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Managment and Board of Directors

Vasilios (Bill) Mavridis, President & CEO: Bill Mavridis, is the President, CEO and Director of Caldera Resources and the founder and President of CanBiomine Resources Inc. (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Cladera Resources). Further to his studies in Economics and Public Policy at the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University, Mr. Mavridis began his career in the financial services industry, initially as an investment advisor for a boutique full-services investment brokerage firm and then as a sales manager for a mutual-fund dealer. In 1999, he founded Griffon Equity Research, where, as principal, he provided financial analysis, corporate finance and business development support for private high-technology companies and publicly-listed small-cap corporations, primarily involved in the junior mineral exploration industry. Mr. Mavridis has extensive experience in the marketing and financing of junior mineral exploration companies.

Jim Steel, M.BA., P.Geo , Vice-President Mining and Development: As a mining geologist with an MBA from London School of Business, Mr. Steel has over 25 years of experience in global surface and underground exploration as well as both buy-side and sell-side investment analysis and asset management. He has experience in mine development projects, property valuations and corporate acquisitions as well as mineral resource estimation in the context of scoping studies and preliminary economic assessments. He was an integral part of the exploration team that discovered the Ujina copper deposit at the giant Collahuasi complex in Chile, now in production. Mr. Steel also has experience in analyzing Soviet-era gold and silver deposits and has a working knowledge of the Russian language.

He has also worked as an analyst in international equity investment and mining corporate finance in Europe, and was a co-manager of the TD Greenline Precious Metals and Resource mutual funds in Canada. For the past ten years, he has been the Managing Director of Mining Insights Inc., a research firm specializing in buy-side mining equity research, portfolio risk analysis, independent value assessment in mergers and acquisitions, and in value-oriented geoscientific and analytical consulting. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Mr. Steel also chairs the registration committee of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO).

Mark Billings, Director: Mark Billings is a Director of Caldera Resources and presently the President and CEO of Orex Exploration Inc. (OX: TSX-V), a junior gold exploration company with properties in Nova Scotia. Mr. Billings also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Argex Silver Capital (RGX: TSX-V), a junior mining exploration company with titanium, vanadium and iron ore assets in Quebec. He is on the board of directors of a number of companies in Canada and the United States.

Prior to joining Orex Exploration, Mr. Billings served as Chief Financial Officer for private and public Internet companies from 2000 to 2006, as well as running his own financial consultancy, Marengo Management Inc. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Billings was Vice-President of Corporate Finance with Desjardins Securities Inc., where he led a number of public and private financings and took companies public on the Canadian exchanges.

Mr. Billings has a Master of Business Administration degree, with honours, from the Harvard Business School, from where he graduated in 1995. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with highest honours, from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1992. In 2002, he was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Prof. Azat Vartganian, Sr. Advisor to thePresident:

Jacques Arsenault, CFO:

Murray Ross Orr, Director:

Steve Roebuck, Director:

Lorne Woods, Director:

Richard T. Thompson (Business Development):