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Richard Nemis

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Nemis was born in Sudbury, Ontario Canada 1938, graduated St. Charles College, Sudbury Ontario, University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall Law School and called to the bar in the province of Ontario as Barrister and Solicitor in 1968. He practiced law continuously until approximately 1995, in the field of corporate, commercial and securities law. Mr. Nemis established Noront Resources Ltd. in 1983 and continued to act in a senior management position as President and CEO. In the fall of 2008 he was named Chairman Emeritus of Noront in recognition of his contributions to the company's success which included the discovery of "The Ring of Fire" McFaulds Lake area, north eastern Ontario. In 2010 Mr. Nemis was a co-recipient of the Bill Dennis Award for a Canadian discovery for prospecting success by the Prospectors and Developers Association at its annual convention held in Toronto, Ontario. Over a forty year span, Nemis is and has been associated with numerous resource companies.

John Harvey

Chief Operating Officer and Director

Mr. Harvey received a Bachelor of Science from the University of New Brunswick in 1959. He received his P.Eng designation in 1964. Mr. Harvey has been active in the mining industry since 1955. Recently he has worked as V.P. Exploration for United Carina Resources, Prospectors Alliance Corp., Western Copper Holdings Limited and Prime Equities Inc. Mr. Harvey was Sr.V.P. of Exploration for Noranda Inc. from 1982 to 1994 and most recently COO of Noront Resources Ltd. Mr. Harvey runs his own geological consulting firm.

David B. Graham -
Executive Vice President and Director

Since 1986, David Graham has been President of R. Bruce Graham and Associates Ltd., a natural resource management and mining consultation firm that was founded in 1956. Active in the mineral exploration industry since an early age, Mr. Graham received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo in 1983. Since that time, his technical and corporate management experience has been wide ranging in the areas of base and precious metals, uranium, industrial minerals and organic materials. Mr. Graham has worked extensively in Canada as well as the United States, Scandinavia and Africa. His experience has frequently included working with aboriginal people and regulatory agencies on projects that ranged from a grass roots stage to production. Mr. Graham has acted as a Director and/or senior officer of a number of private and public companies. Most recently, Mr. Graham acted as a Director and Vice President of Noront Resources Ltd. between October 2006 and January 2010. As a Director of Noront, Mr. Graham was part of the team that reviewed and approved the acquisition of Double Eagle claims that led to the discovery of a number of mineral deposits in the James Bay Lowlands, dubbed "The Ring of Fire". As Vice President of special projects, Mr. Graham provided support to Noront management from the post discovery stage through two additional management changes. Mr. Graham specializes in bridging the corporate technical gap for natural resource based companies.

Amy Stephenson, MBA, CFA -
Chief Financial Officer and Director

Amy Stephenson has over twenty years as an experienced corporate finance professional. Ms. Stephenson has provided accounting, finance, compliance, independent valuation and strategic advice to mining and exploration companies internationally

Jim Glover - Director

Jim Glover is an Assurance Partner in a midsized CA firm in Toronto which acts as auditors for Canadian and U.S. public companies. He articled with a national firm. Jim's public practice experience is mainly with companies involved in the mining, manufacturing and distribution sectors. He has been engaged in the audits of exploration and development companies for over thirty years.

Jerry Bulman - Director

Mr. Bulman is the CEO and founder of Parkvalley Consulting Ltd., a private company based in Calgary, AB that provides consulting services to the resource sector. With over 30 years of senior management experience, Mr. Bulman has been involved with the exploration and development of a diverse range of projects. These include oil & gas, coal bed methane and oil sands developments, as well as several projects in the mining sector. In addition to his duties as CEO of Parkvalley Consulting Ltd., Mr. Bulman is Director of Galena International Resources Ltd. Mr. Bulman currently provides Senior Consulting services to two major international energy companies in support of their Arctic and North American frontier exploration operations.

Gary F. Zak -Director

Mr. Zak has been active for the past 28 years providing Business Development management to public resource companies. He has extensive experience in funding early stage companies, organizing management, corporate and investor relations groups and has successfully completed several mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Zak has occupied senior management and/or Directorship positions in various companies, including: Green Bull Energy Inc., Passport Metals Inc., Forum Uranium Corp., Alto Ventures Ltd., and Beaufield Resources Inc.
Senior Technical Advisory Board

Bruce W. Mackie, MSc. PGeo

More than 35 years of mining industry experience in Canada and internationally. He has a proven exploration record, having snagged several successful projects in uranium, gold and base metals in senior.

Dr. James Mungall, PGeo

Holds the Norman Keevil Chair of Ore Genesis at the university of Toronto. Worked for one year as Chief Geologist at Noront Resources Ltd. on their Eagle's Nest magmatic massive sulfide, Blackbird chromitite and Thunderbird Fe-Ti-V deposits in the Ring of Fir

Scott Hogg

Pioneered a number of geophysical developments in digital processing and interpretations as well as new airborne magnetometer and multi-axis transient helicopter EM systems.

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