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Before becoming President and CEO, Rob Garden had been a Director of Golden Band Resources since January 2004. He has served on a number of Golden Band Board committees including the Audit Committee. Rob has practiced law with the firm of MacPherson, Leslie and Tyerman LLP, a firm with offices in Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Edmonton, for more than 35 years in his primary practice areas of natural resources and labour and employment law. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1992. Rob has worked extensively in the Saskatchewan mining industry, serving as general counsel to Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited, a major German mining corporation, Key Lake Mining Corporation, and Cigar Lake Mining Corporation. Rob also acted as corporate secretary to several mining corporations and mining joint ventures in Saskatchewan, including the Key Lake Joint Venture and, since the mid-1980's, the Cigar Lake Joint Venture. He is also the Chairman of Mindoro Resources Ltd., a junior mineral exploration company with gold, copper-gold, and nickel assets in the Philippines. |
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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. In May of 2010, Ron was an integral part of Osisko Mining Corporation's acquisition of 77.28% interest in Brett Resources Inc., which was strongly endorsed by the shareholders. The acquisition represents a healthy ROI for Brett Resources shareholders. Ron continues to sit on Brett’s board of directors. |
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A Chartered Accountant who graduated in 1985 from the College of Commerce at the University of Saskatchewan, Mark has extensive experience in the mining industry working in both accounting and treasury and directly in mining operations. He worked for 12 years in a variety of different roles at Cameco Corporation, including a 4-year term as the Vice-President, Finance at the Kumtor Gold Mine in the Kyrgyz Republic and, most recently, as Corporate Treasurer. He also worked as Assistant Controller and led the Sarbanes/Oxley internal control compliance project for Cameco and its subsidiaries. Prior to that, Mark worked as a Senior Manager for KPMG Chartered Accountants in Saskatoon. |
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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. |
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Director 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' 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. Klaus also received the 2010 Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) Outstading Achievement Award. Click here for more information. Dr. Klaus Lehnert-Thiel is the 2010 Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient. The Outstanding Achievement Award was created in 1998 to honour members who show technical excellence and achievement in engineering and/or geoscience in Saskatchewan. |
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Director 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. |
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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 AREVAResources Inc. (Areva Group). Nearing retirement, Mr. Tosney currently serves as Executive Advisor at AREVA. 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. |
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| Stuart Diamond, JD, MBA Director 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. |
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Archibald Nesbitt, LL. B, B.Com. 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. |
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