| T. Gregory Hawkins, P.Geo., MSc. Chairman of the Board | ||
| Mr. Hawkins has been involved in the Mining Exploration and Investment industry since 1969. He has been variously responsible for the identification and/or delineation of 10 mineral deposits in Canada, USA, Chile, Ghana, Mali and Zaire (DRC). In acting as Founding Project Consultant and/or Founding Director of seven public and privateExploration/Development ventures he has participated in or been responsible for the definition of at least one resource/reserve in every case with four cases resulting in production in the USA, Chile, Ghana and Mali. In 1990 he started CME, an international full service consultancy and contracting firm, which grew to include Spectral International Geophysics, Eagle Drilling and ATS Inc. | ||
| Ian Smith Director, President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Mr. Smith, a mining engineering graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia, has over 40 years experience in corporate, operations, and project management and consulting within the international base, precious metals and coal industries. He is a director of several public companies and is President & CEO of Santa Fe Metals Corp. More recently he was President & CEO of bcMetals Corp. which had engineered the Red Chris copper/gold porphyry project for development in northwest BC prior to being acquired by Imperial Metals Corp. His involvement with other large scale copper operations at a senior management level include the Bougainville Copper and La Caridad mines in Papua New Guinea and Mexico respectively and the Zambian Copperbelt. Mr. Smith was President and founding partner of one of North America's most successful mining industry consulting companies until purchased by Canadian interests in 1995. | ||
| R. Stuart (Tookie) Angus, LLB Director | ||
| Mr. Angus is an independent business advisor to the mining industry. He was formerly Head of the Global Mining Group for Fasken Martineau. For the past 30 years, Mr. Angus has focused on structuring and financing significant international exploration, development and mining ventures. More recently, he was Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions for Endeavour Financial. Mr. Angus is the former Chairman of the Board of BC Sugar Refinery Limited; he was a director of First Quantum Minerals until June 2005, a director of Canico Resources Corporation until its takeover by CVRD in 2005, a director of Bema Gold until its takeover by Kinross Gold in 2007, a director of Ventana Gold until it's takeover by AUX Canada Acquisition in 2011 and a director of Plutonic Power until its merger with Magma Energy in 2011. He is presently Chairman of Nevsun Resources Ltd. as well as a director of SouthGobi Resources Ltd. | ||
| David J.H. Dickens, FCA Director | ||
| Resident in Dubai, UAE, Mr. Dickens is a financial professional with over 40 years of experience as a chartered accountant, and trust company officer and director. He has worked in London, UK, Channel Islands and Dubai. | ||
| Andy Graetz, BSc, Exec. MBA Director | ||
| Mr. Graetz is a mining engineer with over 25 years international mining experience having worked in the USA, Canada, the Philippines, Kazakhstan and South Africa in senior mine operational, corporate development, feasibility study and CFO/finance/ administration roles. He has held senior management positions with Thistle Mining Inc., Placer Dome Group, Lonrho and Gencor in South Africa. | ||
| Beverly A. Bartlett Director | ||
| Beverly Bartlett has over 35 years of administrative and supervisory experience, and has over 15 years of corporate secretarial experience. Since 1997, she has worked with Global Mining Management, and in this capacity has been responsible for overseeing corporate administration and maintaining regulatory compliance of both public and private companies in the resources and energy fields. In addition to being the Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (NASDAQ, TSX), Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (NYSE, TSX, NASDAQ), and SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (TSX), she is the director of numerous subsidiary companies of the aforementioned public companies. She is also the companies' Compliance and Ethics Officer, ensuring ethical conduct in corporate governance throughout the organizations. Prior to joining Global Mining Management, Ms. Bartlett was the Corporate Secretary of Credit Union Central of Canada, and has held senior administration positions with various Canadian mining companies, including Northgate Exploration and Neptune Resources. She has wide-ranging international experience in administration and regulatory compliance, and brings with her a wealth of administrative, supervisorial and organizational skills. | ||
| Morgan Li, Ph.D. Director | ||
| Mr. Li is a Mining engineer and is Chief Operating Officer of Anthill Resources Ltd., a mining investment group. | ||
