MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Management
Harold (Hardy) Forzley | Chief Executive Officer & Director
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Harold Forzley is a founding director of the company and the CEO. He has over 30 years’ experience in the management and financing of public and private companies. He has been involved in numerous public companies at various stages of exploration and development with several that have resulted in sale and development into major mines. Hardy’s primary focus is on project management, strategic planning and financing activities. Mr. Forzley has a B Comm. degree from Simon Fraser University and a CPA.CA designation.
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Lorne Warner, P.Geo. | President
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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
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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.
Board of Directors
Harold (Hardy) Forzley | Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Harold Forzley is a founding director of the company and the CEO He has over 30 years’ experience in the management and financing of public and private companies. He has been involved in numerous companies at various stages of exploration and development with several that have resulted in sale and development into major mines. Hardy’s primary focus is on project management, strategic planning and financing activities. Mr. Forzley has a B Comm. degree from Simon Fraser University and a CPA. CA designation.
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Greg Bronson, P.Geo. | Director
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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.
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Stephen Millen | Director
Mr. Stephen Millen's four decades business career has covered corporate communications, marketing, sales and general management in the resource exploration and electronic security business. Stephen’s experience ranges from entrepreneurial start-ups to senior management with a multinational corporation. He has served as an Officer and Director of several public companies focusing on corporate communications and business development.
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John Fahmy | Director
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Mr. John Fahmy is an investor/consultant to various public and private companies across the technology, real estate, life sciences, brick and mortar, and resources sectors, having invested in over 50 public and private companies.
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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