Baja Mining Corp.

Mr. Hamm graduated with a BSc. Eng (Elec) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1972.  He then joined Westinghouse Bellambie’s telecontrol division where his roles ranged through design commissioning and project management.  Over a period of five years his contracts included the reticulation control of five South African cities as well as the Richards Bay coal railway line.  Mr. Hamm then moved on to Asea Electric where he spent four years as the senior commissioning engineer for the Southern African region, commissioning projects ranging from hydroelectric generation and power distribution systems, ferro-alloy, steel and PGM furnaces to mine winders operating on diamond, gold and coal mines.  He next joined Titaco Projects where he moved from discipline engineer to project engineer and finally project manager, working on projects including ferro-alloy furnaces, diamond and ferro-alloy recovery plants and PGM and copper refineries.  In 1995 Mr. Hamm immigrated to Canada as branch manager for Titaco and was primarily involved in business development on smelters and ferro-alloy recovery projects.  Following the take over of Titaco by Bateman Engineering in 2000, Mr. Hamm continued as branch and business development manager for Bateman’s complete process product line, which included base and precious metal refineries and diamond and ferro-alloy recovery plants.  During this time he was involved in the design, construction, commissioning and project management aspects of projects.