MANAGEMENT PROFILE

Larry Lahusen** (B.Sc. Geol.) - Director, C.E.O.

Mr. Lahusen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of New Mexico (1969) and has been active as an exploration geologist for over thirty years. His exploration focus has been in precious metals, base metals and uranium. Larry began his career exploring for uranium deposits in the Colorado Plateau region, USA. Later, as a district and an independent geologist, Larry directed and designed exploration programs that resulted in the discovery and subsequent development of the two uranium deposits located in the Lisbon Valley District, Utah. During the period from 1986-1997, he worked as the VP Exploration for several publicly traded junior exploration companies supervising gold exploration programs throughout western Canada. Larry has significant experience raising public and private venture capital for mineral exploration, has structured numerous joint venture deals and prospectus-level financing. Larry has been a public director of several resource companies for twenty years. In 1997 he formed Uravan Minerals Inc. With his specialized knowledge and experience in precious and base metals, Larry intends to make Uravan a leader in North American mineral exploration.

Jim Marlatt (P.Eng, MBA)- Director, President & C.O.O.  

Mr. James Marlatt is a Professional Engineer holding a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Geological Engineering, with a specialization in geophysics, from Queen’s University (1978), and an Executive MBA from Athabasca University (2005). Jim is a strong proponent of leadership development, is a Certified Executive Coach, and is pursuing a PhD in Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate University . Jim has been practicing as a exploration geologist for over 30 years, primarily as an exploration manager for Cameco Corporation. Jim has extensive experience in uranium exploration and was the project and senior geologist responsible for the development and management of technical programs leading to the discovery of Cameco’s McArthur River uranium deposit in 1988.  From 1995 to 2000, Jim was the Exploration Manager for Cameco Australia where he developed a regional operation and exploration team, was responsible for building stakeholder relationships, and negotiated land access agreements with the Traditional Owners. In 2001, Jim became Cameco’s Manager of Technical Services for exploration. From 2002 to 2007, Jim became Director of Global Exploration where he and his technical team were responsible for building Cameco’s worldwide uranium project portfolio. Jim has been a public director of mid-tier and junior resource companies. Jim has particular expertise in developing joint venture opportunities, exploration programs, and specialist knowledge in the exploration for uranium deposits, and extensive experience in developing applied industry-university collaborative research initiatives. 

Mike Lavery (B.A. Econ., C.A.) - Director, C.F.O. & Secretary/Treasurer

Mr. Lavery Graduated from Bishop's University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 1968. He is currently the President of Comconsult Limited, a privately owned consulting and accounting services company. Previously, Mr. Lavery held positions as Vice President, Finance for The WINROC Corporation, Secretary Treasurer for the Comcare group of companies, Director of Ascot Energy Resources, and Senior Tax Partner with Deloitte & Touche working in the corporate tax and resource tax areas as well as financing. Mike currently serves as a director with Glencoe Resources Limited and is a long serving director with Tourism Calgary.

Dr. Allan Miller (Ph.D. Econ. Geol.) - Director & VP Exploration

Allan obtained an Honours B.Sc. in Geology from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in Economic Geology from the University of Western Ontario in 1977. His 25 year career with the Geological Survey of Canada included the position as a regional metallogenist specializing in the geology and mineral deposit environments in the Western Churchill Province and metallogenetic comparisons to similar Precambrian Shields in Australia, Brazil and Fennoscandia-Russian Federation. He has extensive mineral deposit experience including volcanic-associated massive sulphide, magmatic nickel-copper deposits and epithermal precious metal and uranium deposit experience in the highly prospective Thelon Basin, N.W.T as well as the world-class uranium districts in the Athabasca Basin, SK and Kombolgie Basin, Australia. Allan participates as a technical advisor on many of Uravan’s projects and continues to define economic PGM targets for Uravan using the databases compiled on Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

Theodore H. Renner (B.Sc. Mech. Eng., M.B.A.) - Director & Financial Advisor

Mr. Renner graduated with a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba and obtained his M.B.A. at the University of Western Ontario. Ted has spent the last 25 years in senior management for the oil and gas resource industry with Norcen Energy Resources Ltd. as Manager of Corporate Planning; with Luscar Limited as General Manager Oil and Gas; with Mark Resources Inc. as President, CEO and Director; with Wascana Energy Inc. (formerly SaskOil) as President, CEO and Director; and recently with Vista Energy Inc. as Chairman and CEO. Mr. Renner is a long time resident of Saskatchewan, actively supporting the community and promoting the resources industry through such affiliations and positions as Director with the Independent Producers Association Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers as Governor; a Member of PACE and the Institute for Saskatchewan Enterprise.

William Grafham, Director

Bill Grafham has had a long and highly successful career in the management of venture capital for natural resources companies and partnerships. Early in Bill’s career, from 1955 to 1963, he was a Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and flew with the 409 All Weather Fighter Squadron at Comox, B.C. and the Electronic Warfare Unit at St. Hubert, P.Q.  After leaving the RCAF with an honorable discharge in 1963 Bill began his career in the financial world by joining Richardson Securities, and in 1970 opened an office for Cochran Murray Ltd in Calgary, which became Merrill Lynch Canada and more recently CIBC Wood Gundy. In 1974, at the beginning of the previous uranium boom, Bill was responsible for bringing two West Germany groups to Canada to form  major West German tax oriented partnerships, and in 1976 Bill was responsible for an additional German partnership which largely focused on uranium and precious metals in North America. From 1974 to the late 1980’s these German partnerships, under Bill’s guidance, invested hundred’s of millions of dollars in oil and gas, uranium and gold exploration projects in Canada and the US, resulting in the development of three gold mines, three uranium mines, one copper deposit, many oil and gas projects, and many good exploration projects that were either sold or farmed out.  Some of the companies that were formed as a result of this exploration success and of which Bill was a founder and/or principal, were  E&B Exploration, Ferret Exploration, Mascot Gold Mines, Crow Butte Uranium Mine, Western Goldfields and Baja Gold.

Ian R. Fraser (B.Sc. Geol., P. Geo.) - Senior Geologist

Mr. Fraser is a professional geologist with a B.Sc in Geology from Laurentian University. He has over twenty years of experience in the mining industry as an exploration and mine geologist for major and junior mining companies including Inco, Kerr Addison Mines and the Golden Rule Group of Companies. Ian has worked on numerous exploration projects throughout Canada, designing and implementing many surface mapping, geochemical, geophysical exploration programs and diamond drill programs for base and precious metal exploration and development. As a chief mine geologist in a narrow vein gold mine, Ian coordinated underground grade control and stope design, detailed underground mapping and designed drill programs. Ian is Uravan’s resident expert in PGM+Ni-Cu+Au exploration and is the project geologist for the Rottenstone and Canalask Properties. Ian continues to evaluate potential advanced PGM+Ni properties for the company.

Dr. Colin E. Dunn (Ph.D., P.Geo., P.Eng.) - Technical Advisor

Colin Dunn is a consultant geochemist with 30 years post-doctoral experience in the exploration for minerals and hydrocarbons. He worked for 13 years as a research scientist with the Saskatchewan Geological Survey, followed by 13 years with the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa as a senior research scientist and head of the geochemical research section. Since 1998, he has held an emeritus position with the GSC. With his research Colin has advanced biogeochemical survey methods for mineral exploration and is a widely published expert on this subject. In the fall of 1999, Colin designed and conducted a 1000 site treetop-sampling program over and around the PGM-rich Rottenstone Property in Saskatchewan.