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Dennis Gibson - Chief Financial Officer

Dennis holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University and is a Certified General Accountant. Throughout  his 25 year career, he has held various senior financial positions. Most recently, Dennis served as the Vice President, CFO and Corporate Secretary of Vector Intermediaries Inc., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

John Chulick - Vice President of Exploration

John joined Aquiline in 2005 as an Exploration Manager and has since become Vice President of Exploration. He is a seasoned exploration geologist with over 22 years experience in Latin America, most significantly with low sulfidation epithermal precious metals deposits in Chile and Argentina. His previous management experience includes directing surface and underground exploration at Meridian Gold's El Peñón Mine in northern Chile.


Daniel Noone - Vice President of Peruvian Operations

Dan holds of Bachelor of Science (Graduate) in Geology and a Masters in Busuiness Administration. Mr. Noone has 15 years experience in mineral exploration and has worked in Peru since 1997. From 1998 until 2001 Dan managed exploration in Peru for Homestake Mining. He was involved in the discovery of the Sinchao polymetallic skarn system for El Misti Gold in 1997 and also identified a number of high quality exploration plays including the Antaña gold project, acquired and drilled by NDT Resources in 2001. Dan was President and CEO of Absolut Resources Corp until its amalgamationwith Aquiline in April 2008.

Flora Wood - Vice President of Investor Relations

Flora has 12 years of Investor Relations experience, is a former broker. Prior ot joining Aquiline, she was Corporate Secretary and Investor Relations Manager for Harris Steel Group Inc. until its takeover in 2007. She has an MA and Levels 1 and 2 of the Chartered Technical Analyst designation.


G. Michael Hobart - Corporate Secretary

Michael is a partner at Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, where he has practised corporate and securities law since 2002. Prior to joining Fogler, Rubinoff, he was a partner of Aylesworth LLP from 1998. Michael holds a B.A from McGill University and a LL.B. from the University of New Brunswick. He has held directorships and senior officer positions with several junior mineral exploration companies in Canada.

Key Management

Dean Williams - Chief Geologist


Dean has over 23 years experience in international precious and base metal exploration in South America. He worked as Senior Geologist in Argentina and Chile for Barrick Gold for eight years and has consulted to several mid-tier mining companies. Dean holds a BSc in geology and an MBA. He is very field oriented with specialties in mapping, geochemical prospecting and the integration of geological data to develop exploration models and identify exploration targets.

Matthew Andrews - Environmental Manager

Matthew has 13 years experience in undertaking, managing, and evaluating environmental baseline and impact studies in remote areas throughout Argentina and Australia. Prior to his position with Aquiline, Matthew operated an environmental consulting company based in Argentina and has extensive experience with the environmental permitting process. matthew has completed international level environmental baseline studies and has been responsible for the environmental impact assessment of major mining projects. He previously completed an air quality study for the Navidad Project before joining Aquiline as Environmental Manager.

Damian Spring – Chief Mining Engineer

Damian brings to Aquiline more that 15 years of mining engineering and management experience. Most recently he was a providing a consulting service to both underground and open pit mines. Prior to this he was Senior Mine Engineer at the Ohai opencast coal mine in New Zealand, where he was responsible for all technical aspects of the mining operation. This included geology, geotechnical, scheduling, mine design, contract monitoring, environmental management and sample analysis. Other experience includes Project Manager - Development in a high rock stress regime of the 6 to 11 level expansion at the Perseverance Mine (WMC Resources Ltd.) and Underground Mine Manager of the Bullen Decline (Central Norseman Gold Corporation), among others. Damian holds a B.E. (Mining) degree; is a member of the AusIMM and holds a First Class Mine Manager Certificate from the state of Western Australia. Damian joined Aquiline in March 2008.

Alberto Messidoro - Manager Institutional Relations - Argentina


Alberto recently joined the company as Manager of Institutional Relations and is responsible for the overall management of our social programs in Aregentina. His most recent appointment was that of Manager, External Affairs for Minera Agua Rica, where he managed relationships with the media, government and local communities. Other experience includes Public Releations and Communication management positions for Bridgestone / Firestone, and a steel company called Acindar.



Sergio Kain - Senior Project Geologist, Navidad Silver Project

Sergio graduated from the National University of the South in 1995 and since then has had over 12 years experience in precious and base metal exploration, working on a number of projects throughout Argentina. In the past he worked for Sunshine Minerals before he began work on the Navidad Project.


Paco Solano - General Manager, Pico Machay Gold Project

Paco Solano has over 35 years experience in the Peruvian mining industry. Mr. Solano has a B.Sc in Geology and a M.Sc in Environmental Science from San Marcos University, Lima. His prior experience includes Chief of Exploration for Centromin, Operations Manager for Chavin Mines and Exploration Geologist at Minera Yanacocha.

Sarah Vaughan-Jackson - Communications Manager

Sarah has over 12 years business training and operations experience, and has been involved with client relationships for the past 5 years.