Rodney Irwin, MA
Chairman of the Board
Retired Canadian Ambassador to Russia

• 1972-74: joined Department of External Affairs, Ottawa

• 1978-1980: served abroad in New-Delhi, Moscow & Port of Spain

• 1988-1990: High Commissioner

• 1992: named Ambassador to Yugoslavia; due to the war with Croatia, served as   Ambassador to Albania, Bulgaria, Slovenia & Croatia

• 1993-96: Ambassador to Hungary while retaining his Balkan country accreditations

• 1999-2003: Ambassador to the Russian Federation with concurrent accreditation  to the Republics of Armenia & Uzbekistan

• 2003: retired to Ottawa after 32 years in the foreign service

Gordon R Baker, QC
Vice Chairman and Director

• 1972: called to the Bar of Ontario

• 1983: appointed Queens Counsel

• Extensive experience in business law  (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financing & structuring)

• Acted as counsel (including as a registered lobbyist) advising on government relations (strategic planning, negotiation, compliance issues)

Robert Mackay, B Sc Mining
President, CEO & Director
20 years experience in the capital markets

• Worked in various facets of  mineral exploration (diamond drilling, geophysics,  geological mapping & prospecting)

• 1975: graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines

• Gained extensive experience in mining, mine planning, surveying, grade control,  industrial engineering, open pit  & underground production

• 1980: graduated & obtained a mining engineering degree from The South Dakota  School of Mines Technology

• Was Vice President of two national brokerage firms over his successful 20 year career in investment business

• 2000:  started private consulting business

• Consulted as Project Engineer in Canada, the US, China and Africa
  

Boris Aryev, M Sc, P. Eng
COO & Director
Founding director of the Canadian-Eurasia-Russia Association as well as founder & chairman of its Mining & Northern Development Committees

• 1972: graduated USSR State Institute Civil Aviation in Riga Latvia

• 1972–1982: worked in regal branch of Central Research Institute of Communication  Science of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR

• 1983: immigrated to Canada

• 1983-1986 software development consultant with NCR Canada Limited & OPTIMOD Inc.

• 1986-1996: Consultant with Verifact Inc.

• 1990 on: President of Marhope Systems Inc., provides management/consulting  services to public & private sectors

• 1991: founding Director of Canada-Eurasia-Russia Business Association as well as  founder and chairman of its Mining & Northern Development Committees

• Co-founder of IEC Minerals Working Group
  

• 1988 - 2003: Held various positions of increasing responsibility at the Toronto Stock Exchange
• 1997 - 2003: Served as Head of Listings at the TSX and was responsible for all operations, policy and management within the Listings Group
• Is a Director of Western Goldfields, Inc., a U.S. mining company that trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ OTC Bulletin Board
• Is Capital Markets and Financial Advisor to Monument Mining, a TSX Venture Exchange listed company
• Is Director and CFO of Greenwich Global Capital Inc., a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
• Is Director and CEO of Yonge Street Capital Corp., another capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange
• Is President and CEO of York Street Capital Corp., a limited market dealer involved in corporate finance and capital markets advisory services focused on corporate governance, public company regulatory matters, exchange related matters and strategic advisory services to companies in a broad range of industries
• Is a Chartered Accountant who was employed in private practice with KPMG Peat Marwick, Coopers and Lybrand

Dr. Gennady Savchenko
Chief Geologist
International Uranium production specialist

• 1971: graduated from Frunze Polytechnical Institute with a  Mining Engineer-Geologist Diploma, Ph. D Geology & Mineralogy

• 1971-1981: worked in exploration & mining enterprises for Uranium in  Kazakhstan,  East Germany & China

• 1981-1989: was Deputy Chief Geologist of Kara-Balty Uranium mining enterprise  in Kyrgyzstan

• 1989-1996: Chief Geologist of Kara-Balty

• 1996: moved into gold sector as Chief Geologist for state owned gold company, Kyrgyzaltyn

• 2000-2002: Deputy Chief, Department of Geology & Investment, Kyrgyz State Geology & Mineral Resources Agency; member of Kyrgyz State Mineral  Reserves Committee

• Present day: Director of Geotechnology, Kazakh-Kyrgyz Regional Training Centre  for ISL experts, a joint venture between KazAtomprom and Kara-Balty
  

Aleksandra (Sasha) Bukacheva, MSc.
VP, Finance and Administration

• 2004: obtained an undergraduate degree from the Moscow State Institute for
  International Relations (MGIMO University)

• 2000-2004: worked on projects for a number of non-governmental and  intergovernmental organizations including Organization for Security and Co-operation in  Europe (OSCE), US Library of Congress/American Councils for International Education,  Council of Europe and Forum of Federations

• 2005: obtained an MSc designation from London School of Economics (LSE) in the United Kingdom

• 2005-2007: worked in various roles including Sector Head for Energy & Power and  Director of Logistics for Brendan Wood International – global consultancy, offering granular intelligence on capital markets; performance reviews and rankings of the investment banks, transaction advisory firms and their staff