Richard R. Kern, B.Sc., M.Sc., P.Geo.

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director

Mr. Kern is a Professional Geologist, with over 25 years of experience in base and precious metal exploration in the U.S., Central America, South America and Australia. He has been involved in major discoveries in the Western U.S. and Australia. His hands-on, field oriented mentor management style has been implemented with great success. Mr. Kern's exploration involve a mixture of methods such as practical field geology, geochemistry and drilling with state of the art GIS, geochemical and geophysical methods.

Mr. Kern is currently the president of MinQuest, Inc., and prior to joining MinQuest he was a principal in the companies BristleCone Ventures, LP, Geo Surveys, and Sierra VisionLaunch, LLC. In addition, Mr. Kern has held executive and management level positions in companies such as Western North America North Mining, Inc., Homestake Mining Company, Superior Oil, and U.S. Geological Survey. Mr. Kern's areas of expertise include establishing base and precious metal exploration programs throughout North America, with an emphasis on Western U.S., Mexico, Honduras and Panama. He has also managed significant gold and copper exploration projects situated in W. U.S., Australia, Mexico, and Ecuador, including some minor work in New Guinea, Malaysia, China and Fiji. Mr. Kern has strong analytical skills and has proven success in developing various mining ventures.

Mr. Kern has a Masters of Science Degree in Geology from Idaho State University and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Montana State University in Geology. In addition, Mr. Kern has published a Thesis titled: "Geology and Economic Deposits of the Slate Creek Area, Custer County, Idaho."

Richard Barnett, CGA

Chief Financial Officer, Secretary

Mr. Barnett has extensive corporate experience as a Chief Financial Officer, Controller, and Secretary with over 20 years of accounting experience serving both public and private corporations. His experience covers a wide range of companies producing oil & gas, resource & explorations, engineering, and research & development. Mr. Barnett is a member of the Certified General Accountants of British Columbia. In order to stay abreast of new business procedures, he has taken extensive business and accounting courses in addition to regulatory courses and workshops. In addition to overseeing the accounting functions within the Company, Mr. Barnett’s responsibilities include managing the annual audit, budgeting, preparation of financial statements and management discussions & analyses.

Huitt Tracey

Director

Mr. Tracey has been involved in the North American venture capital markets for over 22 years. Serving in capacities as stockbroker, director, officer or investor relations consultant, he has provided expertise to numerous companies in industries including advanced technology, IP, telecommunication, bio-technology, energy and mining. In more than a decade as an Account Executive with brokerage firms that specialize in the corporate financing of American and Canadian ventures, he assisted in the initial public offering and development funding of many now well-established companies that pioneered innovative and disruptive technologies.

Keturah Nathe

Director

Ms. Nathe, who has acted as the Company's Vice-President Corporate Development since 2013, has 11 years' experience in the resource finance and management industry, including investor relations, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate development and corporate management.