Benz Mining Corp. announced that it has appointed two highly experienced directors to the board along with three senior executives with significant gold sector expertise to assist the company as it transitions towards a dual listing on the ASX and developing the high-grade Eastmain gold mine project in Quebec. Mr. Evan Cranston has been appointed as Chairman, replacing Mr. Nick Tintor who will remain as a Non-Executive Director, and Mr. Peter Williams has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director. Mr. Cranston, based in Perth, Australia, is an experienced mining executive with a background in corporate and mining law. He is the principal of corporate advisory and administration firm Konkera Corporate and has extensive experience in the areas of equity capital markets, corporate finance, structuring, asset acquisition, corporate governance and external stakeholder relations. Mr. Peter Williams is a geophysicist with more than 30 years of expertise in mineral exploration, corporate management and business development, including Chief Geophysicist and first General Manager of Geoscience Technology at WMC Resources in Australia and senior roles with ASX-listed companies, IGO Ltd, Ampella Mining Ltd, Boss Resources Ltd, and Alderan Resources Ltd. Peter has extensive experience in commercially successful exploration for different mineral systems around the world, in both greenfields, brownfields and in-mine exploration. He pioneered the use of electromagnetics in mines in WMC and IGO, which led to numerous commercial discoveries. He is the co-founder of Intierra which was acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence, HiSeis, the first global 3d seismic company focussed on hard rock mining and Elemental Royalties which has recently listed on the TSX-V. The senior executive team has also been significantly strengthened with the appointments of Dr. Danielle Giovenazzo as Vice President Exploration, Mr. Xavier Braud as Head of Corporate Development (Australia) and Mr. Paul Fowler as Head of Corporate Development (Canada). Mr. Braud is an experienced geologist and mining analyst with over 15 years experience in a broad range of deposits and commodities. His geological experience spans the whole spectrum of geology from greenfield exploration to resource definition and extension. For the past three years he has been a Resources/Mining Analyst at Patersons Securities and Canaccord Genuity covering ASX-listed small and micro-cap resources companies. Mr. Braud is currently a director of ASX-listed Riversgold Limited. Dr. Giovenazzo has nearly 30 years of mining exploration experience where she was responsible for several exploration projects at various stages. She has experience in Canada as well as abroad (Argentina, Australia, West Africa, Finland, Brazil and Greenland) working for various mining and exploration companies such as Newgenco Pty Ltd., Castillian Resources Corporation, XStrata Nickel, Falconbridge Ltd. and Newmont Goldcorp at the Eleonore Mine. She is currently the President of the Ordre des Geologues du Quebec, a Professional Geologist (P. Geo) and acts as a competent person as defined by NI-43-101. Dr. Giovenazzo also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of SOQUEM. Mr. Fowler is an experienced Canadian capital markets professional with extensive background in the natural resources sector built up over the last 15 years. He has a strong knowledge of the global mining sector and an extensive network of mining executives from prior roles in institutional sales and investment banking for Merrill Lynch, Wellington West, National Bank Financial, Paradigm Capital, and Red Cloud Securities. Benz has also strengthened its technical team with the appointment of high calibre specialist consultants, Dr. Marat Abzalov, Mr. David Johnston, and Dr. Martin Tuscherer. Dr. Abzalov is a geologist with over 40 years of global geological experience. He was previously Geology Manager at WMC Resources and Exploration Manager - New Opportunities at Rio Tinto. He is a specialist in 3D geoscience analysis, geostatistics and resource estimation having created the Localised Uniform Conditioning modeling method. Mr. Johnston is a geophysicist with over 30 years of experience worldwide. He was previously Chief Geophysicist at IGO Limited and held senior positions with LionOre, Rio Tinto and WMC. His expertise with the appropriate use of electromagnetics to target mineral occurrences will help Benz unlock the potential in the Upper Eastmain Greenstone Belt. Dr. Tuscherer is a geologist with over 20 years of mineral exploration experience. A Professional Geologist registered with the Ordre des Geologues du Quebec (P. Geo), he has extensive experience with the greenstone belts of Quebec having recently held senior positions with Canadian listed entities, Azimut Exploration Inc. and Osisko Mining Inc.