Board of Directors

André Audet, Chairman

Mr. Audet was formerly a Vice-President at BMO Nesbitt Burns specializing in private portfolios and mining investments from 1989-1999; he was also a Financial Advisor at Midland Doherty and Royal Trust from 1987-1989. Mr. Audet graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Major in Finance) from the University of Ottawa in 1982. Mr. Audet is a Certified Investment Manager (CIM) and possesses more than twenty years of experience in the financing of public companies.

Mr. Audet was one of the founders of Orezone Resources Inc., a mining company whose shares are publicly traded on the TSX as well as on AMEX. Mr. Audet is the Chairman of the Board of Majescor Resources Inc. & Adventure Gold Inc. as well as a Director of Mazorro Resources Inc., three publicly-traded junior mining exploration companies.  Mr. Audet is also a Director of Pediment Exploration Inc., a publicly-traded mining exploration company.

Michael Farrant

Mr. Farrant is a chartered accountant with over 12 years of financial management experience in the mining sector, primarily in gold.   He currently serves as President and CEO of Sierra Mineral Inc. after having served as CFO of a number of junior development stage and producing mining companies.  During his 6 years with Barrick Gold Corporation and 3 years with Kinross Gold Corporation, he held progressively senior finance positions, including Vice President and Treasurer of Kinross.  Mr. Farrant holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours, from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and earned his CA designation in 1995 while with Coopers & Lybrand.

Brooke Macdonald

Brooke Macdonald is President of Macdonald Consulting LLC, and an advisor on doing business in Latin America. For the past four years, Brooke was Vice President Legal Affairs of Skye Resources Inc. (Fenix nickel project, Guatemala) until its recent acquisition by HudBay Minerals Inc. He has more than 18 years experience in the mining industry, specializing in exploration and mine development joint ventures in Latin America, as legal counsel and as Placer Dome’s country manager in Venezuela. He is knowledgeable in corporate and mining law in North and Latin America, is a member of the New York Bar, and earned his law degree from Queen’s University in Ontario.
  

Ian MacLean

Mr. MacLean began his career in 1996 with Nevsun Resources. In 2001, he joined Bema Gold Corporation as the Manager of Investor Relations and was appointed Vice President Investor Relations in 2006. Mr. MacLean has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University in Ottawa ON, Canada.
  

John Paterson

Mr. Paterson is a professional mining engineer who brings with him over 30 years of experience with both major and junior mining companies.  As President and CEO of junior mining companies between 1993 and 2007, he developed three heap leach gold operations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Currently, Mr. Paterson also serves on the Board of Plato Gold Corp. and Columbia Metals Corporation Ltd.  Mr. Paterson holds both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Alexander Stewart

Mr. Stewart is a lawyer who practiced corporate and securities law as the principle of Stewart & Associates from 1982-2001 with a focus on public companies, financing and going public transactions. Since 1996 he has also been the President and a principal of the RTO Zarex Group (www.rtozarex.com), a private merchant bank which focused on providing seed capital to emerging growth companies in connection with original listings and reverse takeovers on various stock exchanges. Mr. Stewart is currently the President of Minerx Inc., and has been a director and senior officer of in excess of a dozen public companies trading on a number of exchanges including TSX, TSXV, Nasdaq, OTCBB, NYSE and their predecessors.

Mr. Stewart was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Hays Lake Gold Inc. which consolidated the various advanced gold exploration and development properties now comprising Everton’s new Shoal Lake project near Kenora, Ontario and was instrumental in accomplishing the acquisition of   that company by Everton Resources Inc. in September 2009. Mr. Stewart holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Juris Doctor law degree from the University of Toronto.