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Board of Directors and Advisory Board

Alan Ferry

Chairman, Director

B.Sc., CFA

Alan Ferry has over 25 years of experience in the investment industry following a career as a geologist, mainly in uranium exploration. He has significant experience in mining analysis, mineral economics and corporate finance. His professional memberships include the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts, the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute, the Prospectors and Developers Association and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In addition, he is a past president of the Mineral Resource Analysts Group of Toronto. Alan sits on the boards of directors of several publicly traded mining and exploration companies, notably as Lead Director of Guyana Goldfields Inc. and Chairman of Avalon Rare Metals Inc.

Peter Hooper

Director

B.Sc., Mining Engineering

A senior mining executive with broad-based experience in production, engineering, reorganization and training, contracting, exploration and corporate affairs, Peter has a long track record in the mining industry in South Africa, Canada, Australia and Ghana. He has provided consulting engineering to projects in Canada, USA, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and France.
Peter was the General Superintendent, Mine Manager, of Beaver Lodge Uranium Mine 1978 -1981, a mine that produced 4,000,000 lbs of uranium and belonged to Eldorado Nuclear, a government-owned agency which was later privatized and became Cameco Uranium, currently the largest producer of uranium in the world. During Peter's tenure the mine was modernized and mechanized. The digital equipment used world-wide to monitor uranium and radiation by-products was designed by the Canadian Government laboratories and tested at the mine during this period. As a consultant, Peter spent two years on a project exploring ways to handle and store the hot radiometric waste produced from Canada's Candu nuclear reactors.

Laurence Stefan

Director

M.Sc. (Geology & Mining Engineering) & Ph.D. (Economic Geology)

Laurence Stefan is the founder of the Colibri Group of Companies in Peru and Managing Director of Minera Colibri. He has conducted metallurgical and mineralogical evaluation of over 200 mining and exploration projects throughout Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia and has compiled in excess of 1000 in-house reports: geological, mineralogical, mineral processing, engineering, mining activity, structural set-up, exploration strategies, resource/reserve evaluation and financial modelling.
He has deep operational experience in the fields of exploration, processing, pilot mining, legal evaluation, labor and social interaction in South America over the past twelve years. He has been involved in basic and specialised research in uranium metallurgical, recovery and enrichment programs at various gold-uranium mines along the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa.

Jean-Pierre Chauvin

Director

B.Sc. (Mining Engineering)

Jean-Pierre has over 30 years of experience in the mining and construction industries. From July 2006 to January 2009, Mr. Chauvin has served as Chief Operating Officer of Globestar Mining Corp. and was promoted to President in October 2006. Prior to March 2006, he was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Patricia Mining Corporation, having assumed these positions in 2004. Since 2001, Mr. Chauvin has also acted as President and Senior Consultant of Chauvin Engineering Ltd., based in Oakville, Ontario. This company consults in the mining industry focusing on operational reviews and feasibility studies. Prior to 2001, he has served as a Director of Battle Mountain Canada Ltd., Crown Butte Resources Ltd., the Mining Association of Canada and the Ontario Mining Association. Mr. Chauvin has also served as General Manager of Canadian Operations for Battle Mountain Gold Co. Mr. Chauvin is an engineer holding a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Queen's University.

Philip Williams

Director

Philip is VP Business Development at Pinetree Capital. Prior to joining Pinetree, Philip worked for several institutional brokerage firms in the equity research department. Most recently, he was a uranium analyst focused on companies with advanced development projects in Australia, the United States and Namibia.

Michael Harrison

Director

Michael was Director of Investment Banking for the Mining Group at Cormark Securities Inc. in Toronto, Canada. In addition to seven years of investment banking experience, Michael spent eight years in BHP Billiton's Global Exploration Group after receiving his BS in geophysics engineering from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. Michael also holds an MBA with Distinction from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Alan Clark

Advisory Board Member

Ph.D., Manchester

Dr. Alan Clark, professor at Queens University, 1977 to present. Dr. Clark has been an advisor to Barrick Gold, Rio Tinto, Rio Algom, Inmet Mining and Noranda, amongst others. He has published 145 articles in recognized journals and presented papers at professional conferences around the world.

Dr. David Robertson

Advisory Board Member

Ph.D., Columbia

Founded David S. Robertson and Associates as consulting geologists and mining engineers to, amongst others, Ken Addison, Northgate, Occidental Petroleum, Noranda, Phelps Dodge, Mobil Oil, and Inco. He was formerly Chairman of Meridian Gold and Ashton Mining, and formerly a board member of Placer Dome.