Strateco Resources Inc. announced that, on July 9, 2013, its board of directors appointed Charles Riopel, as a director, to fill one vacant seat on its Board of Directors. Pursuant to the January 27, 2010, private placement with the Sentient Group, Strateco management undertook to support the appointment of a Sentient nominee. Mr. Riopel replaces Paul-Henri Couture as Sentient nominee.

Mr. Couture will remain as an independent director on the Board of Directors. Charles Riopel joined Sentient in 2012 from the Société générale de financement du Québec (now IQ) where he was, for six years, an investment director, responsible for the metals and mining group. He has more than 20 years of investment banking and project management experience within the mining sector.