MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Management
Etienne Gouin-Proulx | Interim Chief Executive Officer & Director
Etienne Gouin-Proulx is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with experience in project evaluation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate development. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University, specializing in Mining and Mineral Engineering. Mr. Gouin-Proulx currently serves on the board of directors of Xcite Uranium and Provenance Gold Corp.
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Lorne Warner, P.Geo. | President & Director
Lorne Warner is a registered professional geologist in B.C, NWT and Nunavut with over 30 years' experience in underground and open pit mining mineral exploration. His experience includes working for senior mining companies, Noranda Exploration and Placer Dome Inc. as well as Vice President of several junior mining companies. Lorne's team were the first to conduct exploration at Detour Lake after closure by Placer Dome and discovered the western extension of the Detour Lake Gold Deposit, now in production in Ontario. As well, the Falea North Zone – Uranium, Silver, Copper Deposit and the Fatou Main Gold Deposit both in Mali, West Africa. His career started in British Columbia but has now worked throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. Lorne is currently a director, President and CEO of Tarachi Gold Corp. in Mexico and a director of Indigo Exploration Inc. working in West Africa. Lorne McLeod Warner graduated from the University of Alberta in 1986 with a BSc. in Geology.
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David McAdam | Chief Financial Officer
David McAdam is a Senior Executive with over 30 years of finance and operations experience in large and small capitalization companies, David has extensive expertise in fund raising (over $350 million in equity and debt), financial operations and planning, mergers and acquisitions (buy and sell side), due diligence, investor relations (TSX.V and JSE), systems strategy and implementation, risk management and regulatory compliance. David has been the Chief Financial Officer of several public and private companies across various industry sectors including a number of public and private mining companies. These roles required reporting to public company Audit, Safety and Risk Committees along with full Board presentations for a Fortune 150 Company. David has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.
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Board of Directors
Etienne Gouin-Proulx | Interim Chief Executive Officer & Director
(see above)
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Lorne Warner, P.Geo. | President & Director
(see above)
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Greg Bronson, P.Geo. | Director
Mr. Greg Bronson is a Professional Geologist with 30 years exploration and development experience in mining exploration and the oil and gas industry and brings excellent skills to manage the complex technical issues of mineral exploration. He has worked in Canada for a major mining company Noranda Exploration (now Xstrata) and multiple junior resource companies including Rockgate Capital Corp (now Denison Mines), Sentinel Resources Corp, among others. Mr. Bronson is President of Benjamin Hill Mining, a junior mining company with interests and active projects in Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Bronson sits on the board of Sentinel Resources Corp. and oil and gas junior Avanti Energy Inc.
Jean François Meilleur | Director
Jean François Meilleur graduated from HEC Montréal in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in finance. He is a Managing Director at P.E. Partners Limited, a small-cap capital markets boutique, where he has worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and junior exploration companies, including taking on executive and directorship roles. Mr. Meilleur currently serves as Chair of the Board of High Tide Resources Corp., CEO and Director of Xcite Uranium, and VP of Capital Markets of Soma Gold.
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Advisory Board
Dr. Guowei Zhang, PhD., P Geo.
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Dr. Zhang has over 30 years’ experience as a consulting geologist, well recognized for his specialized work in Structural Geology. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1994 and since then has worked extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Asia and Africa. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
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