Richard Osmond, P. Geo., ICD.D
Chairman
Mr. Osmond has over 25 years of experience in the mining sector including experience with INCO (VBNC), Falconbridge and Anglo American. He was involved in exploration discoveries at Vale's Voisey's Bay deposit and Glencore's Raglan mine. He was later hired as a senior technical leader with Anglo American responsible for North America and Europe focused on Ni exploration in northern Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia as well as IOCG and porphyry Cu-Mo exploration in Mexico and Alaska. Mr. Osmond is currently the President of GlobeTrotters Resource Group Inc.
Michael Doggett, PhD.
Director
Mr. Doggett is a mineral economist with 35 years of experience in project evaluation, taxation, royalties, and exploration, in addition to publishing and training. Mr. Doggett is the founder of El Olivar Imperial, a private Peruvian mineral processing company. He has served on numerous listed companies and non-profit boards. He served as Director of the Mineral Exploration Program at Queen’s University, Canada where he is currently an adjunct professor. He has received numerous industry awards and recognition from The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, The Society of Economic Geologists, and the the Society of Mining Metallurgy and Exploration.
Patrick Elliott, MSc., MBA
Director
Mr. Elliott is an accomplished economic geologist with a M.Sc. in Mineral Economics and a MBA in Mining Finance from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. He is currently President & CEO of Lexore Capital Corp, and President & CEO of Forte Copper Corp., a private Peruvian copper company. Mr. Elliott completed his undergraduate B.Sc.Geology degree at the University of Western Ontario and has spent over 10 years in copper and gold exploration in South America and the US.
Peter Espig, MBA
Director
Mr. Espig currently serves as the CEO of Nicola Mining Inc. He is a founder of TriAsia Capital, a private equity and consulting firm. Peter was a Director of Starbulk Carriers, dry shipping company, and has worked for Goldman Sachs and Olympus Capital Asia focused on private equity and pre-IPO financings. Mr. Espig was a Chazen International Scholar at Columbia University (MBA).
Steve Stakiw
President, CEO and Director
Mr. Stakiw is an experienced executive and geologist with over 25 years in the mining sector, particularly in capital markets. As Senior Vice President, he was most recently a key member of the team at New Pacific Metals Corp. that is advancing a world-class silver deposit in South America and was also involved in the successful funding and spinout of its wholly owned subsidiary, Whitehorse Gold Corp., as a public company. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Investor Relations and part of the original team that successfully grew Trevali Mining Corp. from an exploration-stage company through development into a mid-tier base metal producer with four operating mines on three continents.