| Nolan Watson Position: President, CEO and Director  Mr. Watson is the former Chief Financial Officer of Silver Wheaton Corp., a mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. In that role, Mr. Watson helped raise over US$1 billion in debt and equity to fund Silver Wheaton's growth. Mr. Watson is a Chartered Accountant, holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder and received a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with honours, from the University of British Columbia. He has won numerous awards for his professional and charitable achievements including the Early Achievement Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award. Mr. Watson is also President, CEO and Director of Sandstorm Metals & Energy Ltd. and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Bear Creek Mining Corp. | |
| David Awram Position: Executive Vice President and Director  Until July 2008, Mr. Awram was the Director of Investor Relations for Silver Wheaton Corp., a mining company based in Vancouver and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to his role with Silver Wheaton he was Manager, Investor Relations with Diamond Fields International Ltd. Mr. Awram graduated in 1996 from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology. Mr. Awram is also the Executive Vice President and a Director with Sandstorm Metals & Energy Ltd. | |
| Ron Ho Position: Vice President, Finance  Mr. Ho joined Sandstorm after serving as the Chief Financial Officer for SNS Silver Corporation, where he contributed to equity capital raises and project evaluation and development. Prior to that, Mr. Ho was an Equity Analyst at Raymond James Ltd. where he was responsible for sector institutional research. Mr. Ho began his career at Deloitte & Touche, focusing on public company financial reporting in both the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Ho is a Chartered Accountant, holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder and received a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Ho is also a Director with Americas Petrogas Inc. | |
| Erfan Kazemi Position: CFO  Mr. Kazemi is a former Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers. In that role, he worked primarily in the mining and forestry sectors where he assisted clients in areas such as public financings, mergers and acquisitions, US/SEC securities filings, and various other areas. He has managed the audits of billion dollar multinational entities and also co-authored several publications including the annual BC Mining Industry Survey. Mr. Kazemi articled with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he obtained the Chartered Accountant designation and is a graduate of the University of British Columbia where he received a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics).In the Community, Mr. Kazemi serves as Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Public Library Board, is an officer of the Vancouver Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and is a former member of the University Of British Columbia Board of Governors. He has received numerous awards including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia's Community Service Award and the University of British Columbia Alumni Association's Outstanding Future Alumnus Award. | |
| Andrew T. Swarthout Position: Director  Mr. Swarthout is CEO and Director of Bear Creek Mining Corp. a multi-asset silver company based in Peru. Prior to Bear Creek, Mr. Swarthout was an officer and member of the management committee of Southern Peru Copper Corporation where he participated in decision making during a dynamic period of corporate expansions, financing and project development. As Vice-President of Exploration from 1995 to 2000, he was directly responsible for two major discoveries, as well as reserve expansions on the order of 200 per cent on the Southern Peru Copper's two porphyry copper deposits.Mr. Swarthout has participated in several deposit discoveries and reserve expansions in North and South America which are in production, or which will be in production in the future. Mr. Swarthout has participated in project permitting and financing, has managed several prefeasibility and financial scoping studies and has evaluated reserves on numerous precious and base metals deposits. Mr. Swarthout served as a member of the National Mining Society of Peru's Committee for the Promotion of Private Investment, where he initiated favourable environmental and taxation policies to promote foreign mining investment in Peru. | |
| David E. De Witt Position: Director  Mr. De Witt is a founder and chairman of Pathway Capital Ltd., a Vancouver based private venture capital company. Mr. De Witt graduated with a BComm/LLB from the University of British Columbia in 1978 and practiced corporate, securities and mining law until his retirement from the practice of law in January 1997. He currently holds directorships in a number of public companies involved in the natural resource field and has experience in resource projects located in Latin America, North America and Asia. | |
| John P. A. Budreski Position: Director  Mr. Budreski has been involved in capital markets since 1987 and is currently the Vice Chairman of Cormark Securities Inc. Previously, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Orion Securities Inc. and Orion Financial Inc. from March 2005 up to its sale at the end of 2007. Prior to Orion, Mr. Budreski was the Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets, Managing Director of the US Institutional Equity Group and Head of Investment Banking for Scotia Capital Inc. He also held senior management roles in investment banking and equity sales and trading for RBC Dominion Securities and worked for Toronto Dominion Bank. Mr. Budreski holds a MBA from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. |