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| | | General Merrill A. McPeak, Director
General Merrill A. McPeak is a retired Four Star General after nearly four decades in the U.S. Air Force and served as USAF Chief of Staff from 1990 to 1994. General McPeak is President of McPeak and Associates, a company he founded in 1995. From 1990 until his retirement from active military service in late-1994, he was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. During this period, he was the senior officer responsible for organization, training and equipage of a combined active duty, National Guard, Reserve and civilian work force of over 850,000 people serving at 1,300 locations in the United States and abroad. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs were military advisors to the Secretary of Defense and the President. A career fighter pilot, General McPeak flew 269 combat missions in Vietnam and performed in 199 official air shows with the Air Force's elite aerobatic team, the Thunderbirds. In a 37-year military career, General McPeak commanded NATO's 20th Fighter Wing, Twelfth Air Force, and Pacific Air Forces from 1988 to 1990. His term as service chief was characterized by active overseas military operations, including Desert Storm. At the same time, he conceived and executed perhaps the most important reorganization of the Air Force in its 60-year history.
General McPeak has sat on the boards of over a dozen publically traded companies, including long service with the airline, TWA, and with the test and measurement company, Tektronix. He was for many years Chairman of the Board of ECC, International, until that company was acquired by Cubic Corporation. Currently, General McPeak is a director of DGT Holdings, Derycz Scientific, Miller Energy Resources, Genesis Biopharma, and Coast Plating (privately held). He is Chairman of Ethicspoint, Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based provider of risk management and compliance software-as-a-service, including secure, anonymous reporting of ethical violations in the workplace.
General McPeak (B.A., Economics, San Diego State University, M.S., International Relations, George Washington University) is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1992, San Diego State honored him with its first ever Lifetime Achievement Award. He was among the initial seven inductees to the Oregon Aviation Hall of Honor. He was one of a dozen co-chairmen of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Currently, he is Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, responsible for supervising 24 cemeteries in 15 overseas countries that serve as final resting places for nearly 125,000 American war dead.
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| | | Brian A. McClay, President and Chief Executive Officer
Brian A. McClay, President and Chief Executive Officer has 40 years experience in the global mining industry, and a well-earned reputation internationally, as an intuitive mine builder. His multi-faceted career includes prospecting, contracting for mineral exploration, diamond drilling, open pit mining, and managing open pit and underground mining operations.
Mr. McClay has directed Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Limited for the past 15 years, as President and CEO from 1990 to 2000 and again from 2004 to present day. He is well known for his ability to recognize property potential, and also for his extraordinary negotiating, partnership and deal-making skills. His combined field and management experience are major assets to Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Limited as the company enters an exciting new era of explosive growth.
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| | | Paul Kessler, Director
Mr. Paul Kessler is an accomplished business entrepreneur with worldwide experience in resource and business development. Since 2001, he has been Principal, Portfolio Manager and Founder of Bristol Capital Advisors, LLC ("BCA"). His specialties include all aspects of sourcing, identifying, negotiating, structuring and re-structuring investment transactions with emerging growth public companies, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, venture capital, private equity, and other capital market activities. He has guided and overseen over 500+ investment transactions, whether as lead, co-lead, or syndicate investor. Mr. Kessler has also actively worked with executives and boards of companies on corporate governance and oversight, strategic repositioning and improving shareholder communication.
For the better part of a decade prior to the formation of BCA, Mr. Kessler was recognized as an active investor, financier and venture capitalist. His investments focused on emerging growth public companies and, to a lesser extent, private companies that were on the path of becoming public. As an investor he has invested, provided seed capital, and/or founded numerous successful emerging growth companies.
Mr. Kessler has been a guest speaker on the subject of financing emerging growth public companies at a variety of forums, including The PIPEs Conference, Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA), Wall Street Reporter's Pipe Conference, and Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has attended courses at various colleges and universities, including Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program and UCLA's Extension Program. Mr. Kessler has passed the Series 65 Uniform Investment Advisor Examination.
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| | | David Voyticky
Mr. David Voyticky is currently President of Miller Energy Resources (NYSE: MILL), an oil and gas exploration company, and has more than 16 years of experience in corporate finance and merger and acquisition consulting.
Previously Mr. Voyticky served as a Vice President at the investment banks Goldman Sachs & Co. and Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he advised public and private companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, and capital-raising activities. He was also a founding partner in Red Mountain Capital Partners, and a partner in Chapman Capital LLC, an activist hedge fund focused on middle market public companies.
Mr. Voyticky received Juris Doctorate and Master's of Business Administration degrees from the University of Michigan, and also holds a Master's in International Policy and Economics from the Ford School at the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Pomona College.
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| | | Dr. Matt Ball, Ph.D., P.Geo., Director and Sr. Geologist
Dr. Ball is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canada, the Society of Economic Geologists, USA and has 25 years international experience in exploration and operations geology. He was a semi-finalist winner of the "Goldcorp Challenge" and subsequently employed by Goldcorp and the overall winner, Geoinfomatics Explorations Inc.
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| | | Wayne Ash, P.Eng, Director and Mining Engineer
Wayne Ash, Director and Mining Engineer graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines in 1965 with a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering and Michigan Technological University in 1969 with a Doctorate in Engineering. He has 40 years experience as a miner, mine manager and consulting engineer and is currently affiliated with the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia.
Mr. Ash's vast and varied experience has benefited all company projects, and his industry affiliates have proven beneficial to company growth worldwide.
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| | | William F. Jefferies, Director and Corporate Secretary
William F. Jefferies, Director and Corporate Secretary was self-employed as a land developer and private business investor before joining Mosquito Consolidated in 1992. Mr. Jefferies manages the company's corporate office and oversees its efficient administration.
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| | | Patrick Bronson, Director
Patrick Bronson, Director, has 40 years of experience minerals and metals exploration and development industry, primarily as a project manager, drilling contractor and helicopter pilot. He acted as a Director of Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Limited for 16 years, relieving Mr. McClay from his position as President of the company from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Bronson's industry knowledge and contacts are a tangible asset to Mosquito Consolidated's management.
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