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Management

Under the management of seasoned professionals with global exploration and investment experience, the team balances strong technical expertise with market awareness to generate shareholder value. The emphasis will be to develop our high value uranium and gold projects to production decision stage while continuing to evaluate opportunities for growth.


Marcel Hilmer

 CEO

Marcel Hilmer has more than 25 years experience in executive management of global public and private organizations. He has significant international M&A expertise working in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

From 1995 for a period of 9 years he was the Director and Head of European Operations for Nifco Inc. a gloabl automotive parts supplier. Over the past 5 years he has assisted First Quantum Minerals Limited as a business development executive and has extensive experience in the mining sector. He is long standing member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.





Duane Parnham

Executive Director, Business Development

Duane ParnhamMr. Parnham served as President, CEO and Director of Temex Resources Corp. since its creation in 1996 until January 2005. He has a record of success in geological and environmental consultation, corporate development, and regulatory compliance for publicly listed companies and in corporate finance to the junior mining industry. During his career, Mr. Parnham was a co-founder of Westport, a co-founder of Beatty Franz & Associates, an environmental consulting firm and the Regional Laboratory Manager for Overburden Drilling Management. He currently maintains a Board position with Forsys Metals Corp (FSY-TSX).

Mr. Parnham's experience with corporate finance and broker professionals gives him access to capital and market participation in securities trading. Over the past 3 years Mr. Parnham has assisted in raising in excess of $80 million CDN for the companies in which he holds a Directors position.



Bruce Hall
Chief Communications Officer


Bruce HallMr. Hall has extensive experience in the marketing and communications field. For over fourteen years he was one of the principals of a leading marketing and advertising agency. During this period Bruce was responsible for developing and executing both global and national marketing and communications strategies for a number of Fortune 500 clients. Prior to this Mr. Hall spent 10 years in the auto industry with both the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler in a number of management roles.




Craig Bamford
Chief Financial Officer


Craig BamfordMr. Bamford is a Chartered Accountant and experienced CFO who brings more than 25 years of finance background relating to project management and controls, financial reporting and controls, treasury and capital management, risk management, due diligence and business development. He has 22 years of experience in the uranium industry and was previously the CFO for Denison Energy Inc., formerly Denison Mines Limited, a major North American uranium producer.
 



Jorge Estepa
Corporate Secretary


Jorge Estepa  Mr. Estepa is a University of Toronto graduate who has over 11 years experience with publicly traded companies, serving in both investor relations and corporate administrative and development capacities. Mr. Estepa was appointed Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of NFX Gold Inc. (NFX-TSXV) in 1996 and Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of Eloro Resources Ltd. (ELO- TSXV) in 1997, positions which he still currently holds. 


Peter Milutinovic
General Manager


Peter MilutinovicPeter Milutinovic graduated from University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1980. He has over 26 years of experience working in various management roles for multi-national corporations in the oil & gas and resources sector and in management consulting. Mr Milutinovic has years of international operational experience working in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa.





Dr. Roger Laine, Ph.D., P.Geo. (APEGBC)
Chief Geologist


Roger LaineDr. Laine is an experienced geological engineer with a Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Laine has over 23 years of international industry experience throughout the Americas, West & Central Africa and Europe. Specializing in exploration, development, geostatistics and reserve estimating, underground and open-pit mines, grade and quality control using advanced computerized information systems.
Dr. Laine has 14+ years uranium experience working for Cogema and their subsidiaries as a senior manager exploring for roll-front, granite hosted and Permian stratigraphically controlled deposits in France, Canada, US and Mexico.



Dag Kullmann
Manager, Engineer


Dag KullmannMr. Kullmann is a Mining Engineer (M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, Canada) with 18 years of experience in the precious, base metals, diamonds and coal mining industry throughout Africa and within Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Kullmann's mining and geotechnical consulting experience includes mine design, equipment selection, labour and training requirements and project financial modelling. His project management experience includes the completion of several feasibility and pre-feasibility studies for coal, iron ore and base metals projects. Mr. Kullmann has acted as a competent person for several large and small mining companies for the completion of reserve reporting and listing documentation for the JSE, AIM, ASX and TSX.

Prior to joining Snowden in 1999, Mr. Kullmann worked in the South African gold and platinum mining industries with four years experience with Anglo American Corporation and seven years with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's Division of Mining Technology.



Jimmie Wilde
General Manager of Valencia
 
Mr. Wilde has over 32 years of experience implementing and managing large scale mining projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Far East. During Mr. Wilde’s career, he has held senior management positions with Rio Tinto (Zimbabwe), Harmony Gold Mining Company (South Africa), Falcon Gold (Zimbabwe), Oryx Natural Resources (DRC) and Gemfields Holdings (Zambia). Most recently, Mr. Wilde held the position of Senior Vice President – Mining Operations with Tsar Emerald Corporation based in Russia.