Advancing World Class Prospect in Prolific Gold Fields

James A. Sikora

President, Tao Minerals Ltd.

In 1983 Mr. Sikora joined Hydril Canadian Corporation a subsidiary of an international oil well service company based in Houston Texas as a sales and service representative. Over a four-year career, Mr. Sikora supervised drill floor operations on locations throughout Canada and the United States in the high Arctic and offshore Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Mr. Sikora complete, offshore safety, offshore survival and oilfield firefighting courses Mr. Sikora became Hydril Canadian tubular sales and service manager from 1985 to 1987 and completed an extensive in-house sales and management training program at Hydril Technology Center Houston.

In 1987, upon completion of the Canadian securities course Mr. Sikora joined the equities brokerage business with McNeil Mantha, Mr. Sikora joined Nesbitt Thompson’s Edmonton office shortly thereafter, and over the following three years Mr. Sikora became a licensed commodities broker and options broker in addition to providing equities trading for his client base.

In 1990, Mr. Sikora left the brokerage industry to pursue a career in public company finance and consulting. Over 15 years, Mr. Sikora has worked with numerous public companies, providing financing from US, Canadian and European sources in addition to guiding management decision-making on mining projects all over the world. In 2005 Mr. Sikora became president of Primecap Resources Inc. a private company seeking exploration projects in Colombia.

Julio De Leon (MBA CPA, CMA, CFM)

CFO, Tao Minerals Ltd.

Julio attended Bernard Baruch College (a unit of the City University of New York), where he received his Bachelor in Business Administration in 1980. He received his Master in Business Administration from the University of Miami in 1984. Mr. De Leon obtained his C.P.A. Certificate from the State of Florida Board of Accountancy in 1984. He has also obtained the designation of Certified Management Accountant and Certified in Financial Management from the Institute of Management Accountants.

Following his graduation from Bernard Baruch, he moved to Florida accepting a position with a publicly listed real state Company where he attained the position of accounting manager. At this Company he worked on Securities and Exchange filings, complex accounting issues, and audit compliance with the international accounting firm auditing the company.

Mr. De Leon entered public practice in 1999 helping clients prepare their accounting records to comply with SEC regulations and performing re-engineering services. In 2000 Julio joined a regional accounting firm as the audit manager for the firm conducting audits of SEC clients in the U.S. and South America. Julio was recruited in 2001 by a national accounting firm as a senior manager in charge of the firm's SEC clients. During this tenure, Julio performed SEC engagements with companies located in the U.S., Singapore, Canada, and England.

Affiliations with professional and civic organizations have been an important factor in his career. Julio has been the past president of the Institute of Management Accountants - Miami Chapter. He is a member of the AICPA, FICPA, Institute of Management Accountants, and the Association of Fraud Examiners.

Duncan James Bain

Director

Mr. Bain attended the University of Western Ontario and graduatd with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology. His accomplishments include:

• Director, St. Elias Mines Ltd. (V.SLI), Westone Ventures Inc. (A.WTV) and Cross Creek Mining (a Vancouver based private company).
• Reviewed gold, base metals and diamond properties in Canada, Mexico, Peru, Saudi Arabia, China, Colombia, Portugal and Papua/New Guinea
• Accepted for admission to Ph.D. Geology program, University of Western Ontario
• Aided in bringing 100,000 oz gold deposit into production; Blackdome Mines, southern B.C.
• Aided in bringing two silver deposits into production; Terra Mines, N.W.T.
• Aided in bringing 1.8 million oz gold deposit from exploration to pre-production stage; Consolidated Cinola Mines, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.

Mr. Bain is affliated with:

• Fellow, Geological Association of Canada (1986)
• Professional Geoscientist of B.C. (P.Geo., 1991), APEGBC
• Professional Geoscientist of Saskatchewan. (P.Geo., 2003), APEGS
• Professional Geoscientist of Ontario (P.Geo., 2004), APGO
• Member, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

Walter Terrence Plummer

Director

Mr. Plummer was the coordinator and sponsor of the RMS-Ross Placer Gold Mining Seminars for 10 years between 1981 - 91. This was an international event dedicated to the presentation of state of the art machinery, concepts, and environmental considerations to individuals involved in alluvial, elluvial and hardrock gravity recovery systems.

In 1982, Mr. Plummer formed RMS-Ross Corporation, a company specializing in the development and manufacture of gravity concentration equipment for the gold and heavy mineral mining industries. Some of the products that are well known are the Derocker (a patented self feeding, self cleaning grizzley), Ross Box (patented tri channel sluice system), and high efficiency Circular Jigs. RMS has also forged strategic alliances with Falcon concentrators Inc., (the developers of the largest and only continuous discharge centrifuge in the world) to manufacture key components of the various models of the Falcon models. RMS has the broadest line of material preparation and gravity concentration machinery in the marketplace. Other new products are being developed continuously.



Since 1970, Mr. Plummer has visited or consulted on over 200 alluvial and eluvial operations around the world, and has developed a keen sense for what equipment is necessary for efficient operations in different mining situations. Well designed equipment is necessary in the initial stages of material handling and preparation to effect liberation of the gold particles. Then, effective gravity gold recovery is dependent upon selecting the appropriate recovery system for each of the various gold screen sizes. There is no panacea in the gold recovery industry, and Mr. Plummer's expertise is in the proper selection, design and assembly of successful gold recovery systems.