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Marek J. Kreczmer, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Kreczmer, M.Sc., P.Eng., has been a geologist and mining executive for more than 30 years. He has worked for major and emerging mining industry companies focused on uranium, base and precious metals. Mr. Kreczmer also has extensive experience in corporate governance and administration as a current and former director of several publicly listed mining companies.

In 1991, Mr. Kreczmer founded Tan Range Exploration Corporation (now Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation), a company active in the Tanzania region of Africa. He served as its President through to 2003. His professional background includes work with Cameco Corporation, AGIP Canada Ltd., Granges Exploration Ltd., Hana Mining Ltd.., Soho Resources Corp. and Northern Canadian Minerals Inc.

Mr. Kreczmer obtained a B.Sc. Honours (Mineral Deposits Major) from the University of Ottawa and a Masters of Science specializing in mineral deposits from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC).

William D. Thomas, CFO and Director

William D. (Bill) Thomas has a lengthy career in finance and accounting for the natural resource sector spanning more than thirty years.

Most prominently, Mr. Thomas held various successive management positions with Kerr McGee Corporation’s China operations based in Beijing, China, ending in 2004 with his final position as Director of Business Services. He was previously General Manager (1999-2002), and Finance and Administration Manager (1996-1999) of the company’s China operations.

Mr. Thomas previously worked as Manager of Fixed Asset Accounting for Kerr McGee Corporation’s US operations (1996), as Finance Director of Kerr McGee’s UK operations based in London/Aberdeen (1992-1996), and Kerr McGee’s Canadian operations in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1984-1992), including the company’s predecessor company, Maxus Canada Ltd., which was acquired by Kerr McGee Ltd.

Over the course of his career with Kerr McGee, he has been involved in all aspects of managing accounting, budgeting, HR, administration, IT, insurance, taxation and other business support aspects surrounding oil and gas properties for Kerr McGee.

In his early career Mr. Thomas also held senior management positions in the finance divisions of Norcen Energy Ltd of Calgary, Alberta (1981-1984), Dennison Mines Ltd of Ontario Canada (1978-1981) and Algoma Steel Corporation of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada (1977). He was also a Senior Auditor for the accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand in Toronto, Canada (1975- 1977).

For a brief period after leaving Kerr McGee, Mr. Thomas acted as a self practitioner in the accounting and finance field. In July 2007 he took on the role of CFO for two public resource companies; Hana Mining Ltd. and NWT Uranium Corp. Recently, Mr. Thomas resigned from NWT Uranium Corp. but continues to serve as CFO for Hana Mining and has been appointed as CFO for Mainland Resources (a US oil and gas public company) and Mira Resources Corp. (a Canadian public company).

Mr. Thomas attained his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1977. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

James Douglas Brown, Director

James Douglas Brown possesses over 35 years investment banking experience.

Mr. Brown began his banking career as a financial analyst with JP Morgan in London and New York. During the period from 1982 to 1997, he served with Citigroup and Banque Indosuez, focusing on transactions related to the Middle East. Since 1997, he has actively participated in the creation and management of hedge fund opportunities.

Currently, Mr. Brown is a principal of Grasmere Limited, a privately held advisory company, which specializes in distribution of hedge funds and corporate finance. In addition, Mr. Brown serves as a director of the following entities: LIM Asia Arbitrage Fund, a large Asian hedge fund; Eastern Capital Fund, a Russian equity fund; Lund Gold Ltd., a junior gold exploration company; and, since March 2007, Endeavor Energy Corporation (formerly Dujour Products, Inc.), an oil and gas exploration company. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Pacific Asia China Energy Inc. From July 2003 until June 2007, Mr. Brown served as a director of Inyx, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Since 2005, Mr. Brown has served as a director of Quest Oil Corporation.

Mr. Brown holds a law degree from Edinburgh University.

Ganpat Mani, Director

From 1994 to 2007, Mr. Mani held several senior marketing positions with ConverDyn (a joint venture between Honeywell International and General Atomics Corporation), culminating in his role as Senior Vice President of ConverDyn. Mr. Mani was responsible for maintaining relationships with major nuclear utilities in Asia, Europe and the United States as well as with enrichers in Europe and the United States. Mr. Mani managed agents in the Far East and prepared position papers and draft legislative language for, and represented the company president in, meetings with U.S. government departments (Commerce, Energy and State) and industry trade organizations (ESA, NEI, WNA, WNFM, WNTI).

From 1987 to 1994, Mr. Mani was Business Manager for Allied Signal, where he was responsible for global sales, marketing, technical support and research and development for a line of inorganic fluorinated products.

Prior to his employment with Allied Signal, Mr. Mani held a variety of positions with Allied Chemical in the areas of financial management, applications development, strategic planning and business development.

Mr. Mani holds an MBA from Rutgers University, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Loughborough University, UK.

Richard M. Cherry, Director

Richard M. Cherry has over 34 years of experience in the nuclear industry, having worked for several companies in areas of uranium mining, production, conversion, marketing, and nuclear power generation. He currently consults to the uranium industry.

From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Cherry was President and CEO of Cotter Corporation and Nuclear Fuels Corporation, which are both affiliates of General Atomics Corporation. Mr. Cherry was responsible for all aspects of Cotter's mining and milling operations in Colorado, including uranium and vanadium production. Through Nuclear Fuels Corporation, he was responsible for the worldwide uranium marketing efforts of all uranium produced by General Atomics' affiliates to customers in the United States, Japan and Europe.

From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Cherry served as Vice President of ConverDyn and Nuclear Fuels Corporation. ConverDyn is a joint venture between Honeywell International and General Atomics formed to market uranium conversion services to large electrical utilities worldwide.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Cherry served as Executive Vice President of UG U.S.A., Inc. UG U.S.A is the U.S. subsidiary of the German uranium trading company, Urangesellschaft mbH, based in Frankfurt, which trades all forms of nuclear fuel. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Cherry served as Regional Director (Far East) of Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, marketing the company's uranium conversion services to clients in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
From 1973 to 1986, Mr. Cherry held various engineering and management positions with Kansas Gas and Electric Company, where was responsible for the commercial and technical areas required to secure nuclear fuel for the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station near Burlington, Kansas.

Mr. Cherry holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Wichita State University and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Oklahoma. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (State of Kansas).

Jas Butalia, Director

Mr. Butalia has over twenty-five years experience involving Canadian and international tax consultation and planning including, but not limited to, corporate and personal taxation, mergers and acquisitions, U.S. taxation, structuring of inbound and outbound transactions, and structuring of tax planning for individuals pertaining to offshore structures.

Mr. Butalia was a tax consultation practitioner from 1976 to 2003 with BDO Dunwoody LLP, where he was a partner from 1979. During January 2004 Mr. Butalia retired from BDO Dunwoody LLP, and he currently practices as an independent tax consultant.

Mr. Butalia served four years on the tax committee of BDO Dunwoody LLP, including as chairman, and also served four years on the tax committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia. He has authored a paper for the British Columbia Tax Conference hosted by the Canadian Tax Foundation, has written income tax courses and presented seminars for the Professional Development program of the Instituted Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta, and has been a tutorial leader for over five years at the School of Chartered Accountancy of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia.

Mr. Butalia also serves on the board of directors of Beaumont Select Corporation, currently trading on the TSX stock exchange in Canada. In addition, Mr. Butalia has served as a director and as the Chief Financial Officer of Zoro Mining Corp., a reporting company, since May 2007.

Henry Martyn Fowlds, Director

Henry Martyn Fowlds has over 39 years of experience in the public financial markets. Mr. Fowlds worked as a registered stockbroker for 37 years, beginning with Merit Investment Corp. in Toronto, Canada in 1965. He relocated to Vancouver, Canada in 1980 in order to establish the west coast offices for Merit. In 1990, Mr. Fowlds joined the brokerage firm of Georgia Pacific Securities. Mr. Fowlds served as Vice President and sales manager of Georgia Pacific Securities in Vancouver until 2003, when he left the brokerage business to pursue a senior management role working for public companies in the resources and mining sector.

Mr. Fowlds joined Dentonia Resources Ltd. as Vice President and Director in 2004. Dentonia is a Canadian mineral exploration company traded on the TSX Venture Exchange. Since late 2004, he has also served as the Vice President and Director of Vangold Resources Ltd., a Canadian natural resource company traded on the TSX Venture Exchange.
 

 
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