Azteca Gold symbol Azteca Gold Corporation
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September 29, 2008
Azteca Gold Corp.: Announces private placement closing

Management
Matthew F Russell
President, CEO, Chairman
 
  Mr. Russell was EVP Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Idaho General Mines, Inc. (GMO:AMEX) from Q1 2004 until Q2 2006.  Mr. Russell was instrumental in Idaho General acquiring the Mount Hope and Hall-Tonopah Molybdenum Properties, and being quoted on the AMEX.  Mr. Russell has 15 years of project management experience in the mining sector and has managed mine feasibility studies, mine plant design, development of a new hydrometallurgical process, coal preparation plant construction, and design and construction of mobile and overland conveyors for the copper and gold heap leach industries.  Mr. Russell received his MBA from Gonzaga University in 1998.
Randy Squires
Chief Financial Officer(CFO)
 
  Mr. Squires is President of Partition Specialties, Inc., a private, commercial construction company in California.  During his 16 year tenure he has held positions including Controller and Vice President of Business Development and Strategy.  As Controller his responsibilities included budgeting, cash management, financial statement preparation and analysis, audit preparation, and bank, bonding and insurance relationship management.  He received his MBA from Golden Gate University in 1995.
Jon Slizza
Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations
 
  Jon Slizza joins Azteca Gold bringing more than 17 years experience in financial analysis, business funding and development, and institutional sales in the financial services and natural resource industries. During his career, Mr. Slizza has served as a Managing Director of the investment banks Shoreline Pacific, LLC, and The Shemano Group in San Francisco; a Senior Partner with London based financial consultant Alegent Partners; a Director of Business Development at Sectorbase.com – acquired by Reuters; and various financial analyst and portfolio management positions at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Prudential Securities, and Lincoln Financial. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in Economics, Mr. Slizza began his career as a financial analyst at Philips Petroleum in Europe.
Edward Schiller
Director
 
  Edward Schiller has a PhD in Geology and has been a consulting geologist in Canadian and international mineral exploration for over 45 years.  Dr. Schiller has served on the board of a number of publicly traded companies in Canada.
Richard F. Nanna
Director
 
  Richard Nanna is currently Senior Vice-President, Exploration with a Denver-based gold corporation, with over 30 years experience in the mining and exploration industry in Nevada and abroad.  Mr. Nanna is perhaps best known for his work on the Getchell Project in Nevada in the 1990s where he discovered over 12 million ounces of gold.
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