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| Mr. Buck is a geologist with 40 years of international exploration and production experience, principally in nickel, base metals and gold. During his career he has been associated with the discovery and development of a number of mineral deposits in Australia and Brazil, working with WMC Resources for 23 years and Forrestania Gold/LionOre Australia (1994-2006), and Breakaway Resources Limited (2006-2009).
During his tenure at LionOre, Mr. Buck managed the highly successful exploration team that discovered the Maggie Hays, Emily Ann, Waterloo and Amorac nickel deposits and the two million ounce Thunderbox gold deposit in Western Australia, and was closely involved in the management of these deposits through feasibility studies to production. Mr. Buck also held key senior advisory roles in indigenous relations in Australia, LionOre's African operations and new business development. During this period Mr. Buck served as non-executive director with Gallery Resources and Breakaway Resources Limited.
In 2006, Mr. Buck became the Managing Director and CEO of Breakaway Resources and led the team that discovered extensions to a series of nickel and base deposits in WA and Queensland. He left Breakaway in 2009 to pursue other professional and personal interests.
In addition to PMI Gold Corporation, Mr. Buck is a non-executive director of Antipa Minerals Ltd, and is involved with voluntary roles as Vice President of The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) and a Board Member of the Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia and Curtin University. |
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| Mr. Ellison is a Professional Mining Engineer with 35 years of experience in mining project evaluation, development, implementation and operation. During his career, Mr. Ellison has built and operated nine resource projects and companies in Africa, Australia, Asia, Central Asia and North America. He was previously the President & Chief Executive Officer of Goldbelt Resources Ltd., and was responsible for the development of the Inata gold mine in Burkina Faso and subsequently as President & Chief Executive Officer for Asian Mineral Resources Limited for the development of the Ban Phuc nickel project in Vietnam. |
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| Mr. Ennison is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana and serves as Corporate Secretary to Adansi Gold Company (Gh) Ltd., the 100% owned subsidiary of PMI Gold. Formerly the Ghanaian Ambassador to Italy and Advisor to the U.N. on mining law, Mr. Ennison was also the Principal State Attorney in the Attorney General's Dept and Head of the International Law Unit, with the responsibility for the preparation of mining agreements. He has also served as General Legal Counsel for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). |
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| Dr. Clarke holds a B.Sc. in metallurgy from University College Cardiff, a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Cambridge University and an MBA from Middlesex Polytechnic. During his long career involved in African mining he has held a number of executive positions including Executive Director of Ashanti Goldfields and most recently was the CEO of Nevsun Resources Limited, an exploration and development company engaged in gold and base metals exploration and development in Africa.
While at Ashanti, Dr. Clarke was responsible for strategic planning and business development and contributed to establishing Ashanti's gold exploration program throughout sub-Saharan Africa, including the acquisition of the Geita deposit in Tanzania, the Siguiri deposit in Guinea and the Bibiani deposit in Ghana. |
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| Mr. Mensah is the former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission of Ghana, an advisory board that reports directly to the President and to Parliament. He is also the former Member of Parliament for the riding of Sunyani East. Trained as an Economist, Mr. Mensah is widely respected in global development planning including formerly with the United Nations. Previously, he held the post of Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and latterly as Leader of Government Business, head of Economic Management Team, and senior Minister of the Government of Ghana. He was also a member of the African Advisory Council of the African Development Bank. Mr. Mensah also recently retired as an Independent Director of AngloGold Ashanti Limited. |
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| Mr Ashton has been involved in the exploration, consulting, financing and development of international resource projects since 1972. Most recently in his capacity as Managing Director and subsequently Chair of Red Back Mining Inc, Mr Ashton was responsible for identifying the prospectivity and leading the team which discovered the multi-million ounce Chirano gold deposit in Ghana, West Africa. In 2004 Mr. Ashton re-domiciled Red Back from the ASX to the TSX with a new Canadian CEO, management and board and he resigned as chair in 2005. In September 2010 Red Back, as a +400,000 ounce per year gold producer, was the subject of a merger with Kinross Gold Corporation which valued the Company at US$7.1B. |
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| Mr. Allen is a Chartered Accountant with some 30 years' experience, which includes senior financial executive appointments in the mining, advisory and investment industries. Mr. Allen was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for ASX listed Dragon Mining NL. He was involved in the acquisition of mining assets in Finland and Sweden and managing the associated ongoing financial responsibilities, including those associated with the development of a gold mine in Sweden. He has also worked with Resolute Mining, the original owners of PMI's Obotan Gold Project in Ghana, Golden Pride and AngloGold. Most recently, Mr. Allen has been a Principal in the Corporate Finance division of RSM Bird Cameron in Perth, where he provided advice to a range of clients. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Shareholders' Association. |
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| Ms. McGrath has been actively engaged in the securities industry for over 25 years. She has served as a director and officer of numerous public companies in a corporate administrative capacity. Ms. McGrath is the owner of iO Corporate Services Ltd., which company provides corporate and accounting services to various publicly-traded Canadian companies. Prior to organizing iO Corporate, Ms. McGrath was a senior paralegal with a Vancouver-based securities law firm. |
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| Based in Perth, Western Australia, Mr. Hobson's services will complement the services already provided by Marion McGrath in meeting PMI's corporate regulatory obligations primarily within Australia.
Ian Hobson is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary with over 25 years' experience in Australia, Canada and the UK in the areas of corporate governance, financial control, due diligence, prospectuses and mergers and acquisitions for ASX listed companies. |
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| Mr. Macfarlane has 30 years' experience in exploration, geology, underground gold mining and reserve definition. He has a thorough knowledge of the gold deposits of Eastern Canada working with Agnico Eagle, Selco/BP and has worked and lived throughout Africa in Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Guinea and Niger. |
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| Mr. Amoah joined the Company in May 2011. He is a geologist with over 15 years' experience in gold, bauxite and iron ore exploration, and resource and project development in West Africa. He was previously the Exploration Manager for Avocet Mining in Burkina Faso and played a key role in developing and extending the resources at the Inata Gold Project and other deposits at the Belahouro Project area. He has worked extensively in Ghana and Sierra Leone during his time as a consultant with Resource Services Group (now Coffey Mining). Mr. Amoah will manage all of Adansi Gold's exploration activities and performance within the key project areas - Obotan, Kubi and Asankrangwa. In addition, he will establish, develop and maintain occupational health and safety training and operations as well assist in the evaluation and development of Adansi's exploration strategy within Ghana and elsewhere within West Africa. |
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| Mr. Gydeu has 17 years' experience in exploration and mine operations within Ghana and Algeria and was most recently Geology Manager & Senior Mine Geologist with GMA Resources/Enor (Algeria), and previously as Chief Mine Geologist, Senior Mine Geologist, Pit Supervisor and Senior Pit Geologist with Goldfields and Ranger Minerals both in Ghana. |
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| Mr. Darko has 14 years experience working in similar roles within Ghana, most recently with Chirano Gold Mine Limited where he was Community & Public Relations Manager and Local Communications Officer (2005-2011). Mr. Darko will be responsible for the design and implementation of appropriate community relations programs, the development of environmental management programs, the organisation and provision of logistics support as well as managing the Company's community relations team in Ghana. |
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