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Donald A. McInnes
Vice-Chairman and CEO, Plutonic Power Corporation

Donald McInnes is the founder of Plutonic Power Corporation, a rapidly emerging British Columbian based green hydroelectric power development company. His background is in funding natural resource development through Canadian capital markets including the founding of Blackstone Ventures and Western Keltic Mines. In the last 18 months these companies have raised over $750 million in debt and equity. He serves on a variety of community and business association boards and is a frequent public speaker and contributor to public policy debate to both government and the public at large.




Bruce Ripley
President, COO, Plutonic Power Corporation

Dr. Ripley has over 25 years of engineering experience in the hydroelectric industry including 16 years with BC Hydro where he was Vice President, Engineering from 2004 through 2006. In this role he was responsible for delivery of engineering and construction projects for the generation, transmission and distribution systems with annual value of greater than $400 million, and work closely with planning, maintenance and operations programs. He has worked on projects in Canada, USA, China, Philippines and Australia. He is a former President of the Tunnelling Association of Canada, has sat on the Boards of Powertech and Science World, and has been a member of the Electric Power Research Institute's Research Advisory Committee. Mr. Ripley has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Civil) from the University of British Columbia, and Master and Doctor of Engineering degrees (Civil) from the University of California.




Grigor E. Cook, P.Eng
CEO, Dokie General Partnership

Mr. Cook has over thirty years of experience in the Canadian engineering and construction industry. He was the President and senior operating officer of Commonwealth Construction Canada Ltd., one of Canada's leading industrial contractors. Prior to joining Commonwealth in 1984, Mr. Cook spent 11 years with Barnett-McQueen in operational positions across Canada. Mr. Cook has a Bachelor of Science degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.




Rupert A Legge, LL.B.
Executive VP, Corporate and Legal Affairs

Prior to joining Plutonic Power, Mr. Legge practiced securities and corporate finance law for more than 20 years at a major Vancouver law firm. He has a wide range of experience in advising public companies at all stages of development on a wide variety of matters, including regulatory compliance and corporate governance and will be providing this advice to Plutonic as in-house general counsel. Mr. Legge holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of British Columbia.




Paul Sweeney
Executive Officer, Plutonic Power Corporation

Mr. Sweeney is responsible for overseeing the financing of Plutonic's renewable energy projects as well as assisting the Company in planning for the future and to take advantage of new growth opportunities. Mr. Sweeney has a strong track record of success with project finance, having most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Canico Resource Corp. where he was responsible for among other things, arranging project financing for the Onça-Puma Nickel Project. Financing of the project was well underway and commitments received when Canico was bought by way of a $940 million takeover by CVRD. Prior to Canico he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Sutton Resource Corp. where he had arranged the debt financing for the Bulyanhulu gold mine in Tanzania prior to Sutton's take out by Barrick Gold Corp. .




Peter Wong, C.A.
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Wong is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Canada and holds a B.Comm. from the University of British Columbia (1989). From 1989 to 1992, he articled with the accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche in Vancouver and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 1992. Subsequently, he has held a number of progressive senior financial management positions with a number of mineral exploration stage, development stage and producing companies, most recently as treasurer for the Huckleberry mine and as Chief Financial Officer of Rubicon Minerals Corporation.

 
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