Management

Dr. John Clarke brings considerable experience in mineral exploration, corporate acquisition and development in the gold mining sector in Africa. Dr. Clarke has held roles as Vice-Chairman and CEO of Nevsun Resources and, prior to joining Nevsun, he was Executive Director of Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited of Ghana. He joined Ashanti in 1982 and contributed to establishing Ashanti's gold exploration program throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He is the Director of several companies which have exploration and development activities in Africa. Dr. Clarke holds a B.Sc. in metallurgy from University College Cardiff, a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Cambridge University and an MBA from Middlesex Polytechnic.

Victor Jones has over 30 years' experience in senior executive and board positions in public mineral exploration and technology companies. His roles include leadership of financings and company turn-arounds, initially for a leading BC venture capital company. He has been active on projects across North America and Africa on financings and negotiations of joint ventures and property acquisitions. In 2006 he was part of the team on a $45 million financing and listing of a South African platinum company on the TSX and AIM. He was instrumental in the sale of Great Quest's Kenieba project to Avion Gold Corp. Victor received both his B.Sc. (1971) and MBA (1975) from McGill University.

Mohammed Bouhsane brings to Great Quest 19 years' experience in project management and engineering in the Moroccan mining, hydrometallurgical, and metallurgy industries and a strong understanding of the phosphate industry. His expertise spans the mining, beneficiation and commercial production phases of a variety of ores and he has successfully brought all of the projects under his direction to production. Mohammed is a member of the OIC (Quebec Order of Engineers), and the Conseil National des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France (CNISF). He holds a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, and a DEA degree in process engineering from ENSIACET in France. He also completed a DUT degree in chemical engineering technology at EST Superior School of Technology, Fès, Morocco. Mohammed was appointed COO of the Barbados and Mali subsidiaries effective November 1, 2011 and will be operating primarily from the GQ Mali SA office in Bamako.

Dianne Szigety has over 25 years' experience in the securities industry, providing public and private companies with corporate secretarial services. Ms. Szigety is an associate of Chartered Secretaries Canada, a Canadian Division of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. She provides corporate securities and administrative services to assist public companies with regulatory, corporate governance and continuous disclosure requirements of securities regulators and stock exchanges.

The Board wishes to thank Mamadou Keita, who retired from the Company and its subsidiaries October 28, 2011, for his contribution to the exploration activities in Mali. Mr. Keita received his Ingenieur Degré (Geology) from the National School of Ingenieurs (Mali) in 1969 and his M.Sc. (Minera) from the Mining Institute of Petersburg (Russia) in 1978. From 1978 to 1983, he was a Chief Geologist for the Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, an agency of the French Government, directing a regional survey for gold and diamonds in Western Mali and during this survey the initial discovery of the Loulo gold deposit was made.