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Donald B. Edwards - Corporate Secretary. Mr. Edwards has been our Corporate Secretary since the acquisition of Damascus in December 2006. He is a partner with the law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Calgary, Alberta and practices in the areas of securities, corporate finance, commercial transactions, natural resources and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Edwards was a lawyer and subsequently a partner of Armstrong Perkins Hudson LLP, and its predecessors, from 1994 until July 2002 when the firm merged with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Mr. Edwards has practiced in the areas of securities, corporate finance and venture capital matters since 1990 and has acted for a broad range of domestic and foreign issuers, investment banks and securities dealers, with a particular emphasis on venture capital and mergers and acquisitions and both domestic and cross border transactions. He has served as the corporate secretary for Cold Creek Capital Inc., a company whose stock is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, since February 2006, and for Arsenal Energy Inc. since January 2003. From May 1996 to May 2004, he was a director of Deloro Resources Ltd., a company whose stock was listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. He also served as corporate secretary for Sahara Energy Ltd. (formerly Battleford Capital Inc.), a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company, from January 205 to February 2006. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association.
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