Mel Ashton
Non Executive Chairman
B.Com, FCA, FAICD

Experience
Mr Ashton holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr Ashton also currently holds a number of board appointments, including a National Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Director of The Hawaiian Group of Companies and a Director of Cullen Wines (Australia) Pty Ltd. He is currently the Chairman for Empired Ltd and Venture Minerals Limited.

Stephen Parsons
Managing Director
BSc (Hons) Geology, MAusIMM

Experience
Mr Parsons is the Managing Director of the Perth based mineral exploration company, Gryphon Minerals. Gryphon successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in April 2004 with high quality nickel and gold exploration projects located within Western Australia. Mr Parsons graduated from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand with an Honours degree in Geology. He has held technical positions for a number of junior resource companies and major mining houses including CRA Exploration and Placer Dome, exploring for a wide variety of commodities throughout Australia before listing Gryphon in April 2004.

Didier Murcia
Non Executive Director
LLB, BJuris

Experience
Didier Murcia holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Western Australia, and has over twenty years experience in corporate, commercial and resource law.  Didier is a Director of Aminex PLC, listed on the London Stock Exchange, a Non-Executive Director of Gindalbie Metals Limited and Non-Executive Chairman of Target Energy Limited, both listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. He is also Chairman of Perth law firm Murcia Pestell Hillard and the Honorary Consul for the United Republic of Tanzania.

Hamish Halliday
Management Consultant
BSc (Geology), MAusIMM

Experience
Mr Halliday has 15 years of both corporate & technical experience within the mining industry. Mr Halliday was the founding Director of Adamus Resources Limited, responsible for listing the company on the ASX in 2001. He was instrumental in the acquisition of the company’s current tenement portfolio which has already yielded a multi-million ounce gold deposit. Mr Halliday has worked on a number of projects exploring for a range of commodities. Prior to Adamus Resources Limited he worked with Taipan Resources NL (now called Intrepid Mines Limited) taking the Paulsens gold project from grass-roots exploration through feasibility.

Brett Dunnachie
Chief Financial Officer / Company Secretary
BCom, CA

Experience
Mr Dunnachie is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Mr Dunnachie is the Chief Financial Officer and was appointed Company Secretary in February 2007. Prior to joining Gryphon Minerals he was an audit manager at a major chartered accounting practice. He is also the Company Secretary for Venture Minerals.

Shane Hibbird
Exploration Manager (Australia)

BSc. (Hons) Geology, MAusIMM

Experience
Mr. Hibbird graduated from the Flinders University of South Australia with an Honours degree in Geology. He has over 17 years of exploration experience working in gold, PGE’s, base metals, coal, oil and gas, mineral sands and other industrial minerals throughout Australia, Laos and parts of China. He has worked for both junior explorers and multinational mining companies. He has experience in grass roots and conceptual exploration through to advanced resource appraisal, more recently involving the Kanmantoo Copper-Gold deposit near Adelaide, South Australia, and the Panton Sill PGE deposit in the
Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Michael Fox
Exploration Manager (West Africa)

Experience
Mr Fox brings considerable experience to the Company that will be invaluable in unlocking the full potential of the Banfora Gold Project.  Mr Fox has held a number of technical management positions for Company’s developing projects and mining operations worldwide over the past 25 years, which have included IAMGold’s (Gallery Gold) Mupane Gold Mine in Botswana and Rwamagaza Gold Project in Tanzania, African Gold Resource’s (AGR) Booro Gold Project and Armada’s Erdenet copper mine in Mongolia, Western Mining Corporation’s (WMC) Hill 50 Gold Mines and Kalgoorlie Gold Operations in Australia and the Senior Manager of the Bank of Western Australia’s Resource Project Financing and Project Evaluation.