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Corporate Governance - Directors
William G. Wilson, Chairman of the Board of Directors , Director since 1983, Member of the Compensation Committee and Member of the Audit Committee
Mr. Wilson has been a director of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. since its inception and is currently the Company’s Chairman. He has over 30 years of experience in the mining and natural resource industry, as well as extensive accounting experience. Mr. Wilson has served as Chief Financial Officer, and subsequently President and Chief Operating Officer, of Cominco Ltd., an international mining company. He was also a Partner at Clarkson, Gordon & Co., a national accounting firm.
Mr. Wilson holds a Chartered Accountant designation. He has been a director of numerous Canadian and International resource, manufacturing and financial service companies and has also held numerous public positions, among them director of the Mining Association of Canada.
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Peter Gillin , Director since 2009, Member of the Compensation Committee
Mr. Gillin brings a wealth of public and mining company experience to the board of directors of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. He was most recently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tahera Diamond Corporation and is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Zemex Corporation. He has also been a senior investment banker, having previously served as Vice-Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons Canada Limited and as a Managing Director of Scotia Capital. He is currently a director of Silver Wheaton Corp. and Trillium Health Care Products Inc. and is a member of the Independent Review Committee of TD Asset Management Inc. Mr. Gillin is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Derek H.L. Buntain, President, The Dundee Bank , Director since 1983, Member of the Health, Safety & Environmental Committee
Derek Buntain resides in the Cayman Islands, where he is President of The Dundee Bank. He has over 30 years of experience in the investment industry in Canada and abroad. His background includes positions in research, international arbitrage, corporate and government finance and mergers and acquisitions, with Burns Bros. and Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. He was President of Canadian Express Limited and, in 1996, became President of Goodman & Company (Bermuda) Limited, an investment management firm.
Mr. Buntain attended Dartmouth College and the University of Western Ontario, where he earned a Master of Business Administration. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute and a director of several publicly-traded companies.
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Jonathan Goodman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dundee Precious Metals Inc. , Director since 1993
Jonathan Goodman has over 20 years experience in the resource and investment industry, working as a geologist, senior analyst, portfolio manager and senior executive.
Mr. Goodman joined Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. in 1990, where he was responsible for the selection of Canadian equities and played a major role in developing asset allocation strategies, before becoming the company’s President. He is also a founder of Goepel Shields and Partners, an investment firm.
Mr. Goodman graduated from the Colorado School of Mines as a Professional Engineer and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst, and is a director of several publicly-traded resource companies.
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Ned Goodman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dundee Corporation and Ravensden Asset Management Inc. , Co-Founder and Director since 1983
 Ned Goodman has over four decades of investment experience as a securities analyst, portfolio manager and senior executive. He has an established reputation as one of Canada’s most successful investment counselors and is a sub-advisor to Goodman & Company providing ongoing portfolio management to certain of the Dynamic Focus + family of funds.
Mr. Goodman has a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto. He earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1967. In 1997, he was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, by Concordia University.
Founder and benefactor of the Goodman Institute of Investment Management, a graduate school for investment management at Concordia University, Mr. Goodman is also the Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dundee REIT and a director of several resource companies. He is actively involved in various philanthropic activities, is Chairman Emeritus of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and a Governor of Junior Achievement of Canada.
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Murray John, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dundee Resources Limited , Director since 2005., Member of the Health, Safety & Environmental Committee
 Murray John is also a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corona Gold Corporation, director and interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Odyssey Resources Ltd., both exploration companies. Prior to September 2004, Mr. John was an investment banker with Dundee Securities Corporation, a securities dealer.
Mr. John began his investment career with Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. as a mining analyst in 1993 and subsequently worked as a portfolio manager specializing in precious metals equities from 1995 to 1998. He joined Dundee Securities Corporation as a research analyst in 1998 and moved to the mining investment banking team in early 2001.
Mr. John also serves on the board of directors of Iberian Minerals Corp., Breakwater Resources Ltd. and African Minerals Limited. After graduating from the Camborne School of Mines in 1980, he acquired extensive experience working as a mining engineer for Strathcona Mineral Services Ltd., Nanisivik Mines Ltd. and Eldorado Nuclear Limited. Mr. John received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto in 1992.
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Jeremy Kinsman , Director since 2007, Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee
One of Canada’s most experienced diplomats, Jeremy Kinsman was born in Montreal and educated at Princeton University and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, before joining the Canadian Foreign Service in 1966.
From 1992 - 2006, Mr. Kinsman was a Canadian Ambassador or High Commissioner in Moscow, Rome, London and Brussels, accredited to 15 countries. He directs an international democracy support project for the Community of Democracies. A Contributing Writer for Policy Options magazine, he also writes a column for cbc.ca. Recently Diplomat-in-Residence at Princeton University, he is Regent’s Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, for 2009-10. Mr. Kinsman serves on a number of non-profit and public service boards, notably the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the East-West Medical Institute, and the Council for a Community of Democracies, Washington, D.C.
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John Lydall , Director since 2003, Chairman of the Compensation Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
John Lydall has had a distinguished career in mining and financial markets. In the early part of his professional life, he gained extensive underground mining experience. Later, during the 26 years he spent with National Bank Financial and its predecessor company, First Marathon, he was a top-ranked mining analyst and an investment banking executive. Prior to his retirement, he was Managing Director of the firm’s mining investment banking group.
During his career, Mr. Lydall has advised on, and participated in, financings for many North American mining companies. He also served on the boards and committees of several professional and educational organizations.
Mr. Lydall holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Nottingham University and a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield University. He is also a director of Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation and FNX Mining Company Inc.
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Garth A.C. MacRae , Director since 1988, Member of the Audit Committee and Chairman of the Health, Safety & Environment Committee
Garth MacRae brings to the board of directors of Dundee Precious Metals over 30 years of experience in the resource industry, as well as over 16 years of public accounting experience.
Mr. MacRae has held executive positions with Hudson Bay Mining, Brinco Limited and Denison Mines Limited and served as Vice Chairman of Dundee Corporation from 1993 until 2004. He also served as Chairman of Dundee Precious Metals from 1995 until 2002.
Mr. MacRae holds a Chartered Accountant designation. He is also a director of several publicly-traded natural resource companies.
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Peter B. Nixon , Director since 2002, Member of the Compensation Committee and Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
Peter Nixon has spent more than three decades in the investment industry, specializing in the natural resource sector and working primarily in research and institutional sales. He helped found the investment firm Goepel Shields & Partners and was subsequently President of the firm’s U.S. subsidiary. He later joined Dundee Securities, with the mandate to expand the company’s activities in the United States.
Mr. Nixon is also a director of several publicly-traded natural resource companies.
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Ronald Singer , Director since 1998, Chairman of the Audit Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
Ronald Singer is a Chartered Accountant. He was a senior partner with Hyde Houghton, Chartered Accountants, until his retirement. His practice focused on corporate clients, both private and public, and specialized in the purchase and sale of businesses and corporate reorganizations.
Mr. Singer is also Chairman of the board of governors for the Dynamic family of mutual funds and a consultant to the Cree Economic Enterprises Company of Quebec. Mr. Singer was named a Fellow of the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants in 1988.
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