Management

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 global 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 a long standing member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Craig Bamford
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. 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

	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.

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

Dr. 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

Mr. 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.