mathew wood and anthony polglase, page-2

From Avanco website:

Mr Matthew Wood

Chairman

Mr Wood has over 15 years experience in the resources sector with both major and junior mining companies and has extensive experience in the technical and economics evaluation of resource projects throughout the world. Mr Wood has an honours degree in geology from the University of New South Wales in Australia and a graduate certificate in mineral economics from the Western Australian School of Mines.

Mr Wood's expertise is in project identification, negotiation, acquisition and corporate development. In addition, he has led or been involved with successful discovery teams responsible for defining a number of gold and base metal deposits, including the Challenger gold deposit in South Australia and the Fortitude and Rosemont gold deposits in Western Australia.

Mr Wood has spent a considerable time in Brazil leading a number of exploration projects and is very familiar with the geology associated with the Brazilian gold and metalliferous regions. He was a founding director of Iberian Resources and is currently a director of Black Range Minerals, Signature Metals, Overland Resources and Bellamel Mining.

Mr Anthony Polglase

Non Executive Director

With 30 years multi-disciplined mining experience across 10 different countries, Mr Polglase is qualified in mechanical and electrical engineering with an honours degree in Metallurgy from the Camborne School of Mines, UK.

Mr Polglase has acquired detailed knowledge relating the development and operation of gold, copper, lead, zinc and tin projects and has either been responsible for or closely involved with the commissioning of more than seven mining projects. Previous employers include Iberian Resources, Ivernia Corp, Rio Tinto, TVX and Ashanti Goldfields.

Project management including critical evaluation, implementation and commissioning are Mr Polglase's strengths. Mr Polglase has a demonstrated ability of successfully bringing projects on line in the most challenging of environments including former Soviet Union countries.

Mr Polglase is fluent in Portuguese and resides in Brazil.


FROM OVERLAND wedsite:

Anthony Polglase

Director

With 32 years multi-disciplined mining experience across 10 different countries, Mr Polglase is qualified in mechanical and electrical engineering with an honours degree in Metallurgy from the Camborne School of Mines, UK.

Mr Polglase has acquired detailed knowledge relating the development and operation of gold, copper, lead, zinc and tin projects and has either been responsible for or closely involved with the commissioning of more than seven mining projects. Previous employers include Iberian Resources, Ivernia Corp, Rio Tinto, TVX and Ashanti Goldfields.

Project management including critical evaluation, implementation and commissioning are Mr Polglase's strengths. Mr Polglase has a demonstrated ability of successfully bringing projects on line in the most challenging of environments including former Soviet Union countries.