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| | | Donald K. Charter, Chairman
Mr. Charter is currently the President of 3Cs Corporation, a private consulting and investment company. Mr. Charter previously was a partner at a national law firm where he practiced as a securities lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Dundee Securities Corporation. Mr. Charter is a director of a number of public and private companies including IAMGOLD Corporation, Dundee REIT, Lundin Mining Corp., Great Plains Exploration and Baffinland Iron Mines.
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| | | Allen J. Palmiere
President, CEO and Director
Mr. Palmiere brings over 35 years of extensive experience in senior executive and leadership roles in the mining industry. Prior to joining Adriana, Mr. Palmiere held the positions of Chairman and also President and CEO of HudBay Minerals Inc. Mr. Palmiere also previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Silk Road Resources Ltd., Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Breakwater Resources Ltd., Chief Financial Officer of Zemex Corporation, and Executive Chairman of Barplats Investments Limited.
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| | | Paul Yeou
Director
Mr. Yeou is the President & Director of Worldlink (Canada) Resources Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Worldlink is a private integrated trading company engaged in import and export of iron ore, coal and other dry bulk commodities. Established in 1992, the Worldlink Group has built solid marketing channels, relationships and synergies with major steel mills and power plants throughout China and the Far East Asian countries. Worldlink has a joint venture each with Liuzhou Steel and Lianyuan Steel of China. The Group has also invested in building one of the largest private bulker ports in China with Zhejiang Energy Group, located in Zhoushan. Phase one of the construction, totalling USD$360 million with annual throughput of 30 million tonnes, will be completed in Q2 2008. Worldlink started exporting the first capesize Canadian iron ore to China in 2000, and the first capesize Canadian metallurgical coal to China in 2003. To date, the Group has invested approximately CAD$65 million in iron ore and coal companies in the Americas and is considered to be the largest privately owned integrated trading company of iron ore and coal from the Americas to China in volume in the industry.
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| | | Colin Blyth
Director
Mr. Blyth is a senior marketing and sales executive with 20 years of progressive international marketing and general sales management experience with diversified mining and refining companies generating annual revenue ranging from $600M to $3B. Mr. Blyth is currently the Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for CMC - Coal Marketing Company (USA) Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Mr. Blyth was previously Vice-President Marketing - Asia for Elk Valley Coal Corporation and for 14 years held senior marketing positions with Teck Cominco Limited. He holds an MBA and B.Sc. Geology from Queen's University.
Mr. Blyth also serves as the Chair of the Compensation Committee for Adriana Resources Inc.
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| | | Donald Siemens
Director
Mr. Siemens brings over 30 years of experience to the board as a Chartered Accountant, including 8 years in public practice as a partner with major accounting firms, 8 years in senior executive positions in industry and 18 years as a self- employed Financial Services executive. Currently, as an independent financial advisor, Mr. Siemens specializes in Corporate Finance, cross-border transactions and Mergers & Acquisitions. He serves as a director and Audit Committee Chair for three public companies: Los Andes Copper Ltd., Nikos Explorations Ltd, and JayHawk Energy, Inc. Previously, Mr. Siemens was Partner-in-Charge of Thorne Ernst & Whinney's (now KPMG) Vancouver office Financial Advisory Services group. Mr. Siemens obtained a Chartered Accountant designation in 1972, and a B.A. from University of British Columbia.
Mr. Siemens also serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee for Adriana Resources Inc.
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| | | Colin K. Benner
Director
Mr. Benner, a professional mining engineer, has extensive national and international experience in mining engineering and management in the mining industry including leadership roles at EuroZinc Mining Corp., Lundin Mining Corp., HudBay Minerals Inc., Skye Resources Inc., PBS Coal Inc. and Breakwater Resources Ltd. Mr. Benner is Executive Chairman of Creston Moly Corp., Chairman of Capstone Mining Corp. and is also a director of Lundin Mining Corp., Troon Ventures Ltd., Corsa Capital Ltd., Polaris Minerals Inc. and Delta Minerals Ltd.
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| | | Ronald P. Gagel
Director
Mr. Gagel is a chartered accountant with more than 30 years of professional experience, predominantly in the natural resources sector. Mr. Gagel is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FNX Mining Company. Prior to this, Mr. Gagel was the Chief Financial Officer of Aur Resources Inc. Mr. Gagel has been a director of a number of public companies including FNX Mining Company, HudBay Minerals Inc. and Central Sun Mining (formerly Glencairn Gold Corporation and now part of B2Gold). Mr. Gagel has also been an active director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada since 1997.
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