Mr. Carlos Adamo is a seasoned and well respected businessman in Argentina. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the following large corporations: (i) BGH S.A., an Uruguayan company involved in home appliances and telecommunications, (ii) Biblos America Corp., a U.S. company involved in the tourism industry and (iii) Rimud S.A., an Argentine real estate developer. Previously, Mr. Adamo was the CEO of Banco del Sud since 1991 and, afterwards, its President until December, 1995. In August 1971 he joined BankBoston – Argentina where he held several positions until 1982 when he was appointed CEO, a position he served until he left the bank in 1991. Mr. Adamo holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration and in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires. Mr. Adamo also graduated from Harvard Business School.

 

Alberto F. Orcoyen has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and a MBA from Harvard Business School. Throughout his eminent career, he has held senior management positions with various industrial companies and financial institutions including Bank of Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank and the Techint Group. In 1992, Mr. Orcoyen joined the Miguens Bemberg Group, which among other businesses was a joint venture partner with Brancote Holdings PLC of London and was the 50% owner of Minera El Desquite S.A., a private junior company, that discovered the high grade Esquel gold deposit in 1997, which was later acquired by Meridian Gold. Since 2003, Mr. Orcoyen, in partnership with Carlos Massa and the Benetton Group in Argentina, participated in the creation of MSA and later Latin American Minerals Inc. before resigning in 2007. Mr Orcoyen has also been a director of Minera Don Nicolás S.A. a private company that developed and constructed the Don Nicolas operating mine, located in Santa Cruz province in Argentina.

 

Mr Dranovsky is the CEO of Compañía de Tierras Sud Argentino S.A., a subsidiary of the Benetton Group in Argentina, controlling more than 1.0 million hectares of land through several ranches in the provinces of Patagonia and Buenos Aires devoted to livestock and agricultural products. He started his professional career in Argentina’s Ministry of Economy as an analyst of the Undersecretariat of Economic Coordination. Between 2004-2007 he held a position at HSBC Bank as an Agricultural Business Officer. In 2007, he joined Grupo Bermejo, a holding company that manages companies in the agricultural sector, where he later served as CEO. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Hillel Argentina Foundation. Mr. Dranovsky holds a Master’s degree in Argrobusiness from the University of CEMA.

Hugo Dragonetti (Jr) is a lawyer graduated at the Universidad Católica Argentina, in 2002. He has also obtained a postgraduate degree in Direction and Management of Construction Enterprises organized by the IAE (Management and Business School at the Universidad Austral). Since 2002 he is Director of Panedile Argentina S.A.I.C.F.e I. integrating the different Executive Committees at the UTE (JVA) where Panedile is member or party. Panedile is a company with over sixty years of experience in the construction and management of large civil works and infrastructure doing business in the hydraulic, road building complexes, mining and sanitation sectors. He is also Vice President of Desarrollos Mineros Argentinos S.A.

Mr. Taussig has 25 years of experience in financial services with Spencer Stuart. He manages the firm’s Buenos Aires office and is a member of the firm’s Consumer and Financial Services practices. Before joining the firm, Pablo worked for Merchant Bankers Asociados (MBA), where he was managing director and head of the asset management group. Prior to joining MBA, Pablo worked for Banco Francés del Río de la Plata, beginning as an investment banking manager and rising to become manager of the international division. He started his professional career at Bullrich SA de Inversiones, and gained further financial experience at Exprinter Casa Bancaria in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he served as chief financial officer. Pablo is a board member for San Miguel S.A., a leading fruit processing company in Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa. Pablo holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad Católica Argentina and a master’s in economics from the University of Notre Dame. He also studied in the Tuck Executive Education program at Dartmouth College in 1996.

Mr. Andersen has over 25 years of experience as a director and senior officer of numerous private and public companies. His mining experience spans two decades and covers entities in South America, North America and Africa. Mr. Andersen is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.

 

 

Mr. White presently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Backstageplay Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia (TSXV.H) and Parlay Games Inc. of Burlington, Ontario. Prior to that time, from February 1999 to September 2011, Mr. White served as the Chief Executive Officer of Parlay Entertainment Inc. which was listed on the TSXV. From 1990 to 2000, Mr. White was engaged as a lawyer in the Province of Ontario, practicing in the areas of corporate/commercial law, administrative law and business law where he serviced a multinational, primarily corporate client base. In addition to practicing law, Mr. White has been involved in a number of private and public enterprises as a director, officer and investor. Mr. White was a founding shareholder or director of Parlay Entertainment Inc. (now Backstageplay Inc. – TSXV), Rattlesnake Ventures Inc. (now Minsud Resources Corp), Taggart Capital Corp. (now Proreit Real Estate Investment Trust – TSXV), Triumph Ventures II Corporation (TSXV), and he was a founding partner of Bush Frankel White Barristers & Solicitors. From October 2007 to May 2011, Mr. White held the position of President and Chief Executive Office of Rattlesnake Ventures Inc.