Silver Bear Resources Inc. announced that Robin Birchall has been appointed Executive Chair and a member of the board of directors. Robin Birchall has fourteen years of experience in resource corporate finance, most recently with BMO Capital Markets, where he completed a variety of high profile transactions for resource companies. Mr. Birchall has extensive experience financing companies in the former Soviet Union, having completed a large number of financing and acquisition transactions, including the landmark UrAsia financing in Kazakhstan and PhosAgro's IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

In conjunction with Mr. Birchall's recruitment, Mr. Randall Oliphant has announced his resignation from the position of Chairman.