Management

Ian Harris, a mining engineer with over 25 years of global mining experience, including 15 years in South America and Colombia, has successfully advanced a wide range of projects, demonstrating his leadership in diverse and challenging environments. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of AMAK Mining and Para Resources. Mr. Harris was also Senior Vice President and Country Manager of Corriente Resources through feasibility, initial engineering, and commencement of construction at the Mirador mine in Ecuador. He successfully led the push to reactivate Corriente's mining projects in Ecuador by building national and local support and navigating through a new constitution and a new mining law, leading to the sale of Corriente for $690 million. Mr. Harris is bilingual in Spanish and English.

Mr. Scott is an accomplished professional with 20+ years professional experience in accounting and corporate compliance, corporate finance, and merchant and commercial banking. He is a CPA, CA and a CFA Charterholder and has spent the last 18 years as a Senior Officer and Director of a number of issuers listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. In that time he has helped raise in excess of $200 million in equity and has gained extensive experience in initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, as well as cost effective management of operations.

He currently holds Management and Board Positions with a number of TSX-V Listed Issuers.

Mr. Hernández is an accomplished Economic Geologist with a background in exploration, mining and resource estimation. He has fifteen plus years of relevant experience in the mining industry. He previously held positions at corporate and operational levels in various companies including Lundin Gold Inc., Altaley Mining Corp, and Gold Resource Corp. He has participated in the discovery and development of various types of mineral deposits such epithermal gold-silver systems, gold-silver and base-metal skarns, and VMS deposits. Many of his discoveries are currently mining operations. He has experience working all over Mexico, Central and South America, and Japan. His background includes managing large multidisciplinary teams.

Mr. Hernández holds a BS degree with honors in Geological Engineering, and a Masters in Geochemistry, from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. He is currently an active member of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Society of America, and the Mineralogical Society of America. He has published several peer-reviewed papers and memorandums.

Melissa Martensen is an experienced administrator with over 12 years as a corporate secretary, primarily in junior mining companies. Prior to transitioning to junior mining, she worked in private banking at RBC. Ms. Martensen graduated with a degree in finance from UNBC in Prince George. She is a member of the Governance Professionals of Canada.

Ms. Li brings over 15 years of investor relations management and capital market experience, primarily in natural resources. She has worked as Investor Relations Manager for Silvercorp Metals Inc., where she led investor relations, capital market and corporate communications for the company and played a significant role in marketing various mining projects in Canada, South America and China. Previously, she was the Vice President of Investor Relations at Christensen IR, a leading investor relations consulting firm in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing, where she managed over 30 publicly traded Asian/Chinese companies across the board, including pre-IPOs, NASDAQ, NYSE, Amex and OTCB in capital market intelligence, media relations and investor relations. Ms. Li holds a Master’s Degree in public relations from the University of Houston and a Diploma in Accounting from the University of British Columbia.