Ronald K. Netolitzky, M.Sc. Geology
Executive Chairman and Director

Ron has been a dedicated part of the Golden Band team since 1993 and spent more than four years as the President and CEO. In early 2007, Ron moved from this position to Chairman of the Board where he maintains a vital role in assisting the company's senior management team in plotting the course along the path to production. Ron works closely with both the senior management team and the board in regards to the corporate strategies, plans and goals.

Ron Netolitzky was the first to recognize the gold potential of the La Ronge Gold Belt. In the late 1970s, Ron initiated the acquisition of a large land package comprised of a prospecting permit and claim blocks (about 200,000 hectares) covering most of the prospective area north of the Churchill River (similar to the area presently held by Golden Band).

Ron was later to be instrumental in the discovery of the Snip, Eskay Creek and the Brewery Creek gold deposits in BC and Yukon, earning him the Prospector of the Year Award in 1990 from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Most recently, his Viceroy Exploration was acquired by Yamana Gold Inc. for its Gualcamayo gold deposit.
 

Rod Orr has been a part of Golden Band's senior management team since early 2004.

A geologist, Rod is an active member of the Saskatchewan mining industry and brings more than 30 years of mining experience with him. Prior to his work at Golden Band, he held such positions as Vice President Exploration and later Executive Vice President of Mindoro Resources and Senior Geologist for Uranerz Exploration and Mining Ltd. in Saskatoon where he managed major foreign and domestic exploration programs for uranium, gold and diamonds.
 

Gary Haywood joined the Golden Band team in early 2007 and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the development, mining and milling operations. Gary is a professional mining engineer with over 20 years open pit and underground experience in Australia and Canada. His operational gold mining expertise will prove invaluable as he helps to oversee the company's progress towards production.

Gary was most recently General Manager of Cameco's McArthur River Mine, the world's largest, high-grade uranium deposit. Prior to joining Cameco in 2004, Mr. Haywood was Mining Manager at Sons of Gwalia Ltd.'s Southern Cross gold mine and Resident Mine Manager at their Leonora gold mine in Western Australia. Gary has Saskatchewan gold mining experience as Mine Superintendent at Cameco's Contact Lake Gold Mine. Gary is registered as a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. Gary has a degree in mining engineering, a Diploma in Business (Frontline Management), and has completed the Western Australian School of Mines Mining Executive Development Program.
 

Frank Hrdy uses his experience with mine geology and sampling from exploration through to production in his role as the Mineral Resources Manager. He works with the Golden Band exploration and development teams to use his practical working knowledge of geology, mining, and geostatistics in order to construct resource models for both surface and underground gold mines.

Frank has worked at several successful gold mines in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario where his duties included supervising daily geological activities, evaluating and reporting mine resources, and designing exploration programs to increase the gold resource base. Frank's experience includes Placer Dome's Campbell Gold Mine, where he was the Qualified Person for calculating and reporting the gold resource, and Wescan Goldfields Inc. where he was the Exploration Manager.

Frank graduated with a M.Sc. degree from the University of Saskatchewan, where he wrote his thesis on the formation of gold deposits in Saskatchewan. Frank obtained his MBA at the University of Victoria.
 

Educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Gary has broad experience in industry as an entrepreneur and in private practice. For the past 11 years he was Vice President of Finance and Human Resources for Saskatoon-based Standard Machine. Prior to that Gary had operated his own business and was a partner with Coopers and Lybrand in Saskatoon; Coopers having previously acquired the accounting firm of which Gary was a founding partner.
 

Dr. Lehnert-Thiel spent his first summer in the La Ronge Gold Belt at Waddy Lake as an Austrian exchange student in 1966. After settling permanently in Saskatchewan in 1969, he was employed by contracting and consulting firms and active in uranium, base metal and gold exploration. In 1974, he joined Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited and was on the Key Lake discovery team. He subsequently became responsible for Uranerz's Canada-wide exploration efforts. In 1986, Uranerz ventured into exploration for gold (the Star Lake and Contact Lake mines with Cameco Corporation) and diamonds. Uranerz's gold exploration resulted in the discovery of the Bingo deposit during the 1991/92 field seasons. Klaus led the team that made the original kimberlite and diamond discovery at Fort à la Corne in 1988-1989. This project is still the subject of advanced evaluation by De Beers et al.

Klaus is a highly-regarded expert and serves as a consultant to the uranium and gold exploration industry. He is a director of Golden Band and, since 1993, has been responsible for all of its exploration programs in Saskatchewan. During this period he has developed an in-field gold grain recovery methodology which has been central to Golden Band's continued--and successful--exploration efforts.

Klaus' achievements as an explorationist were recognized in 2006 by the Saskatchewan Geological Society when he was placed on the society's Saskatchewan Honour Roll. This award is awarded annually to geoscientists who have made significant contributions to geoscience in the province.
 

Robson Garden, QC
Director

Mr. Garden, of Calgary and formerly Saskatoon, is a senior partner with the law firm of MacPherson, Leslie and Tyerman, a firm with offices in Regina, Saskatoon, and Calgary. Rob Garden has more than 30 years’ experience in his primary areas of practice: labour and employment law, administrative law, and natural resources law.

Mr. Garden has acted as corporate secretary to several corporations and mining joint ventures in Saskatchewan. He has specialized in labour relation matters but has also worked extensively in the Saskatchewan mining industry having served as general counsel in Saskatoon for Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited, a major German mining corporation. For many years, Rob has acted as the Secretary of the Key Lake Joint Venture Management Committee and since the mid-1980’s, has served as Secretary of the Cigar Lake Joint Venture Management Committee.

Rob is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on various labour and employment law topics in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and British Columbia. He has lectured at the University of Saskatchewan College of Commerce, College of Law, and College of Arts and Science. Mr. Garden is a member of the Alberta and Saskatchewan Bars. In recognition of his abilities as an advocate and negotiator, Rob was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1992.

Mr. Ingram is involved with a number of resource companies, including CDG Investments Inc., the successor to Golden Rule Resources. Other business interests include commercial real estate and construction. A Chartered Accountant, Bob is partner in Ingram & Company, and makes his home in Edmonton.
 

Mr. Diamond is president of Global Strategy Group, which advises companies and governments on negotiating foreign investment and devising strategies, structures, and marketing to compete effectively on an international scale: essentially the skills of planning and persuasion. In June, 2005, Mr. Diamond became Chairman and CEO of Four Star Airlines of St. Thomas, in which he is a 50% owner.

Stuart Diamond has taught and advised on negotiation and cultural diversity to corporate and government leaders in more than 40 countries. He has taught at the business schools of Columbia, NYU, USC, UCal/Berkeley, and at Oxford and Penn Law School, where he is an Adjunct Professor. His course on negotiation is highly rated, including in the Wharton Executive Program, where he has taught extensively. Stuart holds an M.B.A. with honors from Wharton Business School and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Diamond has also been an executive of a Wall Street energy futures brokerage firm and founded or directed entrepreneurial ventures in medical services and wireless technologies. He has advised on environmental regulations, privatization, and intellectual property protection in emerging markets from Chile to Kuwait. In a prior career, Stuart was a journalist, including at The New York Times where he won the Pulitzer Prize as a part of a team investigating the crash of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. He covered many major crises including the Bhopal chemical leak in India, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, and the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union. Stuart has written 2 books, 2 documentary films, and more than 2,000 published articles, including 109 on page 1 of The New York Times. He has appeared on Today and Good Morning America and lectured widely about the problems and prospects of emerging markets, and international business challenges in an environment of change.
 

John Tosney, M.Sc., P.Eng.
Director

Mr. Tosney has had close involvement in many Saskatchewan gold projects, being involved in feasibility studies, environmental assessments, licensing, construction, operations, and early decommissioning at the Star Lake, Jasper, and Contact Lake mines.

John Tosney's career in mining engineering has contributed to the development of Saskatchewan's mining industry for the past 24 years. Mr. Tosney's leadership skills and technical expertise have taken him from Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation (1981) to senior management positions with Cameco Corporation, President of Cigar Lake Mining Corporation, and Executive Vice President of COGEMA Resources Inc. (Areva Group). Nearing retirement, Mr. Tosney currently serves as Executive Advisor at COGEMA. 

In addition to his engineering expertise, John has also for many years played a leading role as an industry representative on many committees dealing with development issues in northern Saskatchewan. In recognition of his career, John received the 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. Mr. Tosney holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mining Engineering from Nottingham University and an M.Sc. in Management Studies from Durham University. Prior to his arrival in Saskatchewan in 1981, he had 17-years experience in the mining industry in eastern Canada.

Throughout his professional career, John has enjoyed amateur sports. He was a member of the Newfoundland Soccer Championship team, St. Lawrence in 1966. He also played for the Toronto Irish Canadians, Ontario Rugby Champions 1979. John has managed/coached the Saskatchewan U-15/U-17 boy's youth soccer teams for four years and also held similar roles with the Provinces U-17/U-19 boy's youth rugby teams for four years. Mr. Tosney served on the board of the Saskatchewan Rugby Union (SRU), remains an active referee, and was elected to the SRU Hall of Fame. John continues to play "Masters" indoor soccer with Barnstone Rangers.
 

Archibald Nesbitt, LL. B, B.Com.
Director

Mr. Nesbitt began his career in resource exploration and development in 1966. In 1969, he was a founder of Nesbitt Mining & Exploration Ltd. and held positions as President, CEO, CFO, COO, and finally as Chairman of the Board of that corporation under the name Southpoint Resources Ltd. until December 2004. Mr. Nesbitt was founder, CEO, and subsequently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bakbone Software Inc., and continues as a member of the Board of Directors. From 1977 to 1984, Mr. Nesbitt was President and COO of the Calgary, Alberta headquartered Geomex and Minexco Energy group of private uranium/mining and oil and gas exploration companies, which invested in excess of $300,000,000 in worldwide resource exploration and development.

Currently, Mr. Nesbitt is a member of the Board of Directors of Abacus Mining & Exploration Ltd., Dejour Enterprises Ltd., and Northpine Energy Ltd., a private Alberta oil and gas company. Since 1984 Mr. Nesbitt has been actively involved internationally in wildlife conservation and the sustained use of wildlife resources. Mr. Nesbitt holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Queens University.