Directors and Senior Management
Uranium King has an experienced board and management team with the United States based Directors all actively involved in the exploration and potential development of the company's assets.
Bernhard Free (Non-Executive Chairman)
PHD in Geology and Palaeontology
German born with Canadian/German citizenship and US Alien Resident status
since January 1987, Mr Free holds a Doctorate degree in both Geology and
Palaeontology from University of Graz, Austria in 1962.
Mr Free has had lengthy employment periods with Eternit (Schmidheiny of
Switzerland) in South Africa, Cominco, Canada (domestic and international)
and Uranerzbergbau, UEM Canada and Uranerz United States. In the latter
part of his career he began to focus on the junior mining sector of Canada,
the US and Europe with focus on project development, production management,
and corporate administration including investor relations and fund raising.
Mr Free has had considerable experience across a diverse range of
commodities including uranium and achievements include participation in
mineral resource discoveries and successful project management. He is a
former member of the boards of Gerber Energy, Gerber Minerals, Royal Star
Resources, German American Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Colorado Mining
Association and the author of a number of scientific publications.
Jim Malone (Non-Executive Director)
Mr Malone has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western
Australia and is an Associate of the Australian Society of CPAs.
Mr Malone is a founding director of the Company. Mr Malone has worked
successfully as an accountant, stockbroker, business analyst and CEO of a
medium sized business for the past 20 years.
Mr. Malone, a Commerce graduate from the University Of Western Australia
worked for Arthur Anderson accountants, Hartley Poynton stockbrokers, CSFB
and Lehman Brothers merchant banks in London and for the West Coast Eagles
and Richmond Football Clubs, the latter as CEO from 1994 to 2000.
Since 2000, Mr. Malone has worked in the resources industry and has been
involved with the start up, successful listing and ongoing management and
development of six ASX listed and two non listed resource companies with a
diverse range of commodities including gold, base metals, uranium, oil and
gas and industrial minerals. These companies have operated projects in Latin
America, Europe, Africa, the USA and Australia. In the past 20 years Mr
Malone lived and worked in Perth, Melbourne, London and Santiago, Chile.
Michael D. Duncan (Executive Director)
B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering) University of Arizona
Mr Duncan earned his BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1967 and represented
the Boeing Aircraft Company and McDonald Douglas Aircraft Corporation on
such projects as the 757 Airbus, the Saturn V missile, and the Manned
Orbital Space Laboratory.
In 1970, he returned to the University of Arizona to attend the MBA program
and in 1971 he became a principal in a Tucson based real estate investment
syndication firm. In 1973 he became Acquisition Director for a public
company, MultiVest, Inc, which was, at the time, the largest blind-pool
limited partnership in the United States.
In 1979, he became the co-founder and president of the U.S. Equity
Corporation, an Indianapolis based investment and development Company. Mr.
Duncan remains a major share holder and director, but is no longer involved
in the day to day activity of the firm.
Samuel E. Sapper (Executive Director)
B.Sc (Geology) University of Baghdad, MS (Geology) Royal School of Mines, MS
(Earth Science) North Eastern Illinois University
Mr Sapper commenced his career with Inco based in Canada before joining
Falconbridge and working on projects throughout Australia, South America,
Africa, Canada and the United States.
He then joined Soil Test Inc. of Chicago, Illinois and was responsible for
the creation of Geneva-Pacific, which became the mineral exploration arm of
Belden Corporation, a major producer of electric cable and electronic
equipment for the electrical industry world wide.
Whilst at Soil Test Mr Sapper was also a member of the technical team that
pioneered the development of fibre optic cable for Belden Corporation. He
also managed the selection of 2.5 million acres from 9 million acres that
the U.S. government allocated to the combined Alaskan Indian Nations. This
area contained the Red Dog Mine and other mines which Mr. Sapper's Geneva
Pacific group discovered in the five years they were involved under Mr.
Sapper's direction.
Greg Barns (Non-Executive Director)
BA/LLB from Monash University
Mr Barns was a political adviser to a number of state and federal ministers
and premiers, including a role as Chief of Staff to former federal Finance
Minister John Fahey.
He was the inaugural CEO of the Australian Gold Council from 2000-02.
Mr Barns is a founding director of Republic Gold Ltd which has tungsten and
gold projects in Australia and South America.
Mr Barns also writes regularly for Australian mining magazine, Gold and
Minerals Gazette and for the Canadian publication Resource world.
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