Corporate

Directors & Officers

Directors

David A. Fennell, Executive Chairman
Mr. Fennell received a law degree in 1979 from the University of Alberta and practiced in the areas of corporate and resource law until 1983, when he founded Golden Star Resources Ltd. During his term as president & CEO, Golden Star became a TSE 300 company and one of the largest and most successful exploration companies. In 1998, Mr. Fennell left Golden Star to become chairman and CEO of Cambiex Explorations Ltd, which became Hope Bay Gold Corporation. He held this position until the merger of Hope Bay and Miramar Mining Corporation, where he continued as executive vice-chairman and director for the combined entity until its takeover by Newmont Mining Corporation in January 2008. He was chairman of Ariane Gold Corp. from August 2002 until its acquisition by Cambior Inc. in November 2003, and was a director of Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation until its merger with Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation in December 2007. He was Chairman of Maximus Ventures Ltd. until the business combination with NFX Gold Inc. to form Bear Lake Gold Ltd., where he continues to serve as chairman. Mr. Fennell is also currently an officer or director or both of a number of publicly-traded resource companies.

James A. Crombie, President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Mr. Crombie graduated from the Royal School of Mines, London, in 1980 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mining Engineering, where he was the recipient of an Anglo American scholarship. Mr. Crombie held various positions with DeBeers Consolidated Mines and the Anglo American Corporation in South Africa and Angola between 1980 and 1986. He spent the next thirteen years as a mining analyst and investment banker with Shepards, Merrill Lynch, James Capel & Co. and Yorkton Securities. Mr. Crombie was vice president, corporate development of Hope Bay Gold Corporation from February 1999 through May 2002 and president and CEO of Ariane Gold Corp. from August 2002 to November 2003. Mr. Crombie was president, CEO and a director of Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation until the merger with Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation in December 2007. He was a director of Sherwood Copper Corporation until its business combination with Capstone Mining Corp. in November 2008. Mr. Crombie is also currently an officer or director or both of a number of publicly-traded resource companies.

Peter Nixon, Lead Director
Mr. Nixon has spent more than three decades in the investment industry, specializing in the natural resource sector and working primarily in research and institutional sales. He helped found the investment firm Goepel Shields & Partners and was subsequently president of the firm's U.S. subsidiary. He later joined Dundee Securities, with the mandate to expand the company's activities in the United States. Mr. Nixon is also a director of several publicly-traded natural resource companies.

Loraine (Altenweg) Oxley, Director and Chair of Audit Committee
Mrs. Oxley holds a Bachelor degree in Commerce from the University of Alberta, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta and has received her certification from the Institute of Corporate Governance. She is on various audit committees, is an external member on the Province of Alberta Internal Audit Committee, and serves on the University of Alberta's Audit Committee. She has recently been appointed to the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Accounting Standards Oversight Council. In the past, she has served on the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee for the Servus Credit Union and Ariane Gold Corporation. In 2006, Mrs. Oxley was awarded the University of Alberta Alumni Honor Award in the area of business and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta's Distinguished Service Award.

Leanne M. Baker, Director
Dr. Baker is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines (M.S. and Ph.D. in mineral economics) and is managing director of Investor Resources LLC, which acts as a consultant to companies in the mining and financial services industries. Previously, Dr. Baker was employed by Salomon Smith Barney where she was one of the top-ranked mining sector equity analysts in the United States. Dr. Baker is also a director of several publicly-traded natural resource companies.

Réjean Gourde, Director
Réjean Gourde, P. Ing. (Québec) is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in mining engineering physics. He has over 35 years' experience in the mining industry and since 2007 has worked as an independent mining consultant with his own firm. From 1987 through 2006, he was with Cambior Inc. (now IAMGOLD Corporation), first as general manager of the Val D'Or division and from 1994, as senior vice president responsible for all production operations for Cambior in South America.

Vijay N.J. Kirpalani, Director and Chair of Compensation & Corporate Governance Committee
Mr Kirpalani is the Executive Director of Kirpalani's N.V. a company based in Suriname. He is a graduate of the University of Suriname (Law) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Corporate Finance).

Officers

Joachim Bayah, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Bayah is a mining engineer who has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry working in exploration and mining projects management. Mr. Bayah has hands-on mining operations experience in mining, metallurgy and process engineering as well as in the conduct of environmental and social impact studies and their implementation. Mr. Bayah is a graduate of Camborne School of Mines and Queen's University. He has worked on mining projects in Canada, several countries in Africa and the Guiana Shield of South America. He also brings experience from project positions promoting mining projects in Guyana, and as a consultant to the World Bank/IFC Group dealing with technology, environment and stakeholder issues. for the manganese projects in Guyana.

Alain Krushnisky,CA, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Krushnisky obtained a bachelor's degree in commerce in 1983 from the University of Ottawa. He is a chartered accountant with close to twenty years of experience in the mining sector. Mr. Krushnisky was employed by Cambior, a mid-tier gold producer, for over 10 years in various capacities, including Vice-President and Controller. Over the last four years, Mr. Krushnisky has been consulting for various mining companies and is currently CFO of Reunion Gold Corporation, Queensland Minerals Ltd., Bear Lake Gold Ltd. and Odyssey Resources Ltd. He was CEO of Maximus Ventures Ltd.until the business combination with NFX Gold and the name change to Bear Lake Gold Ltd. He was CFO of Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation until the merger with Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. Mr. Krushnisky is also a director and chair of the audit committee of Everton Resources Inc. and Majescor Resources Inc.

Carole Plante, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Ms. Plante holds a law degree from the University of Montreal, is a member of the Quebec Bar and has over 15 years experience in the mining sector. She is Corporate Secretary & Legal Counsel of Bear Lake Gold Ltd., Queensland Minerals Ltd. and Corporate Secretary of Odyssey Resources Ltd. Previously, she held a similar position with Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation until the merger with Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation. Prior to this, Ms. Plante was Corporate Secretary and in-house counsel for Ariane Gold Corporation, Hope Bay Gold Corporation and Golden Star Resources as well as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Maximus Ventures Ltd. until the business combination with NFX Gold Inc. to form Bear Lake Gold Inc.