Red Back Mining Inc
A Growing Gold Producer - Africa
Managemenrt
& Directors
Lukas H. Lundin
Position: Chairman, Director
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Born in 1958, Lukas Lundin was raised in Stockholm, Sweden and educated at the Ecole Internationale de Genève in Switzerland. In 1981, Mr. Lundin graduated from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (engineering).
At age 25 Mr. Lundin headed International Petroleum Corporation's extensive and rapidly growing international operations and was based in the Company's technical office in Dubai, U.A.E. for over 12 years. From 1990 to June 1995, Mr. Lundin was President of International Musto Exploration Limited and was responsible for Musto's acquisition of the Bajo de la Alumbrera deposit. Bajo de la Alumbrera was the subject of a $500 million takeover by Rio Algom and North Limited and is now one of the largest gold/copper producers in the world. Mr. Lundin was also responsible for Argentina Gold and the discovery of the multi-million ounce Veladero gold deposit. Veladero was the subject of a $300 million takeover by Homestake in 1999. In addition, Mr. Lundin was a senior Director of Lundin Oil AB and was instrumental in the $480 million takeover of Lundin Oil by Talisman Energy in 2001. Mr. Lundin is currently a Director of a number of publicly traded resource companies. Mr. Lundin has been a director of Red Back since May 2003.
A world traveler and motorcycle racing enthusiast, Mr. Lundin has twice completed the grueling 10,000 kilometre Dakar race across the Sahara Desert. He has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. In the winter, he can be found helicopter skiing in Whistler and in summer, dirt bike racing with his four boys in Baja California.
Richard P. Clark
Position: President, C.E.O, Director
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Mr. Clark is a lawyer who practiced mining and securities law in British Columbia from 1987 to 1993.For the past ten years Mr. Clark has been a senior executive with the Lundin Group of Companies. In 2004 he became president and CEO of Red Back and under his leadership Red Back has grown into an intermediate gold producer with a production profile growing to over 500,000 oz per annum. Mr. Clark has successfully guided Red Back through all facets of growth including discovery, feasibility, financing and production coupled with successful corporate acquisitions.
Simon Jackson
Position: Vice President, Corporate Development
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Mr. Jackson is a chartered accountant with 20 years experience in the gold industry. He has been instrumental in the financing and development of the Chirano Gold Project and drove the process through which Red Back became a Canadian company. He was a key member of the Red Back team that financed and completed the acquisition of the Tasiast project in 2007. Mr. Jackson was Red Back's CFO for 8 years to 2007. Prior to joining Red Back in 1999, his experience includes corporate transactions in Australia, Africa and Indonesia. He initially spent eight years with KPMG in Perth, Western Australia.
Alessandro Bitelli
Position: Chief Financial Officer
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Mr. Bitelli is a chartered accountant with over 25 years of work experience in the resource industry and in public accounting, having worked both in North America and in Europe. Before joining Red Back, Mr. Bitelli worked for Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. a diamond exploration company where he was responsible for all the financial affairs of the company, including the successful completion of a number of financings. Prior to that, he was with a leading international public accounting firm, and two of its predecessor firms. His work covered a wide range of services, including due diligence assignments for the purchase and sale of businesses while servicing a client portfolio of private, public and multinational companies.
Kevin Ross
Position: Chief Operating Officer
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Mr. Ross is a Mining Engineer with over 30 years experience gained at projects in Africa, Europe and North America. He holds a BSc (Min Eng) from the Royal School of Mines and a MBA from Cranfield. He brings to Red Back a wealth of knowledge in both open pit and underground mining and broad experience in sub level caving.
Hugh Stuart
Position: Vice President Exploration
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Mr. Stuart is a professional geologist with 20 years of international experience in mineral exploration. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of Manchester and M.Sc. in Mineral Exploration and Mining Geology from the University of Leicester. Mr. Stuart is responsible for the discovery of the +1 million oz Akwaaba Deeps underground deposit at Chirano. As Exploration Manager at the Geita Gold Project in Tanzania, Mr.Stuarts's team discovered the + 7 million oz Nyankanga deposit.
Michael Hunt
Position: Director
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Mr. Hunt is a partner in Hunt & Humphry, Project Lawyers, Perth, Australia. Mr. Hunt has an international reputation as a mining lawyer and has been involved in the development of many mining projects. Mr. Hunt was founding Chairman of Red Back Mining NL. He has been a director of Red Back since May 2004.
Harry Michael
Position: Director
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Mr. Michael is a mining engineer with over 18 years operating experience in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Africa. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Michael was C.E.O. of Geita Gold Mining Limited in Tanzania, a joint venture between Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited and Anglogold Limited. Prior to that, Mr. Michael was General Manager of the Ashanti-owned Iduapriem gold mine in Ghana. He has been a director of Red Back since May 2004.
Brian D. Edgar
Position: Director
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Mr. Brian D. Edgar has been active in public markets for over 25 years. A graduate of the University of British Columbia law school, Mr. Edgar practiced corporate and securities law in Vancouver for 16 years before retiring in October 1992 to establish Rand Edgar Investment Corp., an investment/banking, venture capital company in the business of providing early stage venture capital to high growth companies and in providing advisory services concerning corporate structuring, finance, business strategies, private and public securities offerings and relations with regulatory authorities, lawyers, accountants and technical consultants. Mr. Edgar serves on the Board of a number of public companies. He has been a director of Red Back since August 2005.
Robert F. Chase
Position: Director
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Mr. Chase is a resident of West Vancouver, British Columbia and is a financial executive who serves on the boards of a number of other Canadian companies. He has been a director of Red Back since August 2005.