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| | | Michael G. Thomson, President, CEO & Director
Michael Thomson's primary responsibilities are to act as President and Chief Executive Officer and to provide overall leadership and direction to Metropolitan and its management. He has over twenty five years of experience in the securities industry, as an entrepreneur, investment banker, regulator (VSE) and lawyer. Mr. Thomson founded Metropolitan in July of 2007 and was instrumental in raising seed capital for the venture, negotiating Metropolitan's option agreement with Argentine Frontier Resources Inc. ("AFRI") and Salta Exploraciones S.A. ("SESA"), and organizing and managing Metropolitan's IPO. In 2005, Mr. Thomson was the promoter and founder of Bonita Capital Corporation, a TSX.V listed company prior to the acquisition of a control position by Bolnisi Gold NL (an Australian public company) to form Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation. Palmarejo, in turn, was acquired by Coeur d'Alene Mines in an acquisition originally valued at approximately $1 Billion. Mr. Thomson has been a director or officer of various TSX.V listed companies over the past twelve years. Mr. Thomson is currently a director of Penfold Capital Acquisition Corporation and was responsible for negotiating a proposed Qualifying Transaction pursuant to which Penfold entered into a Business Combination Agreement dated July 22, 2008 with, amongst other persons, PBS Coals Corporation. PBS Coals is a private British Columbia corporation which owns approximately 85% of the equity of the PBS Coals Group of Companies, a privately held group of companies engaged in the mining, processing and sale of primarily metallurgical coal from their properties in West-Central Pennsylvania. The PBS Group has six surface and six underground mines in operation.
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