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Pediment's management team and directors have come together to form a company with decades of geological, financial and corporate experience to draw upon.
Superior vision and leadership starts with quality people:
| | | Gary Freeman, Director and President & CEO
Gary Freeman is the President & CEO of Pediment Exploration Ltd. Mr. Freeman is a Vancouver based entrepreneur who held a number of Executive positions and has been instrumental in financing, marketing and shareholder relations' capacities with junior exploration companies . He has over 23 years of valuable experience in the industry by starting out to study fundraising, leadership & management and the Canadian Securities Course which subsequently led him to spent time and gain his experience in the Brokerage industry with C.M. Oliver. Prior to accepting a commitment to Pediment, Mr. Freeman successfully prepared Wealth Minerals Ltd. for development into an established junior exploration company.
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| | | Melvin Herdrick, Director and VP Exploration
Mel is the Hermosillo Mexico based geologist and principal of Minera Pitalla SA de CV, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pediment. Mr. Herdrick had a long and distinguished career with Phelps Dodge, including a long tenure as the head of exploration for Mexico. Mel formed Pitalla in order to pursue the acquisition and exploration of a number of projects in northwest Mexico. Mel's focus on northwest Mexico is based on his conviction that this region has the potential to host very large gold, silver and copper deposits that could be discovered by applying modern exploration methods that have not been widely used in the region, particularly in areas obscured by thin pediment cover.
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| | | Alberto Orozco, COO & Geologist, Compañía Minera Pitalla (subsidiary)
Alberto is the Mexico-based Chief Operations Officer of Compañía Minera Pitalla, mexican subsidiary of Pediment, and acts as a liaison between the head office in Canada and the exploration office in Mexico . A native of Hermosillo, Sonora, where Pediment has its offices, Alberto obtained his master in science degree in geology from the University of Sonora , working in conjunction with Saint Mary's University of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
His professional experience includes working for Exploraciones Peñoles in Mexico, and more recently, Linear Gold Corp, where his activities including communication and supervision of the project staff in Mexico , as well as compilation and interpretation of some geological data .
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| | | André Audet, Director
André is the Ottawa Ontario based chairman and chief executive officer of Everton Resources Inc., a company exploring for precious and base metals with holdings in the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and near the Virginia Gold's Eleonore discovery in Quebec. Mr. Audet's prior experience includes tenure as vice-president of a major Canadian brokerage house and directorships with several public companies including being one of the founders of Orezone Resources.
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| | | Ewan Downie, Director
Ewan Downie is the Thunder Bay Ontario based president, chief executive officer of Premier Gold Mines Ltd. Prior to his role at Premier he was the president and founder of Wolfden Resources, one of Canada's most successful exploration companies, with holdings that included the High Lake polymetallic and Ulu gold deposits in the Northwest Territories and several gold projects in Red Lake. Wolfden has been acquired by Zinifex Canadian Enterprises. Prior to founding Wolfden, Mr. Downie was the principal of a successful exploration consulting and contracting group based in Thunder Bay, Ont.
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| | | Michael H. Halvorson, Director
Mr. Michael H. Halvorson is a financial consultant and President of Halcorp Capital Ltd., a private investment and consulting company since 1980. He was a stock broker from 1967 to 1974, and marketed syndicated real estate from 1974 to 1979. In addition to his directorship with Pediment Exploration Ltd., he is a director of several other public-traded natural resource companies including NovaGold Resources Inc., Strathmore Minerals Corp., Viceroy Exploration Ltd. and Orezone Resources Inc..
Mr. Halvorson has many years of experience in the Exploration Industry and adds tremendous value to Pediment's Board.
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| | | Chris Theodoropoulos, Director
Chris Theodoropoulos received his civil law degree (BCL) in 1981 and his common law degree (LLB) in 1982, both from McGill University. For the past 23 years he has practised principally in the fields of corporate, securities, mining and commercial law involving publicly traded companies and as a principal of a privately held mining and exploration company. He has acted as chairman of a number of public companies and as vice-president and general counsel of a publicly traded engineering and construction firm. Chris has held a number of directorships in public companies involved in the mining and technology sectors. Currently he is the Chairman of Africo Resources Ltd.
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| | | Chester F. Millar, Director
Mr. Millar is a pioneer of heap leaching gold production and of the large-scale bulk mining methods used for mining low-grade gold deposits in the Western United States. Under his assistance, Afton Mines (1968-1973), Glamis Gold Limited and Eldorado Gold Corporation matured from junior exploration and early production companies into substantial gold producers. Mr. Millar served as Chairman of Glamis Limited from 1985 to 1998, Chairman of Eldorado Gold Corporation from 1992 to 1994 and Chairman of Alamos Gold Inc. from 1966 to 2003. He is currently Chairman and Director of Castle Gold Corp.
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