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| | | Keith Neumeyer
Position: President & CEO
Mr. Neumeyer has worked in the investment community for 21 years beginning his career at a number of national brokerage firms. Mr. Neumeyer moved on to work with several publically traded companies in the resource and high technology sectors. His roles have included senior management positions and directorships responsible in areas of finance, business development, strategic planning and corporate restructuring. Mr. Neumeyer was the original and founding President of First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (T-FM). He was instrumental in the acquisition of the Bwana Mkubwa Mine in Zambia and the assembly of a team of mining professionals who in turn built the first new mine in the region in 25 years and who run the Company today. Mr. Neumeyer has collectively raised over $200 million to date, has listed two companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange and as such has extensive experience dealing with the financial, regulatory, legal and accounting issues that are relevant in the investment community.
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| | | Ramon Davila, Ing
Position: Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Davila, a Mexican citizen, residing in Durango, has an Engineering degree in Mining and Metallurgy and a Masters degree in Minerals Economics'. He worked for Industrias Penoles, the largest silver producer in Mexico from 1978 to 1987 and then became the VP of Mining Operations for Luismin until 1993. Since 1998 Mr. Davila has been President of Plata Panamericana SA de CV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan American Silver Corp. (PAA: TSX; PAAS: NASDAQ) where he was in charge of all aspects of production, exploration and administration of Pan American's Mexican operations.
Mr. Davila was also the National President for the Association of Mining Metallurgist and Geologists in Mexico from 1996 to 1998 and is currently a member of the board of Directors of the Chamber of Mines in Mexico. He is also a member of the Society of Mining Metallurgical and Exploration Engineers.
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| | | Raymond Polman, B.Sc (Econ), CA
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Polman has over 20 years of public accounting and corporate finance experience in the Canadian and US financial markets. Raymond has been a Chief Financial Officer for the past 10 years with a number of publicly traded high technology companies, prior to which he served several years as the Director of Finance for Rescan Environmental, a large privately owned company serving the global mining community. Mr. Polman has a Bachelor of Science (Economics) Degree from the University of Victoria and he is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia. Mr. Polman also brings several years of public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche.
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| | | Robert McCallum, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Position: Chairman
Mr. McCallum was most recently the president of Kensington Resources Ltd. prior to its merger with Shore Gold Inc. (SGF:TSX). Mr. McCallum now also sits on the board of Shore Gold.
During Mr. McCallum's tenure at Kensington, he successfully advanced Kensington from a junior exploration company to an advanced stage development company, dramatically increasing the company's profile and eventually orchestrating a merger with Shore Gold which today has a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion.
Mr. McCallum graduated in 1959 from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, with a Bachelor of Science (Mining) followed in 1971 by a PMD. in the Executive Management Program at Harvard Graduate School of Business, Boston, Massachusetts. He has a wealth of experience in mining having worked with Miramar Mining Corporation, Homestake Mining Corporation, International Corona Corp., Cyprus Anvil Mining Corp. and Anglo American Corp. Ltd.
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| | | Connie Lillico, B.A.
Position: Corporate Secretary
Ms. Lillico has worked in public company management and administration since 2000. Ms. Lillico was previously the Corporate Secretary of several publicly traded mining and oil & gas companies for three years, prior to which she was a Paralegal with a publicly traded software company for 2 1/2 years. Prior to her industry experience, Ms. Lillico worked in corporate and securities law as a Paralegal with a large national legal firm for eight years. Ms. Lillico has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University and a Paralegal certification from Capilano College.
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| | | Mr. Douglas Penrose,
Position: Director
Mr. Penrose received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1974 and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia since 1978. Doug brings over 20 years experience in leadership positions in corporate finance, including the position of Chief Financial Officer and he is presently the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Services at the British Columbia Lottery Corporation.
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| | | David A. Shaw Ph.D.
Position: Director
Since completing his doctorate 25 years ago, Mr.Shaw has worked both in the technical and financial communities within the resource industry. Seven years were spent with Chevron Resources in Calgary and Vancouver, employed initially as an in-house structural consultant on both metal and hydrocarbon exploration programs and then as a member of a hydrocarbon project financial evaluation team. Upon leaving Chevron, he initiated and developed the Resource Research Group at Charlton Securities Ltd., Calgary before assuming the position of Senior Mining Analyst, Corporate Finance, at Yorkton Securities Inc. in Vancouver. Throughout Shaw's career, he has built strong relationships with European financial institutions and the global mining community. Recently he has been assisting a Vancouver-based junior exploration company with development and exploration of its projects in Central and South America.
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| | | Tony Pezzotti
Position: Director
Mr. Pezzotti joined the board of First Majestic in November 2001. Tony is a seasoned board member who has served on several public company boards, including Offshore Systems International Ltd. (OSI-T), First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FM-T), and Kensington Resources Ltd. which recently merged with Shore Gold Inc. (SGF-T). Tony was General Manager and co-owner of a steel fabrication company and is now retired.
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| | | Mr. Robert Young, P.Eng
Position: Director
Mr. Young is an independent geological consultant. Prior to his retirement from TECK-Cominco Corporation, he held the title of Vice-President, Special Projects and South American Exploration manager.
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