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Richard McNeely
Reno, Nevada
Position: Director
Mr. McNeely has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada-Reno, he is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and he is a member of the Engineering Honour Society Tau Beta Phi. Early in Mr. McNeely's career he worked in the design construction and start-up of the Jerrit Canyon Operation for Freeport Gold Company. Mr. McNeely was able to complete the Jerrit Canyon Operation ahead of schedule and under budget. He then became Project Manager of U.S. Gold's Victor Operation in Cripple Creek, Colorado, whereby his efforts resulted in profits to the operation after eighteen consecutive months of loss. In 1984, Nerco Minerals ('Nerco') purchased the Victor Operation and Nerco asked that Mr. McNeely remain to help with a plant expansion and training of Nerco personnel in the peculiarities of the mine and vat leach system. In 1985, Mr. McNeely was employed as manager of the Tonkin Springs Project for U.S. Gold (Silver State Mining) and completed construction and began operations on schedule and on budget. He was subsequently promoted to Vice-President of Operations and opened the Exploration and Operations office in Reno, Nevada. Following this, Mr. McNeely become Mine Regional Manager for Western States Minerals and he succeeded in bringing the Northumberland Mine back onto schedule and oversaw the doubling of the plant size. He worked for Western States Minerals as a consultant before joining them full time to manage the Exploration and Feasibility Study of the Chartam Project. During this time, Mr. McNeely also completed two other feasibility studies for other clients, including hand designed mine plans. He then became the principal of McNeely Consulting and Management where he assumed the management of underground operations in Central Nevada and South East Arizona. From the years 1992 to 1998, Mr. McNeely was President and a Director of Cobre. Cobre's principle asset, the Continental Mine was purchased by Mr. Ward and Mr. McNeely for US$8.3 million in 1993. Over the next four years, costs were reduced by 50% while production increased by 300% and mining reserves grew by over 500%. Cobre was sold in 1998 at a premium of +100% to the market price.
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| | | William Blundell
Toronto, Ontario
Position: Director
Mr. Blundell's principal occupation is that of corporate director. Over the course of the last 5 years, Mr. Blundell has served as an outside director for a number of publicly listed companies, including, Cableserv Inc., Alcan Inc., Kasten Chase Applied Research and Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. Mr. Blundell has also served as the Chairman of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (a crown corporation in Canada) and has served as Vice-Chairman of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, a not-for-profit organization. Between 1994 and 2000, Mr. Blundell served as Chairman of the Board for Manulife Financial Corporation. Mr. Blundell also serves as a director of Cabelserv Inc.
In 1949, Mr. Blundell graduated from the University of Toronto with a BASc in Engineering Physics and received his designation as a professional engineer in 1950.
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| | | Norman F. Findlay
Toronto, Ontario
Position: Director
Norman F. Findlay has been a partner in the law firm of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in Toronto since 1996. He is primarily engaged in securities law with an emphasis on public offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions and takeovers. His practice also involves private placements of debt and equity securities, mining law and general corporate transactions. Mr. Findlay has been recognized by LEXPERT as a leading practitioner in the mining finance area and by The Best Lawyers in Canada in the Natural Resources Area. He has acted as lead counsel for issuers and investment dealers in a number of significant financings and M&A transactions. Mr. Findlay has also spoken at a number of conferences in North and South America on topics relating to securities law, mining law and corporate governance.
Mr. Findlay is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and is also an International Associate of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section, Section of International Law and Practice, the International Securities Transactions Committee and the Canadian Law Committee). Mr. Findlay received a BA from the University of Toronto, a Certificate in Law and Economics and an MA in Economics from the University of Miami and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1988.
Mr. Findlay has served as a director to the following public companies; Cobre Mining Company Inc. (March 1997 to February 1998), Rentcash Inc. and its predecessor, Larkfield Capital Corporation (May 2000 to May 2002), Rodin Communications Corporation (October 2000 to July 2001) and Metallic Ventures Gold Inc. (May 1998 to present).
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| | | Rand A. Lomas
Toronto, Ontario
Position: Director
Mr. Lomas is the Chairman and CEO of L.V. Lomas Limited, one of Canada's largest specialty chemical distribution corporations. L.V. Lomas Limited operates sizeable warehousing and distribution facilities in Brampton, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Lomas is also counsel to the Canadian law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. During the years 1977 - 2001, he practiced law actively with that firm and its predecessors. His practice involved general corporate transactions, public offerings of securities, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers and private placements of debt and equity instruments. Mr. Lomas is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Upper Canada. He received a BA from Carleton University and an LLB from the University of Windsor Law School and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1977.
Mr. Lomas has served as a director of a number of Canadian private corporations during the past 5 years. In addition, he has been a Trustee and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Health Care and Biotechnology Venture Fund.
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| | | Miles Bachman
Reno, Nevada
Position: President & Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bachman has over 15 years of accounting and corporate controller related experience in the mining industry. Prior to being appointed as President and the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Bachman served as a financial controller for a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation between the periods of November, 2001 to September, 2002 where he was responsible for overseeing all financial and managerial accounting functions and reporting for the Newmont satellite office located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior thereto, between the periods of March 1999 to October 2001 Mr. Bachman served as a senior accountant for Newmont Mining Corporation North American operations where he was responsible for performing cost accounting for process operations and was responsible for the preparation of budgets and forecasts of the Newmont North American mining operations. Mr. Bachman served as a consultant to Phelps Dodge Mining Company ("Phelps") through the transition year of 1998 to 1999 after Phelps acquired Cobre Mining Company Inc., where Mr. Bachman was previously employed since 1993 as mine site controller and chief accountant. Mr. Bachman also served in various capacities with U.S. Gold Corporation and Dee Mining Company.
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| | | Robert Bennett
Reno, Nevada
Position: Vice President Exploration
Mr. Bennett graduated with a Bachelor's degree in geology (1970) from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and earned a Master's degree in geology (1974) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr. Bennett has 34 years of continuous professional experience in the field of minerals exploration including fieldwork in the western United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. Throughout his career Mr. Bennett has specialized in reconnaissance level exploration programs and project generation, and has broad experience in exploration project management. For the past 21 years, Mr. Bennett's mineral exploration career has been devoted to the search for gold and silver deposits, mainly based in the western United States, but including field time in Mexico and Chile. During his professional career, Mr. Bennett has been employed as an economic geologist by a number of mining and exploration companies including: Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1973-1980), Gold Fields Mining Corporation (1981-1983), Lac Minerals (USA), Inc. (1984-1994), Western States Minerals (1995), Romarco Minerals Inc. (1996-2001), and Metallic Ventures Gold Inc. (2001-present). In addition, Mr. Bennett also spent several months as a consulting geologist for the Barrick Gold Corporation exploring for gold in the El Indio and Tambo mine complexes in central Chile (1995). Mr. Bennett became the Chief Geologist for Romarco Minerals in 1997, where he remained until the purchase of Romarco's U.S. assets by Metallic Ventures Gold Inc. in the spring of 2001. Mr. Bennett currently serves as the Company's Vice President Exploration. He is assigned to on-going exploration activities for projects of the Company. Of significant note regarding the highlights of Mr. Bennett's geological career of 34 years is the acquisition and discovery of the Rosebud gold-sliver deposit located southwest of Winnemucca, Nevada (1988), and the delineation of the Gold Crown Vein gold-silver deposit for Romarco Minerals Inc. (1996). Mr. Bennett was also responsible for the acquisition of the Goldfield project for Romarco Minerals (1998).
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