Paul Parisotto

Interim co-CEO, Director

Mr. Parisotto is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona Star Resource Corp., which was acquired by Barrick Gold Corporation for $773 million and Blacksands Petroleum, Inc., a publicly traded US company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of conventional and unconventional oil in western Canada. Blacksands owns a 75% interest in Access Energy, a private company of which Mr. Parisotto is also President and Chief Executive officer.

Mr. Parisotto has been President of Coniston Investment Corp. from October 1999 to the present. Coniston is a private firm specializing in providing investment banking services including the raising of equity and debt and providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services to small market capitalization companies which are either private or public.

Prior to these current responsibilities, Mr. Parisotto was Manager, Original Listings at The Toronto Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1994. During his tenure at the TSE he was involved in the listing process for over 250 companies.

He has also been Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance for Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc. from January 1995 to January 1998 and was Vice-President and Director, Investment Banking for HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. from March 1998 to June 1999. He was also director of Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., a public company acquired by US Gold Inc. in a share exchange take over bid for over $100 million.

Joseph Hamilton

Interim co-CEO, Director

Mr. Hamilton is a Professional Geologist with over 14 years of mineral exploration experience in addition to over seven years as a mining analyst in the investment industry and three years experience in mining development.

Mr. Hamilton is currently the President of Pickax International Corporation, a private company providing services to the mining industry. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer of African Copper plc.

Darren Blasutti

Director

Mr. Blasutti is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development for Barrick Gold Corporation. He has played a key role in the implementation of strategic development opportunities and multiple acquisitions. Mr. Blasutti was previously at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he planned, supervised and managed audits for a variety of clients. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Keith McKay

Director

Mr. McKay is a Chartered Accountant with 25 years of financial experience in all aspects of the mining industry, including construction and operations, financing and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Most recently, Mr. McKay was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Aurelian Resources Ltd. in 2007. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of a worldwide publicly-listed engineering and project management services firm and prior to that he was Controller at Rio Algom Ltd.

Lorie Waisberg

Director

Mr. Waisberg is currently a director of Chemtrade Logistics, Keystone North America, Metalex Ventures, Primary Energy Recycling Corporation and Tembec. Prior to retirement, he served as Executive Vice President of Co-Steel Inc. Mr. Waisberg has served on the board of approximately 15 Canadian public companies over the last ten years. For 30 years he practiced with and was a senior business law partner at Goodmans LLP.

Patrick Anderson

Director

Mr. Anderson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Aurelian Resources Ltd. which he co-founded in 2001. He is a geologist with over 13 years experience in all aspects of the exploration business. Mr. Anderson has worked as a consulting geologist on gold, base metals and diamond projects in North America, South America and Europe for junior explorers, major producers and consulting firms to the mining industry.