George Poling Ph.D. P.Eng. (Chairman of the Board)

Dr. George Poling is a director of the company and Chairman  of the Board of Directors of the company.  Dr. Poling is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Mining Department and Mineral Process Engineering at the University of British Columbia where he taught from 1968 to 1997.  He was Research Coordinator for the Mining  Association of British Columbia. He is one of Canada's leading experts in mineral processing and is also an expert in the environmental management of mining operations.  His expertise in this area includes effluent treatment, tailings disposal, waste solids handling, land reclamation and acid drainage control. 
Dr. Poling has been Senior Vice President of Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia.  He has published numerous papers on mineral processing and mining environmental engineering.  He served as a member of the Board of Directors, and as Head of Engineering for Dia Met Minerals from 1987 through 2001.  Dr. Poling currently serves on boards of Minterra Resource Corp., Quadra Mining Ltd., BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc.  He also serves as a board member of the Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Foundation and the British Columbia Historical Society.  Dr. Poling holds a B.Sc. in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Mineral Process Engineering from the University of Alberta. 

John Greenslade BASc, M.Eng, LLB, P.Eng.   (Independent Director)

Mr. Greenslade is an independent director of the Company.  He holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Science (Mineral Engineering), a Master of Engineering, and a law degree, all from the University of British Columbia.  Mr. Greenslade is a lawyer and a Professional Engineer (British Columbia). He is the President of Minterra Resource Corp., a mineral exploration and development company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, since July 1991 and President and CEO of Baja Mining Corporation, formerly First Goldwater Resources Inc., a mineral exploration and development company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, since April 2004.

Sidney Himmel B.Sc. B.A. C.A. (President and Chief Executive Officer)

Sidney Himmel C.A, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.  He has over 17 years experience in Canadian capital markets, having worked for Toronto Dominion Securities as Vice President and Director, and Merrill Lynch Canada Ltd. as a Corporate Finance specialist in mining finance.  During this period he participated in the successful funding of numerous growth and large capitalization companies raising capital in both the public and private financial markets.   He also has equity institutional sales and trading experience, having headed up the Preferred Share Sales desk of Toronto Dominion Securities for two years, and having been an Institutional Equity Salesperson at that investment dealer from 1992 to 2000.   

Mr. Himmel practiced as a tax specialist with a Canadian national auditing firm prior to entering the investment banking industry in 1986.  Mr. Himmel holds  B.Sc. (Chemistry focus) and  B.A. (Business and finance focus) degrees, both from the University of Toronto.  He has been a Chartered Accountant since 1981.  He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.  Mr. Himmel has been an adjunct professor in corporate taxation at the business school of the University of Toronto.  He has also written various publications in taxation and accounting in professional journals and the financial press, and has edited a book on the financing of private pre-IPO Canadian companies.  He was won awards from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Canadian Securities Institute.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company Mr. Himmel is directly responsible for corporate strategy, business development, investor relations and finance.  He also holds overall responsibility for the operations.