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| | | Warren McIntyre
Position: President and CEO, Director
Mr. McIntyre has been a director or officer of numerous Stock exchange listed Companies. He has extensive finance and M&A experience with both private as well as public companies. He has over 15 years experience in the equity markets, primarily with venture capital, second round financings and IPO's in the mining sector.He has been a director and the corporate secretary of Continuum Resources Ltd., a junior exploration company listed on the Exchange, since March of 2003, and past director and Chief Financial Officer of Evolving Gold Corp., a junior exploration company listed on the CNQ, since June of 2004.
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| | | Jeffrey Sheremeta, M.B.A., LLB
Position: Vice President & Corporate Secretary, Director
Mr. Sheremeta practiced securities law with the firm of Lang Michener LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia for six years until May 2006. His practice focused on financing, reorganization and acquisition of public and private companies, including reverse takeover transactions involving both Canadian and U.S. exchange-listed companies in all industries including resource, technology, and industrial issuers. During this period, he served on secondments with the TSX Venture Exchange in Vancouver and with the firm of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass in New York City. He also helped prepare and teach a course on securities law for legal assistants at the Vancouver Community College in 2002 and 2004. Mr. Sheremeta now provides legal and consulting services to several public and private companies in Vancouver.
Mr. Sheremeta received his M.B.A. from Queen's University in May of 2006. He received his Law Degree from the University of British Columbia in May, 1997, and was called to the British Columbia Bar in June of 1998. He originally received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta in May 1992. He also completed his Canadian Securities Course in June of 1998.
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| | | Simon J. Anderson
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Simon is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in financial reporting, corporate finance and management with public companies. He is a director or officer of several Canadian and US-listed companies ensuring public disclosure meets current standards and planning and implementing acquisitions and divestitures. Previously, Simon was a partner with an international accounting and consulting firm practicing in the areas of business valuation, mergers and acquisitions and business planning services.
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| | | Paul Cowley
Position: Chief Geologist
Mr. Cowley brings over 30 years of experience and has held technical and managerial positions exploring for gold, base metals, diamonds and coal worldwide. He has extensive experience in a major company and on projects including the Escondida world-class copper mine in Chile, the Ekati diamond mine and the Slave gold project in the Canadian Arctic. The Slave gold project spawned 4 significant gold deposit discoveries amounting to about 5 million ounces of gold. He has contributed extensive involvement in junior mining companies at VP Exploration and directorship levels and was instrumental in putting the Lexington-Grenoble gold-copper mine into production.He has spent an aggregate of 4 years in Latin America.
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| | | Robert McMorran
Position: Director
Mr. McMorran is president of Malaspina Consultants Inc., a private company that provides accounting and administrative services to junior public companies. Robert has over 20 years experience dealing with financial reporting and the administration of public companies, the last ten years through Malaspina. During this time, he has served as an officer and/or director of several public companies primarily involved in mineral exploration and development. Currently, Mr. McMorran is a director and Chief Financial Officer of Continuum Resources Ltd., a director of Terra Ventures Ltd., and Chief Financial Officer of both Wave Exploration Corp. and Merit Mining Corp. Until recently, Robert was Chief Financial Officer of the Canada Dominion Resources Group family of flow-through limited partnerships.
Mr. McMorran has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. since 1981. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University in 1976.
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| | | John Sutherland
Position: Director
Mr. Sutherland is a Certified General Accountant and holds a diploma in Operations Management from the B.C. Institute of Technology. He is currently the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Goldgroup Resources Inc., a private gold exploration company. He is also the Corporate Secretary of Uracan Resources Ltd. In addition, he is currently a director of four other public companies: Aquiline Resources Inc.(TSX), Silex Ventures Ltd. and Amicus Capital Corp. (both listed on TSX Venture), and International Absorbents Inc. (AMEX).
Mr. Sutherland has a long and successful history of advising growth companies regarding corporate finance matters. He was Chief Financial Officer of Arequipa Resources leading up to its acquisition by Barrick Gold for $1.1 billion in 1996. He was also a partner in a venture capital company specializing in worldwide marketing ventures and previous to that, Site Manager in building a $110 million gold mine in California. Most recently, he was co-founder, Vice-President and CFO of Tekion, Inc., a private micro fuel cell developer, and was a key partner in its growth from
4 to 75 employees in less than three years while raising US$18 million in capital. Prior to Tekion, he was President and CEO of ASC AVCAN Systems Inc., which he helped build into an international operation.
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| | | Ben Whiting
Position: Director
Ben Whiting has over 30 years of experience in the international mining industry. He has worked for both major and junior mining companies managing a wide range of operations from exploration through to production. He also has experience as an advisor on mining industry matters to government agencies, and is a former Adjunct Professor in the Geological Sciences and Mining Engineering Departments at Queen's University.
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| | | Juan Lopez
Position: Country Manager
Mr. Lopez is the General Manager for Arco Exploraciones S.A de C.V and Plata de Argentum S.A de C.V. Juan Lopez Luque has 31 years experience in the mining industry and exploration of mineral resources. Juan contributed to the Re-discovery and evaluation of silver-gold vein in the old mine "Alacrán" in Zacualpan mining district, State of Mexico, currently mined by Peñoles Group. He also has contributed in the discovery of several disseminated gold deposits LA GLORIA and BECERROS in Cucurpe in the State of Sonora, working by Phelps Dodge.
The AGUITA (exploited now", FILOS (in production now)and LIMON skarn gold deposit in Mezcala,, Guerrero in Mexico. He also led the mineral evaluation in FILOS, working by Teck Cominco.
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