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Gordon J. Bogden
Non-Executive Chairman
 Mr. Bogden is Managing Partner of Gryphon Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on providing advice on strategy and M&A to mining companies around the globe. Prior to Gryphon Partners, Mr. Bogden was Vice Chairman and Head of the Global Metals and Mining Group at National Bank Financial Inc. Before National Bank, Mr. Bogden held senior positions as an investment banker to mining companies with Beacon Group Advisors Inc., Newcrest Capital Inc., NM Rothschild & Sons Canada Limited and CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Inc. (the predecessor company to CIBC World Markets). Mr. Bogden is also a professional engineer and geophysicist, having co-founded Quantech Consulting Inc. He holds a B.Sc. (Eng) in Geology from Queen's University, an ICD.D from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario. Mr. Bogden is also a member of the board of directors of Aeroquest International Limited and Camino Minerals Corporation.
Kevin Bullock
President & CEO and Director
 Kevin Bullock is a registered Professional Mining Engineer in the province of Ontario. Kevin is Goldcrest's founding President and has been CEO since its inception in 2003. Kevin has over 15 years experience, at senior levels, in mining exploration, mine development and mine operations. Mr. Bullock has a wide knowledge base in the mineral industry and has completed several exploration and mining projects, both in North America and abroad, including projects in Mexico, Sweden, and West Africa, where he was Iamgold Corporation Ltd's General Manager. Throughout his career, Kevin has been involved in projects from inception through exploration to development and production. Previously, he was VP Operations for Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. Kevin was instrumental in the reopening of the Macassa Gold Mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Victor King
Chief Operations Officer and Director
 Mr. King holds a BSc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of Cape Town. He has more than 15 years of senior management experience in exploration, development and production in the gold mining industry in Africa. Mr. King's involvement in West Africa goes back to 1992, as a member of the initial Gold Fields management team for the Tarkwa Project in Ghana. As Exploration Manager, he led the exploration team which expanded the resource of a small state-owned underground gold mine to a large open pittable resource, leading to the development of the world class Tarkwa Mine, a core asset for Gold Fields today which has total Resources (including Reserves) exceeding 22 million ounces. Subsequently, Mr. King was Birim's first Chief Operating Officer based in Ghana for furher 5 years. Thereafter Mr. King rejoined Gold Fields Limited as Regional Exploration Manager for Africa with Gold Fields Limited from January 2001 to December 2006, where he was responsible for generating and managing exploration projects in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Tanzania, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. King is based in the UK.
Alan Rootenberg
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
 Alan Rootenberg is a chartered accountant with experience in the mineral exploration and technology industries. He has served as a senior executive in a number of publicly traded companies including serving as Chief Financial Officer and consultant to OTCBB and Pink Sheet listed mineral exploration companies and as a financial consultant to a TSXV listed mineral exploration company . Alan has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of a TSXV listed technology company and was a founding partner in a company that pioneered the development of multimedia and new media applications for the advertising industry. Alan has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and received his Chartered Accountant designation in both South Africa and in Ontario, Canada.
Guy Franceschi
Vice President Exploration
 Guy Franceschi graduated from the University of Ghent, Belgium in 1975, majoring in applied geology. He has over 30 years of international experience in base- and precious metals exploration and project development in Africa, Europe, South-east Asia and Latin America. At the core of his experience is a 12 year career (1976-1988) with United Nations' development agencies which brought him in Burkina Faso (1976-1983), Kenya, Haïti and in Rwanda. In these projects he has been involved as exploration geologist, geochemist and chief geologist in gold, ferrous- and base metals exploration. During his career he has been instrumental in the discovery and initial development of a number of base- and precious metal deposits. These include (not exclusive) Perkoa (Burkina Faso, 7Mt @17.7% Zn), Kiere and Kwademen (Burkina Faso, gold), Wire Hill (Kenya, base metals), Dialafara (Mali, gold), Al Uweynat (Libya, gold) and Bleyberg (Belgium, >1Mt 13% Zn and 5% Pb). He has identified and recommended several available prospects which were subsequently developed by his clients, such as Larafella (Burkina Faso, now about 0.5Moz. gold), Hiré (Ivory Coast, now about 200.000oz. Au), Duc Bo (Viet Nam, VMS on-going) and several deposits in the D.R. Congo. Mr. Franceschi is a member of the European Federation of Geologists.
Dylan Pillay
Controller
 Dylan Pillay is a graduate of the University Durban-Westville in South Africa. He has in excess of 20 years of accounting/finance experience in the mining industry in both South Africa and Canada having worked for both senior and junior mining companies during that time. Prior to joining Volta, he held the position of Group Controller for South American operations at Kinross Gold Corporation. He has been employed by publicly traded companies such as Curragh Resources, Caledonia Mining Corporation and TVX Gold Inc. amongst others.
Rob Whittall
Director
 Rob Whittall is a chartered accountant and a professional engineer (Queen's University, Mining) with over 25 years experience in the minerals industry. He has worked in senior management positions for a variety of exploration and operating mining companies, is a founder and director of Volta Resources Inc. and is also a director of First Nickel Inc. Rob is currently Chief Financial Officer of Excellon Resources Inc.
Lew Lawrick
Director
 Mr. Lawrick brings 20 years of experience in the merchant banking, mining exploration and brokerage businesses to Volta Resources as a Director. He is the President and CEO of Anaconda Minerals Inc., and Managing Director of Toronto-based Thorsen-Fordyce Merchant Capital Inc., a private merchant bank focused principally on the natural resource sector. Mr. Lawrick is also a director of several public junior mining exploration and development companies; including Franconia Minerals Inc., Serengeti Resources Inc., and Normabec Mining Resources Inc.
Bob Francis
Director
 Mr. Francis is a retired senior partner of the Toronto office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, having enjoyed an extensive career in public accounting, which included leading the Resource Sector Mining Group practice. Mr. Francis will serve as Chairman of the Volta audit committee. Mr. Francis obtained a BASc (Mech.Eng.) from the University of Toronto in 1968 and became a CA in 1972. Bob is a recent graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors -- Directors Education Program. He has served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the William Osler Health Centre for 12 years in various capacities including Vice Chair, Treasurer and Chair of the Operations Management Committee; and was formerly on the Board of the Etobicoke General Hospital as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee. For the past year he served as an Honorary Member of the Board. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the William Osler Health Centre Foundation. He is a past President of the University of Waterloo Advisory Council, an organization established to bring advice from Canadian industry, business and government to the University in the continuing development of its education, research and administrative programs.
Raphaël Goama Zoungrana
Country Manager, Burkina Faso
 Mr Zoungrana has 30 years of professional experience in business development and management. Mr. Zoungrana graduated from the "Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de la Magistrature du Burkina Faso" (the National School of Administration & Magistracy) in 1980. He spent the first part of his career in public administration in charge of administering several collectivities throughout Burkina Faso. He has been involved with the mining industry since the early 1990s when as a consultant and/or representative of mining companies. He assisted several companies in developing their exploration activities, including acquisition of exploration titles. Since 2002 he has been the local representative of Wentworth Resources Pty. Ltd., Goldcrest Resources Ltd. and, since 2008, Volta Resources Inc. and their local subsidiaries.
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