Officers & Directors

Gregory Sparks – President and Chief Executive Officer, Director

Greg has been the Principal of GBS PC, a minerals industry consulting firm since 1994. Since March 31, 2004, Mr. Sparks served as a Director of Pan African Mining Corp., a resource company listed on the Exchange until its acquisition by Asia Thai Mining Co., Ltd. in June 2008. He has served as a senior officer and director for several North American companies, and is also currently a director of African Queen Mines Ltd.

From May 2002 until December 2005 he has also managed Genex Construction, LLC, a heavy civil contracting firm. Greg was formerly a Development Group Vice President for Echo Bay Mines from 1985 to 1993. Greg is a senior mining executive with over thirty five years experience in the minerals industry embracing exploration, feasibility, development and operation of both surface and underground mining projects.

Greg has experience with a variety of mineral commodities including: gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc, uranium/thorium, coal and industrial minerals. He has developed and managed exploration and subsequent feasibility studies for all of these commodities. His effectiveness in exploring for and evaluating deposits is enhanced by many years of operational experience developing and managing producing surface and underground mines.

Greg has held senior and executive positions in mining and exploration companies and in engineering firms and contractors which specialize in services to the minerals industry. He has been employed by and/or consulted for many well known North American mining and mining service companies, including Dravo, Consol, Tenneco Oil Company, Canadian Mines Services, Echo Bay Mines, Homestake, and Coeur d Alene Mines Corp, as well as numerous mid-cap and developing mining companies. Greg's mining experience is international, including assignments in Canada, the US (including two major projects in Alaska), Guyana, Venezuela, Chile, Australia, Mexico, Madagascar, and several EU countries. He has worked for over 16 years in the Guyana Shield. Greg completed a B.Sc. in mining engineering plus graduate level course work at Missouri School of Mines in 1973. He has been a registered Professional Mining Engineer for over 25 years.

Mr. Sparks devotes his full time toward the Company's affairs. In his employment agreement, Mr. Sparks has agreed not to render services for others without the express written approval of the board of the Company. However, his contract acknowledges that he is a Director of African Queen Mines Ltd. and as such is entitled to render technical advice and otherwise perform his duties thereunder without being in breach of this provision. He has entered into a non-disclosure agreement with the Company.

John G. Booth – Chairman of the Board

Mr. Booth is a Partner and Investment Manager with JAS Financial Products LLP in London.  He has more than twenty years of experience in global capital markets as an investment banker, lawyer and investor much of which includes mineral and natural resource companies.   Following a brief stint as a lawyer on Bay Street, he moved to London in 1990 to join Merrill Lynch International and has also worked for ICAP, ABN AMRO, CIBC, the World Bank and Climate Change Capital prior to joining JAS-FP in 2004.  He has also co-founded three financial services companies, one of which was sold, one merged, and one remains private.  He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Laramide Resources (LAM.T), a uranium development company, and as a nominee Director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He is on the board of several other public and private companies as well as the Ottowa RiverKeeper Charity.  He is a dual Canadian/UK citizen and holds degrees in biology (BSc) and law (LLB, JD, LLM).

Irwin A. Olian, Jr. – Director

Mr. Olian is an entrepreneur with a strong background in finance and law. Since February 28, 2003, Mr. Olian serves as the Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of African Queen Mines Ltd., a resource company listed on the Exchange. Mr. Olian was the founder and served as CEO and Chairman of Pan African until its acquisition by Asia Thai Mining Co., Ltd. in June 2008. He has developed a business as a self-employed private investment banker and business consultant to emerging companies, in diverse fields ranging from biotechnology to high technology. His clients have included NASDAQ companies. In addition, he has been serving as chief executive officer of Famous Entertainment, Ltd., a privately-held independent motion picture company. Mr. Olian was a co-founder and principal shareholder of North American Scientific, Inc., a Los Angeles based manufacturer of radioisotope products for the medical industry, including seeds implanted for the treatment of prostate cancer. NASI has grown from a startup to a successful NASDAQ company. Mr. Olian's prior finance experience includes a position as Senior Vice President, Investments, with Sutro & Co. Inc., a long-established investment banking and brokerage firm in San Francisco. He also served as Vice President of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. Mr. Olian's legal experience includes a position as a Senior Attorney for Warner Bros. Inc. at Burbank Studios for five years, a position as a business affairs executive with a talent agency, International Creative Management, and positions as a corporate attorney with Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel in Los Angeles, and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco. He graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics and received his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Mark Lotz, CA - Chief Financial Officer, Director

Mr. Lotz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a joint major in Economics. He is a Canadian Chartered Accountant with 17 years of post-qualification experience, most of which has been in the minerals industry and minerals related securities business.

Mr. Lotz has held CFO and other senior financial positions with several well-known mining and exploration companies. He has also served as a senior executive officer for two well-known Vancouver based securities firms. Prior to that, he served as a financial compliance officer for the Vancouver Stock exchange, following four years as a Senior Auditor with Coopers and Lybrand, focusing on the mining and tax sectors.

Ardito Martohardjono – Director

Mr. Martohardjono has 20 years of experience in the mineral exploration service industry, focusing on sample preparation as a lab technician and supervisor with two geochemical laboratories in Canada and the United States. From 1999 to 2001 he served as Sample Preparation Supervisor for Bondar Clegg Canada Ltd. in Vancouver and Branch Manager of Bondar Clegg's Fairbanks, Alaska laboratory, as well as Prep Client Services Office Coordinator for ALS Chemex in Vancouver from 1997 to 1999. Briefly in 2004 Mr. Martohardjono also acted as Interim Branch Manager in Fairbanks, Alaska for ALS Chemex. Among his many responsibilities was ensuring compliance with laboratory's ISO quality assurance program. Currently Mr. Martohardjono also serves as Director and VP of Laboratory Services for African Queen Mines Ltd., a resource company listed on the Exchange.

Dr. Edward A. Schiller, P.Geol., Director

Pursuant to an agreement dated July 18, 2005, Dr. Schiller has agreed to act, as an independent contractor, as a Senior Geological Consultant for the Company for a term commencing July 18, 2005 and continuing through December 31, 2006. Dr. Schiller brings over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration, project management, acquisitions, financing, joint venture negotiations and corporate governance to the Company. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he graduated with a degree in geology from Michigan State University in 1956, and obtained his Ph.D. in mineralogy at the University of Utah in 1963. Dr. Schiller was the Resident Geologist of the Northwest Territories Geological Survey of Canada from 1964 – 1966. He has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, England, Australia, Brazil and African and South East Asian countries, including Madagascar. Dr. Schiller has consulted for the United Nations on a gemstone project in Mozambique and a mining project in Greece. He has visited other countries on mining related projects, including Vietnam, Botswana and diamond mines in Yakutia, Russia and China.

Dr. Schiller is a former director of Dia Met Minerals Ltd., and is best known for supervising the drilling which led to the discovery of the first diamond-bearing kimberlite at Pointe Lake in 1991 (now part of the Ekati Mine production). He has written extensively on the Lac de Gras diamond discoveries and has presented several papers on this subject at national and international meetings. Dr. Schiller writes for several Canadian and international magazines on mining and mineral exploration and maintains a consulting practice.