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Date: August 28, 2008

Management and Directors

Brent Butler
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Brent Butler
  • Mr. Butler has over 20 years of geological experience worldwide. 
  • Mr. Butler was formerly Managing Director and Company Secretary of Kinross Gold Australia PTY Ltd. He worked for Kinross for eight years from 1998 to April of 2006.  
  • Mr. Butler has been involved in several gold discoveries (with Hunter Resources and Sons of Gwalia) in West Australia.  In the last few years he has been involved in project generation for Kinross in Africa and South America.  In particular, Mr Butler was instrumental into the re-start of exploration at the Refugio mine in Chile at the time closed due to low gold price. This led to the addition of substantial ounces and reopening of the Refugio mine.
  • Mr. Butler is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists (United States) since 2001, a member of AusImm (the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) since 1989, and a member of the PDAC since 2003.  
  • Obtained his BSc in Geology from Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1983.
 
David Stone
Director
Robert Schafer
  • Dr. Stone has 30 years of engineering and financial consulting experience to underground and surface metal mines worldwide. He has managed and led multidisciplinary project teams through pre-feasibility and feasibility level evaluations of development stage projects, and has contributed to the engineering, design and construction of several mines.  
  • Dr. Stone received his B.Sc. in Geological Engineering from UBC and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Queen’s University at Kingston where he returned in 2002 to complete an MBA.
  • He is a licensed professional engineer in numerous Canadian and US jurisdictions.
     
 
Robert W. Schafer
Director
Robert Schafer
  • Mr. Schafer has over 26 years in the mining industry and has worked on virtually all continents and has several deposits credited to his discovery record. 
  • Joined Hunter Dickinson Inc. in 2005 as Vice President, Business Development.  Hunter Dickinson Inc., a private company that provides management, financial and technical services to a group of Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies that are involved with exploration and mining globally covering a spectrum of commodities. 
  • Prior to joining Hunter Dickinson, Mr. Schafer was Regional Exploration Manager with BHP Minerals. Mr. Schafer was employed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Coniagas Resources Ltd. from 2002 to 2004 and President and Chief Executive Officer of Castlerock Resources Inc. from 2002 to 2004.  Prior to that, he was VP Exploration at Kinross Gold Corporation from 1996 to 2001.  
  • Mr. Schafer was recently elected President of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America of which he has been a member since 1993. 
  • Mr. Schafer is active with industry support groups as a member of the Board of Directors for the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.
  • In 2001 Mr. Schafer received the AIME Saunders Gold Medal for his achievements in the mining industry, and was elected as a Distinguished Member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration in 2006. 
  • Received a BSc. in Geology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 1974, a MSc. in Geology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 1976, a MSc. in Mineral Economics from the University of Arizona in 1980 and a PhD in Geology from the University of Arizona in 1979.
 
Graham L. Harris
Director
  • Mr. Harris has over 18 years of experience in the finance industry. 
  • Former Senior Vice President and Director at Canaccord Capital Corp. from 1999 to 2004.  Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Yorkton Securities.  While being employed by two of Canada’s top brokerage houses, Mr. Harris was consistently a Top 10 producer nation wide.  Mr. Harris was an integral part of managing the Vancouver branches of both firms. He also served as Yorkton's representative to the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.
  • Mr. Harris has raised over $50 million for public and private companies in both the resource and high tech segments of capital markets. 
  • In January of 2005, Graham Harris joined Tribune Resources Corp of which he is Chairman, CEO and Director. 
  • Mr. Harris obtained his BA in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1986.
     
 
Luke A. Norman
Director, VP Corporate Development 
Luke Norman
  • He started his career in New Zealand as a trainee Stock Broker at the age of 16. Soon after moving to Canada in 1999 he began working as a consultant for early Stage Public Companies, focusing primarily in the precious metals exploration and development sectors. 
  • From 2002 to 2005 he was employed by Canaccord Capital.  During that time, he completed his licensing requirements but was not registered as a Licensed Investment Adviser. While with Canaccord Capital, his focus was financing start-ups and advanced stage exploration companies in concert with European Institutions. 
  • Mr. Norman has been instrumental in raising over $60 million for a number of start-up and publicly traded companies.
 
Jasvir K. Kaloti
Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary
Luke Norman
  • Ms. Kaloti has over 14 years experience in the finance industry.
  • Ms. Kaloti has been involved with ATW since its inception.
  • Since 2003, Jasvir has been a self-employed consultant for public and private companies in the mining industry. Prior to that she was an administrator for Vancouver Financial Planning Consultants.
  • She is also the Corporate Secretary for Tribune Uranium.
  • Ms. Kaloti received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in 1993.
 
Andrew W. Bowering 
Director
  • Mr. Bowering is a corporate administrator with 17 years experience in the financing and management of exploration, development and start-up companies.
  • Has held senior executive positions and directorships in numerous public companies involved in mineral exploration in Canada, the United States, Mexico and China.  
  • Mr. Bowering has directly raised over $40 million for mineral exploration and development.  He has led several large acquisition programs in Northwest British Columbia, Alberta and Central Mexico. 
  • In addition to mineral exploration activities, Mr. Bowering was a founder and principle of two publicly traded consumer product companies that operated worldwide. He has an in-depth knowledge of securities markets, regulatory affairs and investor/public relations.
  • In addition to his involvement with ATW, Mr. Bowering is the President, CEO and Director of Pinnacle Mines Ltd. 
  • Obtained his BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1986.
     
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