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John J. Sutherland has been a Class II director of the Company since August 1988. Mr. Sutherland has been a Certified General Accountant since 1976. Since February 2007, Mr. Sutherland has been a vice president and chief financial officer of Goldgroup Resources Inc., a private company involved in the exploration and development of mining properties focused in Mexico. From March 2003 to September 2006, Mr. Sutherland was vice president and director of Tekion, Inc., a private company developing and marketing fuel cells. Between April 2002 and November 2002, he was the executive director of the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada. From May 2001 to January 2002, Mr. Sutherland provided consulting services to the Company. Since 2002, Mr. Sutherland has been a director of Aquiline Resources Ltd. a publicly-held company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), and a director/trustee of Polymer Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a former publicly-held company that sold all of its assets effective as of February 2004 and is liquidating following such sale. | 