| 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 Valedictorian of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and was recognized as one of the "Most Motivated" CFA's in the world by CFA Magazine. Mr. Watson is also President & CEO of Sandstorm Metals & Energy and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Gold Wheaton. | |
| David Awram Position: Executive Vice President of Corporate Development 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 TSX and the NYSE. 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 of Corporate Development and a Director at Sandstorm Metals & Energy. | |
| 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. He 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 and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Ho is also the Vice-President, Finance for Sandstorm Metals & Energy. | |
| Andrew T. Swarthout Position: Director  Mr. Swarthout is the President and Director of Bear Creek Mining Company. Formerly he 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 for Southern Peru Copper from 1995 to 2000, he was directly responsible for two new major discoveries, as well as reserve expansions on the order of 200 per cent on the company's two porphyry copper deposits.Mr. Swarthout has participated in several deposit discoveries and reserve expansions in North America and South America, which are in production, or which will be placed into production in the future. Mr. Swarthout has a career history of successful ore deposit discoveries and management of negotiations for the acquisition of projects in Latin America and the U.S. Mr. Swarthout has participated in project permitting and financing, as well as managing several prefeasibility and financial scoping studies and has evaluated reserves on numerous precious and base metals deposits. Prior to this, Mr. Swarthout was the exploration manager (Mexico) for Kennecott Copper. 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 a Managing Director, Investment Banking at 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 this, he filled the roles of a Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets and Head of Investment Banking for Scotia Capital Inc. after starting out as a Managing Director of US Institutional Equity Group for Scotia Capital. He also held senior management roles in investment banking and equity sales and trading for RBC Dominion Securities and worked for Toronto Dominion Bank. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering | |
| Krysta Chapman Position: CFO Ms. Chapman is a Chartered Accountant (UFE Honour Roll member) and holds both a Masters Degree in Accounting (with Honours) and a Bachelor's of Mathematics in Accounting from the University of Waterloo. Ms. Chapman is currently the controller of the Vancouver based private venture capital firm, Pathway Capital Ltd. Previously, she was a professional staff accountant with an international accounting firm where she gained valuable experience senioring large teams for audits under Canadian and US GAAP for public multi-national clients (including major mining companies). |