Peter Marrone* Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Yamana Gold Inc.

Profile Mr. Marrone founded Yamana as President and Chief Executive Officer of Yamana in July 2003. Mr. Marrone was appointed Chairman of Yamana in May 2007. Mr. Marrone has more than 25 years of business and capital markets experience and has been on the boards of a number of public companies and advised companies with a strong South American presence. Prior to Yamana, Mr. Marrone was the head of investment banking at a major Canadian investment bank and before that, practiced law in Toronto with significant international experience.

  Education  Bachelor of Laws

Patrick Mars
President, P.J. Mars Investments Limited

Profile Mr. Mars is an independent consultant and company director specializing in mine finance and analysis. He was a director of Yamana Resources, a predecessor to the Company, and has been a director of the Company since August 2001.  He benefits from over 30 years of experience in the investment industry and has had extensive involvement in mining research, financing and advisory work. For the majority of his career he was with Alfred Bunting & Co/Bunting Warburg, a Canadian investment dealer and stockbroker where he was President and CEO from 1981 to 1994. During this time he served 3 year terms both as a Governor of the TSE and Director of the IDA. From 1999 to 2001 he was Chairman and a Director of First Marathon Securities (UK)/NBC Financial (UK) Limited. He is also a director of the Renascent Foundation, a charitable organization.

  Education  Chartered Financial Analyst

John Begeman 
President and Chief Executive Officer, Avion Gold Corporation

ProfileMr. Begeman is a Professional Mining Engineer with over 30 years of mining experience. He has previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Zinifex Canada Inc. and Vice President, Western Operations of Goldcorp Inc. In his capacity for Goldcorp, he was responsible for its surface gold operations in South Dakota and the Industrial Minerals Division in Saskatchewan. Previous to his employment at Goldcorp, Mr. Begeman held various engineering and management positions with Morrison Knudsen Company in the contract mining operations group throughout the Western United States.

Alex J. Davidson
Company Director

ProfileMr. Davidson has been a member of the Board of Directors of Yamana since August 2009. Mr. Davidson previously served as Executive Vice President, Exploration and Corporate Development with responsibility for Barrick Gold's international exploration programs and corporate development activities. Mr. Davidson joined Barrick in October 1993 as Vice President, Exploration with responsibility for the Company's expanding exploration program. He initiated Barrick’s expansion out of North America and into Latin America and beyond. Prior to joining Barrick, Mr. Davidson was Vice President, Exploration for Metall Mining Corporation. Mr. Davidson has over 25 years' experience in designing, implementing and managing gold and base metal exploration and acquisition programs throughout the world. In April 2005, Mr. Davidson was presented the 2005 A.O. Dufresne Award by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum to recognize exceptional achievement and distinguished contributions to mining exploration in Canada. In 2003, Mr. Davidson was named the Prospector of the Year by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in recognition for his team's discovery of the Lagunas Norte Project in the Alto Chicama District, Peru.

   Education   B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economic Geology

   Yamana Committees 
   Compensation, Sustainability

   Other Boards
   Namakwa Diamonds, Capital Drilling Ltd.; Kobex Minerals Inc., MBAC Fertilizer Corp.; Noront Resources Ltd.

Richard Graff
Company Director 

Profile Mr. Graff is a retired partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served as the audit leader in the United States for the mining industry. Since his retirement, Mr. Graff has been a consultant to the mining industry and has served as a member of a Financial Accounting Standards Board task force for establishing accounting and financial reporting guidance in the mining industry.

  Education  Undergraduate Degree (Economics), Post-graduate degree (Accounting)

Robert Horn
Company Director

Profile Mr. Horn is a registered professional geoscientist in the Province of Ontario with over forty years international experience in exploration and mining. During his career he worked in Zambia and Australia in exploration, ore assessment, grade control and production; was technical adviser to Vale's non-ferrous metal exploration program in Brazil and Exploration Manager, Europe and Vice President Exploration, Canada, for BP Minerals. On BP's withdrawal from Canada he worked first as Vice President Exploration of the FMC Gold Company in the USA, Mexico and Chile and from 1995 as Vice President Exploration with Inco Limited, working in Canada, Latin America, China and Indonesia. He has served on the boards of several public companies and was President of Exmibal, a nickel-mining company, owned jointly by Inco and the Guatemalan government. He retired from Inco in 2004. He has served on the expert committees of the International Atomic Energy Agency/Nuclear Energy Agency in Brussels and in the European Union and on the Geological Survey of Canada Advisory Committee in Ottawa and was Chair of the Ontario Geological Survey Advisory Board. He received the A. O. Dufresne Award in 2004 for services to Canadian mineral exploration.

Nigel Lees
President and Chief Executive Officer, SAGE Gold Inc. 

Profile Mr. Lees has over 25 years experience in the investment banking industry.  He has served as a member of the Listings Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange as well as on the audit committees of boards of several publicly listed companies.  He is the founder and director of TVX Gold Inc., which merged with Kinross Gold in 2003.

Juvenal Mesquita Filho 
Company Director

Profile Mr. Mesquita has been a member of the board of Yamana since July 2003. Mr. Mesquita previously served as President of Mineração Santa Elina S/A, in Brazil, as well as a Director of Santa Elina Mines Corporation since September 1994. He has over 30 years’ experience in the mining industry.

Carl Renzoni
Company Director

ProfileMr. Carl Renzoni retired from BMO Nesbitt Burns in 2001, where he was employed since 1969 and most recently served as a Managing Director. He brings over 30 years’ experience in the securities business specializing in the mining industry. Mr. Renzoni previously served on the boards of International Molybdenum Ltd., Peru Copper Inc. and Meridian Gold Inc. Mr. Renzoni also served on the Audit Committee of Meridian Gold Inc.

Antenor Silva*
President and Chief Executive Officer of MBAC Fertilizer Corp. (former President, Yamana Gold Inc.)

ProfileMr. Silva was appointed a Director of Yamana in July 2003. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer from July 2003 to May 2007 and as President from May 2007 until his retirement from such position in September 2009. Mr. Silva has approximately 40 years of experience in the mining and chemical industries, and has provided technical consultation and training in development, construction, start-up, operation, strategic planning and productivity for various mining, hydropower and industrial companies. During this time, Mr. Silva has been instrumental in researching and developing metallurgical and engineering processes for mill plants in mining projects in Brazil, and implementing metallurgical processes which contributed to the development of mines in Tunisia, Africa and Togo, Africa. Mr. Silva has gained significant experience in senior management at various engineering companies and mining, petroleum and chemical companies. Prior to joining Yamana, Mr. Silva acted as Chief Operating Officer of Santa Elina Mines Corporation. Mr. Silva has also served as a director on the boards of several engineering, mining and aluminum extrusion companies.

Dino Titaro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Carpathian Gold Inc.

ProfileMr. Titaro is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Carpathian Gold Inc., a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Titaro was the President and Chief Executive Officer of A.C.A. Howe International Limited, a geological and mining consulting firm.  From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Titaro was employed by Getty Mines Limited, in various supervisory roles as a geologist, working on base and precious metal projects as well as uranium, principally in resource definition stages.  He is also a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is a registered P.Geo in Ontario and Saskatchewan.  Mr. Titiaro has been a director and officer of several pulic-traded companies in the mining, industrial and health care technology fields. 

  Education
  Master of Science in Geology