Robin Birchall

Vast Exploration, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company. It focuses on the exploration and development of its principal asset, the Qara Dagh Block, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Qara Dagh Block lies on trend with existing discoveries and is located in the prolific Zagros Fold Belt of Northern Iraq, which contains several large fields, including the super-giant Kirkuk field. The company has production operations in the Boyer area of the province of Alberta, Canada. Vast Exploration was founded on October 2, 1987 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Silver Bear Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious metal properties. The company was founded by Stephen M. Shefsky on April 8, 2004 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (BMOCMC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is wholly-owned by Bank of Montreal (TSE: BMO, NYSE: BMO), a Canadian chartered bank. BMOCMC provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to institutional clients only.

Brown, Shipley & Co. Ltd. (Brown Shipley) is the Great Britain-based private banking subsidiary of Quintet Private Bank (Europe) SA, itself a subsidiary of Precision Capital SA in Luxembourg. The firm was founded by William Brown in 1810. Headquartered in London, Brown Shipley manages a range of collective investments known as SVS Brown Shipley Funds for private, institutional and corporate clients.