Mr. David C. Owens, aged 56, is currently a technical and business development consultant based in Singapore. Mr. Owens’ 32-year career in the mining industry, out of which 17 years were in Asia, covers mineral exploration, mine operations, corporate management, finance, business development and entrepreneurship. Mr. Owens has been actively working in Mongolia since 2001. He acquired his core technical and management skills working in large base metal mines in Arctic Canada during his 11-year stint with a mining company. Subsequently, Mr. Owens founded and listed two public mining companies, Asia Minerals and Asia Gold, to develop precious metal, base metal and coal mining opportunities in China, Mongolia and Indonesia. Under his leadership, Asia Minerals obtained the first State Council approved business license for a foreign gold mining joint venture in China and a majority stake in Asia Gold was acquired by Ivanhoe Mines to carry out the mining of a large coal deposit discovered in the Gobi region of Mongolia. Mr. Owens is a graduate in Mining Geology from the Imperial College, London University, holds a diploma in Canadian Financial Management from the University of Toronto and is a registered Professional Geologist in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

Mr. Sean Hinton, aged 43, has more than 22 years of experience in Mongolia and speaks fluent Mongolian, having lived there from 1988 to 1995 and having served as Mongolia’s Honorary Consul-General in Australia for four years from 1996. Mr. Hinton founded a private company in 2007 to provide strategic and investment advisory services in North Asia, and currently divides his time between Beijing and Ulaanbaatar. He has experience in advising international companies on cross-border transactions and IPO’s, primarily in the energy and minerals sector in China, Mongolia, Australia and Africa. He has also undertaken advisory work for the governments of Mongolia and South Africa. In recent years he has advised on transactions of more than US$11.5 billion. Mr. Hinton’s recent roles include: Senior Independent Advisor to Goldman Sachs (Asia) (ongoing); Special Advisor to the CEO of SOHO China on their IPO; and Chairman of China Networks Ltd. a regional TV roll-up. Prior to the founding of the private company, Mr. Hinton was a partner and principal at Media Entertainment Advisors, a boutique investment bank in London, where he advised private investors and corporate clients including public broadcasters, distributors, banks, hedge funds and government agencies. He sat on the investment committee of the Creative Capital Fund, a London-based venture-capital fund, and on the board of advisors of a number of online start-up companies. Mr. Hinton started his career working with McKinsey & Company for 5 years from 1995, working in their Sydney and London offices. Mr. Hinton was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (A.G.S.M.), University of Cambridge (M.Phil. Ethnomusicology) and the MIT Sloan School of Management (Sloan Visiting Fellow).

Mr. John Maitland, aged 64, is one of Australia’s most well known advocate for the coal industry. Mr. Maitland is currently the Chairman of the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Coal Competence Board and a member of the NSW Coal Compensation Appeals Tribunal. He is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr. Maitland has been involved with the mining industry in Australia and globally for more than 30 years. Mr. Maitland played a key role in the development of the International Labour Organisation Convention on Health and Safety in Mining. Mr. Maitland was the National Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union until his retirement in 2006. He was also a former President of the International Federation of Chemical Energy and Mine workers and a former Director of Eraring Energy (NSW Government), United Collieries (Xstrata) and Doyles Creek Mining (Nucoal Resources).