Corporate
Ian Gendall
CEO & President
Ian Gendall is an Exploration Geologist with a M.Sc. Exploration Geology degree from Rhodes University in South Africa. He has over 32 years’ experience in mineral exploration in South Africa, South America, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Ian has led and managed exploration teams and evaluated copper and gold projects for previous companies such as Gencor, Billiton, Anglo American, Antofagasta and more recently OceanaGold.
Ian and the Billiton Exploration team were credited with the major porphyry copper discoveries in SE Ecuador which was “farmed out” to Corriente Resources Inc., who were subsequently taken over by CRCC-Tongguan Investment Co., Ltd. for $679 million in 2010.
Ian has also spent time successfully doing exploration and managing projects for Junior Companies including Chapleau Resources, Magellan Minerals and Ryan Gold through 2005 to 2012. During his time with Chapleau and Magellan, he was involved in gold exploration in the Tapajos Gold Province of Brazil. Ian also oversaw and managed the resource estimation and preliminary economic assessment study for the Coringa gold project in Brazil which is currently with Serabi Gold. While he was VP Exploration for Ryan Gold Corp. in 2011-12, he was involved in a multi-million-dollar exploration programme covering more than 5000 km2 in the Yukon Territory of Northern Canada.
Ian is registered as a Pr. Sci. Nat., a qualified person in compliance with National Instrument 43-101 and is a member of various scientific organizations including the Society of Economic Geologists, Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits and the Geological Society of America.
William (Bill) Bennett
Chairman
Mr. William (Bill) Bennett was formerly a government MLA in British Columbia (“BC”) for 16 years in the Riding of Kootenay East. In addition to holding portfolios for Local Government and Tourism, Mr. Bennett was named BC Mines Minister three separate times over his 16 years. Mr. Bennett has a BA from the University of Guelph and a law degree from Queen’s University. Mr. Bennett is known across Canada for his knowledge of the mining industry in BC. He led the BC government’s efforts over many years to restore BC’s competitiveness for exploration investment, including having improved the BC Ministry of Energy & Mines permitting process and helping to launch BC’s First Nations mine revenue sharing program. There are few people in Canada who have such a strong combined knowledge of government processes, of the mining industry and of First Nations. Mr. Bennett also sits on the board of directors of Ascot Resources Ltd., Kutcho Copper Corp. and Eagle Plains Resources Ltd.
Jim Stypula
Lead Director
Mr. Stypula is a businessman with over 30 years of experience and a former investment advisor and financier of mineral exploration and development companies in North and South America. He was a founding director of Far West Mining Ltd. that discovered a significant IOCG deposit in Chile. Far West was purchased by Capstone and Korea Resources Corporation (KORES) for ~$900M.
Scott Davis, CPA, CGA
CFO
Experience working with public junior exploration companies and has held several CFO positions with companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. Scott is a partner of Cross Davis & Company LLP Chartered Professional Accountants.
Robin Sudo
Office & Land Manager / Accounting / Corporate Secretary
Previously worked for Cominco and junior exploration companies in various roles. Over 40 years experience in the mining exploration field.
Jim Stypula
Lead Director
Mr. Stypula is a businessman with over 30 years of experience and a former investment advisor and financier of mineral exploration and development companies in North and South America. He was a founding director of Far West Mining Ltd. that discovered a significant IOCG deposit in Chile. Far West was purchased by Capstone and Korea Resources Corporation (KORES) for ~$900M.
Derek White
Director
Over 35 years of international experience in the mining industry and currently serves as a director of Boliden AB and Hayasa Metals Inc. Mr. White has held senior management & executive positions with Major and Junior Companies including BHP Billiton Plc, Billiton International Metals BV, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., Quadra FNX Mining Ltd., KGHM International Ltd., Traxys Capital Partners LLP. and Ascot Resources Ltd. Mr. White has overseen six mining operations and four large development projects in Canada, the United States and Chile.
Richard Zimmer
Director
Mr. Zimmer has a degree in Mining Engineering and an MBA and has over 40 years of Canadian and international mining experience including exploration, development and mine operations (both underground and open pit). In the past, Mr. Zimmer served as: President and CEO of Far West Mining Ltd.; VP and Project Manager for Teck’s Pogo project in Alaska and General Manager of Teck’s Tarmoola gold mine in Australia; Mine Manager of Teck’s Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia as well as acting in several senior mining roles throughout his career. Mr. Zimmer currently serves as a director of Ascot Resources Ltd., and a former director of both Capstone Mining Corp., and Alexco Resource Corp.
Carol Li
Director
Ms. Carol Li is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of financial and executive management experience, of which 14 years in mining. Ms. Li was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Ascot Resources Ltd. on November 2, 2017. Ms. Li was formerly Vice President, Finance for KGHM International Ltd. from 2012 to 2017 and Corporate Controller for Quadra/QuadraFNX Mining Ltd. from 2004 to 2012.
William Bennett
Director
Mr. William (Bill) Bennett was formerly a government MLA in British Columbia (“BC”) for 16 years in the Riding of Kootenay East. In addition to holding portfolios for Local Government and Tourism, Mr. Bennett was named BC Mines Minister three separate times over his 16 years. Mr. Bennett has a BA from the University of Guelph and a law degree from Queen’s University. Mr. Bennett is known across Canada for his knowledge of the mining industry in BC. He led the BC government’s efforts over many years to restore BC’s competitiveness for exploration investment, including having improved the BC Ministry of Energy & Mines permitting process and helping to launch BC’s First Nations mine revenue sharing program. There are few people in Canada who have such a strong combined knowledge of government processes, of the mining industry and of First Nations. Mr. Bennett also sits on the board of directors of Ascot Resources Ltd., Kutcho Copper Corp. and Eagle Plains Resources Ltd.
Joe Phillips
Director
Joe Phillips is a senior mining executive with 53 years of experience in the construction, commissioning and operation of mining projects in 13 countries (7 in Latin America) in 5 continents. Over his career he has directed the construction, commissioning and operation of 11 plants and mining operations, all of which met or exceeded their designed capacities. Joe has held senior positions in US and Canadian mining companies including COO and Chairman of the Board of Lydian Resources, Armenia, Chief Development Officer of Coeur Mining, COO of Silver Standard Resources, and Senior VP Development for Pan American Silver Corp. Mr. Phillips is a non-practicing Registered Professional Mining Engineer, graduating from the Colorado School of Mines (“CSM”), and with graduate studies in Engineering Management at the University of South Florida. Mr. Phillips’ experience includes the mining of several different minerals including coal, phosphate, gold, silver, zinc, copper, limestone, clay and aggregates. He has held Directorships in the Chambers of Mines in three countries including Chile, Mexico and Ghana, Africa.
Allan Frame
Business Development & Advisor
Al Frame has been in the Financial Services and Securities as an Investment Advisor and Partner for the past 47 years. Al brings has considerable knowledge and contacts through the capital markets and has sat on and chaired several committees the Alberta Stock Exchange in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Al is a former director of public listed companies including Consolidated Ramrod and Ascot Resources and is presently President of a private mining exploration company, Tailwinds Exploration.
David Leo Pighin
Advisor
Mr. David Pighin has dedicated his working life to mining and exploration geology and has been actively involved in the industry for 53 years. He started his career with Cominco Ltd. (now Teck) as a professional Prospector and was promoted to Geologist in 1977. In 1989 after 24 years, Mr. Pighin left Cominco. Since 1989, Mr. Pighin became a consulting geologist and has worked for numerous junior exploration companies. He has worked in BC, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, New Brunswick as well as most of the western United States and Mexico. Mr. Pighin has planned and managed numerous exploration programs designed to find deposits of base metals, tungsten, moly, gold, diamonds and rare earth metals. During 1993, Mr. Pighin ascertained the designation of P.Geo.
Mr. Pighin has discovered the following significant exploration properties:
* The Fors Property (PB, Zn, Ag)
* The Cedar Property (Tungsten)
* The Vine Property (Pb, Zn, Ag, Au)
* The Streamboat Property (Pb, Zn, Ba)
* The Cross Property – discovered and recognized 4 Kimberlite pipes
* The Fen Property (Rare Earth Metals)
* The Boulder Gold Property (Au)
Mr. Pighin is a qualified person re: National Instrument 43-101.
Luke Alexander
Advisor
In 2018, Mr. Alexander founded Park Road Capital, a capital markets advisory group focused on the global Natural Resource sector. Prior to Park Road Capital, Mr. Alexander was a managing director at GMP Securities based in Vancouver. Before relocating to Vancouver, Mr. Alexander spent 12 years in London, UK, covering the Natural Resource sector. During his time in London he was a senior partner at GMP Securities Europe, Vice President at National Bank Financial where he helped establish their first equity trading desk in London, and an equity sales trader at TD Securities. Mr. Alexander began his career working in the private client group at BMO Nesbitt Burns.