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Tracy Weslosky, CEO, Pro-edge Consultants Inc, Publisher, RareMetalBlog

Tracy Weslosky is the Founder (2001) and CEO for Pro-edge Consultants Inc., an entertainment and publishing company focused on the public markets; whose social media and leading edge blogging initiatives and international editorial team has been cited in numerous media outlets around the world including CNBC, Bloomberg, PBS, Discovery, WSJ and many others.

Pro-edge offers a wide range of professional service solutions such as their industry focused blogs, which include but are not limited to: RareMetalBlog.com, GotGoldReport.com, PotashBlog.com and CurrencyCountdown.com. They offer the Pro-edge branded social media service "COSMO" or the "Corporate Online Social Media Optimizer" as well as top-notch menu of advertising and marketing services, including a fully staffed new media production house that produces the FromtheStreet.TV series.

With over 20+ years of experience, Ms. Weslosky is an entrepreneur who owned her own boutique investment banking firm Weslosky & Cowans Ltd. for 6 years that was the basis for a business reality television series called DealFlow. DealFlow aired 4x's a week for almost 3 years on CNBC World and was broadcast on CNBC, CNBC affiliates, WealthTV and many other television networks around the world. Her experience includes experience in the natural resource, oil and gas, energy and technology industry sectors.

Previously a professional executive recruiter in the technology industry, Tracy was successful in placing C-level calibre talent in the late 90's for some of the top technology companies. For the decade prior to this, she held numerous senior marketing roles in the entertainment industry and has worked for many well-known artists, celebrities and record labels/companies that include but are not limited to: Red Ant Entertainment, Universal, Warner, SONY, EMI and NASCAR.

Tracy graduated with a BA in Honours Political Science at the age of 19 from the University of Tennessee and has written professionally since 1984. A former radio and television series host, she is presently a speaker in the rare metals and social media marketing industry sectors. She is the Chairman for REE World (www.REEWorld.com).

Gary L. Billingsley, C.A., P.Eng., P.Ge, Executive Chairman, Great Western Minerals Group Ltd.

Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Mr. Billingsley has a BSc. Advanced degree in Geology from the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Saskatchewan; a Professional Engineer and a Professional Geoscientist and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan.

For the last twelve years, Mr. Billingsley has been a director and an officer of Great Western Minerals Group Ltd., a TSX-V listed company, and currently serves as Executive Chairman. He is also a director of Wescan Goldfields Inc., listed on the TSX-V.

Mr. Billingsley has worked in the mining industry for the past 40 years, including 35 years in Saskatchewan. Mr. Billingsley worked as a mine geologist for several years for companies including Granduc Operating Company (an affiliate of Newmont Mining), Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd., and in surface exploration for Cominco Ltd., Sherritt Gordon and Hudson Bay

Exploration and Development Ltd. In 1983, Mr. Billingsley joined Claude Resources Inc., serving as a director and officer until 1992.

With Claude, he was a key part of the team that brought the Seabee Gold Mine into production, and participated in the discovery of diamondbearing kimberlite in the Sturgeon Lake area of Saskatchewan.

Richard Brescianini, General Manager Exploration & Development, Arafura Resources Limited

Richard Brescianini is a graduate in geology and geophysics, and has extensive private and public sector experience in the minerals industry in a career that spans almost 25 years.

From 1987 to 1999, Richard worked with BHP Minerals on base and precious metals exploration programs throughout Australasia and North America, contributing to significant economic discoveries at Eloise (copper-gold) and Cannington (silver-lead-zinc).

Richard led the Northern Territory Government's Geological Survey as its Director from 2003 to 2007, and was responsible for major geoscience initiatives and investment attraction strategies. Prior to that he was the Survey's Chief Geophysicist.

He joined Arafura Resources in March 2007 as its General Manager Exploration & Development.

Mark T. Brown, B.Comm., C.A., CFO & Director, Rare Element Resources

Mark Brown is president and director of Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Pacific Opportunity is a financial consulting and merchant banking firm active in venture capital markets in North America. Mr. Brown is also an officer and/or director of a number of public and private companies, including Almaden Minerals, Animas Resources, Avrupa Minerals, Pitchstone Exploration, and Tarsis Resources. His corporate activities include transactions, financings and corporate financial planning. Prior to joining Pacific Opportunity, Mr. Browns background included managing financial departments of two TSE 300 mining corporations: Eldorado Gold and Miramar Mining.

Mr. Brown has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and became a Chartered Accountant while with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

David Ian Chalmers, MSc, FAusIMM, FAIG, FIMMM, FSEG, MSGA, MGSA, FAICD, Technical and Managing Director, Alkane Resources Ltd.

Ian Chalmers graduated as a geologist from Curtin University in Western Australia and also has a Master of Science degree from Leicester University in the UK.

He has been working in the mining industry for 40 years and has been involved with the discovery and development of gold and nickel sulphide deposits in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia; Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide and Mississippi Valley type base metal deposits and Rare Metal deposits in the Kimberly of WA.

He has also been involved in base metal, gold, diamond, mineral sand and iron exploration activities elsewhere in Australia, Africa and Europe.

In recent years as Technical and Managing Director of Alkane Resources, Ian has lead the successful exploration team that has discovered significant gold deposits at Tomingley and McPhillamys, and managed the development of the world class Dubbo Zirconia Project in the Central West of New South Wales.

Jeff Green, President, J.A. Green & Company

Jeff Green is President of J.A. Green & Company, a Washington, DC based government relations and consulting firm. Founded in 2007, his firm represents a wide variety of clients in the strategic and critical materials sector including rare earth, specialty steel and titanium interests. He has been instrumental in advancing critical materials issues in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he has contributed to the ongoing revisions of the specialty metals clause; the 2010 Government Accountability Office review of rare earths in defense applications; the 2011 assessment of rare earth supply and demand in defense applications; the Department of Energy Critical Materials Strategy; the Office of Science and Technology Policy interagency working group on critical materials; and a variety of other efforts. He is cited frequently in the press regarding strategic and critical material issues.

Prior to his current position, he served as Staff Director to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness. In that role, he was primarily responsible for all matters related to acquisition policy, industrial base issues, defense trade, and strategic materials. He also served as Legislative Director, Coalition Provisional Authority traveling frequently to the Middle East.

James B. Hedrick, President, Hedrick Consultants Inc.

James Hedrick retired from his position as the rare-earth commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey in early 2010 after 31 years. He has studied all aspects of the rare-earth elements for the U.S. Government since 1981. His past responsibilities were to prepare the U.S. Government's reviews and publications on a variety of minerals and metals. He continues to write articles for the minerals industry and has chaired various sessions on rare earths and strategic and critical minerals in both the United States and Europe.

He started his government career in Oregon in 1978 as an engineering geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-civilian. A year later he transferred with the government to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the U.S. Bureau of Mines to research strategic deposits, prepare cost feasibility studies, and review environmental impact statements for the Director of the Bureau of Mines. In the early 1980's he accepted a job with the U.S. Bureau of Mines at their headquarters in Washington, DC, as the rare-earth commodity specialist. In addition to the rare earths, including yttrium and scandium, he was assigned an increasing number of mineral commodities including thorium, mica, hafnium, and zirconium. Special projects and publications included mercury, rubidium, gold, high-temperature superconductors, U.S. trade sanctions, suspensions of U.S. trade tariffs, and rare-earth applications in defense systems.

James Kenny, M.B.S. (Finance), Director and CEO, Frontier Rare Earths Limited

James Kenny is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Rare Earths Limited (www.frontierrareearths.com), a Luxembourg headquartered company exclusively focussed on rare earths in Southern Africa and whose flagship asset is the Zandkopsdrift Rare Earth deposit in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Zandkopsdrift is recognised as one of the largest rare earth deposits worldwide, outside of China, measured under international reporting standards and is expected to be one of the early new producers after Lynas and Molycorp.Frontier Rare Earths listed on the main board of the Toronto Stock Exchange in November 2010 and trades under the symbol 'FRO'.

James Kenny holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Master's degree in finance (MBS) from University College, Dublin and has over 20 years of experience in the natural resources sector as a promoter, banker, broker and executive officer of various listed and private companies. James has played a key role in the development of the Frontier Rare Earths to date. James is also a co-founder and currently non-executive Director of Firestone Diamonds plc, an emerging diamond producer with operating kimberlite mines in Botswana and Lesotho and which previously built and operated three alluvial diamond mines in the Namaqualand area of South Africa's Northern Cape Province.

Jack Lifton, Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC

Jack Lifton is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC. He is also a consultant, author, and lecturer on the market fundamentals of the technology metals, the term that he coined to describe those strategic rare metals whose electronic properties make our technological society possible. These include the rare earths, lithium and most of the rare metals.

Educated as a physical chemist, specializing in high-temperature metallurgy, Jack was first a researcher before becoming both a marketing and manufacturing executive. Finally, he became a metal trader specializing in the field of technology metals and of rare metals.

Today, after 48 years of industry involvement, he advises both OEM high tech industry and the global institutional-investment community, on the natural resource issues that impact either a proposed business model or a high-volume manufacturing plan for the mass market.

His work today is principally as a due-diligence consultant for institutional investors, looking into opportunities where rare and technology metals availability are a factor in determining the probability of commercial success of a metals-related venture.

Jack is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.

Alastair Neill, PEng, MBA, Executive Vice President of Dacha Strategic Metals

Alastair Neill Spent 19 years at Union Carbide Industrial Gasses (Praxair) including research and development, sales, marketing, business development, and was granted one patent for air separation. He is the former VP sales, Rare Earth Division and VP Business Development for AMR (Now Neo-Material Technologies). He is EVP of Dacha Strategic Metals and has implemented the strategy to build a strategic inventory of HREE outside China and recently has taken on the role of President of REI, a new company focused on Strategic acquisitions in the RE and special metals space. He brings over 15 years of direct Rare Earth Elements experience with downstream end-users in Korea, Japan, Europe and North America and with suppliers in China.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from York University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Material Science from the University of Western Ontario.

Jefferey D. Phillips, President, Global Market Development

Jefferey D. Phillips serves as President of Global Market Development.

Mr. Phillips has extensive experience in the areas of finance, strategic corporate planning and corporate communications for publicly traded companies.

Mr. Phillips has been Managing Member of the Advisory Board of Animas Resources Ltd. (formerly Deal Capital Ltd.) since July 17, 2007.

He serves as Managing Member of the Advisory Board of Rare Element Resources Ltd. since October 2007.

Russell Starr, MA, MBA, Head of Institutional Equities and Director, Euro Pacific Canada

Russell Starr joined Euro Pacific Canada in 2010 and founded the firm's institutional equities group. Russell has over 11 years in the investment industry bringing in-depth knowledge in corporate finance, trading, along with global client relationships. Prior to joining Euro Pacific Canada, Russell held various senior positions in equity sales and trading, both at boutique investment dealers along with two global investment banks.

Russell is a natural resource specialist and has been focusing on strategic metals for the last three years, during which time he has helped finance numerous rare earth and rare metal companies.

Russell holds a Master of Economics from the University of Victoria and a Master of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business and was a Ph D candidate at McGill University.

Liz Whiteway, General Manager (Brand, Communication and Community Value), Lynas Corporation Ltd.

Liz Whiteway graduated in Economics in 1984, before undertaking a series of international assignments in Marketing and External Affairs with Shell International, Michelin and Caltex.

Liz has worked in commercial roles and new market development across Australia, UK, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, France and Eastern Europe, and held regional and global brand management and communication responsibilities.

In 1999 she was appointed Corporate Communications Manager for Shell Australia, responsible for corporate and environmental reporting and programs in corporate social responsibility.

In 2000 Liz joined the Michelin Group, and between 2001 and 2004 was responsible for leading Michelin's global motorsport marketing communications and Formula One partner team relations. Liz then returned to Australia in 2004 and assumed the role of National Manager - Brand, Communications and Public Affairs with Caltex Australia.

Liz joined Lynas Corporation in March 2011 as General Manager - Brand, Communications and Community Value. In this capacity, Liz is responsible for all aspects of corporate communications; government and media relations; corporate social responsibility and reputation.