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| | | Paul Matysek, M. Sc, P. Geo
Position: CEO and President
Mr. Matysek is an experienced geochemist/geologist with a Bachelor of Science degree and a Masters of Science degree in Geology. Mr. Matysek has held management and director positions with several natural resource exploration and development companies.
Most recently Mr. Matysek was the CEO and President of Energy Metals Corporation, a uranium company traded on New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange. Energy Metals became one of the fastest growing companies in Canada in the last two years having grown from a market capitalization of only $10 million in 2004 to $1.8 billion when it was sold to a larger uranium producer in 2007.
He has been involved in raising over $200 million for various exploration and development projects since 1999.
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| | | David A. Berg
Position: Director & Chairman
Mr. David A. Berg has spent over 28 years of consecutive service with one of Canada's largest publicly traded companies, Loblaw's Group of Companies Ltd. His most recent responsibility was serving in the capacity of Vice President of Operations for a business unit in Western Canada representing $1.5 Billion in annual revenue with a total of 8,500 employees. Mr. Berg brings retail, financial services and energy business acumen to the Board.
Since 2007, he operates a private consulting company based in Calgary, Alberta specializing in the provision of management services, development of business models and structuring, financing and managing of public and private projects.
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| | | Thomas R. Tough, P. Eng.
Position: Director
Thomas R. Tough, P.Eng. graduated in 1965 with a B.Sc. degree in Geology from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and has been registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia since 1970.
He is a geological consultant with over 40 years experience in prospecting, property evaluation, exploration, development, open-pit and underground mine and mill planning and processing, as operator and project manager. As a consultant he has specialized in underground and surface exploration, reserve estimations, and feasibility studies on precious metal projects and underground gold placer deposits along with the development and/or production of precious, base, industrial minerals, gemstones and oil and gas.
He has held numerous positions with public and private corporations as an officer and director. Mr. Tough is currently a Director of Potash One Inc. and President and a Director of Maxtech Ventures Inc. (MVT-TSXV) He is also a Director of Ona Exploration Inc. (OEIX-CNQ) and Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (DAU-TSXV).
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| | | William Lupien
Position: Director
Mr. Lupien brings over 40 years of public-market financial expertise and United States equity-market exposure to the Company's board. Mr. Lupien began his career with Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, a New York Stock Exchange-member and specialist firm in 1965, where he held various positions including president from 1974 through 1980. Mr. Lupien became chairman and chief executive officer in 1988 serving through 1995. Mr. Lupien was the chairman and CEO of Instinet Inc. from 1983 until 1988. He has served as chairman of OptiMark Inc., a company he established in 1995, with a mandate to improve the structure and operational capabilities of the securities market.
Mr. Lupien has served on numerous private and public company boards including Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Instinet, National Health Enterprises, Energy Metals Corporation and others. He held a position as trustee of the Securities Industry Institute, and the Securities and Exchange Commission national market advisory board and was the governor of the Pacific Stock Exchange for six years. Mr. Lupien is the co-author along with David Nassar of Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading, published in 2004 by McGraw Hill.
Mr. Lupien is currently a private investor and a financial equity market consultant. He is on the board of directors of Uranium One (TSX:UUU), Midway Gold Corp. (AMEX, TSX.V:MDW), Aflease Gold Ltd. (JSE:AFO) and Skyler Technology Inc.
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| | | Glen Macdonald
Position: Director
Mr. Macdonald joined the Board of Directors in 2003. He is a professional geologist, with over 30 years of exploration & mine development experience in the mineral industry. He has designed & managed mineral exploration campaigns on a worldwide basis. He has served on the Boards of numerous public companies with management roles in technical, project management & financing. His most recent success includes 10 years as a director from 1997 to 2007 with Starfield Resources Inc. (SRU) which now trades on the TSX.
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| | | Douglas Forster, M.Sc. P.Geo.
Position: Director
Mr. Douglas Forster brings over 27 years of experience in the mineral exploration and mine development industry. He has extensive experience and a proven track record in resource project development, mergers and acquisitions, equity finance and public company management. For almost three decades Mr. Forster has been involved in creating wealth for North American and International investors through natural resource discovery, exploration and development.
Over the past 20 years, Mr. Forster has been a founder, advisor, senior executive and/or director of 12 publicly traded companies, including Taseko Mines Limited, Continental Gold Corp., El Condor Resources Ltd., North American Metals Corp., Farallon Resources Ltd. and Rubicon Minerals Corp. He has been involved in the acquisition, financing and advancement of a number of large-scale mine development projects in Canada include the Kemess South, Mt. Milligan and Prosperity gold-copper projects and the Kitsault molybdenum project.
Mr. Forster is currently President and CEO of Featherstone Capital Advisors Inc and a director of Calibre Mining Corp, a publicly-traded gold-copper mineral exploration company. Mr. Forster holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geology and is a registered member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.
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| | | George Lim, CA
Position: CFO
Mr. Lim joined Potash One in 2008. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Energy Metals Corporation, a NYSE-Arca and TSX-listed company. Prior to this, Mr. Lim was the Chief Financial Officer of a group of resource companies for 5 years with operations in North and South America, Australia and Africa. He began his career at KMPG and has since held roles of increasing responsibility, several of which were senior roles in public practice and in the mining industry.
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| | | Mike Ferguson, P.Eng
Position: VP, Projects
Mike Ferguson is a professional engineer and senior project manager with significant experience in the Saskatchewan Uranium and Potash industries. Mr. Ferguson's potash experience started in 1984 working in an underground potash mining operation, continuing through maintenance engineering work in a potash mill and on to engineering design and project delivery. He has worked for all the major potash producers in Saskatchewan including Mosaic, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium. Mr. Ferguson also led projects overseas in the Middle East and south-east Asia.
Most recently Mr. Ferguson served as a General Manager for Wardrop Engineering, and Operations Manager with AMEC prior to that. He earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and Graduate Certificate in Project Management from Pennsylvania State University.
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| | | Max Ramey, PE
Position: VP, Solution Mining
Max is a registered professional engineer and has over 23 years experience in the solution mining industry. Before joining Potash One, Mr. Ramey held the position of Principal Advisor at Rio Tinto, where he was responsible for providing engineering, permitting, drilling, and operations support for Potasio Rio Colorado potash solution mining project in the Mendoza Province of Argentina.
Mr. Ramey's solution mining experience started in 1985, with Pennzoil Sulphur Company. From 1985 to 1997, Mr. Ramey occupied progressive positions at the Culberson Frasch sulphur mine and was Operations Manager from 1995 -- 1997.
In 1997, Mr. Ramey joined American Soda, LLP. as the Manager of Mining Operations. At American Soda, Max participated in the green field development of a 1.5 million ton per year sodium bi-carbonate solution mining operation located in western Colorado. He was responsible for the resource confirmation drilling, the solution mining pilot program, the well and wellfield design, the commercial wellfield drilling program, and ultimately managed the American Soda commercial solution mining start up and operation.
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| | | Ted Warren
Position: Manager, Operations
Ted has 45 years of experience in uranium, potash and base metals mining and production facilities in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Starting in 1964 with the IMCC Mine (Now Mosaic Esterhazy) as Mill Maintenance Supervisor, Ted later moved to Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) where he implemented operations systems at the Rocanville mine further expanding his duties to other mine/mill sites. Since 1985 Ted has had provided operational leadership at major uranium producers and for the last 5 yeas has been consulting in the Uranium and Potash industries mostly through AMEC America's Mining Division.
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