West African Resources Limited announced re-designation of Richard Hyde from Managing Director to Executive Chairman and CEO and COO Lyndon Hopkins joins the Board as Executive Director, Board skills and experience are enhanced with the appointment of mining industry executives Rod Leonard and Nigel Spicer as Independent Non-Executive Directors, Mark Connelly and Simon Storm continue as Non-Executive Directors, with Ian Kerr resigning and Restructure results in four independent Non-Executive Directors on West African's six-member board. Luke Holden appointed as General Manager -­ Operations, Stuart Cruickshanks appointed as General Manager ­ -Technical Services and Todd Giltay appointed as General Manager -­ Finance. Rod Leonard joins the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director.

Mr. Leonard is one of the founding Directors of Lycopodium and served as an Executive Director of Lycopodium Limited from 2004 to 2019. He has more than 40 years' experience in the operation and project development of major projects in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. He has been involved in many aspects of the mineral processing industry from process development, feasibility studies, and design assignments as well as commissioning of projects.

Mr. Leonard has been directly involved with Lycopodium's strong track record in Burkina Faso, recently delivering EPCM projects at the Hounde and Karma gold projects for Endeavour Mining, Natougou gold project for Semafo, Bissa and Bouly gold projects for Nordgold as well as other many other recent projects in West Africa. Mr. Leonard remains on the Lycopodium Board. Nigel Spicer joins the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Mr. Spicer is a Mining Engineer with more than 40 years' experience in mining and has held operational and executive management positions with mining companies in Africa, UK, Australia, Indonesia, PNG, Brazil and Philippines. He has extensive open pit and underground (narrow vein and bulk tonnage) mining experience across a range of commodities, including gold and copper. Mr. Spicer has significant experience managing both owner and contract mining fleets and has been involved in the successful commissioning of a number of gold mines in Australia and Africa.

Mark Connelly transitions to Non-Executive director and Simon Storm continues as a Non-Executive Director. Ian Kerr has resigned from the Board to focus on other business opportunities. Luke Holden has more than 14 years' experience in site-based operational roles in West Africa and Australia.

Mr. Holden was most recently Director General of Nordgold's Taparko Gold Mine in Burkina Faso. Mr. Cruickshanks is a Mining Engineer with more than 25 years' experience in the mining industry and has held operation and technical management roles with major and junior mining companies in Australia and Africa. He consulted to the industry with RSG Global and Coffey Mining undertaking feasibility studies, operational support and operational implementation roles.

Mr. Giltay has over 17 years' experience working for Aurion, Placer Dome and Barrick. Todd brings a balanced approach to the finance team having worked nine years directly in site-based finance roles and the last eight years in corporate finance.