Mr. Foreman graduated with honors from Queen's University in 1992 and has worked in a wide spectrum of geological environments involving both base and precious metals. He has worked for various junior mining and exploration companies in North and South America. Throughout the mid 1990's Mr. Foreman worked on a series of large multi-million dollar exploration programs in British Columbia, Yukon and Mexico. From 1998 through 2002 Mr. Foreman worked on various projects exclusively in Peru. As Chief Geologist, he was a key figure in putting the 1,000 tonne-per-day Santa Rosa open pit gold-silver mine into production.

For the past 15 years Mr. Jimenez was a partner of a law practice based in Mexico City, where as part of his practice he assisted foreign companies in structuring multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Jimenez has specialized in diverse aspects of Mexican Law that includes arbitration and negotiations, environmental law, tax law, and constitutional law.