Directors

Gerald E. (Gary) Davis - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

W.S. Steve Vaughan - Director

Steve Vaughan holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in geology as well as a law degree and has worked in or been closely associated with all facets of the mineral exploration, mine finance and securities industries since 1955. In January 2007 Mr. Vaughan joined the law firm of Heenan Blaikie as a partner in the Business Law Group.  He was a partner of McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP, a law firm involved in the international natural resource and energy businesses, particularly in the mining, oil and gas, geothermal and nuclear industries, from February 2002 until January 2007, and chaired the firm’s Natural Resources Group during that time. From 1974 to February 2002, he was a partner of the law firm of Aird & Berlis LLP

Mr. Vaughan has served on various committees advising Canadian governments on issues such as mineral policy, mineral strategy, mining finance, mining taxation, seed capital, junior resource policies, over-the-counter trading as well as nuclear issues, serving as a director of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited from 1992 to 1998 and chairing its Environmental Committee. He is a director and member of the Securities Committee of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, a former director of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and was a member of the joint Toronto Stock Exchange/Ontario Securities Commission Mining Standards Task Force

He has served as director and secretary of Algoma Central Corporation – a Canadian shipping, transportation and real estate development company (TSX: ALC) since May 2000; as a director of Apollo Gold Corporation (TSX: APG; AMEX: AGT) since July 2003; and since May 2004 as a director of Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. (TSX.V: WRY), an exploration mining company focusing on a base metals project in northern Quebec

In January 2007 Mr. Vaughan joined the law firm of Heenan Blaikie as a partner in the Business Law Group.  He was a partner of McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP, a law firm involved in the international natural resource and energy businesses, particularly in the mining, oil and gas, geothermal and nuclear industries, from February 2002 until January 2007, and chaired the firm’s Natural Resources Group during that time. From 1974 to February 2002, he was a partner of the law firm of Aird & Berlis LLP.

Steve has participated in natural resource transactions in more than 50 countries over the past five years.

Mr. Jurika, an Investment Manager, first entered the investment sector in 1967 as a broker for Francis I. Dupont & Company. He joined E.F. Hutton as a Vice President of Institutional Sales and later founded Jurika & Voyles, Inc., an investment management firm, in 1976. Jurika & Voyles grew to manage over $5 billion in assets for private and institutional clients, during Mr. Jurika's tenure. The corporation was subsequently sold to New England Investment Companies in 1997. Mr. Jurika served as President and CEO from August 1982 to January 2000. He co-founded the investment management company of Jurika, Mills & Kiefer, LLC in 2001, for which he serves as Managing Partner. He has served as a director of QComm International Inc. (AMEX; QMM), a telecom services company involved in prepaid product and transaction processing, since May 2004, and as a director of QuadraMed® Corp. (AMEX: QD, a healthcare information technology company, from April 2003 to October 2005. Mr. Jurika served as a director of Ascendant Holdings (Bermuda Stock Exchange: AHH) from May 2004 to February 2005.

Mr. Philips is an attorney who has practiced law for twenty-three years. He was a practicing attorney for fifteen years, the last eight as a partner, with Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco, California. Since May 1996 he has been Assistant General Counsel with CMS Enterprises Company, a subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation and a multi-billion dollar global energy company. Mr. Phillips has in-depth legal and international business development experience, including the acquisition, development, financing, construction, operation, and disposition of large infrastructure companies and assets both domestically and internationally. Mr. Phillips has served as a Director of the Board of QComm International Inc. (AMEX: QMM) a telecom services company involved in prepaid product and transaction processing, since April 2004. He was a director of Ascendant Holdings (Bermuda Stock Exchange: AHH) from July 2004 to February 2005.

John holds a B.Sc. (honours) degree in Geology from the University of Leicester, UK, and a Ph.D. in Geology from Durham University, UK. After graduation, John conducted postdoctoral research at the Universities of California and Princeton as the recipient of a Senior Visiting Fulbright Fellowship. For the next twenty years he was employed in successively senior positions in mineral exploration management with, among other companies, Falconbridge. John spent seventeen years with the Government of Ontario, Canada, in the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, the first two years as Director, Mineral Development and Lands Branch and then as Assistant Deputy Minister, Mines and Minerals Division. He was senior advisor on all mining issues to five successive governments. In appreciation for services to mining and northern Ontario, John was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Laurentian University in 2006.

After retiring from government in 2005, John established the “Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation” at Laurentian University. He is also the Founder of the World Mines Ministries Forums, Toronto. He currently sits on the Boards of Gold Summit Mines, Sherwood Copper Corporation and Strait Gold Corporation.