CopperCorp Resources Inc. announced that it has appointed Jason Bahnsen as an independent Director of the Company. Mr. Bahnsen is a Canadian/Australian mining engineer and corporate finance executive with over 30 years of experience in the global resource sector. Jason's breadth of experience in the sector ranges from working as an underground miner, project development and operations supervision roles, to investment banking and leadership roles as CEO for private and public companies listed on ASX, TSX.V and CSE stock exchanges.

Jason has in depth experience in Australia where he worked for Rio Tinto in business development roles before joining Deutsche Bank as one of the founding members of a global resources team. He has been involved in a number of resource projects in Tasmania including gold and base metal assets. While at Deutsche Bank, Jason was involved a number of large-scale corporate transactions for major Australian resource companies including Western Mining, Santos, BHP, Normandy ranging from demerger, takeover defenses, independent valuations, company and debt restructuring.

In 2004, Jason was transferred to Asia where he was Head of Metals and Mining Asia for Deutsche Bank focused on large scale acquisitions and equity market financings for Asian based companies. Mr. Bahnsen holds a B.Sc in Mining Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston and an MBA from University of New England, NSW, Australia.