Peter McNeil holds a  B.Sc. in Geology and an M.Sc. in Geochemistry.  He has 25 years exploration experience mostly in Papua New Guinea, but also Australia, U.S.A. and Canada. His experience has included programs at the Lihir gold Deposit (+45M ounces of gold) and in the Eastern Goldfields and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, plus Mount Read Volcanics in Tasmania.  Mr McNeil has been associated with the discovery of a number of orebodies including the Nimary and Sunrise Dam Mines in Western Australia, that collectively contain more than 16M ounces of gold.  Mr McNeil supervised exploration at Coppermoly’s Simuku and Nakru Projects initially as Exploration Manager. He is currently Managing Director of Frontier Resources Ltd (ASX) and a non-executive Director of NGG Canada (TSX-Venture).

Peter Swiridiuk, BSc (Hons), DipEd, MAIG has over 18 years experience exploring for copper, gold and diamonds. He has spent over 12 years managing the exploration, discovery and resource definition for gold and copper deposits in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Mexico, Middle East, Cyprus and Australia. This includes a technical review of the Frieda River deposit in PNG. Peter has also had extensive management experience of contractors to help with resource definition on numerous deposits including the Hatta copper mine in Oman. As a crew chief on a minesite he was responsible for drilling crews, explosives crews and other technical contractors. He previously spent six years with DeBeers diamond services which involved the management of contractors to discover new diamond deposits including the Seppelt deposit in Western Australia.

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) and Director of International Beryllium Corp.(TSX), and International Silver Ridge Inc. (TSX).

Ces Iewago a citizen of Papua New Guinea, 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 and a number of Papua New Guinea companies.

Bob McNeil, BSc (Hons), MSc. F AuslMM.  During 48 years industry experience Mr McNeil has amassed extensive managerial exploration and mining expertise with multinational mining and oil companies in Australia, USA and the Asia Pacific region. Early in his career he was directly associated with the Juno and Warrego mine discoveries at Tennant Creek in Australia. He was Regional Exploration Manager for Unocal, based in Tucson, Arizona and gained specific expertise in the search for porphyry copper deposits. In 1980, Mr McNeil transferred to Papua New Guinea to establish and manage Exxon's Papua New Guinea mineral exploration group, where he held the position of General Manager from 1980 to 1986.  Mr McNeil is also Chairman, CEO & President of New Guinea Gold Corp. (TSX) and Director of ASX listed companies: Frontier Resources Ltd, Macmin Silver Ltd and Golden Tiger NL.

Maurice Gannon BSc, FCIS, AFAIM, MAusIMM, was appointed as Company Secretary on 30 July 2008.  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 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, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and AMPLA – the Australian Resources and Energy Law Association.