Bruce Riederer
President

Mr. Riederer has 35 years of exploration, development and mining experience throughout the Western United States and Australia. He has project managed a myriad of Federal and State permitting requirements, fast tracked numerous pre-feasibility / feasibility studies and EPCM for base and precious metal projects.

Gordon Blankstein (MBA)
CEO & Chairman

Mr. Gordon Blankstein holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Blankstein is an international financier having founded several startup companies, overseen their growth and ultimate disposition. He has approximately 30 years experience in the capital markets both in Canada and the United States where he has had roles ranging from Directorships to Chairman and CEO roles. Most notably these include ICG, GST Telecom, NACT Telecom and Bestel SA de CV,. Mr. Blankstein was nominated as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and has assumed these roles. Mr. Blankstein is also the founder and remains active in the Mountainview Conservation Society.

Roland Vetter
CFO

Roland Vetter has been appointed Chief Financial Officer for Andover Ventures Inc.

Roland’s entrée into the Mining Industry began in South Africa as Group Financial Services Director for Zimco, a Division of Anglo American Corporation. He was also a former Chairman of the Anglo American Audit Liaison Committee.  Roland spent twelve years with Zimco before emigrating to Canada in 1998.

Prior Positions have included roles of Chief Financial Officer, President and Board Director for companies such as Cardinal Minerals Inc., a producing Copper & Silver Mine in Mexico; Globtech Ventures Corp., which is involved in mining exploration in Brazil.

As an executive with a significant background in developing start-up companies, Mr. Vetter specialises in mining, with the skill to highlight opportunities and find innovative solutions to successfully grow such companies.

He has diverse financial and operational ability at an executive level, including specialist skills in completing due diligence, business plans and fund-raising. His expertise includes assimilating and rationalising operations as well as implementing projects, mergers, acquisitions and disposals.  He has been responsible for risk management, internal controls, corporate-governance and optimising funding structures including corporate tax planning.

Roland holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce and a Bachelors degree in Accounting Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of South Africa and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, Canada.

Mr. Manfred Schauer
Director

Director -  Mr. Schauer has 39 years of experience in the financial and investment industry, including 15 years with the Deutsche Bank group culminating as Regional Treasurer Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. He now manages his own consultancy business from New Zealand advising companies and entrepreneurs in the technology and metal mining/exploration fields.

Mr. Peter Legault
Director

Mr. Peter Legault of Toronto, Ontario, has had a long career as an investment banker; Mr. Legault’s career includes tenures at both bulge bracket investment banking houses and Canadian Independently owned and operated firms. Prior to his role in investment banking Mr.Legault also served in the role as an investment analyst, and has extensive experience in serving on companies Board of Directors and in mergers and acquisitions.

David Greenway
Director

Mr. Greenway is currently the President and CEO of SNS Silver Corp. David Greenway studied at Nelson College on the tip of New Zealand’s South Island, later transferring to Poole College in Poole, England. He then attended Bournemouth University where he studied Accounting and Finance.

David J. Lajack, (B.S.,Central Michigan University)
Director

Mr. Lajack has worked in lode mineral exploration since the early 1980's. In 1985 he founded a successful prospecting syndicate (Lajack and Associates) which still has active properties in Alaska. Mr. Lajack is a founding member and President of Royal Pretoria Gold Ltd., a private exploration company, incorporated in Alaska in August 2000. Mr. Lajack has worked as a consultant in the industry and has co-authored published papers on geology and geochemistry.