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Simon Ridgway
Chairman of the Board
Simon Ridgway is a co-founder of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc., a prospector, a mining financier and a Casey
Research explorer’s league inductee. Grass roots exploration is his first love and he has had a successful
career as an explorationist since starting out as a prospector in the Yukon territory in the late 70s. Simon and
the exploration teams under his guidance have discovered gold deposits in Honduras, Guatemala and
nicaragua. on the financial side, companies operating under the Gold Group banner have raised over CAD$350
million for exploration and development projects since 2003. Simon is the Chairman of Fortuna Silver Mines
Inc., Ceo of Focus Ventures ltd., president and Ceo of Radius Gold Inc.
Jorge A. Ganoza
Jorge A. Ganoza is a geological engineer with over 18 years of experience in mineral exploration, mining and
business development throughout latin America. He is a graduate from the new Mexico Institute of Mining and
technology. Jorge is a fourth generation miner from a peruvian family that has owned and operated underground
gold, silver and polymetallic mines in peru and panama. Before co-founding Fortuna back in 2004 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 also serves as Chairman of the Board of Atico Mining Corporation.
Robert R. Gilmore
Robert Gilmore is a graduate of the university of Denver with a bachelor of science degree in Business
Administration, Accounting. Robert is a Certified public Accountant and a Member of the Colorado Society of
Certified public Accountants and the American Institute of CpAs. Robert has more than 30 years of experience
working with resource companies and currently serves as Chairman of the Board for eldorado Gold Corp., a tSX
and nYSe listed Canadian gold mining company, and as a Director of layne Christensen Company, a nASDAQ
listed uS company with nearly uS$1 billion in revenues.
Tomas Guerrero
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. tomas is a Member of the SMe (Society Mining engineers – uSA) and Fellow Member of the SeG
(Society economic Geologist – uSA).
Michael Iverson
An entrepreneur for the past 30 years, Michael is the president and Ceo of several publicly-listed tSX
companies, including niogold Mining Corporation, Volcanic Metals, and past president and Ceo of Fortuna
Silver Mines Inc. Michael brings a wealth of experience in public and private equity markets and important
management disciplines in strategic planning, sales and marketing. He has also been responsible for other
private interests for many years, including 30 years as head of triple K Ventures, a private merchant capital
investment company.
Mario Szotlender
Mario 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 1980s. 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 and co-founder of Fortuna Silver Mines, Mario is also a
Director of Radius Gold Inc. and endeavour Silver Corp.
Thomas Kelly
thomas Kelly has bachelor and masters degrees in mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, is a
Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a registered member of the Society for Mining,
Metallurgy & exploration. tom has over 35 years of worldwide experience with mineral industry leaders such as
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, AMeC Americas and Inca pacific Resources. He is a recognized expert in
project management and development and is fluent in Spanish. tom is currently Coo of Atico Mining Corporation.
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