17 years. During his career, Mr. Basu been involved in financial and accounting aspects of running a large private utility, has had key roles in the development and financing of a captive coal mine, negotiation and implementation of high value construction contracts, operation and maintenance of such contracts for power projects with domestic and international suppliers, project financing involving multilateral agencies, export credit agencies, financial institutions, negotiation of large value contracts for mine development and operation, setting up joint ventures and all related commercial areas.
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| | | Laurence W. Curtis 1,2,4
Independent Director
Mr. Curtis is a geologist (PhD, 1974, Toronto) with over thirty five years of international experience in the natural resource sector with direct experience in Africa, Greenland, North, South and Central America, and the Pacific.
Mr. Curtis was President of Curtis & Associates, a mineral resource consulting firm, from 1980 to 1996. He has spent more than 20 years working in Latin America and has been responsible for several mineral discoveries. During this time, Mr. Curtis has consulted for a number of large, multi-national companies and served as a director for several of these companies.
Mr. Curtis founded Intrepid Minerals Corporation in 1995 and was President, CEO and director. Following the merger with Nustar Mining in 2006 the company name was changed to Intrepid Mines Limited. Intrepid Mines merged with Emperor Mines in 2007 following which Mr. Curtis stepped down as President and CEO but remained as a director. Mr. Curtis is a member of the Association of the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and is currently a director of Alturas Minerals Corporation, Intrepid Mines limited and Homeland Uranium Inc.
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| | | Avrom E. Howard, MSc., FGA, PGEO 4,5
Founding Director
Mr. Howard graduated from the University of Colorado with a Masters degree in Geology after achieving his baccalaureate from the University of Toronto. He holds the accreditation of Professional Geoscientist and is a Fellow of the Gemological Association of Great Britain. Mr. Howard is a citizen of both Canada and the United States.
Mr. Howard has broad international experience as a minerals exploration geologist and mining company executive as well as considerable corporate-financial and management experience. Mr. Howard founded Odyssey Resources Limited and acted as its President & CEO until recently.
Mr. Howard is a founding director of Homeland, and his geological expertise is a key factor in the company's uranium exploration program. Mr. Howard now serves as an independent director and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Howard lives in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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| | | Raaj Kumar2,5
Director
Mr. Kumar is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of GMR Energy Limited, engaged in the business of developing, owning and operating power generation projects and investments in power and energy sector. Mr. Kumar is a qualified Electrical Engineer from BITS, Pilani, India. He has over 30 years of rich experience in reputed organizations like Grasim Industries, AP Rayons, Baroda Rayons, Asian Paints, Jindal Praxair Oxygen Co. Ltd. and JSW Energy Ltd. in various locations across India. Mr. Kumar started his career as a Maintenance Engineer in a large chemical industry and then moved to Grasim Industries where he rose to become Chief Engineer. In 1999, he joined Jindal Praxair Oxygen Company Ltd, first as a director and was subsequently appointed to Managing Director. Before joining GMR, Mr. Kumar was Joint Managing Director and CEO of JSW Energy Ltd. (JSWEL), where he introduced innovations to supply power at very competitive tariffs to the state utilities in various parts of India. Under his leadership, JSWEL has embarked upon very ambitious growth plans which include setting up an imported coal based 1000-1200 MW plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra and lignite based 1000 MW capacity in Rajasthan.
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| | | Boda Venkata Nageswara Rao3
Director
Mr. B.V.N. Rao is the Business Chairman of GMR Energy Limited, a company that is engaged in the business of developing, owing and operating power generation projects and investments in power and energy sector. In addition to his position with GMR, Mr. Rao is on the board of several publicly listed and private companies involved in the energy sector in India and abroad. He has 13 years of varied banking experience with exposure in industrial finance, foreign exchange and international trade. Mr. Rao is also experienced through his comprehensive exposure to various sectors including corporate and project planning, taxation and cost reduction measures, designing financial control systems and monitoring of same. Mr. Rao is also on the board of directors of several companies of the GMR group, including the publicly listed GMR Infrastructure Ltd.
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| | | Edwin Lee1,2,3,5
Independent Director
Mr. Lee is a Managing Director of Newhaven, an international merchant bank with offices in Toronto, Dubai, London and Hong Kong. He is also a Director of several investment vehicles branded Phoenician Family of Funds. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several publicly traded companies, listed on North American and European exchanges, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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Notes:
(1) Member of the Audit Committee
(2) Member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee
(3) Member of the Corporate Governance Committee
(4) Member of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee
(5) Member of the Strategic Review Committee
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