Wolfgang Hampel - Chief Operating Officer

After completing his degree in geology at the TU Munich in 1991, Wolfgang worked as a junior consultant on an exploration project in Niger, West Africa. Until 1999, he worked as a consultant and technical director for various exploration and mining companies with a focus on precious metals, base metals and rare metals (including REE) in West Africa. For the next three years, Wolfgang worked as an independent consultant in Germany where he evaluated and managed investment possibilities, mainly in the gold mine sector. From mid-2002 to early 2006, he was deputy manager of the Africa department at the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources) in Hanover, Germany. Until October 2008, he was head of the department for Mining, Infrastructure & Mineral Exploration at the internationally renowned Fugro Consult GmbH, Berlin. In his many years’ experience, Wolfgang assisted in the discovery of the Samira gold deposit with 1.8 million ounces in Niger (1992/93); in 1998/99 he was able to extend the “Samira Gold Horizon” by several kilometres. In 2001 he discovered a new exploration target for rare earths in the Algeria-Niger border area. He speaks fluent French and English. He has worked in 15 different countries in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Since 2004 he has worked for several periods in Madagascar, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of TRE AG and as a director of Tantalum Rare Earth (Malagasy) SARL, a wholly owned subsidiary of TRE AG.

Andre Klupsch - Chief Administrative Officer

Andre Klupsch is a law graduate, with an emphasis of business law at the university of Osnabrück. During his legal traineeship he worked for one of the leading Australian law firms, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, in Perth, where he established an initial connection to the mining business. Mr. Klupsch is a supervisory board member of various medium-sized companies and served as a legal advisor for a stock exchange listed, medium-sized company in the past.

Philip Gray - Executive Director

Philip Gray has a Masters Degree from Lancaster University Business School and a Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Westminster. He is a Member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners as well as a number of other professional bodies. Philip is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and has a wealth of international boardroom experience, having been a director of various operating entities listed on the UK, Zurich and Johannesburg stock exchanges and Chairman of companies listed on the Mumbai, Australia and Botswana stock exchanges. He has over 30 years international experience in investment banking focussing on investment management and stockbroking, having been Managing Director of GT Management Asia, Executive Chairman of HSBC James Capel Asia Limited and Chairman of Imara Holdings, a listed Pan African financial services group. He has also been Chairman of several professional bodies such as the Hong Kong Unit Trust Association, the Hong Kong Society of Investment Analysts and the Society of Technical Analysts. Philip was a member of the Unit Trust Committee and Takeover Panel of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) and was a Hong Kong Government Appointee to the SFC’s Advisory Committee. He is also Chairman of Hydrotech International, an ASX listed industrial company, as well as several hedge funds and he also runs a family office.

Lee Goldsmith - Executive Director

After graduating in law (LLB Law), he worked from 1981 to 1984 as an assistant solicitor at Norton Rose. He then held an in-house legal position at Ladbroke Group Plc/Hilton Hotels, before becoming a partner in the Simpkins Partnership, and from 1996 to 2001 he was a partner of Goldsmiths Solicitors. He is currently working as a consultant for Blake Lapthorn. He is also a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales and formerly the Chairman of the supervisory board of TRE AG.

Paul Loudon - Executive Director

Paul Loudon is a mining analyst with more than 25 years’ experience in stockbroking, corporate finance and the management of junior mining and exploration companies. He has been President of Battlefields Minerals Corporation of Toronto and President and Chief Operating Officer of BDI Mining Corp. Paul has also been Head of Equities at Loeb Aron & Company Limited, a London-based corporate finance house specialising in the mining sector, where he was responsible for raising considerable sums of equity capital for resource companies listed in the UK, Canada and Australia. Mr Loudon is currently Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of DiamondCorp Plc, an AIM listed emerging diamond producer with operations in South Africa and Botswana and Non-Executive Chairman of URU Minerals Limited.

Ivan Murphy - Executive Director

Ivan Murphy is a partner of Murphy Richards Capital LLP, a partnership with a focus on natural resources, property and financial services. He has a degree in Economics from University College Cork, Ireland and has 15 years’ experience in capital markets. He started his career at Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, the FTSE 250 listed global asset manager, working in London, Miami and Singapore before returning to Ireland to become Managing Director of Aberdeen Asset Management Ireland Limited (“Aberdeen”). In 2003 he left Aberdeen to work as a consultant to a number of Irish and UK public companies assisting them in the disposal of asset management and life insurance assets. In 2005 he was one of the founders of Fairfax I.S. PLC (“Fairfax”), a London based investment bank, where he focussed on business origination and developing the business in the Far East. After leaving Fairfax in 2008, he acted as a consultant to US and Ireland based property developer Shelbourne Developments LLC, negotiating with potential partners in China and the Middle East on the financing and construction of the Chicago Spire project. He joined Gazprombank-Invest, an investment bank, in January 2009 and worked there as a senior executive until December 2010. Ivan is currently the non-executive chairman of Q Resources PLC and formerly a director of Cove Energy PLC.

Paul Richards - Executive Director

Paul Richards is a partner of Murphy Richards Capital LLP. Paul qualified as a Solicitor in 1987 and worked for Theodore Goddard specialising in corporate and insolvency law. In 1996 he joined the corporate finance department of Hoare Govett. He joined Collins Stewart Limited in 1999, and left there in 2005 when he was part of the founding team at Fairfax I.S. PLC. In 2009 Paul joined Core Capital LLP, a boutique private equity firm. Paul has extensive corporate finance experience and during his time at Collins Stewart and then at Fairfax, he led over 75 IPOs and secondary fundraisings on both London's Official List and the AIM Market. Paul has also been involved in over 20 public takeovers acting for both the bidder and the target. He has been involved in a wide range of sectors but has particular expertise in property, financials, renewables and investment funds. Paul currently serves on the board of Q Resources PLC as a non-executive director.

David Rigoll - Executive Director

David Rigoll spent the first part of his career working in investment banking and broking in Australia, Asia and London, with a particular emphasis on mining. Through 2004/5 he located and secured various iron ore and petroleum exploration projects. In 2006, he identified a critical shortage of rare metals and rare earths and began a search for an appropriate project, which could provide accessible deposits of high grade resources for metal supply. In 2008 he located and began development work on the TRE Project.

Supervisory Board

Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Bocker - Chairman

Dr. Hans J. Bocker is as a Swiss- and Vancouver-based financial and economic journalist, international business consultant, seminar organizer, PR and Investor Relation Specialist, author and professor. He was editor and contributor of numerous financial and investment newsletters as well as web sites and is credited with over 2,000 publications (150 academic and 1860 others).

He is currently teaching at two top Business Schools, is active in the fields of PR and IR, advises a number of mining companies and is currently working on his second book on gold and silver.

Jack Lifton - Deputy Chairman

Jack Lifton is a consultant, author and lecturer on the market fundamentals of nonferrous strategic metals. He was educated as a physical chemist, specialising in high-temperature metallurgy. Mr Lifton has more than 45 years of experience in the global OEM automotive, heavy equipment, electrical and electronic, mining, smelting, and refining industries. His background includes the sourcing, manufacturing and sales of platinum group metal products, rare earths compounds and ceramic specialties used to make catalytic converters, oxygen sensors, batteries and fuel cells. His work today is principally as a due-diligence consultant for institutional investors, looking into opportunities where rare and technology metals availability are a factor in determining the probability of commercial success of a metals-related venture. Jack Lifton is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research LLC and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.

Ben Paton - Member of the Supervisory Board

Ben Paton is an investment management professional. He worked for Fidelity Investments in London for 13 years where he specialised in equity investment. Between 2004 and 2008 he was the lead fund manager for the Fidelity International Smaller Companies Fund, a US mutual fund which significantly outperformed its benchmark.