Alara Resources Limited announced that Mr. Vikas Jain has formally been appointed to the board as a non-executive director, effective 6 April 2016. Mr. Jain is currently Managing Director and CEO of the Indian company South West Pinnacle Exploration P/L, a company he founded in 2006 and under his leadership grew to become a leading exploration company in India. After starting in mineral exploration, South West Pinnacle has since added coal-bed methane production, transportation, geophysical logging and other geological activities to its domain.