Management and Board of Directors:



Waldo A. Perez, Ph.D., P.Geo.

Interim President & CEO; Executive Vice-President Exploration and Director

Dr. Perez has 20 years of academic and industry experience. He directed project generation for Barrick Gold Corp and IAM Gold Inc. throughout South America including Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and more extensively, Argentina.


Raymond Mitchell, CA

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Mitchell's career as a Chartered Accountant spans over 30 years. During that time Ray has held senior management positions with a Canadian National Trust Company and The Canadian Depository for Securities.

 

    Board of Directors:



Richard Boulay

Chairman

Mr. Boulay is a geologist with over 40 years of experience in the exploration, mining industries in Canada and internationally, including15 years of mining and infrastructure financing experience gained with Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Tokyo. He has extensive experience in the management and financing of public companies in Canada and the United States. Mr. Boulay is a Director of San Gold Corp. and served as San Gold's first chief financial officer for two years as that company financed the reactivation of the Rice Lake gold mine and discovered the Hinge type of high grade gold mines near Rice Lake, Manitoba.


Patricia Sheahan, BA (Geology)

Independent Director - Chair of Compensation Committee

One of the most recognized woman in Canadian mining, Pat's distinguished career spans 45 years. She pioneered the role of woman executives in mining. Her company provided technical literature and expertise to exploration companies around the world for 35 years before she donated the database and collection of information materials to the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at University of British Columbia in 2000. She continues as a consultant in diamond exploration information to MDRU. Pat is currently the Chair and Director of several Canadian public mining companies. She also served as a director of PDAC for 14 years and contributed to the Society of Economic Geologists, Geological Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Association of Canada.


Paul Fornazzari, B.Sc., LL.M.

Director

Born in Concepcion, Chile, Paul is fluent in Spanish. Currently he is the head of the Corporate Finance, Securities and Public M&A National Practice Group at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. Paul has 14 years experience advising resource clients in Latin America.