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A brief resume on the officers and directors of the company.
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Position: President, CEO and Director
Fred Davidson, President, CEO and Director has helped finance public and private mining companies for 25 years. He has an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and became a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1972. He lectured at UBC for two years, then spent 10 years as Chief Financial Officer of Erickson Gold Mines Ltd. and Mt. Skukum. The Erickson team took the mine from grassroots exploration to production.
From 1984-1993 Mr. Davidson was VP and Chief Financial Officer of TOTAL Energold Corp., an energy and gold producer with more than $250 million in assets. In 1993 Mr. Davidson helped engineer the sale of TOTAL's assets, and then became president of a private mineral investment group. He currently sits on the board of several public and private mining companies.
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| | | Richard Younker
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Richard Younker, CFO is a graduate of Queen's University with a B. Comm. (Hon's), and holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia. He articled with Clarkson Gordon (now Ernst & Young) and became a chartered accountant in 1973. After a year spent in industry, he returned to Clarkson Gordon in 1974 spending further time in their audit and insolvency divisions prior to transferring to Woods Gordon their managing consulting arm in 1975. He became a certified management consultant in 1979 and the senior financial consulting principal in Woods Gordon's Vancouver office in 1981 until leaving the firm in 1985 to start his own independent financial consulting practice which he has continued to this day. Mr. Younker's experience has included providing financial, general management, and accounting advice as well as undertaking numerous financial viability and feasibility studies for the Government and private sectors.
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| | | Anthony Shapiro
Position: Corporate Secretary
Mr. Shapiro is a securities lawyer with Macleod Dixon LLP. Mr. Shapiro graduated from Queen's University with a B.Sc. (Honours) degree and from the University of Western Ontario with LL.B. and M.B.A. degrees. Mr. Shapiro is called to the Bar of Ontario and the State of New York.
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| | | James Coleman, LLB
Position: Chairman and Director
Mr. Coleman is a Senior Partner and former Chairman of Macleod Dixon, Barristers & Solicitors. He has extensive experience in international law with a focus on the energy and resource sectors in addition to corporate finance, banking and securities. He is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Bar Association, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, has authored numerous legal papers on resource law and banking, and has chaired various independent committees of public companies relating to corporate governance and securities matters.
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| | | H. Walter Sellmer
Position: Director
Walter Sellmer, Director, has more than 30 years' experience as an exploration geologist. He has held senior management positions with Amax Exploration, Canamax and TOTAL Energold Corp., responsible for overseeing multi-million dollar exploration budgets. While with Canamax he acquired the Midway, Ketza and Mount Hundere projects. Mr. Sellmer took Ketza from exploration through feasibility to construction. With TOTAL, Mr. Sellmer planned and directed the geology departments at the Mt. Skukum and Erickson mines, and was instrumental in acquiring the Denton-Rawhide mine in Nevada.
He is currently Past-President of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines, and has served as industry representative on the Premiers Forum - a mining advisory group to the Premier of British Columbia, as well as a director of the PDAC.
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| | | Michael J. Beley
Position: Director
Mr. Beley was founding Vice President and Director of Eldorado Gold Corporation. Through his tenure with Eldorado, the company developed two open pit gold mines in Mexico; defeated an attempted hostile takeover; gained control of an Australian junior gold producer; participated in the oversight of the Sao Bento Gold Mine in Brazil and the development of significant gold assets in Turkey.
A co-founder, Director and Vice President of Bema Gold Corporation from its inception in 1988 through to 1992. Prior to 1988 Mr. Beley held executive positions in Bema's predessor companies, Amir Mines Ltd., Normine Resources Ltd. and Bema International Resources Inc. These companies merged in 1988 to form Bema Gold Corporation and were controlled by Bema Industries Ltd., a private exploration contracting and geological consulting firm. Mr. Beley was a founding partner of Bema Industries Ltd. and served as President from 1976-1986 and Vice President from 1987-1990.
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| | | Wayne Lenton
Position: Director
Wayne Lenton, Director, is a graduate of the Montana School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical and Mining Engineering. Wayne has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. In 1979, Wayne joined AMAX of Canada as Vice President, Operations. In 1985, he was appointed President, CEO and Director of Canada Tungsten Mining Corporation, as well as President of AMAX of Canada and President of AMAX Northwest Mining Company. In 1989, he became Chairman of the Board of Minerex Resources and in 1993, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Tungsten, as a result of the amalgamation of Canada Tungsten Mining Corporation, Canamax Resources and Minerex Resources. Wayne is a past Chairman of the Mining Association of British Columbia and was a Director of the Mining Association of Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and is a Professional Engineer in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Wayne is currently working as an independent consultant in Tucson, Arizona, and is a director of several public companies.
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