Corporate

Mr. Neil Maedel is a Thailand-based financier specializing in international resource projects. Previously he was the Director, Business Development for Manas Petroleum Corp. when it assembled the majority of its high impact portfolio. He is the author of Switzerland based, Maedel's, a market commentary with a focus on resource and biotech companies that was founded in 1988. His company Andean Invest Ltd. advises and invests in resource companies and recently advised Pan American regarding its restructuring. Prior to starting Maedel's Neil was an editorial writer for Canada Stockwatch. He began his career in the securities industry in 1979, first as a professional stock trader and later as a researcher. Over the past two decades, he has published analyses and assisted in financing resource companies such as Ultra Petroleum, Velvet Exploration, and Manas Petroleum.

A lawyer, expert in Argentinean mining law, Vice President of the Argentine-Chilean Chamber of Commerce, Director of the Executive Committee and President of the Mining Committee of the Argentine Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the President of the Argentine Mining Foundation (FUNDAMIN). He was President of Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. from 1999-2006, during which the Veladero Gold Mine, Argentina's largest gold mine, was built and placed into production. Mr. Celorrio is the author of Argentine Mining Legal Framework (1998). He was the former VP of Minera Peñoles, and a Director of Northern Orion and Yamana Resources in Argentina.

Mr. George Young, B.S., J.S.D., has had an extensive career in the mining business with a focus on the Americas. Most prominently, from Feb 2005 to February 2008, he was the Vice President and Director of International Royalty Corporation, a global mineral royalty company with interests in over 85 mining projects on five continents, in 12 countries. During this period IRC acquired its flagship interests in the giant Voisey's Bay nickel deposit and Barrick Gold Corporation's giant Chile, Pascua gold project. Mr. Young was also the founding President and a director of MAG Silver Corp. during which the company acquired and began development of its Juanicipio and Sierra de Rameraz precious metal exploration assets.

Mr. Gary Parkison is an accomplished geologist and project manager with diverse expertise regarding the exploration and development of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, and uranium projects. Mr. Parkison was formerly the Vice President-Exploration and Development for Constellation Copper Corporation and Chief Geologist for Cambior USA, Inc. He also worked as an exploration geologist for Westmont Mining, Inc., and Nicor Mineral Ventures. Mr. Parkison has participated in or been credited for a number of large copper and gold discoveries, and also has had significant experience in the successful completion of feasibility studies and mine development projects. Gary has a B.S. degree in geology from UCLA and an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently President of Praxis Mining Consultants LLC.

Bruno Le Barber is a co-founder of Vortex Capital, its Managing Director and co-CIO of Vortex Capital Global Precious Metals Fund Ltd. Prior to that time, Mr. Le Barber was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley in London Global Market Trading Strategy team , which advised a proprietary trading desk and a large base of Alternative Investment Funds, and was part of a team publishing macro-economic studies on a regular basis. Mr. Le Barber also previously served as a global technical strategist and pan-European institutional sales person with ABN Amro in Paris for over two years. Mr. Le Barber began his career as an assistant portfolio manager at Leven Gestion in Paris in 1997, where he took part in the investment committee and was involved in stock selection. Mr. Le Barber holds a Business Degree from Bordeaux's Essica.

Mr. Randy Buchamer has an extensive background in business administration and finance. He is the chairman of RewardStream a private B.C., Canada based technology company. Prior to this, Mr. Buchamer was the CEO of Voice Mobility and directed its transformation into a profitable company. Mr. Buchamer was also the Managing Director, Operations for The $5 billion revenues, 25,000 employee, Jim Patterson Group. Prior to this Mr. Buchamer was first the CIO and later the COO of Mohawk Oil Company Ltd. during its restructuring, corporate turnaround and listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At the time Mohawk was one of Canada's largest independent petroleum and convenience store retailers. Mr. Buchamer's background includes formal education in business administration and finance at Simon Fraser University and the University of Illinois as well as significant experience in SEC, TSX.V, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance matters.

Mr. Di Nanno is an Argentina-based mining engineer. His activities in Argentina are extensive. He was the Country Manager in Argentina for Phelps Dodge Corporation developing the Arroyo Cascada Gold deposit, an early stage gold exploration project placed in Chubut Province; Commercial Development Manager, Argentina for the Queensland Government; COO in Argentina for the Grosso Group. In the areas of acquisition, development and exploration his clients included MIM Exploration, developing a comprehensive regional geological study of northern Patagonia in Argentina; COMINCO, cooperating on a metallogenic Patagonia zone data base; Viceroy Resources, working on the acquisition of gold exploration projects in Rio Negro Province such as Cerro Choique, a disseminated gold deposit and others; Cyprus Minerals; Mauricio Hochschild, collaborating on issues related to permitting of the San Jose project; Bema Gold;, and Northern Orion, acquisition of polimetallic projects in Chubut Province.

Mr. Di Nanno is credited with discovering the 3.2 million oz gold Aeropuerto deposit in Chubut Province when he was the Zone Manager for Canyon Resources. The Aeropuerto was later renamed Esquel.

Mr. Salil Dhaumya, B.Com. CMA, has extensive experience providing financial services to both public and private companies in the areas of finance, administration and public accounting. These include Heli-One where Mr. Dhaumya was a business analyst when it was created with the goal of providing worldwide support to its parent CHC Helicopters. Prior to this he was a controller for Aquilini Group a conglomerate based in British Columbia. Mr. Dhaumya's is also the Corporate Controller for Advanced Alloys Corp. a supplier of beryllium related alloys as well as non-ferrous alloys for industrial applications. Mr. Dhaumya has provided financial services to Pan American Goldfields since 2007 and was appointed as its CFO in September 2009.

Mr. Flores bring 30 years experience managing and operating mines in several locations in Mexico. He is currently our General Manager for Mexican operations focusing on our gold-silver project near Chihuahua. He holds a MSc., Colorado School of Mines and a BS Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua.

Dr. Becker co-founded Manas Petroleum Corp. Previously he was a director of Australian start-up, Perseus Mining Limited (now $3 billion market cap), when it was formed in 2002. Dr. Becker also identified and acquired the original assets of Perseus spin-out Manas Resources. In 1997 Alex was Vice President Exploration, Asia, for Apex Silver Mines, which at the time was controlled by Paul and George Soros, and Thomas Kaplan. Apex accumulated what was then one of the largest, privately controlled portfolios of silver exploration properties in the world. He identified the gold potential and acquired Chaarat for Apex where 4.4 million ounces of gold (resource) has since been outlined. Dr. Becker has consulted for both Barrick Gold (Asia) and Santa Fe Gold prior to its acquisition by Newmont. Dr. Becker was a senior researcher for the Ramon Science Center at Ben Gurion University and won the Peres Award for tectonic research awarded for being the Kyrgyz region's top mapping geologist. Dr. Becker has authored numerous papers in international scientific journals including Bulletin of Geological Society of America, Tectonophysics, Structural Geology, and International Geology Review. He holds an M.Sc. in Geology from the Tomsk State University and a Ph.D. in Structural Geology from the Academy of Science in Frunze, Kyrgyzstan.

Alexander Borisenko Dr. Sci.. Dr. Borisenko is head of the ore-deposit geology department at Novosibirsk State University in Russia and he is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, Siberia Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. As an expert on ore-deposit formation and metallogeny, his work resulted in the discovery of a silver belt currently estimated to contain 3.8 billion ounces of silver at SE Altai and NW Mongolia where he also identified a number of economic Ag-Sb deposits. Dr. Borisenko is also credited with the discovery of the Central Khangai gold-belt and the resulting discovery of large gold placers including Harguyt and Twin-goal. In Southern Mongolia he discovered several gold deposits including Bumbat and Unegen-Del. For his discovery of the silver belt at SE Altai and NW Mongolia he received a medal from the Union of Communist Republics. Dr. Borisenko is a member of the editorial board for the Scientific Journal of Russian Geology and Geophysics. In 2011 he received the State of Vietnam's Friendship Medal for his research regarding economic geology in that country.

Dr. Fedor Zhimulev  MSc. PhD , Honors, Novosibirsk  State University. Former senior researcher at the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science. He has extensive experience  conducting fieldwork in regions of Russia (Siberia, Transbaikalia, Far East, Middle Asia- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and India.  Dr. Zhimulev published 14 papers (in Gondwana Research, Russian Geology and Geophysics, Terra Nova, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences), about tectonics and geological development history of  northern Kazakhstan, Siberia and central Asia. He collaborated with Ghent University (Belgium) and divisions of the Russian and Kazakhstan geology service- Sakhalin geological exploration expedition, Kokchetav geological exploration expedition. Fedor was ppointed leader 2009-2011 of the Institute's junior scientists community.  He has taught structural geology and geological mapping including field practice at the department of general and regional geology Novosibirsk State University and is an author of two books on these topics.  In 2011 he was awarded by the Academician Sobolev prize for junior scientists from the Siberian branch Russian Academy of Science.