Corporate

Mr. Sedun is an independent venture capital professional based out of Vancouver, Canada with over 25 years of mining & industry-related experience. Upon graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB), he practiced corporate finance/securities & mining law in Vancouver for 15 years until retiring frm law in 1997. Thereafter, he was President of another private venture capital firm for seven years and President & CEO of Diamond Fields International Ltd., a TSX-listed company, for over two years. Mr. Sedun has played a significant role as founder or director in a number of successful companies including Diamond Fields Resources Inc. (sold to Inco for $4.3 billion in the largest takeover of a junior mining company in Canadian history), Adastra Minerals Inc. (sold to First Quantum Minerals in 2006 for $275 million), Peru Copper Inc. (sold to Chinalco in 2007 in an all-cash $840 million takeover), and Geovic Mining Corp., which is developing a world- class cobalt/nickel mine in Cameroon, Africa (raised over $100 million of equity in its first year as a public company). Mr. Sedun is also President & CEO of Global Vision Capital Corp., an independent venture capital firm, and Executive Chairman of Goldgroup Mining Inc., a TSX-listed company which is currently producing 25-30,000 oz AuEq annually at its Cerro Colorado mine in Mexico. Goldgroup also has mineral resources totalling approximately 1.50 million AuEq oz plus the potential to considerably increase these resources from its portfolio of highly prospective properties.

Mr. Sutherland is a Vancouver-based specialist in corporate finance, resource and growth companies. He is Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Goldgroup Resources Inc., a private gold exploration company with a focus in Mexico with three exploration and development projects, two of which were acquired from Goldcorp Inc. Mr. Sutherland was Chief Financial Officer of Arequipa Resources leading up to its acquisition by Barrick Gold for $1.1 billion. He was also a partner in a venture capital company specializing in worldwide marketing ventures and previous to that, Site Manager in building a $110 million gold mine in California. Most recently, he was Co-Founder, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Tekion Inc., a micro fuel cell developer, and acted as a key partner in its growth from 4 to 75 employees in under three years and raising US$18 million for this private company. Prior to Tekion, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of ASC AVCAN Systems Inc. and built the company into an international operation. He currently is a Corporate Director of five public companies, one of which is listed on NYSE/AMEX. Mr. Sutherland is a Certified General Accountant and has a diploma in Operations Management from the B.C. Institute of Technology.

Mr. Garagan was appointed Vice President Exploration of Bema Gold in 1996, after joining the Bema group of companies in 1991. A 1980 geology graduate from the University of Ottawa, he has worked in North and South America, East and West Africa and Russia. With the Bema companies, he has been instrumental in several discoveries, including the Cerro Casale (Chile) and Kupol (Russia) deposits.

Mr. Fry began his career in 1985 with McCann Erickson Advertising. After 8 years in the advertising business as a senior account director, he founded his own corporate communications company, Virilian Communications, and began working with public companies. He became a director of Lima Gold Corp in 1995 and subsequently founded Market Capital Corp in 1997 for the purpose of raising capital for public and private companies. Mr. Fry has been acting as a corporate finance/corporate communications consultant since that time.

Mr. Simpson has worked in the mining and exploration industry for over 18 years. He has worked for Junior, Mid-tier and Senior mining companies on projects both in Canada and worldwide, including Bema Gold (sold to Kinross for CDN$3.5 billion in 2007), B2Gold, and Echo Bay Mines. Mr. Simpson has been involved in exploration and mining projects from grass roots exploration through to mine development and production. Mr. Simpson obtained his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Manitoba and is a member of APEGBC, APEGM and OGQ.

Mr. Chapman has worked as a professional geologist for the past 14 years. He began his career in the uranium industry working for COGEMA Resources (now AREVA) in the Athabasca Basin. He was involved in the early identification and development of the west Athabasca exploration program at Shea Creek including the Anne, Colette and Kianna deposits. Mr. Chapman was also the founding director of Groundwater Information Services Inc., a hydrogeological consulting firm based in Alberta providing groundwater information to Alberta Environment, the Energy Resources and Conservation Board and the oil and gas industry in Calgary. Mr. Chapman obtained his Honors B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Alberta in 1995 and is a member of APEGBC, APEGGA and APEGS.