Current Officers

Mr Bethwaite has qualifications of Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Building Science and Master of Business Administration. His mining career spans some 23 years including periods living and working in Mount Isa and Broken Hill. Mark worked for North Limited from 1978 to 1987, including five years as Managing Director. He worked for Renison Goldfields Consolidated Limited from 1987 to 1998, including six years as Managing Director. From 1998 to 2001, Mark worked with Deutsche Bank, principally in the financing of mining projects.

Mr Bethwaite was Chairman of the Australian National Maritime Museum from 2001-2007. He is a non-executive Director of New South Innovations Limited, Digital Core Laboratories Pty Limited and of a number of not for profit organisations. Mr Bethwaite is also a Director of Guanaco Mining Company Limited in Chile.

Appointed Director, 2 April 2007; Chairman 3 April 2007, Re-Appointed Chairman 22 May 2007

Dr Robert Trzebski holds a Degree in Geology (equivalent to BSc), a PhD in Geophysics, a Master in International Project Management and has over 13 years of professional experience in mineral exploration, project management and research and development. This includes eight years of developing collaborative research projects between mining companies and scientific institutions in Latin America, USA, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Dr Trzebski has been involved in developing international relationships between Australian and overseas mining companies. He is also actively involved with several bilateral chambers of commerce and has extensive industry networks in Australia and overseas.

Elected as a Director by shareholders on 22 May 2007

Mr Vergara del Carril is a lawyer and is professor of Postgraduate Degrees for Capital Markets, Contracts, Corporate Law and Business Law at the Argentine Catholic University

He is a director of Banco Hipotecario SA. [BASE: BHIP], Milkaut SA (an Argentine leading dairy company), Nuevas Fronteras (owner of the Intercontinental Hotel in Buenos Aires) and Emprendimiento Recoleta SA (owner of the Buenos Aires Design Shopping Centre). Mr Vergara del Carril is also a director of Guanaco Mining Company Limited and Guanaco Capital Holding Corp.

Appointed 18 May 2006, re-elected by shareholders 26 November 2008.

Mr Elsztain studied Economic Sciences at University of Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Group of Fifty and Asociación Empresaria Argentina (Argentine Business Association) and has been engaged in the real estate businesses for more than twenty years.

He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones SA [NYSE: IRS], Argentina's largest and most diversified real estate company, Alto Palermo, Shopping Alto Palermo SA. [NASDAQ: APSA], Argentina’s leading shopping centre company with more than 10 shopping malls, Cresud SA.C.I.F. y A. [NASDAQ: CRESY], a leading agricultural company in Latin America devoted to the operation and conformation of a valuable portfolio of farmland, Banco Hipotecario SA. [BASE: BHIP], Argentina’s largest mortgage bank, BACS Banco de Crédito & Securitización and Consultores Asset Management among other companies.

He is also Vice-Chairman of E-Commerce Latina SA, and BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agricolas [BOVESPA: AGRO3]; a company which replicates Cresud’s business strategy in Brazil among other companies.

Appointed 29 June 2007

Mr Zang obtained a law degree from University of Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is a member of the International Bar Association (Asociación Internacional de Abogados) and the Interamerican Federation of Lawyers (Federación Interamericana de Abogados). He is a founding member of the law firm Zang, Bergel & Viñes.

He is also first Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IRSA and Shopping Alto Palermo SA, and Vice-Chairman of Alto Palermo, Puerto Retiro and Fibesa; and Director of Banco Hipotecario, Nuevas Fronteras SA., Tarshop and Palermo Invest SA.

Mr Zang is Adviser and Member of the Board of Directors of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and he has also advised national and international companies in different areas of the legal practice, including the privatization process of YPF SA and State Owned Electricity Company of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Appointed 29 June 2007

Mr Kasaneva holds a degree in Geology from the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile. He has more than 20 years experience in geology and exploration of gold deposits, mainly focused on the Paleocene belt in Northern Chile, where Guanaco Austral Gold’s flagship gold/copper project is located.

Appointed 7 October 2009