Tirex Resources Announces Appointment of Mr. Jeffrey
Steiner as Special Advisor
Tirex Resources Ltd. (TSXV:TXX) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey
Steiner as Special Advisor to the company via a position on the company's newly
formed Advisory Board.
Mr. Steiner is a Toronto-based lawyer with a unique
combination of business and public policy experience. He is currently the
President and CEO of New Franchise Media Inc., a film & television
development firm founded in 2010. Previously he served as the President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Economic Development Corporation (TEDCO)
which specialized in real estate development, waterfront revitalization and
inbound investment attraction.
Mr. Steiner is a current member of the Board of
Directors of Export Development Canada (EDC), the country's official export
credit agency. He serves on EDC's Risk Management Committee and its Business
Development Committee. He holds an ICD.D designation as an accredited corporate
director in Canada.
In addition to extensive private sector experience,
Mr. Steiner also served the Government of Canada at a variety of senior levels
including in the position of Chief of Staff to the Minister of National Defense
and to the Minister of Northern Development, including mining and sustainable
development policies.
Mr. Steiner is very knowledgeable about the business
climate and corporate governance in Eastern Europe, and has a well-established
network of relationships in Albania. He is an active director of the
NATO-related Atlantic Council of Canada and recently attended the Atlantic
Treaty Association assembly hosted in Tirana.
Tirex Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Slusarchuk,
states, "Mr. Steiner's international business and government
experience, his understanding of Albania and his extensive knowledge of public
policy development in established and emerging free marketing economies will be
invaluable as Tirex continues to grow."
Concurrent with the appointment, 400,000 incentive
options will be reserved for Mr. Steiner.
ON BEHALF OF TIREX
RESOURCES LTD.
Bryan J.R. Slusarchuk, Chief
Executive Officer