Christopher R. Verrico, “Chris“, has been a Director of over a dozen resource start-ups with most graduating to become listed public companies. Chris served as CEO of Aguila American Gold Ltd until Nov. 2012 and prior to that, he was with Lateegra Gold Corp., becoming CEO and then ultimately negotiating its sale to Excellon Resources Inc. in 2011. Chris was the CEO, and then Co-Chairman of West Hawk Development Corp. between 2005 and 2008, and served as a Director for Raytec Development Corp until mid-2009 when it eventually became Africa Oil Corp. Between 2000 and 2002 Chris performed IR duties for Candente Resource Corp., operating in Peru, and forged a number of strategic relationships within the industry. Chris’s experience includes 20 years of rural/remote industrial construction and contract mining while also advancing exploration projects throughout BC, the Territories, and Alaska, and managing and financing numerous projects throughout western South America, Mexico and throughout Canada.

Mr. Brunelle is a graduate of Queen’s University with over 30 years of exploration and management experience of Canadian and international exploration projects. Mr. Brunelle was an Officer and Director of Corner Bay Silver Inc. and played an integral part in the discovery and assessment of the Alamo Dorado silver-gold project in Sonora, Mexico. Corner Bay Silver (TSX) was merged with Pan American Silver Corp. in 2003. Mr. Brunelle was a founder, Officer and Director of Stingray Copper Inc. that took the El Pilar Copper Property, Sonora to Feasibility after which the company was acquired by Mercator Minerals Ltd. in a plan of arrangement in December 2009. Mr. Brunelle is currently a Director of several TSXV resource companies.

Mr. Mazur is the cofounder and past Managing Director of RLG International Inc., a Performance Improvement consulting firm located today in over 30 countries. Since 1984 Mr. Mazur, in his leadership role, built the company to over 300 employees with revenue of $100M. He has retired from full-time operations at RLG and currently serves as the Board Chairman. Mr. Mazur has held past Board positions in the Oil & Gas and non-profit sectors and has chaired the compensation, strategic planning and governance committees. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Mr. McCrea has more than 25 years of experience in exploration and mining geology, as well as mineral resource estimation. He gained experience working for junior mining/exploration companies and engineering firms SRK and Snowden. His geological expertise spans technical reviews and due diligence to resource estimation and feasibility studies. Jim has worked with a variety of commodities, primarily gold, silver, and copper, in various geographic settings throughout the Americas. He performed ore body modeling and resource estimation for the successful takeover of Cumberland Resources Ltd. by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. More recently, Mr. McCrea completed resource estimations that supported the purchase of Duran Ventures’ Aguila porphyry by Peñoles. He has also worked with companies such as Minera San Cristóbal S.A. of Bolivia, Arena Minerals Inc., and Montan Mining Corp., to name a few. Jim’s guidance led to the breakthrough drill hole and discovery of world-class potential for Tudor Gold Corp.

Jeffrey J. Reeder, P. Geo., has a B.Sc. (Hon.) in Geology from the University of Alberta and since 1992 has been registered as a professional geologist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. With 25 years of experience in Peru and fluent in Spanish, Mr. Reeder is responsible for identifying and acquiring both Aguila Copper-Moly being developed by Mexican mining company Industrias Peñoles and Pinaya Copper-Gold project currently being explored by Kaizen Discovery. He is currently the President / CEO for Peruvian Metals who operates a successful and expanding toll milling plant in northern Peru while developing mines in proximity capable of increasing supply to this mineral processing facility.

Eric H. Hinton, P.Eng., FCIM, has degrees from Haileybury School of Mines, Queen’s University and Laurentian University and is a registered professional engineer in Ontario and Manitoba. Eric is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and is also designated as a Qualified Person in underground mining from the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America in addition to a qualified person for National Instrument 43-101. Eric’s experience in small scale mining operations (from 50 to 500 tonnes per day) led him to acquire Basic Minerals SAC in Peru to launch the Mercedes Project which will become a 25000 tonne per annum polymetallic producer. His expertise will enable Rio Silver to pursue projects similar to Mercedes, such as the recently acquired Maria Norte project in Peru, with the potential to generate positive cash flow in the short
term. Mr. Hinton’s assistance managing the development of the recently acquired Maria Norte highgrade polymetallic silver, exploitation / exploitation property will bolster the company’s mandate for future sustainability.