Ecometals Limited announced two changes to its Board with immediate effect. The first of these is the appointment of Dr. Vanessa Neumann. Dr. Neumann is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, in both their Program on National Security and their Center for the Study of Terrorism.

She is also an Associate of the University Seminar on Latin America at the Institute of Latin American Studies, at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. A native Venezuelan, Dr. Neumann has worked as a journalist in Caracas, London and the United States, and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard on Latin American politics. She has also written on Latin America for The (London) Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint, been interviewed for The New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Fox News, Veja, el Nuevo Herald, NTN24 and Caracol radio, and spoken at Columbia University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the National Defense University.

Second, is the resignation from the Board of Mr. Daniel Major. Mr. Major, a former COO of the Company, has extensive commitments in Africa as CEO of GoviEx Uranium Inc. which no longer allow him the time for this external appointment.