Theta Gold Mines Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Finn Behnken as a director of the Company. The appointment comes at a time when the company is focussing on starting up gold mining at its highly prospective Theta Hill Opencut Project, a project which is located in a gold field that has historically produced over 6.7Moz of gold. Finn is a mining engineer and has South African mining operational experience as the CEO of Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining (Pty) Limited (during the construction and initial production phase of the major Tshipi Borwa Manganese Mine). Prior to this Finn was an investment banker with South African based Nedbank and has served as nonexecutive director of various mining companies including, most recently, as a director of the then AIM listed Gemfields plc. Currently Finn is the South African representative of Auramet International.