MacDonald Mines Appoints Officers
October 01 2013 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:BMK) ("MacDonald
Mines" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of
the following officers:
-- Mr. Richard E. Schler, MBA, has been appointed as Chief Executive
Officer
-- Mr. Quentin Yarie, P. Geo., has been appointed as President and Chief
Operating Officer
-- Mr. Peter D. Liabotis, CPA, CA, has been appointed as Chief Financial
Officer
Richard E. Schler as Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Schler has worked for the Company and been a director since
October 2003. During that period he held various positions
including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
Before joining MacDonald Mines, Mr. Schler held various senior
management positions with noted corporations in the manufacturing
sector. Mr. Schler has over 30 years of financial management,
engineering and business operations experience, he holds a MBA
(Masters of Business Administration) from Western University with a
background in Mechanical Engineering.
Quentin Yarie as President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Yarie has served as the Company's Senior Vice President of
Exploration since January 2010 and as a director since February
2011. An experienced geophysicist and a successful entrepreneur,
Mr. Yarie has over 20 years of project management and business
development experience in the mining and environmental/engineering
sectors, and has held positions of increasing responsibility with a
number of Canadian-based geophysical service providers. From
1992-2001 Mr. Yarie was a partner of a specialized environmental
and engineering consulting group where he managed a number of large
projects including the ESA of the Sydney Tar Ponds, the closure of
the Canadian Forces Bases in Germany and the Maritime and Northeast
Pipeline project.
Peter D. Liabotis as Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Liabotis has worked for the MacDonald Mines since 2009. Mr.
Liabotis is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant with over
16 years of post-qualification experience. Mr. Liabotis articled
for both KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers and served as Senior Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer for Olympia Capital from 1998 to
2008. Mr. Liabotis' diverse and international work experience has
encompassed the mining, retail, manufacturing, investment funds,
and insurance sectors.
About the Company
MacDonald Mines is a mineral exploration company with an
established exploration history in the Canadian Northlands.
MacDonald Mines has set upon a strategic direction of exploration
with particular focus on nickel, chrome, copper, zinc, vanadium and
titanium in the "Ring of Fire" area of the James Bay Lowlands of
Northern Ontario.
More detailed information about the Company is available on the
website: www.macdonaldmines.com
Cautionary Statement: We seek safe harbour.
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Contacts: MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. Quentin Yarie
President and Chief Operating Officer (416) 364-4986 (416) 364-2753
(FAX)gyarie@macdonaldmines.com MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd.
Brent Nykoliation Senior Vice President - Business
Developmentbnykoliation@macdonaldmines.com
www.macdonaldmines.com