RE:400K @ .09 KOMBAT COPPER ANNOUNCES JUSTIN REID AS NEW DIRECTOR
Kombat Copper Inc. has appointed Justin Reid as a director of Kombat, replacing Scott Kelly, who has resigned as a director and officer of the company to pursue other endeavours.
Mr. Reid is the president and a director of Sulliden Gold Corp. Mr. Reid is a geologist and capital markets executive with over 20 years of experience focused exclusively in the mineral resource space. Mr. Reid holds a BSc from the University of Regina, an MSc from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. Reid started his career as a geologist with SGS and Cominco Ltd. after which he became a partner and senior mining analyst at Cormark Securities in Toronto. In 2009, Mr. Reid was named executive general manager at Paladin Energy, where he was responsible for all merger and acquisition, corporate, and market-related activities. In connection with Paladin Energy's flagship Namibian operations, he was part of a team heavily focused on government relations; social and occupational policy; and negotiating stability agreements, tax incentives and co-operative infrastructure sharing. He returned to Canada in early 2011, assuming the role of managing director, global mining sales, at National Bank Financial, where he directed the firm's sales and trading in the mining sector.
The company welcomes Mr. Reid to the board and thanks Mr. Kelly for his past contributions.