Our Board of Directors

Robert J. Miller

Robert Miller is a principal of Dutko Worldwide and a former partner of the Jones Vargas law firm. He was Governor of the State of Nevada from 1989 to January 1999. He is also Director of Zenith National Insurance Corporation, Wynn Resorts Limited and International Game Technology.

Richard T. O'Brien

Richard O'Brien was elected President and Chief Executive Officer in 2007, having previously served as President and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer during 2006 and 2007 and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2006. Mr. O'Brien was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AGL Resources in Atlanta, Georgia from 2001. Mr. O'Brien previously served in senior executive positions for Mirant (formerly Southern Energy, Inc.) and PacifiCorp. He has over 20 years of broad financial and operational experience in the energy, power and natural resources businesses. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mr. O'Brien received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He also holds a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law.

John B. Prescott

John Prescott is the Retired Director and Chairman of Australian Submarine Corporation Pty Ltd and the retired Managing Director of The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 1991 until March 1998. He was a Director of Normandy Mining Limited from April 1999 until March 2002.

Donald C. Roth

Donald Roth is the Managing Partner of EMP Global LLC, an international private equity firm. Prior to co-founding EMP in 1992, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank for four years. Mr. Roth also is a former Chairman and Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch Europe, Ltd. Currently, he serves on the Advisory Committee to the National Treasury Management Agency, which manages the Republic of Ireland's national debt. He is also a Commissioner of Ireland's National Pension Reserve Fund. Mr. Roth is a director of ISEQ Exchange Traded Fund Public Limited Company.

James V. Taranik

James Taranik is Regents Professor and Arthur Brant Chair of Exploration Geophysics in the Department Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He formerly served as the Director of the Mackay School of Earth Sciences of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently President Emeritus and the former CEO of the Desert Research Institute, a world-wide environmental research organization in the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Simon R. Thompson

Simon Thompson worked for the Anglo American group from 1995 to 2007 and served as an executive director of Anglo American plc from 2005 to 2007. He previously worked in merchant banking. Mr. Thompson is currently a non-executive director of Sandvik AB (Sweden) and Amec plc (UK). He was a non-executive director of AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (South Africa) from 2004 to 2008 and of United Company Rusal (Russia) from 2007 to 2009.