Directors

Rene Bharti,  Chairman

Over a 20 year career, Rene has held several key roles in both public and private companies, including those in the resource, technology and entertainment industry. Mr. Bharti co-founded ARHT Media, along with legendary singer Paul Anka. Rene is a former Former President & Chief Executive Officer at Avion Gold Corp, that was later acquired by Endevour Mining Corporation for CDN$389 million. Mr. Bharti holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Queens University.

Maxime Lemieux, LLB, Director

Mr. Lemieux is part of the Corporate Group at MacMillian LLP in Montréal. He is primarily acting for public companies, agents, securities distributors and underwriters in Canada, to which he offers legal counseling services on public and private offerings and on mergers and acquisitions. He has been a member of the Quebec bar since 2006, completed a LL.L and a LL.B at the University of Ottawa as well as an MBA at Laval University and the Fachhoschule Kiel in Germany

Dr Andreas Rompel, FSAIMM, President and CEO and Director

Dr. Rompel is a seasoned exploration professional with three decades of exploration experience in a wide range of roles from VP Exploration and Project Manager to Country Manager and Corporate Development. Most recently, Dr. Rompel was the President & CEO of Cobalt Power Group. Dr. Rompel has also worked in a variety of commodities, including precious metals and base metals as well as coking coal and cobalt. For more than a decade Dr. Rompel evaluated capital projects within Anglo American and was on the board of Spectrem (an Anglo-American Company) as Technical Director. He has worked in many countries on several continents and has well developed multi-linguistic skills.

Blake Hylands, Director

Mr. Hylands is a professional geologist with experience in gold, base metals and iron ore in Canada and internationally. He has held technical and corporate development positions for several junior mining companies; most recently for Sulliden Mining Capital, and also Coastal Gold Corp. from 2010 to 2015, where he developed grassroots mapping and sampling programs, managed large scale drill programs, and helped transition projects from early exploration to resource definition stage. My Hylands is also the Vice President of Exploration for Troilus Gold Corp. Mr. Hylands holds a B.Sc in Geology from Western University in London, Ontario.

Michael Dehn, Director

With over 25 years of experience in the mining industry, Michael has been a VP, President, CEO and Director of nearly 20 companies. Between 1994 and 2005, he worked as an exploration geologist and later as a Senior Geologist with Goldcorp Inc. His expertise lies in grassroots to advanced minerals exploration, marketing and financing junior companies. Michael has worked in diamond, base metals, precious metals, industrial minerals, oil and natural gas, as well as sand, gravel and peat deposits, primarily in the Americas on private, public company and government projects