Position: President, CEO and Director

Christopher R. Verrico has 25 years of construction and mine development/operations experience within B.C., Yukon, Alaska, and Nunavut including 9 years as a contractor performing mining, bulk ore hauling and containment construction. More recently he has been involved in scoping studies as well as exploration financing for numerous projects in Peru and Bolivia.


Position: CFO

Forward brings over 15 years of accounting experience in North America, including extensive knowledge of the regulatory filing processes involved both in Canada and the U.S.


Position: Executive Vice-President

Brian Thurston has more than 15 years of exploration and project management experience, 12 of which were spent in Latin America. Most recently, Mr. Thurston was Project Manager for Pacific Ridge Exploration Corp. and was instrumental in a new uranium discovery (Lucky 7 Zone) near Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. Mr. Thurston was part of the initial geological exploration team that evaluated the current land holdings of Aurelian Resources Inc. in Ecuador in 2002 and held the position of Country Manager for Aurelian in Ecuador in 2004 and 2005. Mr. Thurston brings extensive exploration and logistics operational expertise to the Company along with first hand knowledge of environmental, political, and governmental processes in Peru, Ecuador and Mexico. His primary role will be to lead the exploration and development of the Company's various Latin American projects.


Position: VP Exploration

Gordon Allen brings more than 32 years of experience in the exploration industry, 14 of which were spent in Latin America. Since 2003, Mr. Allen worked for Far West Mining Ltd. as their exploration manager on the Candelaria project in northern Chile. The Santo Domingo Sur deposit, a new discovery made during this program, has a currently published indicated resource of 139.4 Mt of 0.59% Cu. Mr. Allen has extensive experience in the exploration for a wide variety of deposit types, but specifically for porphyry copper-gold, volcanogenic massive sulphide, epithermal precious metal, and iron oxide copper-gold deposits. Mr. Allen has worked in Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Africa on precious and base metal exploration projects ranging from grassroots to feasibility stage. He is a professional geologist registered with APEGBC and holds an honours BSc degree with a specialization in geology from the University of British Columbia.


Position: VP Business Development and Director

Mr. Reeder, a graduate of the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. Geology, has over 18 years of experience in mineral exploration from grassroots to advanced exploration programs. Mr. Reeder has provided Geological services for various clients and also serves on the board of Accero-Martin Exploration. Mr. Reeder has worked over 12 years in South America, exploring for porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold systems. Mr. Reeder’s ability to recognize and assist in acquiring quality precious and base metal projects will be a great assistance to the Lateegra board.


Position: Director

Mr. Berka is a graduate engineer with a M.Sc. (Dipl.Ing.) degree from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia (1968) and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. since 1977. He has over 35 years international experience in Engineering, Marketing & Sales and Business Administration. He also has extensive experience in the management, marketing, promotion and administration of public companies as well as in the Corporate Communications, shareholders information, public relation and contract negotiations. During the past 26 years Mr. Berka has served as a Director and Officer of various public companies traded on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchanges and the NASDAQ System in USA.


Position: Director

Since September 2005, Mr. Francisco has served as Senior Technical Advisor to the CEO of Newmont Mining Corp. Originally joining Newmont in 1995 as Vice President, International Operations, Mr. Francisco was elected to the position of Senior Vice President, International Operations in 1997, then responsible for world wide operations. Subsequent to that, he was elected Executive Vice President, Operations. Mr. Francisco holds a bachelor's degree in geological engineering from the University of Arizona. With his many years of experience and extensive knowledge of international mining, Mr. Francisco brings to Lateegra multi-faceted talent, assisting management in fulfilling the Company's mandate, for transitioning towards becoming a cash flow producing gold company.

Technical Advisory Board

Position: Technical Advisor

Dr. Rozgonyi currently sits as Head Professor of the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia. In recognition of his professional accomplishments, Dr. Rozgonyi was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering.