For over forty years, Mr. Cowley, P.Geo. has held technical and managerial positions exploring for gold, base metals, diamonds, industrial minerals and coal worldwide. He has extensive experience in a major company setting based in Canada and South America (18 years with BHP Minerals). Projects include the Escondida world-class copper mine in Chile, Country Manager for Bolivia, and the Ekati diamond mine and the Slave gold project in the Canadian arctic. As manager of the Slave Gold Project, his team discovered and advanced 4 gold deposits amounting to over 6 million ounces of gold. Mr. Cowley also has extensive involvement in junior mining companies at President/CEO, VP Exploration, consultant and directorship levels. Mr. Cowley was instrumental in putting the Lexington-Grenoble gold-copper mine in BC into production, in doubling the resource at the polymetallic and precious metal J&L deposit in BC, adding resources at the Wolverine VMS deposit in the Yukon and establishing the largest highest grade primary vanadium resource in North America. Mr. Cowley is a Professional Geologist, P.Geo. and the Qualified Person for Indigo Exploration Inc. Mr. Cowley is also President and CEO of First Vanadium Corp.

Ms. Moriarty earned her B.Sc. (Geology) from Queens University. She achieved her Chartered Accountant designation in 2002. During an eleven year period with PwC, she worked exclusively with resource companies. Since 2011, she has worked as a Senior Consultant with Malaspina Consultants Inc., continuing to work with resource companies, including First Vanadium Corp.

Mr. Bradley Parkes has joined the Board of Directors and will become interim VP Exploration. Mr. Parkes has a BA in Economics and BSc in Petroleum Geology (BSc) from the University of Calgary and a Master’s degree in Energy Law from the College of Law at the University of Tulsa. Mr. Parkes is a Professional Geologist registered with APEGA and Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. He also a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI). Mr. Parkes spent the first decade of his career as a stockbroker and an associate in the Corporate Finance department at a national Canadian brokerage firm. Mr. Parkes was licensed with IIROC in both Alberta and BC to advise and trade equities, futures and options and assisted in raising over $100 million for early-stage resource companies. Following his time in the investment industry, Mr. Parkes has been involved in the hydrogeological, mineral and oil and gas exploration and development subsectors of the resource exploration industry. Mr. Parkes has extensive experience in oil and gas exploration being involved with the drilling of over 125 oil and gas wells.

Mr. Doherty is a highly accomplished senior petroleum geologist with over 40 years of experience at all levels from senior scientist to executive level including VP Exploration/ CEO roles. He is very well versed in all aspects of the oil and gas industry including geophysics, reservoir and production engineering, economic risk evaluation, infrastructure and the regulatory environment.

He has extensive operations experience gained executing $100MM Capex and Opex budgets and drilling several hundred wells on an annual basis. Mr. Doherty’s success rate within the Western Basin on a year-on-year basis averages a 38 % growth rate from deep to shallow including Devonian, Mississippian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous targets and from a variety of lithologies and traps.

Over Mr. Doherty’s career, he has held positions at Alberta Energy Company, Canadian Superior, Gulf Canada, Shell and Apache. Later Mr. Doherty and partners founded three junior oil ventures, including Signal Resources and then undertook a position with Prime West Trust as Southern Business Unit Manager. This last position managed over 17,000 Boe/d and a staff of 30 Professionals.

Mr. Sveinson is a member of the Law Societies of British Columbia and the Yukon and a partner at Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP, Labour and Employment Lawyers. Mr. Sveinson acts for employers and management with respect to workplace legal matters including labour and employment issues arising from corporate transactions and restructuring, hiring/firing and compensation matters. He was raised in a family that is heavily involved in the mining industry and has provided legal advice and representation to a range of clients in the mining, energy, and oil & gas sectors from junior exploration companies to large international companies.

Mr. Warner is a professional geologist registered in BC, NWT and Nunavut of Canada and a graduate from the University of Alberta. He has over 30 years of experience with major and junior mining companies, including Noranda Exploration and Placer Dome. Since 2002 he has been involved in exploration management worldwide and has been highly successful in the discovery and delineation of several mineral deposits for various junior mining companies including: M Gold Zone at Detour Lake mine, the Falea uranium/silver/copper deposit in Mali and the Fatou Main gold zone in Mali. His African experience includes work in Mali, Niger, Burkino Faso, Namibia, and South Africa.