John F. Huguet, CMA, FCMA-Chairman

Mr. Huguet has over 35 years in natural resource development, including North, Central and South America and South East Asia. Many joint ventures and unique financing structures highlighted his career with the Atkinson Companies. He started his career in 1963 with Atkinson and left Atkinson in April 1997 where he had served 8 years as President and Managing Director of Atkinson Holdings and Commonwealth Construction. Mr. Huguet is the Chairman, President and CEO of Andean American Mining Corp.

Andrew Gourlay, P. Geol.-President and Director

Mr. Gourlay, President of Sinchao Metals Corp., is a mineral exploration geologist who has worked as a Professional Geologist, Qualified Person and author of numerous NI 43-101 reports for nearly three decades. A graduate of the University of British Columbia in 1977, Mr. Gourlay has extensive exploration and management experience throughout Asia, North America and South America. Mr. Gourlay has successfully advanced projects from the grassroots to definition drilling and the resource calculation stage. These include the Bonaparte Gold Property in British Columbia and managing Kennecott Canada’s first two years of successful diamond exploration in the Lac de Gras area. Mr. Gourlay has also been the Exploration Manager for Chase Resource Corp. in the Philippines, Essex Resource Corp. in Bolivia and for Asia Gold Corp., a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., in Mongolia. Mr. Gourlay is a Professional Geologist registered with The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta and a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.

Bryan Morris, F.CIMA - Director

Mr. Morris brings many years of valuable experience to Sinchao Metals. Until his retirement in August 2003, Mr. Morris worked for Teck Cominco Limited as Vice President, Business Development and was responsible for identifying, evaluating and negotiating acquisitions, primarily in the zinc business. Prior to that appointment he had been Vice President, Finance and Director of Cominco Resources International Ltd., the listed international exploration arm of Cominco Ltd., and had held senior positions in Cominco's finance organization.

During his career with Teck Cominco he also served as a director of several subsidiary and associated companies. Between 1965 and 1974 Mr. Morris worked in Peru for Cerro de Pasco Corporation and Centromin. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and is also a director of several junior mining companies.

Arni Johannson - Director

Mr. Johannson is Chairman and director of Titan Uranium in Vancouver and has over 15 years experience in capital markets. He is also a director of Mega Uranium Ltd. and Chairman of Fortress Financial Corp.

Ernesto A. Maurer - Director

Ernesto A. Maurer is currently Vice-President of Zurmont Finanz AG, Switzerland, a private equity company, focused on turnarounds and restructuring. Mr. Maurer also oversees due diligence, arbitration and operations of investee companies, being responsible for the acquisition and sale of several companies in the portfolio of Zurmont Finanz. He was formerly CEO of CEDES AG of Landquart, Switzerland, a high tech optosensorics company. Mr. Maurer has an engineering degree from the Technical University of Zurich and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Lausanne, Faculty of Economics. He sits on a number of boards, including Datamars SA, and BNS Group, all of Switzerland. Mr. Maurer speaks German, English, French and Spanish.

Nick DeMare, CA

Mr. DeMare has over 20 years experience in a broad range of administrative, management and financial services to private and public companies including his own, Chase Management. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and has his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.