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Howard Ratti
Position: Director, President and CEO
Mr. Ratti is a senior mining executive with over 28 years national and international experience, and has a global organizational background in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Ratti is the former senior vice-president at Luscar Ltd., Canada's largest coal company. Before joining Luscar he was vice-president eastern operations with Andalex Resources Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky.

Mr. Ratti holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and is both a registered P.Eng. in Canada and a C.Eng. in the United Kingdom. He will also act as the Company's Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.


Ken Z. Cai
Position: Director*
Dr. Cai has served as president, chief executive officer and a director of Minco Mining & Metals Corporation since February 29, 1996. Dr. Cai holds a Ph.D. in mineral economics from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Cai, a Chinese national now living in Canada, has 20 years of experience in mineral exploration, project evaluation, corporate financing and company management. Dr. Cai has been responsible for negotiating the property agreements in China through his contacts in the Chinese mining communities. Dr. Cai has served as a director of several publicly-traded and private Canadian and Chinese companies. He is currently the President & CEO of Minco Silver Corporation. He joined Gobi Gold's Board in August, 2005.


Wade K. Dawe
Position: Director*
Wade K. Dawe is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Linear Gold Corp. In 2003, he successfully negotiated the purchase of an extensive property portfolio held by Mount Isa Mines (MIM) in Central America, and since then has raised over $35 million for the company. From February 2000 to September 2003, he served as Vice President and a Director of the Corporation.

Mr. Dawe has been an entrepreneur in Canadian mining and venture capital industries since 1994. With extensive contacts in the business and investment banking communities he has worked and consulted for a number of successful publicly traded Canadian companies and has raised millions of dollars in equity financing.

He is a founding shareholder and board member of TSX Venture listed Keeper Resources Inc., a Calgary-based producer of oil and gas, and also serves on the Board of TSX listed Minco Silver Corporation, and ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc.

Mr. Dawe has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) 1992. A native of Newfoundland and Labrador, he now resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


Howard Balloch
Position: Director*
Mr. Howard Balloch, the former Canadian ambassador to China and Mongolia has been appointed to the Company's board.

Mr. Balloch, Founder and President of The Balloch Group, served for more than five years as Canada's Ambassador to China, Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1996 after a 20-year career in the Government of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A specialist on Pacific Rim nations, Mr. Balloch helped to develop bilateral exchanges between Canada and China and led the promotion and protection of Canadian interests in China. After retiring from the government's foreign service in July 2001, he continued to support Sino-Canadian business cooperation through his Beijing-based private investment and consulting business, The Balloch Group, and as president of the Canada-China Business Council. Mr. Balloch earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Montreal's McGill University and pursued doctoral studies at the University of Toronto and the Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques, Paris.

He serves on a number of corporate boards and is Adjunct Professor of International Business at the University of British Columbia.


Mar Bergstrom
Position: Vice-President/Corporate Secretary and Acting Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Bergstrom has served as an officer and director of several public companies over the past 20 years. She is a native of Houston, Texas and attended the University of Texas for two years. She is the President of LGM -- Lions Gate Management Ltd., a consulting company providing corporate services to public companies.