Mr. Khrischev has 12 years of broad international experience with Rio Tinto in mineral exploration and in a variety of exploration roles, including as a Senior Project Geologist, and he has most recently held a Consulting Geologist position with Newmont in Turkey and Armenia. Mr. Khrischev has experience with a number of commodities, particularly gold and copper, and primarily in the exploration of copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry deposits and epithermal gold deposits in countries situated along the western section of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt, including Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. He was also involved in the discovery of the Saray Guney gold deposit in western Iran. Mr. Khrischev holds a Masters Degree in Geology and Geochemistry from the University of Sofia in Bulgaria.