United Silver Corp. Announces Changes to Board of Directors and Management
August 19 2013 - 8:24AM
Business Wire
United Silver Corp. (“United Silver Corp.”, the “Company”, or
“USC”: TSX; USC: OTC; USCZF: Frankfurt: UM8) is pleased to
announce that, effective August 16th, 2013, Herrick Lau and Ringo
Hui have been appointed to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Herrick Lau is currently the Managing Director of Baron
Group Canada. Mr. Lau is an experienced investment banking
professional who has conducted transactions in initial public
offerings, reverse takeovers, mergers & acquisitions,
divestitures, and various advisory services. Through his over 17
years of experience in investment research and corporate finance,
Mr. Lau is knowledgeable in performing due diligence, valuation,
financing structuring, fairness opinion and research. Aside from
his practice in corporate finance, Mr. Lau also has experience as a
finance executive in publicly traded and private companies. His
industry practice involves developing financing strategy, liaising
with external parties, devising business development plans and
maintaining compliance with corporate governance. Mr. Lau is also a
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder and has a Master
degree in Finance and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration
at Simon Fraser University. He has extensive experience in advising
financial and corporate matters to listed companies in Canada and
is currently acting as Chief Financial Officer and director for
several listed companies in Canada.
Mr. Ringo Hui joined Baron Group in 2007 and is currently
holding a director role, where he is responsible for Baron's
International business with a special focus in the national
resources area. He began his career with Bates Hong Kong, a 4A's
advertising agency account service team. He then moved to a private
equity firm based in Hong Kong and helped the listing of a number
of public companies including Neo Alliance Minerals Inc. He has
been an independent director of Jayden Resources Inc., a TSX listed
company, since May 28, 2009. Mr. Hui graduated from the London
School of Economics with a Master degree and a Bachelor degree in
Management.
The Company also announces that Greg Stewart has been appointed
as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company in place of
Graham Clark. Mr. Clark has resigned as a member of the Board of
Directors.
ABOUT UNITED SILVER CORP.
USC is a vertically integrated Canadian mining company with
operations in Idaho, USA. It has an 80% interest in the Crescent
Silver Mine project in the Silver Valley’s prolific Silver Belt -
directly between two of the district’s historically largest silver
producing properties, the Sunshine and Bunker Hill mines. USC also
offers a full suite of mining services including contract mining
and providing a complete fabrication shop and service for building
and repairing mining equipment to silver miners in the district.
USC's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the
symbol "USC". For more information about USC, please visit:
www.unitedsilvercorp.com.
ON BEHALF OF UNITED SILVER CORP.
"Greg Stewart"Interim CEO
Tel. (208) 783-0200
The Toronto Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this
news release.
UNITED SILVER CORP.Greg StewartInterim
CEO208-783-0200