Martinrea International Inc. announced that Terry Lyons has joined its board of directors effective February 1, 2014. He has also become a member of Martinrea's Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Mr. Lyons has over 39 years of experience in the development, financing and management of natural resource, manufacturing, real estate and merchant banking companies.

He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and sits on the British Columbia ICD Board. Mr. Lyons currently serves as the lead independent director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., as well as a director of Canaccord's subsidiaries in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia and Asia. He is also a director and chairman of Sprott Resource Corp.

and a director and chairman of Polaris Minerals Corporation. The company also announced that Suleiman Rashid, a long standing director of the company, had indicated that he would be retiring from the board at the company's next annual general meeting of shareholders. Mr. Rashid, the chair of the Audit Committee of Martinrea's board, will continue to serve through the company's year-end audit until that meeting.