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Rahim Jivraj - President, CEO and Director
Mr. Jivraj has been an entrepreneur for over ten years, in Venture Capital for eight
years and has assisted various private and public entities as a corporate advisor on
matters related to finance, development and investor relations.
Mr. Jivraj was associated with two boutique venture capital and merchant banking firms,
based in Vancouver, Canada before leaving to pursue independent ventures in 2008.
From September 2007 to February 2008, Mr. Jivraj was President and Director of
Mainland Resources Inc., a publicly traded company on the Over The Counter Bulletin
Board that transacted a successful oil and gas exploration opportunity with a focus on
the Haynesville Shale. From March 2007 to November 2008, he was the founding CEO
and Director of Spring & Mercer Capital Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange
Venture listed Capital Pool Company whose primary objective was to seek business
opportunities for public equity financing. He has also served on the board of Afrasia
Mineral Fields and Hastings Resources, both listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
William D. Thomas - Secretary/Treasurer,
CFO and Director
William D. (Bill) Thomas has a lengthy career in finance and accounting for the
natural resource sector spanning more than thirty years.
Most prominently, Mr. Thomas held various successive management positions
with Kerr McGee Corporation’s China operations based in Beijing, China, ending
in 2004 with his final position as Director of Business Services. He was
previously General Manager (1999-2002), and Finance and Administration
Manager (1996-1999) of the company’s China operations.
Mr. Thomas previously worked as Manager of Fixed Asset Accounting for Kerr
McGee Corporation’s US operations (1996), as Finance Director of Kerr McGee’s
UK operations based in London/Aberdeen (1992-1996), and Kerr McGee’s
Canadian operations in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1984-1992), including the
company’s predecessor company, Maxus Canada Ltd., which was acquired by
Kerr McGee Ltd.
Over the course of his career with Kerr McGee, he has been involved in all
aspects of managing accounting, budgeting, HR, administration, IT, insurance,
taxation and other business support aspects surrounding oil and gas properties
for Kerr McGee.
In his early career Mr. Thomas also held senior management positions in the
finance divisions of Norcen Energy Ltd of Calgary, Alberta (1981-1984),
Dennison Mines Ltd of Ontario Canada (1978-1981) and Algoma Steel
Corporation of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada (1977). He was also a Senior
Auditor for the accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand in Toronto, Canada (1975-
1977).
For a brief period after leaving Kerr McGee, Mr. Thomas acted as a
self practitioner
in the accounting and finance field. In July 2007 he took on the role of
CFO for two public resource companies; Hana Mining Ltd. and NWT Uranium
Corp. Recently, Mr. Thomas resigned from NWT Uranium Corp. but continues to
serve as CFO for Hana Mining and has been appointed as CFO for Mainland
Resources (a US oil and gas public company) and Mira Resources Corp. (a
Canadian public company).
Mr. Thomas attained his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation from the
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1977. He holds an Honours
Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree from the University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
Devinder Randhawa - Chairman of the Board and Director
Dev Randhawa is an experienced senior manager with broad international experience in
developing resource and energy companies. He is a skilled negotiator with a record of
realizing exceptional value in growing companies.
Most recently, Mr. Randhawa was the founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of
Pacific Asia Canada Energy (“PACE”), a company involved in the coal bed methane
business in three provinces of China. In July of 2008, Mr. Randhawa successfully
negotiated and consummated the sale of Pacific Asia Canada Energy to Green Dragon
of Hong Kong for an estimated USD $32.5 million.
Prior to his tenure with PACE, Mr. Randhawa founded Strathmore Minerals Ltd. in 1996
and served as its CEO until January of 2008. Strathmore was one of the very early
participants in the newly revitalized uranium industry. Mr. Randhawa helped grow
Strathmore to its current stature as a significant industry player with diversified uranium
assets in the United States, Canada and Peru. Notably, he was also the founder of
Royal Country Minerals, which was involved in gold exploration in northwestern British
Columbia, Canada. In 2003, Mr. Randhawa successfully arranged the sale of Royal
Country Minerals to Canadian Gold Hunter of Vancouver (part of Lundin group of
Companies).
Mr. Randhawa was educated in Canada, where he now resides. He received his MBA
from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, after graduating with High
Honours from Trinity Western University with a Bachelors’ degree in Business
Administration.
Keith Laskowski -
Director
Keith Laskowski, P. Geo, holds an MSc in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and has
more than 30 years of experience in precious and base metals exploration, uranium exploration
and mine geology. He is also a “Qualified Person” as defined in National Instrument 43-101
governed by the Canadian Securities Administrators. Over the past 12 years Mr. Laskowski has
assembled and directed successful private and publicly listed exploration companies located in
Peru, Mongolia, Haiti, Mali, the United States and Canada, and has led the acquisition of more
than 75 gold, uranium and copper exploration properties. He is the owner and operator of KAL
Exploration Inc., a private Colorado corporation that provides exploration and management
services to the mining industry based in Golden Colorado.
From 1980 to 1997, Mr. Laskowski was employed by Newmont Exploration Ltd., managing
district exploration offices and regional gold exploration programs in the U.S., Canada, and the
Caribbean. From 1997-2007 he initiated and managed exploration programs in Peru and
Mongolia as President of Gallant Minerals Ltd. (formerly Harrods Minerals Ltd.). These
programs developed a portfolio of gold, copper, uranium, and molybdenum properties, which
were ventured to three separate companies. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Laskowski acquired a
portfolio of uranium properties and served as vice-president and director of Northern Canadian
Uranium Inc., which was acquired by Bayswater Uranium Corp. in late 2007. He also served as
Country Manager-Haiti for Eurasian Minerals Inc. from 2006 to 2009, where he identified three
significant gold and copper discoveries (La Miel, Grand Bois and La Mine/Treuil), which are now
held in joint ventures with Newmont Ventures Ltd. Since 2009 he has served as President of
Canadian Shield Resources Inc, directing exploration programs in Peru, and he has served as a
consultant to Mercer Gold Corporation (Canada), which resulted in the identification and
subsequent acquisition of the Guayabales gold prospect in the Marmato gold district in
Colombia.
Mr. Laskowski has served as an executive officer and director of three junior mining companies
and is experienced in all aspects of the exploration business, specializing in marketing of new
discoveries. He currently serves as a director of Canadian Shield Resources Ltd (TSX.V),
Gallant Mineral Services Ltd. (U.K. Corporation), and Hastings Resources Corp. (TSX.V). He is
a Fellow with the Society of Economic Geologists (FSEG), a member of the Society for Mining,
Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), and a member of and Qualified Person with the Mining and
Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA). |
