Silvercorp Metals Appoints Myles Gao As CEO - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Silvercorp Metals Inc. (SVM, SVM.TO) announced that Rui Feng is stepping down from the Chief Executive Officer or CEO role and the Board of Directors has appointed Myles Gao as the new Chief Executive Officer.

The company said Gao first joined Silvercorp as President in 2003 and has also held the position of Chief Operating Officer or COO.

The company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Malcolm Swallow to its board of directors. Among his many achievements, from 2008 to 2012 he was a Director and VP Development at Inter-Citic Minerals, a company that developed and sold the Dachang gold project in China to a major Chinese mining company.