Great Panther Appoints Professionals to Advisory Board
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Fastest growing primary silver producer in Mexico.
Great Panther Resources Limited TSX: GPR
Suite 2100, 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6E 2K3
Telephone: (604) 608 1766 Fax (604) 608 1744
SEC 20-F Statement Filed; Standard & Poor’s Listed
Great Panther Appoints Financial & Metallurgical Professionals to Advisory Board
Great Panther Resources Limited (TSX: GPR) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Carsky, CA, and Ken Major, P. Eng., to its newly formed Advisory Board.
Martin Carsky, CA, is a financial executive with over 15 years experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and corporate governance. He serves as the Executive Chairman of Metrobridge Networks International Inc. and acts as a consultant to several businesses. He is currently a Director of the following public companies: Metrobridge Networks International Inc., Pacific Safety Products Inc., Kruger Capital Corp., and Anthem Ventures Capital Corp. Mr. Carsky serves as the Chair of the Board of Metrobridge Networks and as Chair of the Audit Committee for Pacific Safety Products.
Ken Major, P. Eng., is the President of KWM Consulting Ltd., a company specializing in mineral processing plant design, commissioning and optimization. Ken is a Metallurgical Engineer with over 30 years of operations, engineering, design and project management experience in the mining industry. For the 12 years prior to starting KWM Consulting in 2006, Ken was a Principal of Rescan Engineering Ltd., a company that was acquired by Hatch Engineering, providing Project Management and Mineral Process Engineering services to Canadian and International Clients.
“As the regulatory and compliance environment in which public companies work today continues to become more demanding, management needs the expertise on hand to enable it to best deal with its various financial and production issues” said Robert Archer, the Company’s President & CEO. “Martin and Ken will add another layer of depth to the Company’s financial reporting and engineering capabilities and we welcome their input.”
For further information please contact Brad Aelicks or Don Mosher at telephone 604 685 6465, fax 604 899 4303 or e-mail info@greatpanther.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Signed: “Kaare G. Foy”
Kaare G. Foy, Executive Chairman