Golden Minerals Company Культура компании

Mr. Warren M. Rehn has been the President of Golden Minerals Company since May 21, 2015 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since September 1, 2015. Mr. Rehn served as the Chief Geologist at Golden Minerals Company from February 13, 2012 to May 21, 2015 and served as its Senior Vice President of Exploration from December 2012 to May 21, 2015. Mr. Rehn served as Vice President of Exploration at Golden Minerals Company since February 2012. Mr. Rehn is responsible for managing all aspects of Golden's global exploration program. He has 30 years of mineral exploration experience. He was previously employed by Barrick Gold Exploration, most recently as the Chief Exploration Geologist for the Bald Mountain and Ruby Hill Mines. In this position he was responsible for planning and supervising gold exploration programs for intrusion-related and Carlin style deposits, with recent significant discoveries at both mine sites. He has considerable exploration experience in the United States, Canada and throughout Latin America. He served as the Chief Exploration Geologist for the Bald Mountain and Ruby Hill Mines at Barrick Gold Exploration. Prior to joining Barrick, Mr. Rehn served as a Consultant of Gerson Lehman Group and for 10 years was a co-owner in a specialty geochemical consulting firm. Mr. Rehn has also worked as an exploration geologist with Placer Dome Exploration, Bear Creek Mining, Cyprus Amax, Bema Gold, Noranda Exploration and Gold Fields Mining Corporation. He has been a Director of Golden Minerals Company since September 1, 2015. Mr. Rehn holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Idaho and a Master of Science in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines.

Mr. Robert P. Vogels has been the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary at Golden Minerals Company since March 2009 and January 5, 2016 respectively and served as its Principal Accounting Officer since February 23, 2006. He has 25 years in the mining industry, Mr. Vogels has held numerous accounting, finance and tax positions at the corporate and operations level and has been involved in numerous large scale mine development projects. Mr. Vogels served as a Controller at Golden Minerals Company from January 2005 to March 2009. He served as Vice President of Golden Minerals Company from January 2006 to March 2009. Mr. Vogels served as a Corporate Controller of Meridian Gold Company from January 2004 to December 2004. Mr. Vogels served as Controller of Inco Limited's Goro project in New Caledonia from October 2002 to January 2004. Mr. Vogels served for Cyprus Minerals Company from 1985 to October 2002. Mr. Vogels served in several capacities, including as the Controller of El Abra project at Cyprus Minerals Co. from 1997 to March 2002. Mr. Vogels began his career in public accounting where he earned his CPA certification. Mr. Vogels holds a B.Sc., an MBA degrees from Colorado State University and CPA Certification (inactive) Spanish proficiency.

Mr. Jeffrey G. Clevenger served as the Chief Executive Officer at Golden Minerals Company (formerly Apex Silver Mines ) from May 2009 to September 1, 2015. Mr. Clevenger served as President of Golden Minerals Company since March 2009 to May 21, 2015. He has more than 35 years of mining experience, primarily at a senior management level with Apex Silver Mines Limited, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company and Phelps Dodge Corporation. From 2004 to 2009 he served as Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Apex Silver Mines where he led the construction of the $1 billion San Cristobal mine in Bolivia. From 1992 to 1999, while reporting to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cyprus Amax, with active participation at the Board level, he served as the Chief Operating Officer and President of a large integrated copper producer (one billion pounds per annum) and the world's largest molybdenum producer. He has been the Chairman of Golden Minerals Company since March 2009. Mr. Clevenger was one of a five member Policy Committee for the parent Cyprus Amax Minerals Company and responsible for 4500 employees with producing assets in the U.S., Europe, Chile and Peru. During his tenure at Cyprus, copper production increased by more than 65% while costs lowered by nearly 30%. Mr. Clevenger led the effort for Cyprus that resulted in being awarded Peru's first tender in the privatization process, acquiring the Cerro Verde property; and Chile's first tender in the privatization process through the Cyprus acquisition of El Abra. Mr. Clevenger led the Cerro Verde $230 million modernization and expansion, which resulted in increasing production from 60 to 150 million pounds and decreasing costs from $0.80 to $0.45 per pound over a five year period; and the $1 billion construction of the world's largest SX/EW at El Abra, which was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. Mr. Clevenger was responsible for exploration activities ($15 - $40 million per year), primarily conducted in South America, Zambia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. While at Phelps Dodge Corporation from 1989 to 1992, Mr. Clevenger was President and GM of Phelps Dodge Morenci Inc., which was a joint venture between Sumitomo and Phelps Dodge. There he managed an annual operating budget of $400 million and capital budget of $100 million and oversaw an aggressive exploration program and analysis of the Safford copper district. While at Morenci he led several cost reduction initiatives, most notably replacing the rail system with the installation of a $50 million in pit crushing and conveying system. From 1987 to 1988, Mr. Clevenger was the Assistant General Manager at Chino Mines Company, a joint venture between a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Mining and Phelps Dodge, where he had responsibility for all mining, concentrating, smelting, leaching and engineering functions, including 1100 employees. From 1986 to 1987, he was General Superintendent of Phelps Dodge Morenci, where his responsibilities included mining, engineering and administrative activities of the largest operating mine in North America. While at Phelps Dodge from 1986 to 1973, Mr. Clevenger had progressive career growth from Engineer to Mine Superintendent at Tyrone. He holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering with honors, from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1973 and Advanced International Senior Management Program (AMP; ISMP) from Harvard University in 1996.

Mr. Edmond R. LeBlanc served as Vice President, Marketing of Golden Minerlas Co., since April 1998. Prior to joining us, Mr. LeBlanc served as Director of Marketing for Westmin Resources Limited from 1995 through March 1998, where he was responsible for sales, transportation and hedging for all of Apex Silver Mines Limited's mineral production. Westmin sold a wide variety of products including copper, zinc, precious metals and molybdenum concentrates, as well as precious metal dore and copper cathodes. As a member of Westmin's senior management, Mr. LeBlanc was instrumental in assessing marketing issues for the company's five-year strategic plans. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Manager of Special Projects and Manager of Marketing for Westmin. Mr. LeBlanc commenced his career in the mining industry as an exploration geologist before specializing in the marketing of nonferrous concentrates and precious metals. He earned a B.S. in geology from Saint Xavier University.