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  | | | Simon Ridgway
Chairman of the Board
 Mr. Simon Ridgway is an internationally known mining financier and has over 15 years' experience managing publicly-traded mineral exploration companies in North, Central and South America. Simon has been the Chairman of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. since its reorganization in late 2004, early 2005. Over the last few years, he has been instrumental in raising close to $53-million to fund the exploration and development programs for the major Fortuna assets, the Caylloma Mine in Peru and the San Jose project in Mexico. Simon is also the President of Radius Gold Inc., as well as a director of Northland Resources Inc.
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| | | Jorge A. Ganoza Durant, Geological Engineer
President, CEO and Director
 Mr. Jorge Ganoza Durant is a geological engineer with over 12 years experience in exploration, mining and business development throughout Latin America. Jorge graduated from the New Mexico Institute of Mining in 1994. He is a fourth generation miner from a Peruvian family that has owned and operated several underground gold, silver, and base metal mines. His professional experience is vast and varied- before Fortuna he was involved in business development at senior levels for several private and public Canadian junior mining companies working in Central and South America. Jorge's experience extends through various countries including Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Peru, and Colombia.
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| | | Richard Clark
Director
 Mr. Clark is a lawyer who practiced mining and securities law in British Columbia from 1987 to 1993.For the past ten years Mr. Clark has been a senior executive with the Lundin Group of Companies. In 2004 he became president and CEO of Red Back and under his leadership Red Back has grown into an intermediate gold producer with a production profile growing to over 500,000 oz per annum. Mr. Clark has successfully guided Red Back through all facets of growth including discovery, feasibility, financing and production coupled with successful corporate acquisitions.
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| | | Tomas Guerrero Méndez, Geological Engineer
Director
 Mr. Tomas Guerrero is a geological engineer with over 30 years of mine geology and mineral exploration experience in Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Ecuador. Until 2001, Tomas held a ten year tenure as Director of Explorations for the Hochschild Group, a leading private Peruvian mining company with multiple mine operations. Under his leadership Hochschild discovered and put in production three mid size gold-silver mines. He is currently the principle of BO Consulting, an engineering consulting firm specializing in servicing the mining sector.
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| | | Arden (Buck) Morrow, B. Sc. Engineering
Director
 Mr. Morrow is a graduate Mining Engineer from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has over 30 years' experience in mineral exploration, mine development, and mine operations, in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. From 1980 to 2001, he was the President of Western States Minerals Corporation which, under his direction, discovered and brought into production some of Nevada's most significant gold deposits including Barrick's Goldstrike mine. Since 2001, Mr. Morrow has worked as a consultant in gold exploration, mine development, and mine financing. Currently Buck is the President of Northland Resources Inc. and sits on the board of a number of mining companies.
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| | | Mike Iverson
Director
 Mr. Michael Iverson has been President and Director of Triple K Ventures Ltd. from March 1975 to present. He has also served as President and Director of R.P.F. Custom Wood Fibre Ltd. since 1985. In November 1997, Michael joined Sasha Ventures Ltd., a public company serving as President and Director. In addition to these substantial positions, Michael was Chief Executive Officer of Fortuna from 1998 to January 2005, and has been Secretary and Director of Niogold Mining Corp. (formally known as Moreno Ventures Inc.) since 1998 to the present.
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| | | Mario Szotlender
Director
 Mr. Szotlender holds a degree in international relations and is fluent in several languages. He has successfully directed Latin American affairs for numerous private and public companies over the past 20 years, specializing in developing new business opportunities and establishing relations within the investment community. He has been involved in various mineral exploration and development joint ventures (precious metals and diamonds) in Central and South America, including heading several mineral operations in Venezuela, such as Las Cristinas in the 1980's.
He was President of Mena Resources Inc. until it was purchased by Rusoro Mining Ltd., of which he was also President. In addition to being a Director of Fortuna Silver Mines, Mr. Szotlender is also a Director of Radius Gold Inc. and Endeavour Silver Corp.
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