Gordon Wylie
Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board
BSc (hons) Geology, Grad Dip Mining Engineering, Management Diploma (UNISA)

Mr. Wylie has 31 years of mining industry experience. From 1998-2005, he was AngloGold-Ashanti’s Global Exploration Manager. Mr. Wylie was instrumental in developing the company’s “New Frontiers Strategy”, and AngloGold-Ashanti’s move into highly prospective but poorly prospected higher risk regions such as DRC, Colombia, China and Laos.

Dr. Timothy Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
BSc Geology, MSc Exploration and Mining Geology, PhD (structural geology)

Dr. Coughlin has 18 years of wide-ranging experience as an exploration and mining industry consultant and has held senior positions with major mining companies. Dr. Coughlin is a specialist in frontier mineral exploration and on mining investment in emerging and transitional environments. He has provided advice on country entry programs in the Caucasus, the Balkans, Colombia and Russia and has been integral in new and now operating grass-roots gold discoveries in South America and Australasia.

Roderick Corrie
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director
MA Cambridge, ACIB, MSI

Mr. Corrie is a strategic advisor with experience in a variety of companies. He has held both executive and non-executive roles in corporate finance, health, property, technology, advertising, investment and manufacturing companies. Mr. Corrie has held senior positions within the banking industry, he is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Member of the Securities Institute. He is a non-executive director or the AIM listed Europa Oil & Gas PLC.

Marc C Henderson
Non-Executive Director
CFA

Mr. Henderson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Laramide Resources Ltd. He is a chartered financial analyst with more than 20 years experience in the mineral exploration industry. Mr. Henderson has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Laramide Resources Ltd. from 1995 to present, and a director of Kinbauri Gold from 1994 to present and of Aquiline Resources Inc. from 1998 to present.

Peter Mullens
Non-Executive Director
BSc Geology

Mr. Mullen has 21 years of extensive and varied experience in the mining and exploration industry. Mr. Mullen's experience includes geologist roles for Rio Tinto and Mt Isa Mines at Broken Hill, and Mt Isa in Australia. In addition he has worked as senior mine geologist and consultant in Asia and in several South and Central American countries. His track record includes successfully developing four Canadian listed exploration companies in chief geologist and company director roles.

Huw Williams
Non-Executive Director
BA, CFA, FCA, MBA

Mr Williams is a chartered accountant and chartered financial analyst with over 20 years of emerging market investment experience. He works in the corporate equity unit for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. Previous experience is over 10 years in private equity in Africa with Actis and the CDC Group plc. He also is a non-executive director of several other EBRD investments, and on the recommendations committee of the Kazakhstan Growth Fund.