People: Ur-Energy Inc (URG)

URG on American Stock Exchange

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17 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Jeffrey Klenda

 56 2006 Executive Chairman of the Board

Wayne Heili

 47 2011 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Roger Smith

 54 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer

Steven Hatten

 49 2011 Vice President - Operations

John Cash

 40 2011 Vice President - Regulatory Affairs, Exploration & Geology

Penne Goplerud

 51 2011 General Counsel, Corporate Secretary

W. William Boberg

 73 2011 Director

James Franklin

 70 2004 Independent Director

Paul Macdonell

 60 2004 Independent Director

Thomas Parker

 70 2007 Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Jeffrey Klenda

 Mr. Jeffrey T. Klenda is an Executive Chairman of the Board of Ur-Energy Inc., since January 11, 2006. Mr. Klenda graduated from the University of Colorado in 1980 and began his career as a stockbroker specializing in venture capital offerings. Prior to founding the Corporation in 2004, he worked as a Certified Financial Planner and was a member of the International Board of Standards and Practices. In 1986, he started Klenda Financial Services, an independent financial services company providing investment advisory services to high-end individual and corporate clients as well as providing venture capital to corporations seeking entry to the U.S. securities markets. In 1998, Mr. Klenda formed Independent Brokers of America, Inc., a national marketing organization. He also served as President of Security First Financial, a company he founded to provide consultation to individuals and corporations seeking investment management and early stage funding. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Klenda has acted as an officer and/or director for numerous publicly traded companies. Mr. Klenda co-founded Ur-Energy in 2004. Mr. Klenda has served as the Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of the Corporation since 2006.

Wayne Heili

 Mr. Wayne W. Heili is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Ur-Energy Inc. Prior to being named Ur-Energy’s President and CEO, Mr. Heili served as the Vice President, Mining & Engineering to the Corporation, and briefly as President and Chief Operating Officer. His career spans 20 years in which he has provided engineering, construction, operations and technical support in the uranium mining industry. He spent 16 years in operations level positions with Total Minerals and Cogema Mining at their properties in Wyoming and Texas. He was Operations Manager of Cogema’s Wyoming in-situ recovery projects from 1998 to 2004. Since then, Mr. Heili acted as a consultant for such companies as High Plains Uranium, Energy Metals and Behre Dolbear. His experience conventional and in situ recovery uranium processing facility operations. Mr. Heili received a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, with an emphasis in mineral processing. Mr. Heili currently serves as Vice President to the Uranium Producers of America.

Roger Smith

 Mr. Roger L. Smith, CPA, is Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer of Ur-Energy Inc. Mr. Smith has 25 years of mining and manufacturing experience including finance, accounting, IT, ERP and systems implementations, mergers, acquisitions, audit, tax and public and private reporting in international environments. Mr. Smith served as the CFO and Vice President Finance, IT and Administration to the Corporation until May 2011, when he assumed the title and responsibilities of Chief Administrative Officer as well as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Smith joined Ur-Energy in May 2007, after having served as Vice President, Finance for Luzenac America, Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto PLC and Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for Rio Tinto Minerals, a division of Rio Tinto PLC from September 2000 to May 2007. Mr. Smith has held such positions as Vice President Finance, Corporate Controller, Accounting Manager, and Internal Auditor with companies such as Vista Gold Corporation, Westmont Gold Inc. and Homestake Mining Corporation. He has a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado.

Steven Hatten

 Mr. Steven M. Hatten is Vice President - Operations of Ur-Energy Inc., since May 17, 2011. Prior to being named Vice President Operations of the Corporation, Mr. Hatten served as Ur-Energy’s Engineering Manager from 2007 to 2010 and as Director of Engineering and Operations since 2010. He has over 20 years of experience with a background in in situ recovery uranium design and operations. He previously worked as a Project Engineer for Power Resources, Inc., the Manager Wellfield Operations for Rio Algom Mining Corp. and Operations Manager at Cameco’s Smith Ranch – Highland Facility. Mr. Hatten has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.

John Cash

 Mr. John W. Cash is Vice President - Regulatory Affairs, Exploration & Geology of Ur-Energy Inc., since May 17, 2011. Mr. Cash served as Ur-Energy’s Environment, Health, Safety and Regulatory Affairs Manager from 2007 to 2010 and as Director of Regulatory Affairs since 2010. He worked for Crow Butte Resources, Inc. a subsidiary of Cameco, from 2002 to 2007, including as Senior Environmental/Safety Superintendent, Safety Director/Wellfield Supervisor and Operations Superintendent. He is a Fellow of the World Nuclear University Summer Institute, 2005. Mr. Cash has a M.Sc. Geology and Geophysics from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Penne Goplerud

 Ms. Penne A. Goplerud, J.D., is General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of Ur-Energy Inc., since May 17, 2011. Ms. Goplerud has 20 years of diverse legal experience in complex litigation, business and natural resources transactions. She has represented clients in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation, involving mining, oil and gas, commercial and corporate disputes, securities and environmental law. Prior to joining the Corporation as Associate General Counsel in 2007, much of Ms. Goplerud’s practice was in natural resources and transactional work. Ms. Goplerud obtained her JD from the University of Iowa College of Law.

W. William Boberg

 Mr. W. William Boberg is Director of Ur-Energy Inc. Mr. Boberg served as the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer from January 2006 until July 31, 2011. He served as President of the Corporation from January 2006 until May 16, 2011. Mr. Boberg has served as a director of the Corporation since January 2006. Mr. Boberg was the Corporation’s senior U.S. geologist and Vice President U.S. Operations (September 2004 to January 2006). Before his initial involvement with the Corporation, he was a consulting geologist having 40 years’ experience investigating, assessing and developing a wide variety of mineral resources in a broad variety of geologic environments in western North America, South America and Africa. Mr. Boberg has worked for Gulf Minerals, Hecla Mining, Anaconda, Continental Oil Minerals Department, Wold Nuclear, Kennecott, Western Mining, Canyon Resources and Africa Mineral Resource Specialists. Mr. Boberg has 20 years of experience exploring for uranium in the continental U.S. He discovered the Moore Ranch Uranium Deposit, the Ruby Ranch Uranium Deposit as well as several smaller deposits in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from Montana State University and his Master’s Degree in Geology from the University of Colorado. He is a registered Wyoming Professional Geologist and fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. He is a member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc., American Institute of Professional Geologists (for which he is a certified geologist), the Denver Regional Exploration Society and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Mr. Boberg is also a director for Aura Silver Resources Inc. (since June 2008).

James Franklin

 Dr. James M. Franklin is an Independent Director of Ur-Energy Inc., since March 2004. Dr. Franklin has 40 years experience as a geologist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Since January 1998, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University, since 2001, at Laurentian University and since 2006 at the University of Ottawa. He is a past President of the Geological Association of Canada and of the Society of Economic Geologists. He retired as Chief Geoscientist, Earth Sciences Sector, the Geological Survey of Canada in 1998. Since that time, he has been a consulting geologist and is currently a director of Aura Silver Resources Inc. (since October 2003) and of Nuinsco Resources Ltd. (since December 2010).

Paul Macdonell

 Mr. Paul Macdonell is an Independent Director of Ur-Energy Inc., since March 2004. Mr. Macdonell is a Senior Mediator, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for the Government of Canada. Previously Mr. Macdonell was employed since 1976 by the Amalgamated Transit Union, serving as President of the Union from 1996 to 2000 and Financial Secretary 1991 to 1995. Mr. Macdonell was Municipal Councillor of the City of Cumberland from 1978 to 1988 and was on the City’s budget committee during that time. He graduated (diploma) at University of Western Ontario in Public Administration and completed programs at University of Waterloo (Economic Development Certificate), The George Meany Centre in Washington (Labour Studies) and Harvard University (Program on Negotiations).

Thomas Parker

 Mr. Thomas H. Parker is an Independent Director of Ur-Energy Inc., since July 26, 2007. Mr. Parker has worked in senior management positions in the mining industry for the past 47 years. Mr. Parker is a mining engineer graduate from South Dakota School of Mines, with a Master’s Degree in Mineral Engineering Management from Penn State. Mr. Parker was President and CEO of U.S. Silver Corporation until February 2012 and remains a Director. Prior to that, Mr. Parker was President and CEO of Gold Crest Mines, Inc., before which he was the President and CEO of High Plains Uranium, Inc. a junior uranium mining company acquired by Energy Metals in January 2007. Mr. Parker served for 10 years as Executive Vice President of Anderson and Schwab, a management consulting firm. Prior to Anderson and Schwab, Mr. Parker held executive management positions including with Costain Minerals Corporation, ARCO, Kerr McGee Coal Corporation and Conoco. He has worked in the potash, limestone, talc, coal and molybdenum industries and has experience working in Niger, France and Venezuela.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Jeffrey Klenda

 595,029

Wayne Heili

 669,140

Roger Smith

 680,486

Steven Hatten

 386,293

John Cash

 --

Penne Goplerud

 373,647

W. William Boberg

 469,733

James Franklin

 --

Paul Macdonell

 --

Thomas Parker

 --
As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name Options Value

Jeffrey Klenda

 1,098,285 1,398,185

Wayne Heili

 841,000 120,383

Roger Smith

 437,985 67,273

Steven Hatten

 0 0

John Cash

 0 0

Penne Goplerud

 0 0

W. William Boberg

 1,122,971 943,664

James Franklin

 0 0

Paul Macdonell

 0 0

Thomas Parker

 0 0

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