Team

Patrick McGrath, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. McGrath is a CPA with over 20 years experience as a senior executive of junior resource companies including being a founder and former Vice President of Finance of Adriana Resources Inc. (Sprott Resource Holdings Inc.), a development company focused on iron ore where he assisted in raising $50 million in debt and equity. Mr. McGrath has led corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and joint ventures. Mr. McGrath has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University.

Varun Prasad, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Prasad is a CPA and had senior roles with development stage mining companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and is well versed in the continuous disclosure requirements. Mr. Prasad is the CFO of Western Copper and Gold and has a Bachelor of Technology in Accounting from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Pedro Fonseca, Director
Mr. Fonseca has over 20 years of experience as Chief Executive Officer or senior manager positions in international financial services firms, including start-ups.  

Jonathan Gagné, Director
Mr. Gagné was a senior consulting engineer working for Greenstone Gold Mines, which is developing the multi-million ounce Hardrock Gold Project located in Ontario. Mr. Gagné began his career with Agnico-Eagle during the construction and commissioning of the Meadowbank gold project located in Nunavut. He then led the mining engineering department for SGS Geostat, a mining services company specializing in computer-assisted mineral resource estimation services. Mr. Gagné then followed with Glencore Zinc, which owns the Hackett River deposit in Nunavut which is adjacent to the Company’s Yava Property. At Glencore Zinc, he was involved in numerous zinc projects throughout the World. Mr. Gagné has a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and an MBA with a specialization in Corporate Finance from Université du Québec à Montréal.

Technical Team

Tom Henricksen, Technical Advisor
Mr. Henricksen, P. Geo, is a recipient of the Colin Spence Award by the AME for Excellence in Global Mineral Exploration in 2018 for his role in the discovery of the Hod Maden VMS/epithermal deposit in Turkey. The Company is excited about the opportunity to work with Tom considering his recent success of Hod Maden which was acquired by Sandstorm Gold in 2017 for approximately US$175 million.

Mike Petrina, Technical Advisor
Mr. Petrina, P. Eng, played a key role in the start-up (restart) of two underground mines and was also the former COO of Probe Mines Limited and former VP Operations of MAG Silver where managed permitting and feasibility studies of advanced stage mining projects.

Lawrence O’Connor, Technical Advisor
Mr. O’Connor, Q.P., has extensive experience in permitting and mine start-ups. Mr. O’Connor was VP Operations at Western Goldfields (now owned by Equinox Gold) where he played a key role in the restart of the Mesquite mine in Southern California.  Mr. O’Connor was formerly G.M. of Eldorado’ Gold’s La Colorada mine where he completed the feasibility and permitting for a major expansion of operations.

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