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Robert Friedland
President, CEO and Executive Chairman
A co-founder of Ivanhoe Energy and co-founder and Co-Chairman of its China-focused operating subsidiary Sunwing Energy, Mr. Friedland is an international financier who has been associated with international resource and technology ventures for 25 years.
Robert Friedland is in the vanguard of North American natural-resource sector leaders who have pioneered business links in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region during the past 20 years. One of the mining industry's best-known international financiers, Mr. Friedland has been associated with resource development and technology ventures for 25 years.
As the founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines --- a Canadian public company whose shares trade on the New York, NASDAQ and Toronto exchanges --- Mr. Friedland has directed the assembly by Ivanhoe Mines of a portfolio of interests in several countries during the past 12 years. Ivanhoe's core asset is the 12-kilometre-long (7.5-mile) chain of copper-gold deposits discovered at Oyu Tolgoi in southern Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi, within 80 kilometres of the Mongolia-China border, is the world's largest and highest-grade copper-gold mine development project.
Mr. Friedland was named the "2006 Mining Person of the Year" by Canada's Northern Miner, a leading industry publication, for his coup in gaining global mining leader Rio Tinto as a partner for Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia. The Northern Miner said the partnership was "a defining moment in one of the world's biggest mineral-development success stories of the past decade." It described Mr. Friedland as "a dynamic force for a quarter-century in the minerals industry through a host of private and public-company vehicles."
As Co-Chairman and controlling shareholder of Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd. (Ivanplats), Mr. Friedland is closely involved with several mining projects in Africa and Australia, including a copper-cobalt discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the development of a significant nickel-platinum-copper deposit on South Africa's Bushveld Complex.
In 1996, he was named Developer of the Year by the Prospectors' and Developers' Association of Canada for his work in establishing and financing companies engaged in mineral exploration and development around the world. Mr. Friedland guided the development and sale of Diamond Fields Resources' nickel discovery at Voisey's Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, to INCO Ltd. for CDN$4.3 billion in 1996 (Inco's Voisey's Bay mine began production in September, 2005). He also led the discovery and sale of Fairbanks Gold's Fort Knox deposit in Alaska to Amax Gold for US$152 million in 1992 (Fort Knox, now owned by Kinross Gold, has produced approximately four million ounces of gold since 1996).
Mr. Friedland is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family's private company that specializes in venture capital and project financing from bases in Singapore and Beijing. With his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and affiliated benefiting companies have raised several billion dollars on international capital markets since 1993.
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| | | W. Gordon Lancaster
Chief Financial Officer
Gordon Lancaster, a Canadian Chartered Accountant, is a senior executive with extensive domestic and international corporate experience, in fields including equity and debt financings, regulatory compliance, acquisitions and integration, legal, risk management and taxation.
Mr. Lancaster was with leading global accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP for 20 years, including five years as a partner. He also has more than 20 years' experience in senior financial positions with a variety of private and public firms, serving as Chief Financial Officer for First City Group, Vancouver International Airport Authority, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Power Measurement Inc.
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| | | Ian Barnett
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development & Finance
Ian Barnett, a former Ensyn Group Inc. Director, investor and consultant, first initiated his investment in Ensyn in 1996. Ian is a Director and co-founder of Heptagon Investments Ltd., a private investment company focused on development stage technology companies. He has over 25 years of experience in investment and international banking, including positions with UBS in London, England and The Toronto-Dominion Bank in Latin America.
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| | | Michael Silverman
Executive Vice President, Technology & Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Michael Silverman has almost 30 years of experience in technology development and management, including the commercialization and marketing of new technologies. His most recent position was with Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), where he was VP of Petrochemicals, responsible for all aspects of the petrochemicals technology portfolio. He previously directed KBR's Technology Centre and was Manager of Technology Development for Stone & Webster.
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| | | Ed Veith
Executive Vice President - Upstream
Ed Veith is a petroleum engineer with 23 years of experience in the oil industry. Over his career, he has specialized in the reservoir management of enhanced and improved oil recovery projects, including significant experience in thermal heavy oil recovery operations in California. Mr. Veith was formerly President of Insight Energy LLC, where he evaluated major oil fields for acquisition and joint ventures, and also was with Aera Energy LLC, where he was responsible for the heavy oil development in California's Belridge, Cymric and McKittrick Oil Fields. He also has worked in a variety of engineering and leadership roles for Williams Brothers Engineering Co. and Bechtel Petroleum Operations, Inc.
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| | | Patrick Chua
Executive Vice President
Patrick Chua is Chairman and Director of Sunwing Energy Ltd., Ivanhoe Energy's China-focused subsidiary. Patrick, a petroleum engineer, was previously a project manager and senior engineer with Sproule Associates Ltd. During his 22 years in the oil and gas industry he has specialized in projects in China, managing properties and evaluating, negotiating and implementing production-sharing contracts.
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| | | David Martin
Chairman & CEO, Ivanhoe Energy Latin America, Inc.
Ivanhoe Energy Latin America, Inc. is the parent company of Ivanhoe Energy, Inc. Latin America Corporate Group. Part of the founding team at Occidental Petroleum, David Martin was President & CEO of Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation, of California, from 1986 to 1996. He also was former Executive Vice-President and a director of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and a Director of Canadian Occidental Petroleum. A geologist, he has more than 40 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, 26 of them in senior management positions with Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
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| | | Leon Daniel
Chairman & CEO of Ivanhoe Energy's Middle East-North Africa (MENA) Subsidiary
A petroleum engineer and specialist in enhanced oil-recovery techniques, Leon Daniel was formerly Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Business Development for Occidental Oil and Gas Corp., of California, from 1996 to 1998, and President, Occidental Engineering Co., between 1993 and 1996. His more than 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry include successful oil-field projects in Qatar, Venezuela, Libya, the North Sea, Colombia, Russia and the United States.
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| | | Gerald Moench
Executive Vice President
Gerald Moench is President and Director of Sunwing Energy Ltd., Ivanhoe Energy's China-focused subsidiary. Gerald was a consultant in Indonesia and New Zealand in the mid-1990s, and before that was General Manager of Santos Petroleum (Seram) Ltd. His 31 years' experience in the oil and gas industry has included drilling and completion operations in Canada, Indonesia, Australia and China.
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