Roger Gower - ProShares Large Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Mr. Roger H. Gower B Com MBA MPhil is Independent NonExecutive Chairman of the Board of Orion Minerals Group Limited. He is a professional company Director based in Auckland. He is an experienced executive with considerable experience internationally and in New Zealand. He was at Air New Zealand from 1978 and served in a range of management roles principally in Sales and Marketing on a worldwide basis including managing the Freight Group. Joining New Zealands national rail company Tranz Rail in 1991 as head of the freight group he achieved overhaul creating a customer and businessfocused service provider developed a range of new products and services and introduced costsaving IT systems. He served as a director of a coal mining joint venture mining and exporting coal to Asian markets. He also had a role in the global float of Tranz Rail on the NASDAQ in 1995. His experience in the global capital markets includes participation in several capital raises debt placements in the United States market. He attended Cambridge University where he wrote his thesis on high tech spinouts. His academic and professional interests are in the development of lifetime customers and the factors enabling high performance management teams. Returning to New Zealand from Cambridge he developed a management consultancy providing strategic advice and capital to startups strategic management to companies advisory services to Boards of Directors and policy advice to Government Departments. This consultancy offers a range of services from Governance reviews and advisory services to MA transactions. He has experience with startups and restructuring businesses. Rogers experience includes being former Chairman of Charlies an innovative marketing company started as an orange juicing operation in 1999 developed into a wellbranded FMCG consumer marketer and was taken public by Roger and his associates in 2005.