Handeni Gold Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. William Lamarque to the Board of Directors of the company to become effective on March 15, 2012. Mr. Lamarque currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ecometals Ltd. He is also Partner and co-founder of Balor Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Lamarque's career has been in trading and banking. After being the General Manager of the China Division of Jardine Matheson & Company Ltd. in Hong Kong, he became an Executive Member of the Board of Directors of N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd, in London, the principal banking entity of the international Rothschild financial services group. He subsequently became Managing Director of Rothschild Inc, in New York. Mr. Lamarque has specialist experience in the risk management of commodity positions and in commodity research and has advised an extensive client list of commodity producers on their major financial transactions and exposures, including their hedge books. He has been a member of the Comex and Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the London Bullion Market Association. Mr. Lamarque is, prior to his Handeni Gold appointment, on the board of three privately held and one publicly traded mining company, and President of Hanson Capital Asia Ltd.