Alto Ventures Ltd.
Alto Ventures Ltd.
Corporate Management Team

 
Marian (Mike) Koziol*, P.Eng., P.Geo. - President, CEO and Director

Mr. Koziol is the President and CEO of Alto Ventures Ltd. He is a geoscientist with 30 years of experience exploring for gold and base metals in the Canadian Shield. Mr. Koziol has been responsible for a number of gold and base metal discoveries during his exploration career with the Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation and Cameco Gold Inc.

 
Richard Mazur*, P.Geo., MBA - Director

Mr. Richard Mazur, P. Geo, MBA is a geoscientist who has held positions in the international exploration and mining industry for over 30 years as a project geologist, financial analyst and senior executive on uranium, gold, base metals, coal and industrial minerals projects in North and South America. Mr. Mazur worked over a ten year period (1974-1984) as a uranium exploration geologist in Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Yukon, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime provinces for Pan Ocean Oil Ltd. Currently he is also a President, CEO and Director of Forum Uranium Corp. and a Director ofImpact Silver Corp. and Tanqueray Resources Ltd.

Mr. Mazur graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Toronto in 1975 and obtained an MBA from Queen's University in 1985.

 
Kenneth Judge - Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Judge completed degrees in Commerce, Jurisprudence and Laws at the University of Western Australia before qualifying as a Barrister and Solicitor specializing in international mergers and acquisitions law.

Mr. Judge is a resident of Monaco from where he is involved in private investment and restructuring technology, resource and oil and gas companies.

Mr. Judge has extensive business management experience having held a number of public company directorships and more recently having been engaged in the establishment or corporate restructure of technology, mining and oil and gas companies in Australia, the UK, US, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and the Philippines.

Mr. Judge is also Chairman of London Stock Exchange-listed Hidefield Gold Plc and is also a director and/or officer of Brazilian Diamonds Limited,Empire Mining Corp., Columbus Gold Corporation, Blockshield Corporation Plc and Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd.

 
Paul C. M. Roberts, P.Eng. - Director

Mr. Roberts, residing in Oakville, Ontario has broad experience in Canadian and international mineral exploration and mine development as well as public company operations and funding. Paul has also served as President and CEO of TSE and CDNX junior mining companies whose equities exhibited superior market performance.

He was employed as Senior Mining Analyst at Merrill Lynch Canada and Research Capital specializing in junior mine financings. Paul recently was President of Minvest Inc., a consulting firm providing technical, financial and investment services to mining and energy sector companies. Mr. Roberts holds degrees from the University of Toronto (MBA, Investment Finance) and McGill University (M.A. Sc., Mineral Exploration Engineering).

 
David Cowan - Director

Mr. Cowan is associate counsel with the law firm of Lang Michener LLP in Vancouver and has practised in the area of securities and corporate finance for over 15 years. He has represented numerous public and private companies in the mining and technology sectors and is also a director of Brazilian Diamonds Ltd and Forum Uranium Corp.

 
Len Schmidt - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Schmidt is a Certified Management Accountant with over 24 years experience working in the mining industry for exchange listed corporations. He is currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer for Alto Ventures Ltd. and Midnight Sun Capital Corp. both of which are TSX-V listed corporations. Mr. Schmidt has held positions with Skye Resources Inc., Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. and Gibraltar Mines Ltd. During his career Len has been involved with mineral production and projects in Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, US and Canada. He has participated in numerous equity and bank financings, corporate mergers and acquisitions and domestic and international tax matters.

 
Jacqueline Collins - Corporate Secretary

Ms. Collins is a Securities/Corporate Finance Paralegal with over 21 years experience as a legal administrator, corporate secretary and paralegal at both independent and national law firms, and with public resource companies. She specializes in the preparation, finalization and filing of all securities documents for US and Canadian foreign and domestic issuers with Canadian and US securities regulators, including all continuous disclosure documents. Ms. Collins is Corporate Secretary for Brazilian Diamonds Limited, Columbus Gold Corp., Latin American Minerals Inc.,Forum Development Corp. and Empire Mining Corporation. and is also the legal administrator and corporate secretary for the Hamilton Resource Group.

 * Is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101