Management

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 — DIRECTOR, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
  • 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 exploration and 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
JEFFREY RATCLIFFE — CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, CPA
  • Over 14 years of 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, ARMENIA
  • 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
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