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David CliffPosition: President & CEO, Director David Cliff is the former Exploration Manager, Europe of Rio Tinto Exploration. During his 26 years with Rio Tinto he was involved in the discovery of three gold and one copper deposit and gained experience in the exploration of a wide variety of minerals and deposit types with a particular specialization in copper-gold porphyry systems and epithermal precious metal systems. He has lead multinational and multidisciplinary teams in a variety of environments and jurisdictions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey and has extensive experience in the evaluation of mineral projects and in the negotiation of all forms of mining industry agreements. |
| Robert F. Giustra Position: Director Mr. Giustra has been actively engaged in the creation, financing, development, restructuring and management of publicly-traded junior mining companies since 1992. His early experience in public markets includes working as an Investment Advisor with a national securities brokerage firm and later as an Investment Banker at an international investment dealer where he co-founded the equity sales and corporate finance departments. |
| Kenneth P. Judge Position: Chairman Mr. Judge completed degrees in Commerce, Jurisprudence and Laws at the University of Western Australia before qualifying as a Barrister and Solicitor specializing in international mergers and acquisitions law. Mr. Judge is a resident of Monaco from where he is involved in private investment and restructuring technology, resource and oil and gas companies. Mr. Judge has extensive business management experience having held a number of public company directorships and more recently having been engaged in the establishment or corporate restructure of technology, mining and oil and gas companies in Australia, the UK, US, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and the Philippines. Mr. Judge is also Chairman of London Stock Exchange-listed Hidefield Gold Plc and is also a director and/or officer of Alto Ventures Ltd, Brazilian Diamonds Limited, Columbus Gold Corporation, Blockshield Corporation Plc and Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd. |
| John F. Prochnau * Position: Special Advisor  Mr. Prochnau is a mining engineer and geologist with degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.Early in his career, Mr. Prochnau held management positions with Selection Trust Group, where he was in charge of American operations and the discovery and development of the Alligator Ridge Gold Mine in Nevada, and Billiton International Metals B.V. of the Netherlands. He formed his consulting company in 1984 and has subsequently managed several private exploration syndicates and publicly listed mineral companies responsible for a number of gold and base metal discoveries and mine developments in the United States, South America and Australia. Mr. Prochnau was founder of Brancote Holdings plc of which he was managing director until 1999. Brancote Holdings plc's Argentinean subsidiary, Minera El Desquite S.A., discovered the high-grade Esquel Gold Deposit which was acquired by Meridian Gold Corp. for USD $368 million. Mr. Prochnau is currently Chief Executive Officer and a director of Hidefield Gold Plc, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market ("AIM") of the London Stock Exchange, and is a director of Columbus Gold Corporation. Mr. Prochnau is one of eleven distinguished members of the Kitco/Casey Explorer's League, and is also a member of a panel of advisors to Anglo Pacific Group plc, an AIM listed company primarily involved in strategic acquisitions in the mining sector. |
| Sean McGrath, B.Comm (Hons), CGA,CPA Position: Chief Financial Officer Mr. McGrath is a professional accountant who has spent the last nine years providing financial management services to publicly traded companies, with emphasis on junior mineral exploration and oil and gas exploration companies. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from Memorial University of Newfoundand and has attained two professional accounting designations - CGA and CPA. Additionally, he is currently a Director of AMI Resources Inc and the Chief Financial Officer of Columbus Gold Corp. |
| Jacqueline Collins Position: Corporate Secretary Ms. Collins is a Securities/Corporate Finance Paralegal with over 21 years experience as a legal administrator, corporate secretary and paralegal at both independent and national law firms, and with public resource companies. She specializes in the preparation, finalization and filing of all securities documents for US and Canadian foreign and domestic issuers with Canadian and US securities regulators, including all continuous disclosure documents. Ms. Collins is Corporate Secretary for Brazilian Diamonds Limited, Columbus Gold Corp., Alto Ventures Ltd. and Forum Uranium Corp. She is also the legal administrator and corporate secretary for the Hamilton Resource Group. * Is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 |
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