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Lundin Mining Corporation


1) Dale C. Peniuk, Director
2) Donald Charter, Director
3) John H. Craig, Director
4) Brian D. Edgar, Director
5) David Mullen, Director
6) Anthony O’Reilly Jnr.,
     Director
7) William A. Rand,
     Lead Director

8) Lukas H. Lundin,
     Chairman, Director

9) Colin K. Benner,
     Director

10) Phil Wright, Director,
      President and CEO

Lukas H. Lundin
Chairman

Mr. Lundin graduated from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Engineering). Throughout his career, he has been responsible for various resource discoveries, including the multi-million ounce Veladero gold deposit. Mr. Lundin has also led numerous companies through very profitable business acquisitions and mergers; most recently the $3 billion sale of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. Mr. Lundin currently sits on the Board of a number of publicly traded companies.

Phil Wright
President, Director & CEO

Mr. Wright is a graduate of Harvard School of Business (PMD). He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Financial Services Institute of Australasia. His experience includes eight years as Group General Manager of Email Limited's Metals Distribution Group; five years with MIM Holdings Ltd. serving as Executive General Manager Corporate Development; Executive Chairman Minera Alumbrera and Executive General Manager responsible for Mount Isa Operations; two years with the Lundin Group as President of International Curator Resources Ltd. and President and Chief Executive of Tenke Mining Corp.; and two years as Chief Executive of Adelaide Brighton Ltd, Australia's largest producer of cement and lime.

Colin K. Benner
Director

Mr. Benner is a professional engineer and an experienced mining executive with more than 40 years in the mining industry in senior management and executive roles in Canada and internationally. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, the Canadian Society of Professional Engineers as well as a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Nunavut, the Society of Mining Engineers of the AIME and the Canadian Institute of Mining. Mr. Benner currently sits on the Board of a number of publicly traded companies.

Donald Charter
Director

Mr. Charter is the President of 3Cs Corporation his private consulting and investment company. Mr. Charter has experience in a number of sectors including mining, oil & gas, real estate, financial services and corporate governance. He has completed the Institute of Corporate Directors, Directors Education Program and is a member of the Institute. He is a graduate of McGill University where he obtained degrees in Economics and Law. In 1995 he left the practice of law and joined the Dundee group of companies as an Executive Vice President with a number of responsibilities including the company's capital market activities. In 1998 he became the inaugural Chairman and CEO of the Dundee Securities group of companies and oversaw its growth from a start up to a major independent financial services company. In 2006 Mr. Charter left this group of companies and has focused his attention on 3Cs and as a corporate director primarily in the resource sector currently sitting on the Board of a number of public companies.

John H. Craig
Director

Mr. Craig practices in the securities law area with a focus on equity financings both for underwriters and issuers with an emphasis on resource companies, TSX listing, dealings with TSX and OSC for listed public companies, takeovers and issuer bids and going private transactions. His mergers and acquisitions experience involves mergers of public companies, both listed and unlisted and acquisitions of listed companies by unlisted and private concerns. Mr. Craig is also involved with international resources in negotiation and drafting of mining, oil and gas concession agreements, joint venture agreements, operation agreements and farm-in agreements in a variety of countries. Mr. Craig received his B.A. and Llb from the University of Western Ontario and was admitted to the bar in 1973.

Brian D. Edgar
Director

Mr. Edgar has been active in public markets for over 25 years. A graduate of the University of British Columbia law school, Mr. Edgar practiced corporate and securities law in Vancouver for 16 years before retiring in October 1992 to establish Rand Edgar Investment Corp., an investment/banking, venture capital company in the business of providing early stage venture capital to high growth companies and in providing advisory services concerning corporate structuring, finance, business strategies, private and public securities offerings and relations with regulatory authorities, lawyers, accountants and technical consultants. Mr. Edgar serves on the Board of a number of public companies.

David Mullen
Director

Born 1955. Board member since 2006 (formerly a board member of EuroZinc Mining Corporation). Master Degree in Business Administration from University of Western Ontario, and Bachelor of Commerce Degree from University of British Columbia.

Anthony O'Reilly Jnr
Director

Tony O'Reilly is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island. He is currently Chief Executive of Providence Resources P.l.c. having served on the Board since incorporation. He has previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at Dillon Read and in corporate finance at Coopers and Lybrand, advising natural resource companies. He served as Chairman of Arcon International Resources P.l.c. (having been Chief Executive from 1996 to 2000) until April 2005 when Arcon merged with Lundin Mining Corporation. Mr. O'Reilly currently sits on the Board of a number of public companies.

William A. Rand
Lead Director

Mr. Rand received a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours Economics and Major Accounting) from McGill University in 1963, a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie Law School in 1966 and a Masters of Law degree from the London School of Economics in 1967. At present, Mr. Rand is an advisor to Canadian and international investors and entrepreneurs on taking companies public in Canada and advising on public offerings, private placements, asset acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, amalgamations and statutory arrangements. Mr. Rand has been associated with companies owned by a member of the Lundin Family since the late 1970s.

Dale C. Peniuk, C.A.
Director

Mr. Peniuk received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1982. He subsequently received his designation as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia in 1986. Mr. Peniuk has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia's Public Company Technical Forum since 2000 and is currently the Chair of that committee. Mr. Peniuk currently provides financial consulting services to companies in the mining industry and serves as a director of six other public companies/reporting issuers.

Board committees

Audit Committee: Dale Peniuk, Bill Rand, Don Charter Corporate Governance Committee: Colin Benner, John Craig, Brian Edgar, David Mullen Human Resources/Compensation Committee: Lukas Lundin, Anthony O'Reilly Jnr, David Mullen, Don Charter Environment, Safety and Health Committee: Brian Edgar, Anthony O'Reilly Jnr.

 
1) Phil Wright, Director, President & CEO
2) João Carrêlo, Executive Vice President and COO
3) Marie Inkster, Chief Financial Officer
4) Neil O’Brien, Senior Vice President Exploration
    and Business Development

5) Peter Nicoll, Vice President Health, Safety,
    Environment and Community

6) Josephine McCabe, Vice President, Human
    Resources

7) Mikael Schauman, Vice President Marketing
8) Paul Conibear, Senior Vice President
    Corporate Development

Phil Wright
President, Director & CEO

Mr. Wright is a graduate of Harvard School of Business (PMD). He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Financial Services Institute of Australasia. His experience includes eight years as Group General Manager of Email Limited's Metals Distribution Group; five years with MIM Holdings Ltd. serving as Executive General Manager Corporate Development; Executive Chairman Minera Alumbrera and Executive General Manager responsible for Mount Isa Operations; two years with the Lundin Group as President of International Curator Resources Ltd. and President and Chief Executive of Tenke Mining Corp.; and two years as Chief Executive of Adelaide Brighton Ltd, Australia's largest producer of cement and lime.

João Carrêlo
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

A Portuguese National, Mr. Carrêlo is a graduate mining engineer with an MBA. He received his formal education in the United Kingdom and acquired his operating and business experience in Europe, South Africa and Latin America. He brings to Lundin Mining twenty-four years of international management experience in the mining, metals and refining industry. Mr. Carrêlo's most recent position is that of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of EuroZinc Mining Corporation.

Marie Inkster
Chief Financial Officer

Mrs. Inkster joined Lundin Mining in September of 2008 as Vice President, Finance. During her career she has held positions of increasing responsibility in a number of publicly traded companies, including five years with LionOre Mining International Ltd, where she served as Vice President, Controller at the time of its acquisition by Norilsk Nickel in July of 2007. She has experience in public and private equity and debt fundraising, corporate transactions and public company reporting. Mrs. Inkster is a Chartered Accountant and spent 5 years in public accounting with Deloitte.

Neil O'Brien
Senior Vice President Exploration and Business Development

Canadian and British citizen born 1960. Dr. O'Brien has more than 20 years experience in the international mining industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. O'Brien began his career in the early 1980s in Mine Exploration with leading Canadian companies, including Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. Since 1990, Dr. O'Brien has held several positions within the Teck Cominco group, including the position of General Manager, Minera Teck Cominco. Dr. O'Brien has extensive international experience in early to advanced stage exploration for zinc, copper and gold.

Peter Nicoll
Vice President Health, Safety, Environment and Community

Mr. Nicoll joined Lundin Mining from Uranium One and prior to that he held senior HSEC positions with Centerra Gold, Billiton/Rio Algom and ICI where he was Director, SHE for the North American Explosives Business and Occupational Health Advisor for the International Explosives Business.

Mr. Nicoll has worked as a mines geologist for Roan Consolidated in Zambia and for the National Coal Board in the UK. He has also has been a member of Mines Rescue Services and has worked as an industrial hygienist. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology, and has qualified as a Registered Occupational Hygienist and a Certified Environmental Auditor. .

Josephine McCabe
Vice President, Human Resources

Ms. McCabe is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development in the UK. Before joining Lundin Mining in 2009, she worked in a wide variety of senior HR roles, over a period of more than 20 years, within the BP Group. Her roles in British Petroleum included heading up HR for BP's LPG business from 2001-2008, during a period of globalisation and significant growth in China. Before that, she held a number of other corporate and business HR roles, including 7 years in Executive Compensation & Benefits which involved working on the mergers with Amoco and the acquisition of ARCO, 4 years leading BP's expatriate teams in Europe and the USA, and 4 years doing site-based industrial relations within the Chemicals business stream.

Mikael Schauman
Vice President Marketing

Swedish citizen. Mr. Schauman was born and educated in Sweden and holds a BA in Finance from The Stockholm School of Economics. He began his career with Boliden in 1983 and has held several senior positions of increasing responsibility in international trading companies since that time. Mr. Schauman's most recent position was as senior trader at Mitsui & Co. Metals (U.S.A.), Inc. with responsibility for zinc and lead concentrate sales globally.

Paul Conibear
Senior Vice President Corporate Development

Mr. Conibear is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in heavy industrial and mining projects in North America, Africa, Chile, Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina. A civil engineer by training, his background is project and construction management of a diverse range of minerals projects including base and precious metal, coal and potash projects. Mr. Conibear spent many years with Fluor Daniel Wright, where he held progressively senior project management and site positions for a variety of projects and more recently was part of the of the management team that established the highly successful Simons Mining Group. Mr. Conibear was President of Tenke Mining Corp. until its merger with Lundin Mining and was instrumental in progressing the world class Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt project towards development.

 

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