Managemenrt

& Directors

Thomas C. Patton, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
President & CEO, Director

Dr. Patton graduated from the University of Washington in 1971 (Ph.D.) and has worked in the exploration industry for thirty-five years as a field geologist, consultant and executive officer of both junior and senior mining companies. His work has been primarily in North America, where he and his teams have played major roles in several significant discoveries and reserve expansions of existing operations. Before joining Quaterra on a full-time basis, Tom was President and COO of Western Silver Corporation from 1998 to May 2006. The highlights of this period were the discovery and delineation of the world-class Peñasquito silver-gold-lead zinc deposit in Zacatecas, Mexico and the subsequent sale of the company to Glamis Gold Ltd.

Eugene Spiering
VP Exploration, Director

Mr. Spiering has over 28 years of experience in the mining exploration industry. He most recently held the position of Vice President, Exploration at Rio Narcea Mines Ltd., where he managed a team that discovered two gold deposits and completed the final definition of one nickel deposit in Spain. All three of these deposits are currently in production. Prior to his tenure at Rio Narcea, Mr. Spiering held the position of senior geologist with Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc. where his responsibilities included drilling supervision, geologic mapping, and ore reserve calculations related to uranium exploration in northern Arizona and gold exploration in western US and Venezuela. He received his Bachelor of Science-Geology degree from the University of Utah.

Scott B. Hean, MBA
CFO, Manex Resource Group of Companies

Mr. Hean served as Quaterra's Chief Financial Officer for the last three years. Prior to joining the company, he held senior management and executive positions with Bank of Montreal as Senior Vice President and Managing Director responsible for financing in the natural resources sectors in North America and with J.P. Morgan of New York, primarily financing junior oil and gas companies in the United States. Currently he is a Director and past Chair of the Audit Committee, Sabina Silver Corporation (SBB on TSX-V), a Director of Great Quest Metals Inc. and past Chair, Bill Reid Foundation Services Ltd. He has served on numerous not-for-profit Boards, including Outward Bound and B.C. Children's Hospital. Graduating from Simon Fraser University in 1973 (B.A.) and from the Ivey School of Business (M.B.A.) , London , Ontario , in 1975 and from the Institute of Corporate Directors, Directors Education Program (ICD.D) in 2006.

Hector J. Fernández, G. B.Sc.
Consultant Geologist for Quaterra Resources Inc.

Mr. Fernandez graduated from the University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1973 and has worked in exploration for thirty-two years as a field geologist, consultant and exploration manager for senior mining companies.

Before joining Quaterra in 2003, he worked for Minera Cuicuilco ( Cyprus ) from 1974 to 1986, and was directly responsible for the Cieneguita ( Chihuahua , Mexico ) gold-silver mine discovery that was sold to Glamis. From 1990 to 1996, he worked as Mexico ’s Exploration Manager for Minera San Bernardo (ASARCO). From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Quebec Iron and Titanium (RTZ) in its Pluma Hidalgo (Oaxaca. Mexico ) rutile project.

Mr. Fernández has been responsible for Quaterra’s Nieves silver project in Zacatecas , Mexico since last quarter of 2003, and he is currently preparing to begin drilling this company’s Crestones project in Durang , Mexico.

Curtis J. Freeman
President of Avalon Development Corporation, a consulting mineral exploration firm based in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Curt earned his Bachelor's degree in Geology in 1978 from the College of Wooster, Ohio and his Master's Degrees in Economic Geology in 1980 from University of Alaska – Fairbanks. Curt has been employed in the minerals industry in Alaska, the Yukon, the western United States, Central America, South America, New Zealand and Africa for the past 25 years.

Curt is a U.S. Certified Professional Geologist (CPG #6901) and is a licensed geologist in the State of Alaska (Lic. # AA 159). Curt is a member and past director of the Alaska Miners Assoc., Society of Economic Geologist, Geological Society of Nevada, British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Curt also serves on the board of the University of Alaska Department of Geology Advisory Board and the State Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey Geologic Mapping Board.

Curt has worked for and consulted for numerous major and junior mining companies in addition to consulting for individuals. Curt and his team of professionals have been involved in a number of gold, silver, platinum group and base metal discoveries in Alaska and other parts of the world.

Charles C. Hawley, B.A., Ph.D.
VP Exploration, Alaska
Vice President, Quaterra Resources Inc., Director and Chairman, Piper Capital, Inc.

Dr. Hawley graduated from Hanover College, Indiana, with a B.A. in geology in 1951 and joined the U.S. Geological Survey in 1952 after graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. He earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado in 1963. Hawley worked for the Geological Survey until 1968. During his Survey years he specialized in uranium, precious metals, and beryllium primarily in the Rocky Mountain states. Since 1969, he has worked in the exploration industry as a field geologist, consultant and executive officer of junior mining companies, mainly in Alaska. Hawley has been instrumental in developing coal resources in the Wishbone, Beluga, and Nenana fields and precious metals and copper in the Alaska Range, Seward Peninsula, and Brooks Range.

In addition to his field studies Hawley served as Executive Director of the Alaska Miners Association from 1976-1979 and on the National Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from 1989-1992 where he chaired the Mining Law Task Force. He is a member of SME and Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. Hawley is registered as a geologist in the State of Oregon and is a Certified Professional Geologist in the AIPG.

Abelardo Garza Hernández, B.Sc.
Consulting Geologist, Registered Surveyor, Landman and Environmental Consultant (México).

Mr. Garza graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975, and has worked in the mining and exploration industry for the last 30 years as a field and mine geologist, consultant, landman, legal representive, administrator of Mexican subsidiaries of both junior and senior mining companies. His work has been in North America, where he has played major support roles in several succesful exploration projects, including the world-class Peñasquito silver-gold-lead zinc deposit in Zacatecas, Mexico and the subsequent sale of the company to Glamis Gold Ltd.

Prior to becoming a consultant, he worked for Exxon, Industrial Minera México, Grupo Frisco up 1984, and since then he has been an independant consultant, having provided services to many different companies such as Quaterra and Southern Silver, among others.Abelardo is a member of the Asociación de Ingenieros de Minas, Metalurgistas y Geólogos de México and the Society for Mining, Metallurgical and Exploration Inc. (SME), and a registered surveyor in México.

Patrick Hillard, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Consulting exploration geologist.

Mr Hillard graduated from the New Mexico School of Mines in 1969, and has worked in mining exploration for 37 years, with a significant portion of this time in supervisory positions. His work has been in North America, South America, Papua New Guinea, and Spain. He has participated in the discovery of several uranium orebodies, and was in charge of exploration teams which discovered several breccia pipe orebodies which became profitable mines. He was Vice-President of Exploration for Arequipa Resources and played a significant role in the discovery of the Pierina gold orebody in Peru, after which Arequipa was bought out by Barrick.Mr. Hillard was Chief Geologist for Western Nuclear, a Phelps-Dodge subsidiary, and Manager of Exploration for Energy Fuels. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

Joseph R. Inman, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Consulting Geophysicist DBA Joe Inman, Explorer.

Mr. Inman graduated from the University of Utah in 1973 (M.Sc.) and has more than 30 years experience in mineral exploration and environmental studies. He has extensive experience and expertise in nearly all geophysical methods including magnetics, gravity, induced polarization/resistivity (IPR), electromagnetics including both time-domain EM and frequency-domain EM (CSAMT, MaxMin,), and radiometrics all in airborne, ground and downhole configurations. Recent experience and areas of interest include the application of seismic methods to mineral exploration as well as data inversion techniques of all geophysical data sets, including integrated earth modeling. Inman has been involved in all aspects of applying geophysics to exploration including survey design (technical specifications), data acquisition, contractor evaluation and selection, data processing and interpretation. He was a key member of the exploration teams that discovered the Crandon, Wisconsin, VMS deposit; and the A154 and Tli Kwi Cho kimberlite deposits, NWT, Canada. Most recently he provided and managed geophysics programs for the Western Silver team that explored and expanded the Penasquito, Mexico, discovery into a world-class silver-gold-lead-zinc deposit.

Prior to becoming a consulting geophysicist, Joe was Director of Technical Support and Services at Kennecott Exploration, responsible for ensuring Kennecott’s geologists, geophysicists and data managers had knowledge of, access to and made best use of state-of-the-art exploration methods including geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing and data/information management technologies. Joe is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and a registered professional geophysicist in the state of California.

Thomas R. Turner, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Consulting Exploration Geologist,

currently consulting for Quaterra Resources, Inc. on their Mexico exploration projects
Mr. Turner graduated from Michigan Technological University and has worked as an exploration geologist in various technical and managerial capacities for thirty-four years. His work experience extends from Alaska to Ecuador and includes management of exploration projects for numerous types of precious and base metal mineral systems, both for major mining companies and junior exploration companies. For the last eleven years, he has worked exclusively in Mexico and Central America. He was a consultant to Western Silver Corporation from 1998 to 2006 and managed their Mexico exploration programs up to Western Silver’s acquisition by Glamis Gold Ltd. in May, 2006. Mr. Turner initiated and subsequently managed Western Silver’s Peñasquito project for five years, which culminated in the discovery of two world-class gold-silver-lead-zinc deposits and the discovery of economic gold-silver mineralization at the nearby Noche Buena project.

Prior to joining Western Silver, Mr. Turner managed Mar-West Resources Ltd.’s exploration projects in Guatemala which resulted in the discovery of the Cerro Blanco hot spring gold deposit. Cerro Blanco is currently the subject of a feasibility study by Glamis Gold Ltd., which acquired Mar-West in 1998.

Tracy Stevenson
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Stevenson is a senior mining industry executive with international experience in finance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, corporate governance, auditing, administration and information systems and technology. He worked for Rio Tinto plc, the world’s second largest mining company, and related companies for 26 years. He held a number of senior leadership positions and was involved with many major exploration, development and financing projects.

During the past five years, Mr. Stevenson was the global head of information systems and shared services for Rio Tinto. He previously served for four years as Executive Vice President, CFO and a director of Comalco Ltd., an Australia-based international aluminum company partially owned by Rio Tinto, and a further four years as CFO and a director of Kennecott Corporation, a $3.5 billion diversified North American mining company owned by Rio Tinto. He also has “Big 5”public accounting experience with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

Mr. Stevenson was appointed to the Quaterra Board of Directors by shareholder vote in July 2007. He is also a director of Vista Gold Company (VGZ; TSX, AMEX). He has a B.S. Accounting Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah and is a member of the Advisory Board of the University Of Utah David Eccles School Of Business.

Robert J. Gayton, Ph.D., FCA
Director

Robert J. Gayton graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1962 with a Bachelor of Commerce and in 1964 earned the chartered accountant (CA) designation while at Peat Marwick Mitchell. Mr. Gayton joined the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of British Columbia in 1965, beginning 10 years in the academic world, including time at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in Business. Mr. Gayton rejoined Peat Marwick Mitchell in 1974 and became a partner in 1976 where he provided audit and consulting services to private and public company clients for 11 years. Mr. Gayton has directed the accounting and financial matters of public companies in the resource and non-resource fields since 1987. He currently serves as Director for five public companies.

John R. Kerr
Director

Mr. Kerr holds bachelor degrees in applied science and geological engineering from the University of British Columbia. Over the course of a 30+ year career he has been continuously engaged in mineral exploration and has extensive field experience throughout North America. Mr. Kerr has been a geological consulting engineer since 1970 and has held senior positions with a number of public companies, both as an officer and director. He has been involved with the discovery of a number of significant mineral deposits, including two producing mines and two additional projects currently awaiting production decisions.

Lawrence Page, QC
Corporate Secretary, Director

Lawrence Page obtained his law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1965 where he has practiced in the areas of natural resource law and corporate and securities law to the present date. Through his experience with natural resource companies and, in particular, precious metals development, Mr. Page has established a unique relationship with financiers, geologists and consultants and has been counsel for public Companies which have discovered and developed producing mines in North America.

Specifically, he has been a Director and Officer of Companies which have discovered and brought into production the David Bell and Page Williams mines in Ontario, the Snip, Calpine/Eskay Creek and Mascot Gold Mines in British Columbia as well as the discovery of the Penasquito Mine in Mexico.

Mr. Page is the principal of the Manex Resource Group of Vancouver which provides administrative, financial, corporate and geological services to a number of public companies in the mineral resource sector.

He currently serves as a director for seven public companies, including Bravo Venture Group Inc., Dundee Mines Ltd., Fortune River Resource Corp., Quaterra Resources Inc., Southern Silver Exploration Corp., Valterra Resource Corporation and X-Terra Resources Corporation.

Roy Wilkes
Director

Mr. Wilkes recently retired as president of Washington Group International's Mining Business Unit. As leader of this group he participated in many developing mining projects throughout the world, including Latin America, Canada, Europe and the United States. Mr. Wilkes was also the Chief Operating Officer of Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation during the expansion of its Nevada operations. He was also involved in the development of such projects as Greens Creek, Alaska; Stillwater, Montana; and Las Pelameres in Chile, while serving as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Anaconda Minerals. Mr Wilkes is a graduate mining engineer from the Montana School of Mines.