Tri-Star Resources announced the appointment of Ken Charles Hight as an Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Mr. Hight was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Portage and has over 40 years of experience working in global institutional financial markets. In 2000, he founded ITG Canada Corp.

and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2005, after which he worked at E*Trade Capital Markets LLC as Executive Vice President from 2005 to 2008 and then served as Head of Global Equities at Liquidnet Holdings Inc. from 2008 to 2009. In 2010, Mr. Hight was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Portage and has served in that role until completion of the Acquisition.