Waldo A. Perez

Interim President & CEO; Executive Vice President Exploration

Waldo Perez is the Executive Vice President of Exploration. Dr. Perez assumed the position in December of 2006 and through his direction, discovered and brought into advanced stage exploration properties.
Prior to joining Latin American Minerals, Dr. Perez worked for IAMGOLD and was a Senior Geologist for Barrick Gold Corporation and responsible for project generation. Dr. Perez brings 13 years of industry experience and 6 years in academia as distinguished lecturer.

His successes included the discovery of low sulfidation gold deposits in Patagonia and high sulfidation gold deposits in Central Argentina. His responsibility also included directing the due diligence drilling program of the multi million ounce Esquel gold deposit and the project management for the Menucos gold project.

Waldo A. Perez, B.Sc.(Honors Geology), Ph.D., P.Geo., received his undergraduate and Doctorate degree in geology from the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina (1982-1991) and completed Postdoctoral studies at the University of Alberta (1992-1993). Dr. Perez is registered Professional Geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of British Columbia (2006).

Raymond Mitchell, C.A.

Chief Financial Officer

Raymond Mitchell is the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years' experience. Mr. Mitchell joined Latin American Minerals in March, 2007.

Mr. Mitchell was the Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of The Canadian Depository for Securities ("CDS") for a span of 9 years and performed a variety of roles for the organization over his 24 years career with CDS, including providing executive oversight of the development of the SEDAR system. For 6 years prior to his engagement with CDS, Mr. Mitchell performed a variety of financial functions for a large Canadian Trust Company.

Paul Fornazzari, B.SC., LL.M.

Corporate Secretary

Mr. Fornazzari is a partner with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Toronto, where he practices corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and regulatory matters.

Mr. Fornazzari is head of the Corporate Finance, Securities and M&A National Practice Group at Gowlings and has broad international public markets and transactional experience. Over his career Mr. Fornazzari has worked on several notable transactions: (i) as the principal lawyer to Nelson Resources Limited and the sale to Russia's Lukoil for 2.7 billion, The largest Canadian acquisition by a Russian company to date, and (ii) part of the deal team for ATI Technologies Inc. on the sale to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. for US$5.4 billion.

Mr. Fornazzari obtained his LL.B. degree from the University of Windsor in 1994 and his LL.M. degree from York University, Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000.

Juan Carlos Benitez Maldonado

Country Manager - Paraguay

Juan Carlos Benitez Maldonado is a Director of Latin American Minerals Paraguay and is the Country Manager for Paraguay, based in Asuncion.

Juan Carlos is a senior level geologist with 25 years experience in industry with a number of international mining companies including Yamana Inc. and Rex Mining Company N.V.

Mr. Benitez has also served as Technical Adviser to the Vice Minister of Mines and Energy on special assignments and has held directorships with many professional associations in Paraguay including Past President of the Association of Geologists of Paraguay.

Mr. Benitez received his undergraduate degree in geology and post graduate studies at the National University of Asuncion and has been granted the designation of Professional Geologist under Professional Registration No. 589,602.