Board Composition

The current Board of Directors of our general partner comprises of seven members.  The names and biographies of each of the Directors are set forth below.

Derek Pannell (Chairman)
Derek is Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management. Prior to this he was the Chief
Executive Officer of Noranda Inc. and Falconbridge Limited from June 2002 to October 2006. He also served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Noranda Inc. between September 2001 and June 2002. Derek is a metallurgical engineer with over 37 years of experience in the mining and metals industry. He is former Chair of the Mining Association of Canada and board member of the International Council on Mining and Metals. Derek serves on the boards of Teck Cominco Limited and the Canadian Opera Company. Derek is a professional engineer registered in Quebec and Peru and is an Associate of the Royal School of Mines and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers. Derek holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Imperial College in London, England.

Jonathan Hagger
Jonathan is Chief Financial Officer of the Grosvenor Estate, the investment holding organization of the Duke of Westminster, which includes the worldwide real estate operations of the Grosvenor Group of which Jonathan was also Group Finance Director for 15 years until 2006.  Prior to that, he held a number of senior Board positions in the insurance industry.  Jonathan is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Association of Corporate Treasurers, and serves on several non-profit boards.

Arthur Jacobson, Jr.
Arthur is a former Managing Director of Spear, Leeds Kellogg Specialists LLC (a division of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.) from 2001 to 2004. He was partner of Benjamin Jacobson and Sons, LLC from 1987 to 2001.  He was also a specialist on the New York Stock Exchange for 16 years, from 1988 to 2004. Prior to that he was an account executive at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. from 1985 to 1987. Arthur holds a degree in business administration from the University of Southern California.

James Keyes
James Keyes has been a Managing Director of Renaissance Capital since October 2008. He established the Bermuda office, for which he has responsibility, for Renaissance in 2008. He was previously a partner of Appleby, the offshore law firm, for eleven years. James joined Appleby in 1993 and was team leader of the Funds & Investment Services Team. Prior to Appleby, he was employed in the Corporate Department of Freshfields law firm, and worked in the London, New York and Hong Kong offices. James attended Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (M.A. with Honours) in 1985. He was called to the bar of England & Wales in 1991 and to the Bermuda Bar in 1993.

Anne Schaumburg
Anne was appointed to the Board of Directors of NRG Energy, Inc., effective April 1, 2005. From 1984 until her retirement in 2002, she was at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Global Energy Group, where she last served as Managing Director. From 1979 to 1984, Ms. Schaumburg was in the Utilities Group at Dean Witter Financial Services Group, where she last served as Managing Director and from 1971 to 1978, she was at The First Boston Corporation in the Public Utilities Group.

Danesh Varma
Danesh is the Chief Financial Officer of African-Aura Resources Limited. He joined African-Aura Resources Limited in 2007 and was Chief Financial Officer of Minco PLC from 2006 to 2007. From 1999 to 2005, Danesh was a director at Dundee B Corp. Ltd. Prior to that, Danesh held a number of senior positions in the banking, corporate finance and accounting fields. Danesh holds a degree from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant.

James Wallace
James is the President of Pioneer Construction Inc. and is a director of NorthStar Aerospace (Canada) Inc. and Xstrata Canada Limited. James is also a director of and has ownership interests in a number of privately-owned corporations. James holds a Bachelor of Science from Laurentian University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Windsor. James is a Certified Management Accountant and holds an FCA designation.