Marenica Energy Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Shane McBride as its part-time chief financial officer, effective May 1, 2017. Mr. McBride has also appointed company secretary for company and its subsidiaries. Mr. McBride has 35 years of commercial management experience gained in listed Australian public companies incorporating the disciplines of corporate management, project development and mine site operations management, management and financial accounting, corporate finance, investor relations, IT and HR and company secretarial functions.

Thirty years of this experience has been in the mining industry. Mr. McBride has relevant uranium industry experience having worked for an Australian ASX listed uranium project development company during the last seven years. In that role Mr. McBride was intimately involved with the exploration advancement, scoping and pre-feasibility studies undertaken on the project; and the financing activities to undertake those activities.

Mr. McBride has been involved with feasibility studies on a range of minerals; and in operating gold, manganese and copper mines.