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Kevin Loughrey
Position: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Loughrey is currently Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. In this capacity, Mr. Loughrey has overseen the activities of the Corporation since the Thompson Creek Acquisition in 2006. During that time, the Corporation was successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange in November of 2007 and achieved record revenues of $1 billion in 2008. Mr. Loughrey was the President of Thompson Creek Metals Company and as such was responsible for all of the Thompson Creek operations. He was the principle negotiator, on behalf of the Thompson Creek shareholders, of the Thompson Creek Acquisition. Mr. Loughrey has also been the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for First Dynasty Mines Ltd. and Cyprus Minerals Company. Mr. Loughrey was responsible for complex legal matters including several major acquisitions, listing Cyprus on the New York Stock Exchange, and was prominent in the 1993 merger of Cyprus with Amax Metals Company. Mr. Loughrey has 30 years of experience in the mining business. Mr. Loughrey holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University and a law degree from the University of Houston.

 
Pamela L. Saxton
Position: Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance

Ms. Saxton joined the Corporation on August 4, 2008 and became Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance on October 16, 2008. Ms. Saxton has over 30 years of domestic and international finance and accounting experience within and outside the mining industry. She was previously Vice President, Finance -- U.S. Operations for Franco-Nevada U.S. Corporation, located in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Prior to joining Franco-Nevada in 2007, Ms. Saxton was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Colorado-based NewWest Gold Corporation. From 2004 to 2006, she was with First Data Corporation as Vice President and Controller -- Payments Division in Englewood, Colorado. Ms. Saxton also served as Vice President Finance, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of J.D. Edwards & Company in Denver from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that, she was Vice President and Controller of Amax Gold, Inc. and Assistant Controller of Cyprus Amax Minerals Company from 1987 to 1994. Ms. Saxton holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is a member and past Chair of the Board for the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry and a member of the Board of Advisors to the Business School at the University of Colorado at Denver.

 
S. Scott Shellhaas
Position: Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Shellhaas became Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation on August 10, 2009. He has over 25 years of international executive management and operating experience within the mining industry. Mr. Shellhaas' mining career started with Cyprus Amax Minerals Company where he was a managing attorney from 1982 to 1989. He subsequently served in operating positions, including: President of Cyprus Australia Gold Company (1989-1991), a gold and copper producer in Australia; President of Cyprus Northshore Mining Company (1991-1994), an iron ore producer in Minnesota; President of Cyprus Foote Mineral Company (1993-1996), an international lithium producer operating in Chile and the United States; and President and Chief Operating Officer of Amax Gold Inc. (1996-1998), a publicly traded global gold producer. From 1998 to 2000, he was President of Cyprus Australia Coal Company, a coal producer in Australia, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oakbridge Proprietary Ltd., an associated coal producing and marketing joint venture and consortium. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Shellhaas was the CEO designate for venture capital development projects involving coal, iron and steel producers within the United States. He then was Vice President of Richmond, Virginia-based Imagin Natural Resources, a start-up natural resource company focusing on the acquisition and operation of coal assets. After leaving Imagin in 2008, he provided executive management consulting services to natural resource and energy companies. Mr. Shellhaas has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor with Honors from the University of Wyoming School of Law.

 
Larry D. Clark
Position: Vice President and General Manager, Mount Emmons Project

Mr. Clark joined the Corporation in October 2008 and is currently Vice President and General Manager, Mount Emmons Project. He has over 30 years experience in the mining industry in a variety of legal, operating, business development and executive positions. He spent over 15 years in a variety of legal positions, both in private practice and in corporate legal departments, representing mining companies and mining clients in a wide array of mining and public land law matters. More recently, Mr. Clark held a variety of operating executive positions in publicly-held mining companies. While with Cyprus Minerals and Cyprus Amax, he held the positions of Vice President of Mexican Operations, Vice President Zinc, Vice President and General Manager Pińos Altos and Vice President - International Business Development. While with Cyprus Amax, he led the team that successfully bid for the operating Cerro Verde Mine, one of the earliest and most complex Peruvian government mining sector privatizations. As a member of Amax Gold's executive management team, he led the group that built and operated the Kubaka Mine in Far East Russia, the first foreign owned mine built in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr. Clark holds a Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration and law degree, all from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

 
Robert Dorfler
Position: Vice President and General Manager, Langeloth Metallurgical Facility

Mr. Dorfler has been the manager at Langeloth Metallurgical Company for 16 years and is currently Vice President and General Manager, Langeloth Metallurgical Facility. Prior to that Mr. Dorfler performed various engineering and manager assignments for mining, petroleum and engineering companies. A graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, he has over 40 years of experience in the mineral industry. Mr. Dorfler has authored or co-authored several technical papers related to molybdenum processing.

 
Dale Huffman
Position: Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Mr. Huffman is currently Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation. Mr. Huffman joined the Corporation in November 2006. He has over 25 years of in-house and outside counsel experience in the mining industry representing a wide variety of corporate clients both domestic and international. His areas of expertise include contract structuring and negotiation, financing, anti-trust compliance, environmental compliance, litigation defense, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and human resources law. He earned his law degree at UCLA.

 
Robert Jacko
Position: Vice President and General Manager, Projects

Mr. Jacko is currently Vice President and General Manager, Projects of the Corporation. Mr. Jacko joined the Corporation in August 2008. He has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry in both Canada and the United States. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Jacko was the General Manager of Pogo Mine in Alaska, for Teck Cominco Ltd. from 2004 until 2008. From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Jacko held the position of General Manager at the Polaris Mine, Sullivan Mine and Red Dog Mine. Mr. Jacko held various operating and engineering positions with Falconbridge and Minnova Inc. between 1977 and 1989. Mr. Jacko holds a mining engineering degree from Michigan Technological University.

 
Lorna D. MacGillivray
Position: Assistant Secretary

Ms. MacGillivray is currently the Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. Until January 31, 2008, she was also the Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of Central Sun Mining Inc. (formerly Glencairn Gold Corporation). She has 25 years of in-house and corporate secretarial experience for mining companies, including Central Sun Mining Inc., Campbell Resources Inc., Zemex Corporation and Northgate Exploration Limited. Ms. MacGillivray received undergraduate degrees from Mount Allison University and Queens University and earned her LL.B. from the University of New Brunswick before being called to the bar by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1983.

 
Kent Watson
Position: Vice President and General Manager, Thompson Creek Mine

Mr. Watson joined the Corporation as Vice President and General Manager of the Thompson Creek Mine in September of 1997. He has over 32 years experience in the surface mining business in copper, molybdenum and coal. Mr. Watson spent 17 years with the former Cyprus Mineral Corp. at mines in Colorado, Arizona and Idaho. He served in managerial positions in solvent extraction/electrowinning copper production, mine maintenance, mine operations, and engineering. Prior to his experience with Cyprus, Mr. Watson worked for two surface coal mining companies as chief engineer, operations superintendent, and maintenance superintendent. Previous employers include: Utah International, General Electric, Getty Minerals, Texaco Minerals, Cyprus Minerals, and Cyprus Amax. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. He is a long standing member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, a member of the Northwest Mining Association and serves on the Board of the Idaho Mining Association.

 
Mark Wilson
Position: Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Mr. Wilson joined Thompson Creek Metals Company in 2005 and currently is Vice President, Sales and Marketing for the Corporation. Having worked for more than 20 years in the mining industry, Mr. Wilson has extensive experience in marketing, business development and finance. Prior to joining Thompson Creek, he consulted for Climax Molybdenum Company on new product development (2001-2002) and served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Goldbelt Resources Ltd., a Canadian public company focused on mineral exploration in Kazakhstan (1996-1999). From 1981 to 1996, he was employed by Cyprus Amax Minerals Company in increasingly responsible roles including Vice President of Business Development and Manager of Molybdenum Marketing. Mr. Wilson holds a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University and a M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

 
Bruce R. Wright
Position: Vice President, Development

Mr. Wright joined Thompson Creek Metals Company in May 1995 and has served as Vice President, Development since May 2007. He has over 30 years' experience in the minerals industry. From 1989 to 1995, he was a Manager of Business and Project Development for Cyprus Amax Minerals Company and its Cyprus Copper division. Prior thereto, in 1988, he was Assistant to the President of Cyprus Foote Minerals Company and Vice President and General Manager of Beryllium Development for Cyprus Metals Company in 1987. From 1974 to 1986, Mr. Wright worked for Amoco Minerals Company and Cyprus Minerals Company in various mineral evaluation, financial and operations capacities. Mr. Wright holds a metallurgical engineering degree from Montana School of Mines and an M.B.A. from Arizona State University.