Mr. McInnes holds a B.A. from Dalhousie University (1987). From 1987 to 1993, he was project manager for Equity Engineering, a mineral exploration consulting company based in Vancouver. In 1994 he founded Blackstone and has been its President and Director thereafter. Since 1992, Mr. McInnes has founded four other public companies, three of them involved in mineral exploration and one in the technology sector, raising some $30 million in venture capital for these and other enterprises. Mr. McInnes is also currently the President of Western Keltic Mines Inc. and Plutonic Power Corporation, a director of Fronteer Development Group and Atikwa Minerals Corp. and is past President of of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines and a Director of the Pacific Museum of the Earth, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and Advisory Board member to the Mining School at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Mr. Douglas is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty five years of experience in the accounting, corporate finance, and mining industries. Most recently, he served as Corporate Secretary to The Northair Group of public companies which included Stornoway Diamond Corporation and Sherwood Copper Corporation. Throughout his career he has participated in the sale or financing of over 30 private and public enterprises with a combined value of over $200 million. Mr. Douglas is a graduate of the Commerce Program (Finance) at the University of British Columbia and is a member of the British Columbia and Canadian Institutes of Chartered Accountants.