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Board of Directors

 
Mr. William B. Harris, BA, MBA
Chairman


Mr. William Harris brings a wealth of experience growing public companies. He is presently a partner of Solo Management Group, LLC, an investment and management consulting firm. During Mr. Harris's 30+ year career, he has held several noteworthy roles; Mr. Harris was previously a board member for Golden Predator Mines Inc., Energy Metals Corporation, a Chairman and Executive Committee member of the American Fiber Manufacturers Association, and the former President and CEO of Hoechst Fibers Worldwide, a company involved in the global acetate and polyester business of Hoechst AG. At Hoechst Fibers Worldwide, Mr. Harris managed the business' $5 billion operation, comprised of 21,000 employees and production locations in 14 different countries.

Within Hoechst AG and its subsidiaries, Mr. Harris held various positions which included, the Chairman of Grupo Celanese S.A., a publicly traded company in Mexico with sales in excess of $1 billion, VP Finance, CFO, Executive VP and Director of Celanese Canada Inc. a publicly-traded company in Canada. He was also VP, Treasurer and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Hoechst Celanese Corporation.

Mr. Harris has a BA in English from Harvard College an MBA in Finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

 
Mr. George Putnam, MBA (Finance)
President, CEO and Director


Mr. Putnam has extensive mining industry experience, having worked for over 20 years for BHP (now BHP-Billiton) and GE/Utah International. While at BHP, he held division Chief Financial Officer roles in the petroleum refining business, with annual revenues of US$1.1B, and in BHP Manganese, a mining, alloy smelting and refining business located in Australia with revenues of US$350M. His previous experience includes aquisition and divestiture work for both BHP and other clients, associated bank financings, and the negotiation and management of strategic alliances involving long-term product sales contracts.

Mr. Putnam is the former CFO for QGX Ltd., a TSX-listed exploration company sold in September 2008 to Kerry Holdings Ltd. of Hong Kong for C$259M. While at QGX, he played key roles in the development and valuation of QGX's mineral properties, and in supporting the corporate sale. Mr. Putnam also currently serves on the Advisory Board of Hana Mining Ltd. (TSX.V Ticker: HMG), a Canadian explorer actively developing a sediment-host copper-silver property in Africa.

Mr. Putnam has an Economics degree from Getttysburg Collge and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University.

 
Mr. Willem P C Duyvesteyn, MSc, Suma cum Laude
Director


Mr. Duyvesteyn joins EMC Metals Corp. as the President of The Technology Store, Inc. (TTS), a private company incorporated in Nevada. TTS is involved in the development and commercialization of various mineral and energy related processes and projects.

Mr. Duyvesteyn has 40 years experience in the mining, mineral and energy industries. Prior to joining TTS Duyvesteyn was Vice President and General Manager Minerals Technology for BHP for more than 10 years. Prior to BHP he was associated with AMAX as Director of Laterite Nickel projects where he led various multi-million dollar development programs for nickel technology. During his time with Anglo American he was a member of the team that developed the large scale copper solvent extraction technology that is now universally employed by copper miners. Mr. Duyvesteyn is a member of numerous technical organizations in the mining, processing and chemical fields: AIME, CIM, IMM, AIChE, ACS. His technical expertise covers a very large spectrum of elements, metals and materials: from aluminum to zinc and from coal to diamonds.

For five years Mr. Duyvesteyn was Dean of the Delft (the Netherlands) School of Mines. He has been granted over 40 US patents and is filing applications for a further 35 patents. He is the author of numerous technical papers and in 1999 was awarded the Goldfields Medal of the British Institution for Mining and Metallurgy for best technical paper.

 
Mr. Daniel Wolfus
Director


Mr. Wolfus joins the Board of EMC Metals with over 28 years of investment banking experience, firstly with E.F. Hutton & Co., where Mr. Wolfus became a partner and Senior Vice President in charge of the West Coast Corporate Finance Department, followed by his tenure as Chairman, CEO and chief organizer of Hancock Savings Bank in Los Angeles. During his term with Hancock Savings the bank grew to $225 million in assets before its sale in 1997. Mr. Wolfus earned a MBA in Finance and a BA-Economics at the University California, Los Angeles. From 1997 until it was dissolved in May 2008, Mr. Wolfus was the owner, president and publisher of a nationwide publication named "Estylo" for the Hispanic Market. Mr. Wolfus has served as a director of Midway Gold Corp. (TSX.V & NYSE.A: MDW) since November 21, 2008 and on December 16, 2009 Mr. Wolfus was appointed as a full time Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Midway. He is also currently a director of Melkior Resources Inc. (TSX-V). Mr. Wolfus also serves in various charitable and non-profit organizations in the United States.

 
Mr. Barry Davies
Director


Mr. Davies is a mining engineer with over 30 years of engineering, operations, commercial and corporate management experience in the minerals industry. He is currently President of an Asia based private investment company with diverse holdings in junior mineral exploration companies active in Asia, Latin America and Canada, and is a director of several public and private companies.

His previous positions include President and CEO of a Canadian coal mining company with more than 500 employees and annual revenues in excess of $100 million. For more than 20 years, he worked with the BHP Group including the position of Vice President, Strategic Planning and Development for BHP Minerals, Australia.

 
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