Management and Board of Directors:

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.

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:

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.

A seasoned Chartered Accountant with 35 years industry experience including 7 years with an International Accounting firm and the last 10 years as CFO for several Canadian public exploration, development and producing mining companies.

One of Canada’s leading health care directors and educators, Ted brings 40 years of senior management and corporate experience to the Board. Prior to his retirement, Ted served as President and CEO and Vice Chair of Mount Sinai Hospital. He has served, and continues to serve, as a Director of several Canadian public and private mining companies and as a Director on several leading health care Boards. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.

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.

Gary O'Connor is currently the Vice President, Exploration for Dundee Resources. Prior to joining Dundee Resources, he was Vice-President, Exploration of Gabriel Resources Ltd. Mr. O'Connor has over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration and development and has worked on all continents of the world. He graduated from the University of Auckland in 1982 with a degree in geology.

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.