Appt - Non-Executive Director

1 May 2007 07:01

Metals Exploration PLC01 May 2007 Metals Exploration Plc ('Metals Ex' or 'the Company') Appointment of Non-Executive Director 1 May 2007 Metals Exploration Plc is pleased to announce the appointment on 1 May 2007 ofJonathan Michael Kuvey Pearson, aged 57, as a Non-Executive Director of theCompany. Jonathan has 40 years experience in banking. He has run a number of treasuryand securities trading businesses in his career, and spent four and a half yearsbased in Singapore in the mid 1980s with Standard Chartered Bank, latterly asCEO of Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia. His most recent appointment, between 1998 and 31 December 2005, was at StandardBank Plc where he was responsible for the Bank's activities in Europe, theMiddle East and Central Asia. He chaired the Bank's Assets and LiabilitiesCommittee and sat on its Executive and Credit Committees. In this lattercapacity he had significant exposure to the Standard Bank's mining finance andprecious metals trading and hedging activities. Jonathan is currently a director with Melli Bank Plc. In the last five years hasheld directorships at Standard Bank Plc and Sabanci Bank Limited. Steven Smith, Chairman, commented: "I extend a warm welcome to Jonathan onjoining the Board of Metals Exploration. His lifetime experience in banking,with a strong international and mining flavour, will be of particular benefit asour flagship Runruno project moves through feasibility and towards financing". There are no other requirements of Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rulesthat fall to be disclosed. Enquiries: Metals Exploration Plc Steven Smith, Chairman +44 (0) 7797 721 858Jonathan Beardsworth, Chief Executive +44 (0) 7747101552Jonathan Anderson, Investor Relations +44 (0) 7950 410 680 or +63 (0) 917 560 6654 Collins Stewart Europe Limited (Nomad/Broker)Chris Rollason /Adrian Hadden +44 (0)207 523 8350 Bankside CommunicationsKeith Irons/Simon Rothschild/Marc Cohen +44 (0)207 367 8888 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange