Ms. Susie Bell reports
CURIS ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTORS AND ADDITIONAL OUTCOME OF SHAREHOLDER MEETING
Curis Resources Ltd. shareholders have elected Gordon Fretwell,
Robert Schafer and David Copeland to the board of directors of the
company at the special meeting of shareholders of the company held on
Jan. 28, 2011. As a result of these appointments, the size of the
board has increased from five members to eight.
Mr. Fretwell holds bachelor of commerce and law degrees. Formerly
a partner in a large Vancouver law firm, Mr. Fretwell has
been a self-employed solicitor in Vancouver practising primarily in the
areas of corporate and securities law since 1991.
Mr. Schafer is a certified professional geologist with advanced
degrees in geology and mineral economics who has worked internationally
with major and junior mining companies, including Kinross Gold
Corp., BHP World Minerals and Billiton. He is vice-president,
corporate development, for Hunter Dickinson Inc.
Mr. Copeland is a professional engineer (geological) and mining
executive with over 30 years of experience in a variety of capacities
in mine exploration, discovery and development throughout the South
Pacific, Africa, South America and North America. A director of Hunter
Dickinson, he directs and co-ordinates the advanced technical
programs of companies for which Hunter Dickinson provides services.
Mr. Fretwell, Mr. Schafer and Mr. Copeland join Russell Hallbauer, Robert
Dickinson, Rene Carrier, James Kerr, and president and chief executive officer Michael
McPhie on the board of Curis. Mr. Hallbauer has been appointed
chairman.
Mr. Hallbauer is a professional engineer (mining) as well as a long-term member and past president of the Canadian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy, and a director and former chairman of the Mining Association
of B.C. Mr. Hallbauer is president, chief executive officer and
director of Taseko Mines Ltd., the owner of the Gibraltar mine
located near Williams Lake, B.C., and a director of Hunter
Dickinson.
Mr. Dickinson is an economic geologist who has been actively
involved in mineral exploration and mine development for over 40
years. He is chairman of Hunter Dickinson, as well as a director
and member of the management team of a number of the public companies
associated with Hunter Dickinson. He also serves as a director of the B.C. Mining
Museum and a trustee of the B.C. Mineral Resources Education Program.
Mr. Carrier is a businessman who is a past vice-president of Pacific
International Securities Inc., where he worked for 10 years until
1991. Since that time he has been president of Euro-American Capital
Corp., a private company which specializes in restructuring,
administration and raising venture capital funds for junior
companies.
Mr. Kerr is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in public
practice and is actively involved with audit committees of mining and
energy companies, providing advice on accounting and compliance issues
based on a risk-management approach.
Mr. McPhie is a senior mining executive with more than 20 years of
operational and project development experience. He has served as a
director and executive vice-president of Exeter Resource Corp.,
president and chief executive officer of the Mining Association of B.C., and as a senior
director with Natural Resources Canada. Mr. McPhie serves on several
private and public boards and is currently chair of the board of
governors of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a member of
the Arizona Mining Association, a director of the Association for
Mineral Exploration B.C. and is co-chair of the Britannia Beach
Historical Society.
"It is my pleasure to welcome the three directors who were confirmed by
shareholder vote at the meeting in late January. In addition to the
seven experienced and accomplished directors who join me on the board,
Curis's corporate team consists of Bernard Tan, chief financial officer,
Mel Lawson, vice-president of project development, and Xenia Kristos, corporate
secretary," said Mr. McPhie.
Mr. Tan is a chartered accountant with bachelor of commerce and MBA
degrees and over 10 years of progressive business experience in the
area of financial reporting. He has worked with various medium and
large Canadian and U.S. public corporations in the areas of accounting,
corporate finance and regulatory reporting, and prior to joining Hunter Dickinson
in 2005 was an audit manager at KPMG LLP specializing in the
technology area. He is currently also chief financial officer for Hunter Dickinson.
Mr. Lawson's career in the mining industry spans more than 40 years and
his extensive experience includes mining project development and
operations. He holds a BSc in mining engineering and has built his
career around mine start-ups. With proven experience in underground and
surface operations, project management, and construction, Mr. Lawson has worked
on an array of international projects throughout Canada, the United
States and New Zealand. He possesses strong operational and technical
abilities, with hands-on experience in major project management,
feasibility studies, project permitting, contract preparation, project
and construction management, project start-up, policy development, and
administration.
Ms. Kritsos is an internationally qualified business lawyer
experienced in providing advice in mining infrastructure,
technology and other sectors. Areas of expertise include mergers and
acquisitions, corporate finance, securities law, competition law, and
foreign investment. Ms. Kritsos is also legal counsel for Hunter
Dickinson.
Shareholders of the company also approved the appointment of DeVisser
Gray LLP as auditor of the corporation, approved the continuance of the
company from Ontario to British Columbia, created a class of preference
shares and adopted an updated 10-per-cent rolling stock option plan, all as
more fully described in the management proxy circular dated Dec.
22, 2010.
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