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| | | Robert Giustra - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Giustra has been actively engaged in the creation, financing, development, restructuring and management of publicly-traded junior mining companies since 1992. His early experience in public markets includes working as an Investment Advisor with a national securities brokerage firm and later as an Investment Banker at an international investment dealer where he co-founded the equity sales and corporate finance departments.
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| | | Kenneth Judge - Chairman and Director
Mr. Judge completed degrees in Commerce, Jurisprudence and Laws at the University of Western Australia before qualifying as a Barrister and Solicitor specializing in international mergers and acquisitions law.
Mr. Judge is a resident of Monaco from where he is involved in private investment and restructuring technology, resource and oil and gas companies.
Mr. Judge has extensive business management experience having held a number of public company directorships and more recently having been engaged in the establishment or corporate restructure of technology, mining and oil and gas companies in Australia, the UK, US, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and the Philippines.
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| | | Gil Atzmon - Director
Mr. Atzmon has over 20 years' experience in the mineral resource sector. His career has included positions as a mining fund manager, investment banker and mining executive. Mr. Atzmon has participated in many global exploration and mining projects. Mr. Atzmon holds a BA in Geology and Geography from Columbia University and an MA in Energy and Mineral Resources from the University of Texas at Austin.
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| | | Donald Gustafson - Director
Mr. Gustafson has forty-three years of experience in exploration and development of mineral properties. Mr. Gustafson is a current Director of Golden Cycle Gold Corporation which is being acquired pursuant to a takeover bid by AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. He previously served as Homestake Mining Company's Manager of Deposit Development where he played a significant role in the discovery and development of the McLaughlin gold mine in Northern California. He also held the position of Vice President and Director of Exploration for Homestake International Minerals Ltd., where he concentrated on the Asian, South Pacific, Central and South American regions.
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| | | Andy B. Wallace* - Partner, Cordex; Exploration Manager
Andy Wallace is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He completed a B.S. in geology at Eastern New Mexico University, an M.S. in geology at the University of Texas at El Paso, and a PhD in geology at the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Mr. Wallace consulted for W. N. McAnulty and Associates, Texas Gulf Sulphur, and Cherokee Mining, before consulting for Cordex Exploration Co. alongside John Livermore in 1974. He was an Assistant Professor of Geology at Wittenberg University from 1975 to 1978, and continued consulting to Cordex during this period. He became a full-time geologist for Cordex in 1978, becoming Manager of Exploration in 1985.
Cordex currently conducts exploration and project generation activities for Columbus Gold on an exclusive basis.
* Is a Qualified Person under NI 43-101
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| | | John Prochnau* - Special Advisor
John Prochnau is a mining engineer and geologist with degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Early in his career, Mr. Prochnau held management positions with Selection Trust Group, where he was in charge of American operations and the discovery and development of the Alligator Ridge Gold Mine in Nevada, and Billiton International Metals B.V. of the Netherlands. He formed his consulting company in 1984 and has subsequently managed several private exploration syndicates and publicly-listed mineral companies responsible for a number of gold and base-metal discoveries and mine developments in the United States, South America and Australia.
Mr. Prochnau was founder of Brancote Holdings plc of which he was managing director until 1999. Brancote Holdings plc's Argentinean subsidiary, Minera El Desquite S.A., discovered the high-grade Esquel Gold Deposit which was acquired by Meridian Gold Corp. for US$368 million.
* Is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101
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| | | Sean McGrath - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. McGrath is a professional accountant who has spent the last nine years providing financial management services to publicly traded companies, with emphasis on junior mineral exploration and oil and gas exploration companies. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from Memorial University of Newfoundand and has attained two professional accounting designations - CGA and CPA.
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| | | Jacqueline Collins - Corporate Secretary
Ms. Collins is a Securities/Corporate Finance Paralegal with over 21 years experience as a legal administrator, corporate secretary and paralegal at both independent and national law firms, and with public resource companies. She specializes in the preparation, finalization and filing of all securities documents for US and Canadian foreign and domestic issuers with Canadian and US securities regulators, including all continuous disclosure documents.
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