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Carl B. Hansen - President and CEO, Director
Mr. Hansen is a geologist with almost 20 years experience in the exploration and mining industry. He has held various exploration, operation and head office positions with junior exploration to senior mining companies including INCO and TVX Gold. In December 2003, Mr. Hansen and a group of international mining professionals, formed Andina Minerals Inc., to explore for gold, silver and copper in the Americas. In December 2004, Andina merged with CastleRock Resources Inc. to become a publicly traded company listed on the TSX-Venture exchange.

T. Sean Harvey - Chairman
Mr. Harvey has over 10 years investment banking and merchant banking experience, primarily focused on the basic industry (mining) sector and for the last 5 years has held senior executive and board positions with various mining companies. Mr. Harvey was recently the President and CEO of Orvana Minerals Corp. Previously, he was President and CEO of TVX Gold at the time of its sale to Kinross Gold in 2003 and, subsequent to that, was President and CEO of Atlantico Gold, a private company involved in the development of the Amapari Project in Brazil, that was sold to Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. (presently Goldcorp).

R. Greg Laing - Director and Human Resources and Corporate Governance Committee Chairman
Mr. Laing is a senior legal executive and lawyer with nine years large legal firm and ten years in-house corporate experience with international precious metal mining companies. Currently, Mr. Laing is the General Counsel, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Laing was V.P. Legal for Goldcorp Inc. and managed, among other matters, the legal issues relating to the recent business combination of Goldcorp and Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. Prior to his involvement with Goldcorp, Mr. Laing was General Counsel, Vice President and Corporate Secretary for TVX Gold Inc., an international gold mining company acquired by Kinross Gold Corp. in 2003.

Robert Whittall - Director and Audit Committee Chairman
Mr. Whittall is a chartered accountant and a professional engineer with over 20 years experience in the minerals industry including nine years in public accounting. Currently, Mr. Whittall is VP Finance and CFO of Volta Resources Inc., a TSX traded company with projects in Africa. Prior to Volta, Mr. Whittall held various finance-related positions with junior exploration and senior mining companies including TVX Gold. Further, Mr. Whittall is a director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and Chairman of the PDAC's Financial and Taxation committee.

Eduardo Rosselot - Director
Mr. Rosselot is a mining engineer with almost 20 years of mining industry experience having worked for major mining Companies, consulting companies and contracting companies. Recently, Mr. Rosselot was employed by Orvana Minerals Corporation as V.P. Business Development and Special Projects. Prior to that Mr. Rosselot held senior mining engineering positions with a number of gold and base metal mining companies including, from 1996 to 2003, TVX Gold Inc. where he was Technical Services Superintendent at TVX Hellas.

Thomas Pladsen - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pladsen was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1985 and moved to KPMG’s London, England office. On his return to Canada, he joined Northfield Capital Corporation and has spent the past 19 years working in a financial capacity with public and private resource companies. Currently he is the CFO of Andina and the President of the general partner for two private oil and gas drilling funds.

Tracey M. Thom - Vice President, Investor Relations
Ms. Thom has over 15 years in the mining industry working primarily with mid to large capital global gold mining companies. Before joining Andina in December 2007, she held the position of Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications for Kinross Gold Corporation. Prior to that Ms. Thom was Manager, Investor Relations of TVX Gold Inc. until February 2003, upon completion of the merger of TVX Gold Inc. and Kinross Gold.

   
 

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