Galaxy Resources Limited announced the following appointments to the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Peter Bacchus and Mr. John Turner have been appointed as Independent Non-Executive Directors of the Company. Mr. Bacchus is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bacchus Capital Advisers Ltd, an M&A and merchant banking boutique based in London. Prior to establishing Bacchus Capital, he served as European Head of Investment Banking at US investment bank Jefferies, Global Head of Mining & Metals at Morgan Stanley, and Head of Investment Banking, Industrials and Natural Resources at Citigroup, in Asia and Australia. Mr. Bacchus has over 20 years' experience in investment banking with a focus on the global natural resources sector and has, over this period, led a large proportion of the transformational transactions in the industry. Mr. Turner is the leader of Fasken Martineau's Global Mining Group. Fasken Martineau is a leading international business law and litigation firm with eight offices with more than 700 lawyers across Canada and in the UK and South Africa. These Board changes are effective as at January 3, 2017.