Stan Bharti

Member of Board of Directors of Silver Bear Resources and Chairman and CEO of Forbes and Manhattan Inc.

Mr. Bharti is the President of Forbes & Manhattan, Inc., a private merchant bank operating in Canada, the United States and Western Europe. From February 2002 to April 2006, he was Chairman and a director of Desert Sun Mining Corp., a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed mining company which was acquired by Yamana Gold Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in operations, public markets and finance. Mr. Bharti is also a director of several other public and private companies.