Directors

John M. Rucci*
Mr. Rucci graduated from University of Calgary in 1977 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. During the past 33 years Mr. Rucci has been involved with numerous public and private companies. He has been involved in many startup companies, providing deals and consulting services to these ventures. From 1996 to 1997 he was director of Fort Point Resources Ltd., a public oil and gas company trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. From 1996 to 2001, he was chairman of the board for United Tex-Sol Mines Inc., a publicly traded gold exploration company. From 2001 to present, he has been the president of the Corporation.

Rafael E. Romero
Rafael E. Romero, was born and raised in Peru and was educated in North America, at Northeastern University. He is presently a senior executive and bank officer at Credicorp (NYSE: BAP) with experience in loans and new projects analysis as well as expertise of the import/export business. Mr. Romero currently manages that bank’s personal banking department. He brings over 20 years of experience in Peruvian banking plus other related businesses as part of the Romero Group of companies where he has contributed to the formation of several successful companies.

D. Richard Skeith*
Mr. Skeith has over 30 years experience as a solicitor advising a variety of private and public corporations. In addition he has been or is currently a director or officer of a number of public and private companies in the oil and gas exploration and development and services sectors, in mining, biotechnology, real estate and telecommunications. Mr. Skeith is a director of the Corporation.

Andrew S Burgess*
Chair, Audit Committee. Mr. Burgess has a B. Comm (Hons) degree from the University of Manitoba and is a Chartered Accountant (Alberta) and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois). He has held directorship and or officership positions of several listed mineral exploration and mining companies including Consolidated Brinco Ltd., Western Canadian Mining Corporation, Sulphurets Gold Corporation, Dominion Explorers Inc., Ecstall Mining Corporation, United Tex-Sol Mines Ltd., Sienna Gold Corporation and Spectrum Mining Corporation. These companies have been involved in the mining of asbestos and coal and the exploration for copper, gold, lead, zinc, silver and rare earths. The projects these companies have initiated include the Quinsam coal mine, the Kerr/Sulphurets copper/gold porphyry deposit, the Croinor gold deposit, the Akie sedex hosted lead-zinc deposit, the Clavos gold deposit, and the Wicheeda rare earth deposit.

Warren Pratt
Bilingual Consulting Geologist (BSc Geology Hull, 1986; PhD Structural Geology, University of Wales, 1990). Dr Pratt has a strong mapping background and in 1994 won the President’s Award of the Geological Society of London for detailed thematic mapping. His extensive International experience includes: Argentina (Au/Ag), Arizona (Cu, training), Chile (Cu), Cyprus (VHMS, ophiolite), Ecuador (Au/Ag, Cu/Mo), Egypt (Au, training), Malaysia (Au), Norway (VHMS, Cu), Peru (VHMS, Au, Ag, Cu/Mo), Sweden (Au, Zn, Pb) and Finland (Au). He has a proven track record of generating Au/Cu targets in under-explored areas. In recent years he has as consulted at working Au mines (Bjorkdal, Sweden: Pahtavaara, Finland), and on several major epithermal Au and porphyry Cu discoveries, including La Bodega (Ventana Gold, Colombia), Regalito (Lumina, Chile) and El Galeno (Lumina, Peru).

Charles Littlejohn
Mr. Littlejohn graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also holds a law degree (J.D. cum laude) from the Southern California Institute of Law. Over the past 40 years he has been a founder and director of numerous companies, including a mutual fund management company. He has also taught classes in International Law at a California law school. He has a keen interest in geology, with considerable experience in PGE metals plus gold and cobalt deposits in Northern Ontario. He also has held numerous positions in the oil and gas industry and was admitted as a full member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 1984. For the past 22 years he has managed a small private hedge fund. He currently resides In San Luis Obispo, California.

Declan B. Livesey
Independent Engineering Consultant (PhD Mining Wales, 1974). Dr Livesey has over 30 years experience in the mining and oil and gas industries. He has held a number of management positions within major resource companies including VP Operations and Engineering with a major US corporation.

* Member of the Audit Committee