Mr. McMurray has over 23 years' experience financing and promoting the interests of public and private companies, including 16 years as a senior officer to Canadian listed mining companies. He has helped raise more than $100 million for mineral exploration and development and was recently part of the team that developed, then sold St Jude Resources in a deal valued at $120 million.
Mr. Straw is an economic geologist with over 15 years in the mining industry. His experience is multi-faceted ranging from environmental management and planning through to mineral exploration, project development, valuation, finance and corporate management. He holds an honours degree in applied geology from UNSW in Sydney and is a member of the CIM and AUSIMM. He has lead the exploration and evaluation of precious and base metals projects in Australia, South America and China. He is currently an alternate Director and General Manager of ASX and London PLUS listed Silver Mines Limited.
Dr. Stover is Executive Vice President, Americas for Uranium One, Inc. He is responsible for the commercial development of Uranium One's substantial U. S. uranium assets as well other uranium assets in the Americas. Previously he served as Chief Operating Office of Energy Metals Corporation. Prior to joining EMC in 2005, he lead a private consulting firm founded in 2002 which provided technical services to both domestic and international uranium mining ventures. From 1989 until 2002, he served as Vice President, Engineering and Project Development for Rio Algom Mining Corp. Prior to joining Rio Algom, he served as Chief Engineer for Everest Minerals Corporation for 11 years.
After earning a B.A. in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, he joined Atlantic Richfield Company where he was instrumental in the development of In-Situ Uranium Recovery technology and the Clay West Project, the first commercial scale U.S. In-Situ uranium project.
An author of several papers regarding In--Situ uranium recovery, he has co-authored three IAEA Guidebooks and Manuals related to both Acidic and Alkaline Uranium ISL technology. He has authored six patents relating to this technology. He is a non-executive director of Gunnison Minerals, Inc. a privately held copper exploration and development company.
Ms. Nagra has over 16 years' accounting experience, including 12 years in the mining industry. Prior to Artha she was the Chief Financial Officer for St Jude Resources which was sold to Golden Star in a transaction valued at $120 million. Ms. Nagra was also the senior accountant for First Quantum Minerals, which grew from a small copper producer to a major mining company with a market cap well over $5 billion while she was there.
Ms. Thomson has over 20 years experience including 15 years' managing the corporate administration of public mining companies. Her previous roles as Corporate Secretary include Energy Metals, First Majestic Silver and First Quantum Minerals.