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| Board of Directors
| | | Tom McKeever
Executive Chairman
The appointment of Mr. McKeever is a significant step in the development of Abacus as a mineral exploration and development company. Mr. McKeever has a distinguished career that spans over forty years, most of which were spent as senior management in the mining and metal trading industry. Mr. McKeever's experience and advice will benefit Abacus as it rapidly advances the development of our copper gold resources in the historical Afton mining camp.
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| | | James D. Excell
President & CEO
Mr. Excell is a Metallurgical Engineer with extensive senior executive, mine management and process engineering experience. His career includes more than three decades with BHP Billiton in Canada and internationally, serving as President and COO of BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc. from 1999 to 2003, and as its Chairman to June 2005. He has been responsible for overseeing the management and development some of the world's premier mining projects, including the EKATI diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, where he led the construction, commissioning and subsequent operation of the $700 million development. Jim also managed copper operations in British Columbia, as well as metallurgical and thermal coal mines in Australia and the U.S. In addition to his outstanding industry experience, he is recognized for fostering goodwill relations with government and aboriginal groups.
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| | | Michael McInnis
Director
Mr. McInnis brings over 35 years of experience in mineral exploration in North America and overseas to the Company. He provides sound management expertise with over 25 years of experience in managing public resource companies and has a demonstrated track record in acquiring and developing high quality mineral projects. He serves on the Boards of several other minerals companies including Canadian Gold Hunter Corp., Canasil Resources Inc. and Gateway Gold Corp.
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| | | Victor Lazarovici
Director
Mr. Lazarovici has worked as a highly ranked and successful global metals and mining analyst for the past 20 years. Prior to entering the financial sector as an analyst, he spent over 14 years in the corporate sector in engineering, financial management and corporate development roles. Most recently, Mr. Lazarovici was the managing director and senior base metals and minerals analyst for BMO Capital Markets in New York. There, he led a team of analysts covering the base metals sector that was consistently ranked amongst the top tier in all of the major Canadian polls of institutional investors. Mr. Lazarovici has also served as a managing director and senior metals analyst for Smith Barney, where he was consistently ranked in the top tier of Wall Street mining and metals analysts in all of the major U.S. polls of institutional investors. He is the only analyst to receive the top honour in both the Canadian and U.S. Greenwich Associates surveys. He also worked at UBS, HSBC and Scotia Capital.
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| | | Louis Montpellier
Director
Mr. Montpellier has been practicing law in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1981 and since 1983 has worked exclusively in the capital markets as counsel to emerging issuers and listed public companies engaged in mineral exploration and mining. Mr. Montpellier has assisted a wide range of businesses in the entire spectrum of corporate finance activities, from accessing seed capital for private companies through to IPO's and subsequent public and private financings. Mr. Montpellier has worked extensively in the field of mergers and acquisitions, hostile and friendly take-over bids, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations and arrangements. Mr. Montpellier also has experience in debt and project financing, acting both for lenders and borrowers, with a particular emphasis on the financing of mineral projects. Mr. Montpellier is identified in a number of publications including the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Lexpert Guide to the Leading 100 Industry Specialists in Canada, Who's Who Legal, the International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in Canada, as one of Canada's leading mining lawyers. Mr. Montpellier also has a wide range of experience in the mineral exploration and development business.
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