Solid announces Max Hare as new president

EDMONTON, Feb. 17 /CNW/ - Solid Resources Ltd. ("Solid") announces that Mr. John Goodwin MSc, P. Geol. has resigned as the interim president. The management and directors of Solid wish to thank Mr. Goodwin for his dedicated service to the Company. Mr. Goodwin will continue on with the Company as a consulting geologist.

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Max Hare to the position of president. Mr. Hare was recently appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. Hare brings to Solid extensive experience in providing strategic communication and counsel to clients on a variety of complex business structure, management, cultural and political issues. He is fluent or has a good working knowledge of six different languages, including Spanish, which enables him to deal reliably with cultural, political and language differences.

Mr. Hare has a successful and proven track record of building and expanding international business teams and has a reputation for motivating complete business units into maximizing sales and profit growth.

During his career Mr. Hare has had three major personal project successes. He was responsible both for the launch and successful progress of the China Mining Congress & Exhibition, which is the second largest event of its kind in the world. In addition, he has formed a joint venture with the Mining Journal London to create the China Mining Journal, which became the leading publication in China and China's only official foreign mining publication. Thirdly, Mr. Hare led the acquisition and growth of the China Beauty Expo Shanghai to create Asia's largest beauty trade exhibition.

Randy Hayward, Board Chairman, states: "the board is very excited and appreciative of Mr. Hare's willingness to accept this challenging responsibility. We have tremendous confidence in Mr. Hare's management abilities, which will greatly influence the success of our Company."

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For further information: Mr. Garnet Harter, Tel: [phone], [email protected]