George R. Ireland has served as a director of Uranium Resources, Inc. since 1995. Mr. Ireland is a General Partner in Ring Partners, LLC, a private investment partnership. From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Ireland was a financial analyst for and a partner in Knott Partners L.P., a private investment partnership. Mr. Ireland specialized in investing in securities of natural resource and other basic industrial companies, both domestically and abroad. From 1987 to 1991, he was a Vice President of Fulcrum Management, Inc., a natural resource venture capital management company which was the manager of the VenturesTrident Limited Partnerships, venture capital funds dedicated to investing in the mining industry and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MinVen Gold Corporation, a company in which the VenturesTrident funds had a significant investment. Mr. Ireland graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in Geology and Resource Economics. He also attended the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. Mr. Ireland is a director of Merrill & Ring, Inc., a private land and timber holding company in the state of Washington. He acted as a consultant to Ryback Management Corporation, a registered investment adviser, and performed due diligence on Uranium Resources in connection with Ryback's loan of $6 million to the Company on behalf of members of the Lindner Group in 1995. Mr. Ireland is not otherwise affiliated with the Lindner Group or Ryback. |