Management and Board of Directors:

Mr. Rideout has practiced mineral exploration continuously in Canada and abroad since graduation in 1987. This includes 21 years of experience within Latin America encompassing 600 exploration, mining and engineering projects. In addition to this technical background, Mr. Rideout played a key role in the corporate development and management of Quantec Geoscience Limited in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Mr. Martinez is a financial professional and CGA with 13 years of experience with public and private companies in Canada and internationally. This experience includes budgeting, accounting and controls related to mine start-up operations in South America, financial reconciliations for multiple Latin American offices, and mergers and acquisitions.

    Board of Directors:

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 was until recently 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Peres is currently President & CEO of Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. (TSX:ME), an advanced gold exploration with projects in the Timmins, Ontario. Mr. Peres is a Chartered Accountant who articled with Deloitte & Touche LLP and has over 15 years of experience in senior wealth management roles in retail and institutional finance within capital markets. Mr. Peres was previously CFO of a Toronto-based mining merchant bank and was involved in over 250 equity financings in the junior mining sector in Canada.

Mr. Feldman is currently employed as the CFO and VP of Corporate Development of Pinetree Capital Ltd.

Gerry is a chartered accountant and has 28 years experience in merger and acquisition activities and corporate finance. Gerry currently serves on the boards of several other Canadian public companies.