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Scott G. Geisler : President and CEO
Mr. Geisler has over 20 years experience in finance, closing over $100 million in property transactions, and has built effective deal origination teams. Geisler is a Bonanza Goldfields early private investor. He is currently President of International Gold Mining Reserve Corporation, a private venture owning 1000 acres in the historic Shoshone Mining District, which was in operation until 1957 by Anaconda Copper Mining Company with reported production of 3,300,000 oz/Ag, 52,800 oz/Au, as well as significant copper, lead, and zinc.
 
Peng-Mun (PM) Foo : CFO

Mr. PM Foo has over 17 years experience investing in and building businesses in Asia. PM holds a Singapore Fund Management Representative's license, and is a licensed Private Equity Fund Manager. He has served as Director, Asia Pacific with International Alliance Associates LLC, a cross border strategic advisory entity. PM was also a Deputy General Manager of London Asia Capital Plc, an Asia focused merchant banking and private equity fund management group. Prior to that, PM was Chief Operating Officer of Legg Mason Asset Management (Asia). He has worked for Deutsche Bank, as well as several venture capital entities. PM has been CFO for several PRC companies, instilling international investor confidence by minimizing expectation gaps between Western and Chinese parties in cross border transactions involving Chinese companies preparing for international acquisitions, fund raising, and IPOs. He is a prominent panelist on PRC financial television, and frequent speaker at universities and conferences on private equity & fund management. He is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant (FCPA), as well as having achieved the CFA Institutes' Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 2 program. PM has trekked the Altiplano, the Patagonia Ice Field (an expedition of 40 days) and has led 10-15 men teams on multiple expeditions to the Tibetan Mountains and Everest Base Camp.

 
William C. Berridge, P.G. : Director

Mr. Berridge has been the President/CEO and Chairman of Auric Resources International, Inc., since 1989 a company he founded. Mr. Berridge is a Qualified Person (QP) for preparing NI 43-101 technical reports written under CSA & CIM Standards & Guidelines. He is registered as a Professional Geologist in Wyoming and has over 35 years of exploration & development experience. Mr. Berridge is also a member of the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), the Geological Society of Nevada (GSN), the Arizona Geological Society (AGS), the Society of Mineral Analysts (SMA) and a Founding Registered Member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). Mr. Berridge has a long-term commitment to the Wickenburg/ Congress/Weaver Mountain Mining District geographic area. He received a Bachelors of Science degree from Northern Arizona University in Geology and Geography, and completed a Diamond Gradign Course from the Gemological Institute of America.

 
Dr. Madan M. Singh: Advisor

Dr. Madan M. Singh served as Director of the Department of Mines and Mineral Resources for the State of Arizona from August 2005 through January 2011. He served under Governor Napolitano (now Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security) and Governor Jan Brewer. Singh has a Ph.D. in mining engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona. His research areas of expertise encompass aspects of mining, geotechnical engineering, tunneling, subsidence, environmental studies, and other related fields. He has testified before Congressional Committees and served on Legislative Committees to update Arizona's mining regulations.

Prior to joining the Department of Mines and Mineral Resources, Singh had over 30 years experience operating a consulting engineering firm. He was on the mining faculty of Penn State, and was a pioneer in the field of mine subsidence engineering in the United Sates developing a new graduate level program devoted solely to subsidence. Singh has performed several projects for the US Bureau of Mines, Office of Surface Reclamation and Enforcement, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the US Department of Energy. He has worked on various aspects of mine operations and planning, ventilation, safety, and transfer of NASA technology.

Singh has authored 129 technical papers in addition to serving as chapter author on mine subsidence in the SME Mining Engineering Handbook and Mining Environmental Handbook. Singh has been involved with a variety of professional organizations, including National Director of the American Consulting Engineers Council, President of the Consulting Engineers Council of Illinois, member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. (SME), Chair of the SME Coal Division, and Chair of the American Society for Testing and Materials subcommittee on rock strength.

 
William H. Tehan, III : Advisor

Mr. William H. Tehan, III's investment career started in 1955 at the First National City Bank of New York where he was mentored in the business by then Federal Reserve Bank of New York Vice President of International Banking and Precious Metals, John Exter. Over subsequent years, Mr. Tehan worked as an oil and mines senior analyst for firms such as Hayden, Stone and Co., Dominick and Dominick, LLC, P.R.Herzig and Co., and Mahler & Emerson, Inc. In 1970 Mr. Tehan authored the then controversial "US Dollar and World Monetary System: The Calm Before the Storm" which in many circles earned him the title "The Father of Gold." In the 1980's Mr. Tehan and his firm advised the McEwen family, whose projects eventually formed Goldcorp, Inc. He has been a frequent lecturer at the Yale School of Business, Eliot Janeway Seminars, and the New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA). Mr. Tehan is currently a Director at the Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE) along with friend and colleague, James Grant. His most recent lecture at the CMRE was entitled "The Third and Terminal Phase of the Dollar Crisis." Mr. Tehan will be a private speaker at the GATA Gold Rush 2011 conference in London, Savoy Hotel on August 4-6, 2011, where he will present his latest paper, "The US Dollar in the Terminal Phase" to current and prospective clients. Mr. Tehan has been interviewed twice by The Economist and is a graduate of Amherst College (1954).

 
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