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| | | Robert M. Friedland
Position: Chairman
Robert Friedland has been developing business links in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region for the past 25 years. He is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family's private company that specializes in venture capital and project financing from bases in Singapore and Beijing. Under his leadership, Ivanhoe and its affiliated companies have raised several billion dollars in international capital markets since 1993 to support a variety of natural resources, energy and technology companies.
Mr. Friedland was named the "2006 Mining Person of the Year" by Canada's Northern Miner, a leading industry publication, for his coup in gaining global mining leader Rio Tinto as a strategic partner for Ivanhoe Mines in the development of Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia. Mr. Friedland is founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian public company whose shares trade on the New York, NASDAQ and TSX exchanges. He is co-founder, Executive Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Energy, an established oil and gas producer that is developing heavy-oil projects in Canada and Ecuador using its advanced, proprietary, HTL heavy-oil upgrading technology. Ivanhoe Energy is listed on NASDAQ and the TSX. He also is Co-Chairman of Sunwing Energy, which is Ivanhoe Energy's operating subsidiary in China and Southeast Asia.
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