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Board of Directors

 
J. Michael Boyd
Position: Chairman of the Board

Before joining Western Wind, Mike served as an elected member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, the largest water utility in the State of Arizona and its biggest electrical consumer. Prior to that, Mike served two terms on the Pima County (Arizona) Board of Supervisors, elected to help run a county of one million residents, with an operating budget of over $1 billion.

Mike has assisted Western Wind Energy in acquiring, leasing and zoning real estate suitable for the development of wind farms in Arizona and California. He has excellent relationships with the state's local and state governments, federal government agencies and largest utilities such as Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric. In addition, he has been instrumental in developing the resource standard in Arizona. Mike graduated from UCLA with a degree in Political Science in 1978.



 
Jeffrey J. Ciachurski
Position: Director

Jeff Ciachurski acts as principle executive officer and principal advisor representing the operating and management team to the Board of Directors. He provides executive leadership, strategic planning, corporate policy and execution of the Company's business and financial plan.

Mr. Ciachurski formulated the mission statement, forms corporate structure, appoints and designates senior management personnel, defines geographic areas of responsibility and engages senior independent consultants. He maintains continuous and proactive relationships with leading institutional and retail shareholders, and establishes and maintains close contacts within the investment banking and project financing community.

Mr. Ciachurski originated the initial group of seed investors and completed Western Wind Energy's original prospectus and executed the listing agreement with the Toronto Venture Exchange. He lead the growth of the shareholder base from a small group of original seed shareholders to well over 10,000 public retail and institutional investors.

Mr. Ciachurski directed Western Wind Energy from a concept into an industry recognized, vertically integrated, renewable energy developer, owner and operator. He established the project development pipeline in California, Arizona and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He also acquired, by ownership, over 4,000 acres of prime renewable energy real estate, 25,000 acres of public leases, lead the acquisition of two operating wind energy generation facilities consisting of over 500 wind turbine generators without any project or corporate debt, and the financial completion of over $430 million of new wind and solar construction with two new projects totalling 130.5 MW coming online prior to Q4 2011.

Mr. Ciachurski negotiated and completed Power Purchase Agreements with major utilities, Turbine Supply Agreements with bankable wind turbine vendors, corporate equity placements with leading international investment funds and $300 million in project debt arrangements with major world Triple AAA rated lenders.


 
Robert C. Bryce
Position: Director

Robert Bryce comes with a resource background and has experience in working in public companies. Apart from his responsibilities at Western Wind, he has also been the president and director of Abitex Resources. since 1996. Robert has acquired extensive experience in effecting several large capital projects during the course of his active career.


 
Claus Andrup
Position: Director

Claus Andrup has been the president of Andrup Corporate Consultants Inc. since 1980. He has thirty years experience of working with public companies in Canada and the United Kingdom and has been a director of Western Wind Energy since 1998.


 
V. John Wardlow
Position: Director

John Wardlow has been a director of Western Wind since September 2006. John is a leading member and early industry player of the motion picture industry in Vancouver for the past 30 years.


 


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