Alacer Gold Corp. announced that two new independent directors, Anna Kolonchina and Alan Krusi, have been appointed to Alacer's Board of Directors, effective September 15, 2014. Most recently, Ms. Kolonchina has also served as the Executive Managing Director of Nafta Moskva, Private Equity.

Previous to that, she served as the Chief Financial Officer and the Vice President of Economy & Finances at PIK Group Open Joint-Stock Company and as Managing Director at Wainbridge Limited. Mr. Krusi later served as president of Construction Services when Dames & Moore was acquired by URS, where he supervised four global divisions. Most recently, Mr. Krusi was President, Strategic Development at AECOM where he participated as a member of the executive committee and oversaw the firm's M&A activities.

Currently, Mr. Krusi is a board member at Blue Earth Inc. and Comfort Systems USA Inc.