Management/Technical Team

Mr. Croft is a seasoned business executive with more than 25 years of global leadership experience and expertise in corporate strategy, business development, project management, stakeholder engagement, and environmental and community sustainability. He has spent more than 15 years in the exploration, mining and energy sectors with Ivanhoe Mines, Rio Tinto, Peabody Energy and Duke Energy, including six years as Executive Vice President for the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Layton has contributed to business results on significant gold, copper, iron ore and coal projects and operations in Asia, North America and Africa.

Layton is a Director of Erdene Resource Development (TSX:ERD), which has discovered and is developing a high-grade gold district in southwestern Mongolia. Layton holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA from the School for International Training, and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Mr. Filo is an exploration geologist, mining geologist and project generator with more than 37 years of experience, including 30 years in Ontario’s Abitibi greenstone belt region. Kevin is a former Vice President on the team which acquired the Detour Gold Mine from Placer Dome, which is now one of the largest operating gold mines in Canada.

Exploration and project geologist with almost 30 years of experience in diverse field of commodities. With an active approach to exploration has advanced projects from grassroots target generation and evaluation through to deposit discovery, delineation, environmental permitting and PEA.

Mr. McMurdie is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA:CMA) with more than 30 years of senior leadership experience in public and private companies. Mark is also Chief Financial Officer for Roscan Minerals (TSX-V:ROS), as well as Director of Finance for franchisor H&S Massage Spa Canada.

Mark possesses deep professional experience in the mining, franchising, oil and gas, merchant banking, distribution and real estate sectors. His expertise includes the development and leadership of corporate finance and accounting functions, strategic planning, and restructuring, as well as liaising with shareholders, Boards of Directors, securities regulators, and financial institutions.

Dr. Curtis is a well-known and respected economic geologist and geochemist who, with more than 40 years of global exploration, mining and capital markets experience, brings a proven record of exploration, mine development and project financing to Pancon Gold. As President and CEO of Intrepid Minerals, Laurie was responsible for taking the Casposo gold-silver project in Argentina to full feasibility, after which the mine was built, sold and is still operating today. He was instrumental in developing that company’s Tujuh Bukit copper-gold project in Indonesia, containing more than 25 million ounces of gold and 10 billion pounds of copper. Laurie oversaw Intrepid Minerals transition, through merger and acquisition, to become a mid-tier gold producer and ultimately attain a market capitalization exceeding US$1 billion.

In recent years, Laurie has been active in the financial sector, as a senior mining research analyst for Clarus Securities and Dundee Capital Markets. He is currently a Director of Toachi Mining and Excellon Resources as well as Director and Chairman of Eastmain Resources. Originally from Australia, Laurie earned his PhD in Exploration Geology from the University of Toronto. In 2007, Mr. Curtis received the Arbor Award from the University of Toronto for volunteer work and for creating the Explorer Fund, which raises awareness and funding for undergraduate students in the field of Earth Sciences.

Mr. Mosher is a geologist and mining executive with more than 35 years experience in the United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, Africa and Asia. Over the past decade he has been active in the restructuring, financing and management of a number of mineral projects and mining companies, both private and public. David has served on many boards including Cambior and Equinox Minerals, and is currently a director of five public mineral exploration companies, including Pancon Gold.

From 1992 through 2008, David served as President and CEO of TSX-listed High River Gold Mines, where he raised more than US$300 million and developed three mines from exploration through to production in Canada, West Africa and Russia. He assisted with the expansion of two underground mines in Russia, and he outlined a 5 million ounce gold deposit in Burkina Faso, which subsequently became an operating mine. Under David’s leadership, High River Gold’s market capitalization increased from C$7 million to more than C$1 billion.