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| Introduction
The Company's officers, directors, project geologists and consultants combine to make up a group of trained professionals with years of successful natural resource company financing, exploration and production experience.
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| Robert L. Card, BA(Econ/Comm)
Position: President
Robert Card of Vancouver, B.C. is a successful business owner with many years of experience in building start-up companies and financing their development and growth. Most of his management expertise and experience has been in the natural resource sector, where he has helped to raise many millions of dollars for various junior exploration and development projects. Mr. Card has been a financial consultant and has served as an officer and/or director of several public companies over the years.
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| Alex Burton
Position: Consulting Project Geologist
Alex Burton is a professional geologist and engineer with over 50 years of extensive experience in mining exploration and development. After holding management positions with Noranda, Copper Range Exploration, and Phelps Dodge (Canada), he formed his own mining consulting company in 1974. He is considered an expert in geology and geochemistry and has planned and supervised numerous field programs for many companies on diverse types of mineral properties in many different countries. He has extensive experience in setting up major exploration programs and bringing mineral deposits into production. Mr. Burton teaches the placer mining courses for BCIT/BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines and is a founding member of the Association of Exploration Geochemists. He is a member of other professional associations, and has held executive positions with them at times.
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| Betty Anne Loy
Position: Corporate Secretary
Betty Anne Loy is a corporate administrator who resides in Vancouver, Canada. She has been a director and secretary of various private and public companies. Ms. Loy has been a corporate administrator with Primary Ventures Corp. since 1986. Ms. Loy has more than twelve years experience in corporate administration of Canadian and US public companies including responsibility for statutory compliance and regulatory filings and has managed all aspects of corporate and shareholder communications including filing press releases and statutory filings.
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| Blaine Bailey
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bailey received his Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours) from the University of Manitoba in 1977, and qualified for the CGA designation in British Columbia in 1983. Mr. Bailey has served in the capacity of accountant for Molson Brewery B.C. Ltd., controller for Nabob Coffee Co. and currently CFO and Director of Qumana Software Inc. (Formerly ThoughtShare Communications Inc.) He is a management consultant specializing in providing financial and administrative services for medium to small public and private companies.
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| Keith E. Robinson, BASc
Position: Director
Possesses over 40 years of experience in mining geotechnical consulting. Principal geotechnical consultant at EBA Engineering Consultants in Vancouver, B.C.
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| Dr. Robert M. Kaplan, MBA, PhD
Position: Director
Formerly a University Professor of Business Administration and was the founding director of the Executive MBA Program at Simon Fraser University. Currently, and since 1977, a director of National Holdings Ltd. a Vancouver based mortgage-lending company. Since 1992 he has been the President of Capilano Investments Ltd. and the Managing Director of The Beacon Consulting Group, (a firm specializing in corporate strategy and long range planning). Dr. Kaplan has been responsible over the years for founding and organizing over ten start-up companies. In the non-private sector he has been a trustee and director of a city owned hospital.
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| Len Harris
Position: Director
Len Harris is a well-known and highly respected business entrepreneur who has founded and/or been involved in the development of a number of successful businesses over the years, mostly in the natural resource sector. In the late 1960's he started his professional career as a registered representative with Hemsworth Turton & Co. where he became an assistant to the head trader in less than 2 years. From 1972-1989 Len was a registered with Jones Gable & Co. where he rapidly became a top tier producer in the firm.
Mr. Harris completed the Prospectors Course conducted by the University of British Columbia to enhance his knowledge of mining and geology, and proceeded to specialize in mining and oil & gas securities. Over the course of a couple of decades, he sponsored and acted as fiscal agent for a number of successful natural resource companies, raising millions of dollars for numerous exploration projects.
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| Dr. Zigurts Strauss M.D. BSc.
Position: Director
Dr. Strauss has an extensive background in sport, medicine, and venture investing. His medical career has spanned three decades. A former Canadian Olympic stream decathlete, Dr. Strauss was an early proponent of sports medicine, thermal imaging and pain management. As a corollary, he consulted to a variety of companies in the area of nutritional product development.
Dr. Strauss' entrepreneurial background includes his involvement in software and technology ventures. He has been an active market investor since his teens. During 1989 and 1990 he concentrated on commodity trading. He has served as a director and consultant for Skina resources, a publicly traded company. He has been instrumental in a number of IPOs and has raised capital for private and public ventures.
Dr. Strauss' diverse background, experience and contacts brings an additional level of value to the Company's board.
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| Wayne Waters
Position: Advisory Board
Wayne Waters is a graduate from the University of British Columbia with a BSc. in Geology. He started his career in the resource business in 1955 with Century Geophysical as a assistant operator in the search for oil and gas in Alberta. Subsequently he spent 4 years with Imperial Oil in their Geological Department in Calgary. In 1960 he moved from Calgary to Vancouver and became involved in the exploration for mineral deposits with junior mining companies. He has held various directorships with numerous junior public companies over the last 35 years. Most recently he has been a director of two successful public companies namely NEMI Northern Energy and Mining Inc. and Running Fox Resource Corp.
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