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| | | John Burges
Position: President/CEO & Director
Mr. Burges has joined us from Knight Capital Group, a New Jersey based global financial services firm that is one of the largest securities trading institutions in North America and the largest trader of junior miners. Mr. Burges was a Managing Director at Knight, responsible for their resources capital markets activities focused on North American small cap public companies. He previously worked in London and New York for thirteen years for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch as a Director in their investment banking practices where he was responsible for advising and financing public corporations in the resource and power sector. He subsequently was Chairman and an Officer of Newmarket Power, a private equity backed independent power generation company, which acquired and operated approximately 450 MW of gas fired power generation in the North-East of the US. He worked in the Middle East with a private equity investment group which made investments in the energy and resource sectors. Through his more than 20 year career, he brings substantial corporate finance, investment and management experience. He has an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA (Hons) from Bristol University, England.
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| | | John Anderson
Position: Chairman of the Board & Director
 John Anderson holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and is the co-founder of Aquastone Capital Advisors LP, a US based gold investment fund. With over 15 years experience in the capital markets, Mr. Anderson's specialty is identifying undervalued opportunities in the resource industry and investing capital into these situations.
John Anderson has assisted in a number of successful turn-around situations, providing financing, investor relations and corporate development services for a number of small-cap companies.
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| | | Tim J. Termuende, B.Sc., P.Geo.
Position: Director
Tim Termuende is a professional geologist with over 35 years experience in the mineral exploration industry, having been continually active since 1976. Since earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia in 1987, Tim has worked on exploration projects throughout North, Central, and South America and the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder and currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Plains Resources and Copper Canyon Resources (now Omineca Mining and Minerals) and is a director of Kestrel Resources, Aben Resources and Blackrock Resources; all junior exploration companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Tim and his family make their home in Cranbrook, British Columbia. Tim currently arranges financings and oversees a broad range of ongoing exploration projects located throughout British Columbia, Yukon, NWT and Saskatchewan.
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| | | Greg Johnson
Position: Director
 Mr. Johnson has over 25 years of international mining industry experience in corporate finance, project development and exploration. He has been a director of South American Silver since 2009 and President and CEO since 2010. As a co-founder of NovaGold, he played a key role in growing that company from $50 million in value to over $2 billion market capitalization advancing 3 major projects through to Feasibility. Mr. Johnson is credited with the discovery and advancement of the 40 Moz Donlin Creek gold deposit in Alaska for Barrick Gold (Placer Dome) and NovaGold.
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| | | Allan Armitage Ph.D. P.Geol
Position: Vice President Exploration
Dr. Armitage is a geologist with over 25 years of experience in the mining and exploration industry. As VP of Exploration, he brings a vast amount of geological expertise to the Company as they grow their Freegold Mountain Project in the Yukon. He is currently a senior geologist with GeoVector Management Inc. of Ottawa Ontario, which provides resource evaluation and estimation as well as project management for resource companies. Dr. Armitage concurrently serves on the Board of Simba Gold, who is focused on gold exploration in Rwanda, Africa. He has previously served as vice president of exploration for both Uranium North Resources and Triex Minerals Corp., and has held senior positions for a number of mineral exploration companies with properties in North and South America. His experience includes managing all geological and geophysical aspects of exploration including, the implementation of exploration and drilling programs, resource modeling, preparation of technical reports and managing quality assurance on properties.
Dr. Armitage has a PhD in geology from the University of Western Ontario and is an active member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta. He is a Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and has experience working in mineral exploration for a variety of commodities and mineral deposit types throughout Canada, as well as in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia, Rwanda and Uganda.
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| | | Glen J. Diduck, B.Comm. C.A.
Position: Chief Financial Officer
 Mr. Diduck has over 30 years of experience in public accounting focusing on accounting, audit and taxation of small to medium sized businesses. Since leaving the public accounting sector his focus has shifted to required disclosure in financial reporting, disclosure controls and corporate governance in the junior mining exploration industry. He also holds the position of Director and Chief Financial Officer of following TSX Venture exchange publicly listed companies, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd., Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. He held the same positions with Copper Canyon Resources Ltd., until it was acquired by NovaGold Resources Ltd.
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| | | Bill Harris
Position: Director & Founder
 Bill Harris is a second generation prospector, born and raised in the Yukon, who brings a lifetime of commitment to the company and the Freegold Mountain area. Bill has been visiting and working in the area since the age of 5, where he first got to know the early prospectors in the area through his father, a well know Yukon prospector. Throughout the intervening years, Bill has worked in the Freegold area as an independent prospector as well as with many of the individuals and junior and major companies active in the area.
Bill has gained extensive experience and knowledge in many parts of the exploration development and mining industry through his participation in projects throughout the Americas. His experience ranges from project generation, through acquisitions, exploration, permitting and mining of both placer and small mine projects. Bill has conducted exploration and mining programs with up to 350 employees as well as various contractors.
Bill grew up with many First Nation individuals, and as a result has been able to establish a good working relationship over many years with local First Nations. Having permitted, developed and mined many placer deposits in the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation and Selkirk First Nation territories, as well as the successful permitting of the Caribou Creek Property for mining and milling Bill has established a working relationship with the regulatory bodies as well.
Bill is presently an appointed member of the Yukon Mineral Advisory Board, which advises the Yukon Minister of Energy and Mines on mining issues, and is past president of the Yukon Prospectors Association.
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| | | Marco Strub
Position: Director
Mr. Strub was a partner of Exulta AG, a portfolio management company, from 1997 to 2003 and is currently a Principal of Sircon AG, a consulting and investment research company based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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