Leadership
EMERGING GOLDFIELDS
Robert Schafer
Director | P. Geo
Over 35 years of international experience in exploring and discovering mineral deposits (Hunter Dickinson, Kinross Gold, BHP Minerals and founder and CEO of Eagle Mines Management)
Led teams to the grassroots discovery of mines in the western USA and Russia, as well as developing strategies that led to brownfield discoveries in western Canada and Southern Africa
Past president and board member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), past president of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and past president of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA)
Recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and the Daniel C. Jackling Award from SME for career achievements, two of the highest mining recognitions in the USA
Parvez Tyab
CEO & Director
Over 25 years experience in raising project finance, equity and debt for natural resource projects in the private and public markets
Extensive international experience in developing assets in Asia, Africa and South America
Rodney Stevens
VP Finance | CFA
Over a decade of experience in the capital markets, assisting in financings and M&A transactions worth over $1 billion in transaction value
Previously investment analyst with Salman Partners Inc. and subsequent experience in merchant banking, investment banking and portfolio management
Jeff Ratcliffe
CFO | CPA
Over 14 years experience working with private and public companies
Previously CFO of a Canadian energy company operating in the US as well as a Controller for an African based energy producer
George Richmond
Regional Manager
Over 30 years of mining experience in NIS countries with an emphasis in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and internationally in Mexico, Spain and Ghana
Founder of Bolnisi Gold, a gold producer with assets in Georgia and Mexico, Acquired by Coeur d’Alene Mines in 2007 for US$1.1 billion
George Curtis
Head of Operations
Mining professional with over 45 years experience spanning coal, base and precious metals in underground and surface mines across three continents
Significant operational and executive experience, and has worked in Armenia since 2005
Vahan Grigoryan
Head of Geology
Professional geologist with broad geological, geochemical and management skills in exploration methods and mining operations, with significant regional experience in Armenia
Founder and President of the Geologists Union of Armenia