People: Golden Star Resources Ltd (GSS.A)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Timothy Baker

 60 2013 Executive Chairman of the Board

Samuel Coetzer

 52 2013 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Jeffrey Swinoga

 2013 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

Bruce Higson-Smith

 51 2012 Senior Vice President - Finance, Corporate Development and Investor Relations

Roger Palmer

 62 2013 Vice President, Treasurer

S. Mitchel Wasel

 47 2007 Vice President - Exploration

Christopher Thompson

 65 2012 Director

Robert Doyle

 57 2010 Independent Director

Tony Jensen

 50 2012 Independent Director

Ian MacGregor

 77 2010 Independent Director

Craig Nelsen

 60 2011 Independent Director

William Yeates

 63 2011 Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Timothy Baker

 Mr. Timothy C. Baker has been appointed as Executive Chairman of the Board of Golden Star Resources Ltd. effective January 1, 2013. Mr. Baker has experience in operating mines and projects around the world, including Chile, Africa and the Dominican Republic for Placer Dome and Kinross Gold.

Samuel Coetzer

 Mr. Samuel T. Coetzer is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., effective from January 1, 2013. He is no longer Chief Operating Officer of the company effective from January 1, 2013. Mr. Coetzer has 24 years of international mining experience, having held increasing levels of responsibility in mining companies including Kinross Gold Corporation, Xstrata Nickel, Xstrata Coal South Africa, and Placer Dome, with particular emphasis on integration and streamlining of operations. From September 2010 until joining the Corporation, he was the Senior Vice President of Red Back Integration at Kinross Gold Corporation. Mr. Coetzer consulted to Kinross Gold Corporation from February 2009 and was appointed in May 2009 as Senior Vice President, South American Operations for Kinross Gold Corporation, serving in this role until September 2010. In this role, Mr. Coetzer was responsible for overseeing the Kinross assets in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador. From June 2007 to October 2008, Mr. Coetzer was the Chief Operating Officer of Xstrata Nickel, and from March 2006 to June 2007, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Xstrata Coal South Africa.

Jeffrey Swinoga

 Mr. Jeffrey A. Swinoga has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Golden Star Resources Ltd. effective January 7, 2013. Mr. Swinoga has mining industry experience as a CFO with Hudbay Minerals and North American Palladium.

Bruce Higson-Smith

 Mr. Bruce Higson-Smith is Senior Vice President - Finance, Corporate Development and Investor Relations of Golden Star Resources Ltd., since January 2012. Prior to which he served the Corporation as Vice President, Corporate Development from September 2003. Mr. Higson-Smith is a qualified mining engineer with 25 years of experience in the mining business. Following several years in underground mining operations in Africa and after earning an MBA in finance, Mr. Higson-Smith spent 10 years reviewing projects, conducting due diligence, negotiating and structuring mining transactions around the world, initially with the Castle Group, a mining investment management company, and then with Resource Capital Funds. Since joining Golden Star in 2003 he has been responsible for evaluating and executing M&A opportunities for the Corporation and spent a year in Ghana as General Manager of Bogoso/Prestea mine.

Roger Palmer

 Mr. Roger Palmer is Vice President, Treasurer of Golden Star Resources Ltd., effective from January 7, 2013. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Palmer served the Corporation as Controller since July 2000, Vice President of Finance since May 2005 and as Interim Chief Financial Officer from January 2008 through August 2008. Mr. Palmer has 30 years experience in the mining business including experience as an exploration geologist, as a mining engineer at a scale underground operation, and as a corporate controller for publicly traded mining companies. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Palmer served as Director of Corporate Finance for Getchell Gold.

S. Mitchel Wasel

 Mr. S. Mitchel Wasel is Vice President - Exploration of Golden Star Resources Ltd., since September 2007. Prior to which he served the Corporation as Regional Exploration Manager for West Africa from March 2004. Mr. Wasel served as the Corporation’s Exploration Manager - Ghana from 2000 to March 2004. Mr. Wasel has acted in other roles with the Corporation since 1993 when he commenced his service with the Corporation as an exploration geologist, where he worked in the Corporation’s regional exploration program in Suriname and later with the Gross Rosebel project, as Project Manager. Prior to joining the Corporation, he worked with several companies in northern Canada in both exploration and mine geology.

Christopher Thompson

 Mr. Christopher M.T. Thompson is Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., effective December 31, 2012. He is no longer Independent Chairman of the Board effective from December 31, 2012. From 1998 through 2002, Mr. Thompson served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gold Fields Limited, an international gold producer based in South Africa, and as Chairman from 2002 through 2005. From April 2002 to April 2005 he was the Chairman of the World Gold Council, an industry organization that promotes gold consumption, and from 1991 through 1998 he was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Castle Group Inc., manager of three privately owned gold mining venture funds. Mr. Thompson has served as director on 25 public gold mining company boards including recently Frontera Copper Corporation and Ram Power, Corp., and he sits on the board of Teck Resources Limited and Geosynfuels, Inc., a privately held energy company, and is a member of the advisory board of Pala Investments.

Robert Doyle

 Mr. Robert Emmet Doyle is an Independent Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., since February 02, 2010. From January 2008 to October 2009, Mr. Doyle was Chief Executive Officer of Medoro Resources Ltd. (pursuant to a merger in June 2011, Medoro is now known as Gran Colombia Gold Corp.), a Canadian gold exploration and development company with activities in Africa and South America. Mr. Doyle was with Pacific Stratus Energy as Executive Vice President from 2005 through 2006, Chief Financial Officer from October 2006 to May 2007 and Vice President from March 2006 to May 2007. He was Chief Financial Officer of Coalcorp Mining Inc. from November 2005 to May 2007 and Chief Financial Officer of Bolivar Gold Corp. from January 2003 to February 2006. Mr. Doyle serves as a director of Gran Colombia Gold Corp. and is the chairman of Gran Colombia’s corporate governance and nominating committee and a member of its audit committee. He is a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of Mandalay Resources Corp., a director and member of the audit committee of Detour Gold Corporation, as well as a director of NXA Inc. Mr. Doyle, a chartered accountant and a chartered director, has 30 years experience in all facets of international resource exploration, development and production.

Tony Jensen

 Mr. Tony A. Jensen has been appointed as Independent Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., effective June 13, 2012. Mr. Jensen joined Royal Gold, a mining royalty company, in 2003 as president and chief operating officer, and was elected to the board of directors of the company in 2004. He assumed full responsibilities of president and chief executive officer in 2006. Prior to joining Royal Gold, Mr. Jensen held various positions of increasing responsibility with Placer Dome. His assignments there included engineering and management positions at the Golden Sunlight mine in Montana; assistant mine general manager of operations at the La Coipa mine in Chile; director, finance and strategic growth for Placer Dome Latin America; and mine general manager of the Cortez joint venture. Mr. Jensen is a mining engineering graduate of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and holds a certificate of finance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In addition to his Royal Gold board position, he is a member of the National Mining Association board and finance committee, the industrial advisory board of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and the advisory council for the University of Colorado Business School's Center for Commodities.

Ian MacGregor

 Mr. Ian A. MacGregor is an Independent Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd. Mr. MacGregor has been associated as Counsel with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Barristers and Solicitors) since February 2000. He is Chairman of the Board of the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and previously served for several years as Chairman of the Corporation. Having practiced corporate and securities law with a specialty in the mining sector for 35 years, and having served since 2000 as a director of other entities.

Craig Nelsen

 Mr. Craig J. Nelsen is an Independent Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., since May 11, 2011. He was a founder, and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, of Avanti Mining Inc. since May 2007. From 1999 to June 2007, Mr. Nelsen served as the Executive Vice-President, Exploration, for Gold Fields Limited, one of the world’s gold mining companies. Mr. Nelsen was the founder, and served as Chairman of the board of directors, of Metallica Resources Inc. from 1994 to 2008, and was Metallica’s Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 1999. In June 2008, a three-company merger between Metallica, Peak Gold, and New Gold Inc. was finalized, forming the new, larger gold producer known as New Gold Inc., which is listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex. Since June 2008, Mr. Nelsen has served as a member of the board of directors of New Gold Inc. Mr. Nelsen holds a M.S. degree in geology from the University of New Mexico and a B.A. degree in geology from the University of Montana.

William Yeates

 Mr. William L. Yeates is an Independent Director of Golden Star Resources Ltd., since October 4, 2011. Mr. Yeates is a founding and current audit partner with Hein & Associates LLP. He was previously Hein’s National Director of Auditing and Accounting and has over 35 years of experience working with public companies specializing in extractive industries. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Yeates served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC). He has served as a member of the Professional Practice Executive Committee of the Center for Audit Quality, a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Public Company Audit Firms of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), and a member of the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee and of the SEC Regulations Committee of the AICPA. In addition to being a CPA, Mr. Yeates holds an MBA in accounting and a B.S. in finance and marketing from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Timothy Baker

 --

Samuel Coetzer

 1,235,580

Jeffrey Swinoga

 --

Bruce Higson-Smith

 380,266

Roger Palmer

 457,629

S. Mitchel Wasel

 489,781

Christopher Thompson

 --

Robert Doyle

 --

Tony Jensen

 --

Ian MacGregor

 --

Craig Nelsen

 --

William Yeates

 --
As Of 30 Dec 2011

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