Dal Brynelsen holds a Diploma in Urban Land Economics from the University of British Columbia and is a licensed real estate broker of the Real Estate Council of British Columbia.  Mr Brynelsen has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, including the discovery, financing and bringing into production of two gold mines in Canada. He is a founding Director of Griffin Mining NPL, being the first Western company to build a mine in China in 100 years, Griffin operates a zinc mine and has approx. 400 employees.  Mr Brynelsen is also Director, President & CEO of Vangold Resources Ltd (TSX).

Peter Swiridiuk, Managing Director since July 2007.  BSc (Hons), DipEd, MAIG.  Mr Swiridiuk has over 20 years experience exploring for VMS style copper deposits in Oman, Cyprus and PNG, copper-gold deposits in Mexico, Solomon Islands and PNG, diamond pipes throughout Australia and coal-copper-gold systems in eastern Australia. He has spent over 15 years managing the exploration, discovery and resource definition for copper deposits. Prior to this, he spent six years with DeBeers diamond services as a geophysicist in their Research and Technical Services Division. This involved the management of contractors and data analysis to explore for diamond deposits. He has written numerous independent technical geological reports on over 20 projects for the British Columbia Securities Commission (TSX-V).  

Mr Swiridiuk has not served as a Director of any other public listed companies during the last three years.

Maurice J Gannon, BSc, GAICD, FCIS, AFAIM, MAusIMM, Executive Director and Company Secretary.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance and a Business Management Certificate.  He has over twenty years experience in business and financial management and a professional background in earth and environmental sciences. Mr Gannon is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Secretaries, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Ces Iewago, BACom, MBA, FAICD holds a Master of Business Administration, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has over 20 years experience in business banking, financial services and investments sectors in Papua New Guinea. Mr Iewago previously served as Managing Director of Public Officers Superannuation Fund.  He was Country Director and General Manager of Investment Bank, Merrill Lynch in Papua New Guinea (1997 to 2000), and was responsible for its corporate and retail business. He also held the position of Deputy Managing Director of Papua New Guinea’s first Merchant Bank, Resources & Investment Finance Ltd (1990 to 1996) responsible for Marketing, Corporate Business and Portfolio Management.  He is a director of New Guinea Gold Corporation, Canada (TSX-Venture) and a number of Papua New Guinea companies.

Ben Faulkner, BBus, is a Senior Private Client Advisor with stockbroking firm RBS Morgans Limited, one of Australia’s largest full service retail stockbroking firms.  He holds a Bachelor of Business (banking and Finance) from Monash University and a Professional Diploma in Stockbroking.  He is a member of the Stockbrokers Association of Australia (SAA) and the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA).