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Mr. Kuehne has served as one of our directors since December 2000. He is also currently a management consultant and the President of SmallCap Corporate Partners Inc., (www.smallcap.ca), a venture capital and management consulting firm for microcap public companies. He has held this position since August 2003. Prior to SmallCap, Mr. Kuehne served as a management consultant with Alliance Corporate Services Inc. from July 2000 through to June 2003. Mr. Kuehne worked in finance and accounting for Deloitte & Touche for eight years. He also has industry experience, including over seven years with Doman Industries Limited (1990 to 1999), a large public Canadian forest products company, where he eventually became Chief Financial Officer. As the CFO of Doman Industries, Mr. Kuehne gained practical experience in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, completing a $125 million senior note issue through Bear Stearns and the $140 million acquisition of Pacific Forest Products. Mr. Kuehne holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta (1984) and a Masters of Management from the J.L.Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University (1990). From June 2000 to May 2004 he served as a director of Prospector Consolidated Resources Inc., a Canadian public company. From January 2003 to November 2004 he served as a director of Beau Pre Explorations Ltd., also a Canadian public company. Mr. Kuehne qualified as a Canadian Chartered Accountant in 1983 and as an American Certified Public Accountant in 1985. | 