| Brad Van Den Bussche Position: Director and Vice President Exploration Mr. Van Den Bussche has a B.Sc. (Honors) in Geology from the University of Manitoba and is a registered professional geologist in Alberta (P.Geol.) with 22 years of geology, exploration, management and consulting experience in the mining and resource industry. He has worked on numerous feasibility studies, exploration programs, due diligence evaluations and project assessments of both minerals and energy projects in Canada, the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the UK. Most recently he spent 3 years as VP Exploration for a junior oil and gas company based in Calgary, which focussed on Coalbed Methane exploration and development. The previous 14 years he was as a consultant to the resource industry (mining and coalbed methane) and held a variety of technical, management, and executive positions. |