Russell "Gene" Bailey has served as our Vice President since 1998 and served as a director from 2000 through March 2006. Mr. Bailey brings 36 years of finance, technical and consulting experience to us. From February 2000 to April 2003 Mr. Bailey served as our Chief Financial Officer. From 1976 to 2000, Mr. Bailey served as a merger and acquisition consultant with Bailey and Associates on an as needed basis. In addition to his merger and acquisition role, from 1994 to 2000 Mr. Bailey has been an adjunct professor at Pikes Peak Community College teaching geology and physical geography. Mr. Bailey earned a B.S. degree in geology in 1962 from the University of New Mexico. He completed the course work for a Ph.D. degree in geology in 1965 at the University of New Mexico and completed a year of graduate studies at the University of Arizona in finance and mining economics in 1974. |