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Directors
Richard D. McCloskey , Chairman of Baffinland and President of McChip Resources Inc.
 Mr. McCloskey is a Mining Engineer with a Masters in Business Administration, and a third generation mining executive from a family involved in the mining industry continuously from 1906. In the 1970’s Mr. McCloskey was directly involved in negotiations with the Canadian Government to implement the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf Coin program. Over the last 30 years he has been a director and/or officer of numerous TSX and TSX Venture Exchange listed companies involved at a senior level in the financing, exploration and development of mining properties in North and South America, Europe and Africa. Most notably, he served as a Director and member of the Independent Committee of Sutton Resources Ltd., purchased by Barrick Gold Company in 1999 (Cdn$525 million) and Canico Resource Corp recently purchased by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Cdn$940 million). Mr. McCloskey was President and Director of the predecessor public company that became Baffinland and served on the board of the private Baffinland for over two decades, representing the second largest shareholder of the private company, McChip Resources Inc. As President and the largest shareholder of McChip and through his other indirect and direct Baffinland holdings, Mr. McCloskey is presently the second largest shareholder of Baffinland. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Baffinland at the Annual and General Meeting of the Company on June 16, 2005. In addition to being a director of Baffinland, Mr. McCloskey is a director of McChip Resources Inc., Matachewan Consolidated Mines, Limited and Taranis Resources Inc.
Brian L. Acton , President and Chief Operating Officer of Oxbow Carbon and Minerals LLC
Mr. Acton has been since 1995, President and Chief Operating Officer of Oxbow Carbon and Minerals LLC, a private U.S. based company with annual revenues approaching US$2 Billion. Oxbow owns and operates a six million tonne per year thermal coal mine in Colorado and from approximately 30 offices globally supplies a number of bulk commodities to the power generation, cement and steel industries. Oxbow charters approximately 200 bulk carriers annually and as such, Mr. Acton is very knowledgeable about global freight issues for bulk commodities. Since 2004, he has been a director of Rain Calcining Limited, a manufacturer of calcined petroleum coke. Mr. Acton has over 30 years experience in the mining industry with the last 25 years focused on the marketing of coal, coke, and other bulk raw materials and fuels. He is a graduate of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario with both a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering in 1973 and a Masters in Business Administration in 1977. In addition to being a director of Baffinland, Mr. Acton is a director of Rain Calcining Limited.
Mr. Charter is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the capital markets and mining industry. He practiced securities law for 13 years with a major Toronto law firm and was Executive Vice President of Dundee Corporation for 10 years as well as Chairman and CEO of Dundee Securities Corporation. A graduate of McGill University, Mr. Charter holds a B.A. (honours, economics) and an LL.B. He has considerable public company board experience and currently sits on the boards of a number of public companies including: IAMGOLD Corporation, Glencairn Gold Corporation, Lundin Mining Corporation, Dundee Real Estate Investment Trust and Great Plains Exploration Inc.
Graham G. Clow , Managing Director of Scott Wilson Mining Group & Roscoe Postle Associates
Mr. Clow is a senior mining consultant with more than 33 years’ experience ranging from the high arctic to the tropics, in base and precious metals and industrial metals. His experience includes financing, development and management of open pit and underground mines on three continents, start-ups, preparation and implementation of feasibility studies, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, troubleshooting and management consulting for mines. Within Scott Wilson, Mr. Clow is responsible for all aspects of Scott Wilson’s worldwide mining consulting practice from offices in Canada, the UK, China and Zambia. Prior to joining Scott Wilson Mining Group, Mr. Clow held progressive positions from shift boss to the senior executive level, including CEO and operating responsibility for several publicly listed mining companies. He is Past Chairman of the Metal Mining Division of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (“CIM”), and was a Member of the Committee on Ore Reserve Definitions. He currently chairs the Committee on Production Cost Reporting Standards, a joint effort of CIM and the Canadian Securities Administrators. Mr. Clow is a Fellow of CIM and an Adjunct Professor at the Lassonde Mineral Institute, University of Toronto, where he lectures in resource and reserve estimation. He is a Professional Engineer and has a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering and a B.Sc. in Geology from Queens University. In addition to being a director of Baffinland, Mr. Clow is a director of Campbell Resources Ltd.
Grant A. Edey , Director of Breakwater Resources Ltd. and Khan Resources
Mr. Edey is a senior executive with over 30 years of financial experience that has been primarily in the mining industry. Mr. Edey was the Chief Financial Officer of IAMGOLD Corporation from 2003 to 2007 and Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of Repadre Capital Corporation from 1996 to 2003. Prior to 1996, he held senior positions with Strathcona Mineral Services Limited, TransCanada Pipelines Limited, Eldorado Nuclear Limited, Rio Algom Limited and INCO Limited.
Mr. Edey has a Master of Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Science (Mining Engineering) from Queen's University. He has considerable public company board experience and currently sits on the boards of a number of public companies including: Breakwater Resources Ltd. and Khan Resources.
John W. Lydall , Director of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and Lead Director of FNX Mining Company Inc.
Mr. Lydall was Managing Director of National Bank Financial and its predecessor, First Marathon Securities Limited from January 1981 to October 2003. In 2003, he retired as head of Mining Investment Banking at National Bank Financial in Toronto and since that time has become an independent director of three Canadian based and listed mining companies: FNX Mining Company Inc. where he is lead director, Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and Baffinland. Mr. Lydall was a key member of the team that developed First Marathon Securities from a small institutional broker into a diversified and internationally recognized brokerage firm. From 1982 to 2000 he was responsible for all of First Marathon’s investment research in the mining sector. For twenty years, Mr. Lydall wrote the monthly “Metals and Mining Digest”, which became a widely quoted investment research publication. He received numerous citations as a top-ranked mining analyst during that period. Following the merger of First Marathon and National Bank in 1999 he was responsible for the integration and co-ordination of mining industry research for National Bank Financial. In January 2000, he moved to NBF’s Investment Banking group as Managing Director and, until retirement from the group in October 2003, was head of mining investment banking. During that period, he was involved in all of the firm’s investment and corporate banking activities in the mining sector, including equity and debt underwriting, mergers and acquisitions and advisory assignments. Mr. Lydall graduated with a B.Sc. (Honours), Mining Engineering, Nottingham University, UK in 1966 and in 1974 with an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, UK.
Gordon A. McCreary , President and Chief Executive Officer of Baffinland
Mr. McCreary was appointed Chairman of Baffinland in January 2004 and subsequently in May 2004 was also appointed Chief Executive Officer. In order to adhere to the guidelines of the Toronto Stock Exchange, in June 2005 Mr. McCreary relinquished his role of Chairman to a new non-executive Chairman and Mr. McCreary became President and Chief Executive Officer. From June 1993 to May 2004, Mr. McCreary was Vice President of Kinross Gold Company with responsibility for investor relations and corporate development. Before joining Kinross upon its formation in mid-1993, he was Vice President of Dundee Bancorp Inc. and Investment Analyst with affiliate International Corona Corporation from 1989. Prior to this, he worked as a mining analyst in the brokerage industry and at various staff and line functions in the mining industry as a mining engineer. Until his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of Baffinland, Mr. McCreary had worked almost exclusively in the gold business for over 20 years with prior experience in base metals, coal and industrial minerals. In 1978, he completed his MBA thesis entitled “A Preliminary Discussion of Factors Relating to the Transportation of Iron Ore from the Arctic Archipelago”. The focus of this thesis was the iron ore properties of Baffinland at Mary River on Baffin Island. Mr. McCreary has a B.Sc. degree in Mining Engineering (1974) and an MBA (1978), both from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Mr. McCreary has been a member of the board of directors of several publicly traded junior mining companies and is currently on the Board of Baffinland, McChip Resources Inc. and Asia Now Resources Inc.
Mr. Watts is a professional engineer with over 45 years experience in the mining industry in exploration, development and operations. Mr. Watts specializes in the economic analysis of mining ventures and the development and application of computer systems to mining-related problems. His varied mining background also includes underground operations, exploration, mine design and feasibility studies. Mr. Watts has prepared over 250 financial models in the mineral industry during the last 28 years. He is skilled in tax modeling, risk analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. Mr. Watts has prepared models for all of the mining provinces in Canada, the majority of the mining states in the United States, Mexico, most of South America, a number of countries in Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the CIS, South East Asia and Australia. Clients have included mining companies and consultants, charitable foundations, arbitration commissions, and aboriginal companies. In addition to being a director of Baffinland, Mr. Watts is a director of Cuervo Resources Inc.
Michael T. Zurowski , Executive Vice President of Baffinland
President of Baffinland from February 2004 to June 2005. In order to adhere to the guidelines of the Toronto Stock Exchange in June 2005, Mr. McCreary relinquished his role of Chairman of the company to a new non-executive Chairman. Mr. McCreary then became President of the Company and Mr. Zurowski relinquished his role as President and became the Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Baffinland, Mr. Zurowski was an independent industry consultant and an associate at Watts Griffis and McOuat where he was the project manager for the Comprehensive Mineral Development Strategy for the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Zurowski has more than 20 years experience in the management and evaluation of advanced projects including 15 years with the Rio Tinto Group, initially based in Canada, then in Africa and Europe with shorter stints in other parts of the world. With Rio Tinto, he led a comprehensive evaluation of iron ore deposits in North America, which included an evaluation of the Baffinland Mary River Iron Deposits. From January 1999 to January 2004, Mr. Zurowski was a Consulting Geologist and from April 1997 to December 1998 was a Principal Geologist for Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Ltd. in the U.K. Mr. Zurowski is Professional Engineer graduating from the University of Toronto in 1984 with a B.A.Sc. in Geological Engineering. In addition to being on the board of Baffinland, Mr. Zurowski is a director of Matachewan Consolidated Mines, Limited.
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