Board of Directors

 
Jenna Hardy
Position: Director
From 1996 through 2004, Jenna Hardy (M.Sc., MBA, P.Geo.) served as the Manager of Health Safety Environment with Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS, TSX: PAA) where she was responsible for corporate oversight of health, safety and environmental issues at operating subsidiaries in Peru, Mexico and Bolivia, as well as development projects in Argentina, Canada and the USA. In 2004, Ms. Hardy reactivated a consulting company that she founded in 1986 and currently provides environmental, corporate development and strategic advisory services to clients consisting primarily of junior natural resource companies working in Mexico and Canada. She currently serves as a director of Triple Dragon Resources Inc. and Critical Elements Corporation.

 
Rick Thibault
Position: Director
Richard Thibault, Director, has worked as a mining engineer with over 32 years of experience in engineering, operations, management and consulting experience in North and South America and is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Antioquia Gold Inc., a publicly traded junior exploration company with mining interests in Colombia.

From 1997 to 2006, Mr. Thibault was based in South America where he worked in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. While based in Buenos Aires, Argentina he held the position of President of High American Gold Inc., a publicly traded junior exploration company, and Managing Director of Procesadora de Boratos Argentinos S.A., a private industrial mineral company. In Santiago, Chile he was the General Manager of the consulting firm BGC-AVOT Ingeniería Ltda. In 2006/07, he held the position of Vice President, Minerals of Daleco Resources Corp., a United States based publicly traded industrial mineral company. Before moving to South America, he worked for Fording Coal Ltd., a Canadian based company, in progressively responsible positions.

He is also a director of Puma Exploration Inc. a publicly traded company with mining interests in Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. Mr. Thibault has a B.Sc. (Honours) in Mining Engineering from Queen's University and is fluent in English, Spanish and French.

 
Patrick Downey
Position: Director
Mr. Downey has over 25 years of international experience in the resource industry. Mr. Downey was recently appointed the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Elgin Mining Inc. (TSX-V: ELG). Previously, Mr. Downey was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Aura Minerals Inc. (TSX: ORA), a TSX-listed company where he was responsible for growing the company from a junior exploration company to one with four operating mines in the Americas and several development properties. Mr. Downey was President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Viceroy Exploration Ltd. prior to its acquisition by Yamana Gold Inc. in 2006 for CDN$600 million (approximately US$600 million). Prior to that, he was President of Consolidated Trillion Resources Ltd. and Oliver Gold Corporation, where he negotiated the successful merger to form Canico Resource Corp., which was purchased in 2006 by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce for over $800 million. He has held senior engineering positions at several large-scale gold mining operations and has also held operating positions at several mining projects for Anglo American Corporation in South Africa. Mr. Downey is also a member of the Board for a number of resource companies in the mining sector. Mr. Downey holds a Bachelor of Science (Hon.) degree in Engineering from Queen's University and is a registered member with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

 
Stephen Hanson
Position: Director
With over 15 years of finance and corporate development experience, Mr. Hanson is currently a Director of Van Arbor Asset Management, a division of ZLC Private Investment Management Inc., which he founded in 2003. Mr. Hanson also served as Chairman and Managing Director of Van Arbor Asset Management from 2004 until 2008. In addition, Mr. Hanson has been President of Discovery Management Services Ltd. since 2001. Discovery Management Services is a venture capital consulting firm assisting early-stage companies in the development of short and long-term financing strategies. In 2009, Mr. Hanson served as President and CEO of PanAsian Petroleum. He has also served on numerous other private and public company boards.