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Alan De’ath
President and CEO

Alan De’ath has over 30 years of experience in senior management positions in the mining industry, including a 20-year career with Rio Tinto in Europe and southern Africa and two years as CFO with TVX Gold in Toronto. He joined Ivernia in 2000 overseeing business development and finance before being appointed President and CEO and Director in July 2003.

Brent Omland
Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Brent is a Chartered Accountant with extensive auditing and corporate experience in the Canadian mining and accounting industries. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Brent joined Ivernia in February 2008 as Director – Finance. Prior to that, he was with Teck Resources Limited. Brent is based in Toronto and will divide his time between Toronto and Perth during the Magellan restart planning and start-up period.

Bruce Hooper
Vice President, Corporate Development and Exploration

Bruce has 30 years of exploration and development experience in Australia and internationally. He has managed many successful exploration programs and is well experienced in taking initial exploration prospects through to evaluation and into production. He is an Honours Graduate from the University of Leeds, UK in Geological Sciences and has worked for both major resource companies and junior explorers.

He started his working career in the petroleum industry for BP in the North Sea before moving to Australia and joining Rio Tinto and then North Ltd exploring for base metals, gold and uranium throughout Australia and led the team that discovered the E48 deposit at Northparkes.  Moving to Chile and then on to Indonesia as part of the expansion of North Ltd into South America and Asia he was involved in exploring for a variety of commodities.  He moved back to Australia with Straits Resources as it begun its expansion from a one mine company into a diversified explorer, acquirer and developer of projects in Australia and Asia.  Prior to joining Ivernia he was employed by Perilya Ltd as GM Exploration to build an exploration team and grow the company.

Rob Scargill
Executive Vice President, Operations

Rob has worked in senior management and technical positions at international mining companies during a career spanning more than 20 years. A mining engineer with extensive experience in mine management, mine operations and development, he held senior mining engineering positions at BHP’s Cannington Mine. Following that, he was responsible for underground operations at Gympie Eldorado Gold Mines where he later was appointed Chief Executive/General Manager. Later, he became General Manager of Perilya Ltd’s Broken Hill Operations, then Managing Director of Copper Range Ltd., both ASX listed companies. Most recently he was Country Manager at Australian Solomons Gold Ltd responsible for all the Company’s activities in the Solomon Islands including the start up of the Gold Ridge Mine, project management and relationship building with local landowners and government.

Rob received a Bachelor of Mining Engineering honours degree from Nottingham University, United Kingdom, in 1988.

Dr. John Yeates
Vice President – Corporate and Social Responsibility

Dr. Yeates has over 35 years of experience in all aspects of environmental management across a wide range of industries within Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Ivernia, he was a Senior Executive at LandCorp, the Western Australian Government's land and property developer, where he provided corporate leadership and managed environmental risk assessment, compliance and management for all the company’s projects. He led the development and implementation of environmental due diligence and risk management procedures and programs.

John Pitcher
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

John Pitcher was appointed General Counsel and Secretary in October 2008.  Before joining Ivernia he was General Counsel and Secretary of New Gold Inc. and prior to that Corporate Counsel at Gabriel Resources Ltd.

Richard G. Perfect
Corporate Controller

Richard Perfect is a Certified General Accountant with approximately 15 years of experience at a number of companies in Canada. Mr. Perfect joined Ivernia in June 2003.

Ann Candelario
Director Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Ann has more than 15 years experience in the investor relations field. Most recently she directed investor relations at Intrepid Mines Limited, an emerging gold producer. Previously she held senior investor relations positions in several technology and network communications companies based in Silicon Valley, California.

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