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Board of Directors – Biographies
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Terry A. Lyons, BSc (Civil Eng), MBA
Director since 1993
After completing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Mr. Lyons attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating with an MBA in 1974. Mr. Lyons is currently Chairman of Northgate Minerals Corporation and a director and officer of several public corporations including Director, BC Pacific Capital Corporation; Canaccord Capital Inc. (Audit Committee Chair), Diamonds North Resources Ltd. and the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project Ltd., as well as several private corporations. He is a past Vice Chairman of Battle Mountain Gold Company (Audit, Special Committee), former Chairman of Westmin Resources Limited and is currently Chairman of the Mining Association of BC. |
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Kenneth G. Stowe, BSc (Mining Eng), MSc
Director since 2001
Ken received BSc and MSc degrees in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He spent the first 21 years of his career at Noranda in various operational, R&D and corporate roles. In 1995, Ken joined Diamond Fields Resources as Vice President, Technology with responsibility for the feasibility study of the Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper deposit. Upon the acquisition of Voisey’s Bay by Inco, Ken joined Westmin Resources (subsequently acquired by Boliden) as Vice President, Operations. After the successful startup of the Lomas Bayas copper mine in Chile, he moved on to Northgate to take on the significant challenge of re-launching the company as an operating company through the turnaround of the recently commissioned but floundering Kemess South copper-gold mine. Kemess South is now one of the lowest cost gold mines in the world. During his tenure, Northgate’s market capitalization has increased by 40 times to over $1 billion. In 2006, Ken was the recipient of the prestigious Canadian Mineral Processor of the Year Award. |
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Mark Daniel
Director since 2009
Mr. Daniel has been appointed Chairman of Northgate’s Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee and also as a member of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee. Over his career, Mr. Daniel worked for the Bank of Canada and a number of other Canadian government organizations prior to joining the Conference Board of Canada in 1979. During his 15-year career with the Conference Board, he benchmarked leadership and management practices in some of the most successful companies in North America, Europe and Japan. Mr. Daniel joined Vale Inco (formerly CVRD Inco) in 1996, retiring as Vice President, Human Resources in 2007. Since that time, he has consulted to organizations on performance improvement, executive development, succession planning and organization design. Mr. Daniel holds a PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota. |
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Paul Dowd
Director since 2008
Mr. Dowd’s professional career spans more than 40 years in the public and private sectors, where he has developed businesses and managed mining operations in Australia, US, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has previously held positions as Managing Director of Newmont Australia Limited and Vice President Australia and New Zealand. Prior to the merger with Newmont and Franco-Nevada, he was Group Executive – Operations for Normandy Mining Limited with responsibility for the group’s global managed mining interests. Mr. Dowd is currently Managing Director of Phoenix Copper Limited, Chairman of the Board of the South Australian Resources & Engineering Skills Alliance, Chairman of the Resources Sector Infrastructure Council of South Australia, Chairman of Adelaide Resources Ltd., and a non-executive director of Regis Resources Ltd. and Buka Gold Ltd. He also serves as an advisory councillor for the South Australian Minerals and Petroleum Expert Group. |
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Patrick D. Downey, BComm, CA
Director since 1993
Mr. Downey is a retired executive who graduated from Laurentian University and was involved in the gold, copper and diamond mining industry throughout most of his career. He joined Northgate in 1980 and served as Chief Financial Officer from 1988 until 1992. Mr. Downey is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and is currently serving as Chairman of Northgate Minerals Corporation's Audit Committee. |
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Richard J. Hall
Director since 2008
Mr. Hall has over 35 years of mining exploration and development experience. Over the past nine years, Mr. Hall served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Metallica Resources Inc., a publicly-traded mining company listed on the TSX and on the AMEX. During his time at Metallica, he was responsible for the financing, construction and commissioning of the Cerro San Pedro mine in Mexico, which has an average annual production of 80,000 and 3.5 million ounces of gold and silver, respectively. Mr. Hall also participated in the discovery and development of the El Morro deposit located in Chile through to a final feasibility study. This work was done in conjunction with Metallica's operating partner on the project, Xstrata Copper. In August 2008, Metallica was part of a $1.6 billion merger with Peak Gold Ltd. and New Gold Inc. Previous to Metallica, Mr. Hall held senior management positions with Dayton Mining Corporation and Pegasus Gold Corporation. |
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Douglas P. Hayhurst, BA, FCA
Director since 2006
Mr. Hayhurst’s previous business career includes international industry leadership roles with IBM Business Consulting Services and PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Division, and senior management roles with Price Waterhouse (Canada) including Managing Partner for British Columbia and National Deputy Managing Partner in Toronto. As well as Northgate Minerals (Audit Committee member), he currently serves on the Board of Canexus Income Fund (Audit Committee Chair and Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee member) and The Layfield Group (a private company). He is Chair of the BC Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and a member of the boards of the BC Branch of The Nature Conservancy and the BC Transplant Society Foundation. |
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Conrad A. Pinette, BEng, PEng
Director since 2005
Mr. Pinette is a retired executive having recently completed his business career in British Columbia’s Forest Industry. He completed four years of a five year program in Business Administration and Forestry at the University of British Columbia. Mr. Pinette’s executive positions have included Executive Vice President, Tolko Industries Ltd. (2005); Executive Vice President, Riverside Forest Products Limited (2004); President and COO, Lignum Limited (1990-2004) (Lignum was acquired by Riverside Forest Products Limited in early 2004 and Riverside was subsequently acquired by Tolko Industries Ltd. in late 2004). Mr. Pinette has been a Director of a number of private and public forest products and mining companies during his business career and is currently a Director of several public companies, a principal and Director of family corporations and is active in not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Pinette is an active participant in fundraising for the Cariboo Foundation based in Williams Lake, The United Way of the Lower Mainland and is a Director of the Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia. Currently, he is a Director of four public companies – Director and Chairman of the Board of Finning International Inc., Director of A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund, TimberWest Forest Corporation and Northgate Minerals Corporation. |
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