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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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