Excel Gold Mining Announces the Appointment of Mr. Jacques Roy as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Excel Gold Mining Inc.(TSX VENTURE: EGM) is pleased to announce that the board of directors has unanimously appointed Mr. Jacques Roy as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Mr. Roy will be joining the Company team next week and begin his mandate by analyzing the results of the Montauban Mine exploration program and participate in putting together phase 2 of the company's development and growth strategy objectives for 2010.

Prior joining Excel Gold Mining, M. Roy has occupied several senior management positions, in private and public sector, mostly as President and Finance officer. He has been the leader of many large projects worldwide and was instrumental to an impressive number of large scale corporate financing for numerous well known Companies and projects in Quebec such as:

"Le Fonds de solidarite, Les Systemes Micro-Acces inc., APG Solutions et Technologies inc., Societe Upsilon de Commerce International inc. (SUCI), Serbatech inc., Celdex inc., Projet de traitement des dechets des villes d'El Salvador, Guarnavato, Merida, to name a few".

Mr. Roy has been providing high management counseling services to many Company's for organizational and structural development and product manufacturing and distribution systems. M. Roy holds a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and has also teached management in Montreal University, and human resources in Sherbrooke University.

Excel Board and management wanted to express their appreciation to Mr. Roy, for accepting the position and wish him a warm welcome on behalf of our shareholders.

"We are very enthusiast to have Mr. Roy on our team and with such a wide contact network and "Hands on" impressive expertise in finance and development, Excel is poised to do well."

For more information please visit our Corporate Web Site at www.excelgoldmining.com

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Contacts: Excel Gold Mining Martin Harvey 514-951-7776 info@excelgoldmining.com

SOURCE: Excel Gold Mining Inc.

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