Board of Directors
Building Western Canada’s Highest Grade Gold Project
Sofia Bianchi
BA, Chair, Board of Directors
- Seasoned international finance professional with expertise in corporate governance, strategy and value creation with 15 years of board experience on multiple publicly listed and private firms
- Currently a Non-Executive Director at Ma’aden and Ivanhoe Electric
Former Chair of Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and a Member of the Audit, Technical and Remuneration Committees of Endeavour Mining
Former Head of Special Situations and Member of the Investment Committee for Debt and Infrastructure at the UK development finance institution, CDC Group plc - Former Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees and member of the Audit Committee of Kenmare Resources, an LSE- and Dublin-listed company
- Previously was Head of Special Situations at BlueCrest Capital
BA in Economics from the George Washington University and an MBA from The Wharton School
Dr. Carmen Letton
PhD, Director
- Mining engineer and mineral economist (PhD) with over 35 years of global mining exposure in the Americas, Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa
- Former Head of Resource Development Plan and Life Asset Plan (Asset Strategy Development) at Anglo American, and has held senior positions at BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Newmont
- Former non-executive director of Endeavour Mining and former non-executive director of Gold Fields
- Diverse background in senior leadership roles in operations, business improvement, optimization and sustainable mining
- Extensive technical expertise in open pit and underground mines across multiple commodities and the many stages of asset development
- PhD Mineral Economics at University of Queensland and BEng (Mining)(Hons) at WA School of Mines, Kalgoorlie
Andrew Trow
BCom, Director
- Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial and operational restructurings, fund management in special situations, private equity and debt
- Partner at Atlante Capital Partners
- Director at Insight Strategic Growth & Investment Former Investment
- Manager at BlueCrest Capital Management (UK) LLP, working extensively in managing financial and operational turn-arounds and sale processes across various sectors, with a focus on mining and energy Started his career at the Deloitte USA and South Africa offices
- BCom (Honors) in Chartered Accountancy from University of Port Elizabeth
Kadri Dagdelen
M.Sc., B.Sc., Director
- Colorado School of Mines, Associate Professor and Professor in Mining Engineering Department since 1992
- President of OptiTech, a mining engineering technical innovation and consulting company since 2005
- Former Director of Randgold Resources and held various management roles at Homestake Mining.
Mike Doyle
M.Sc. M. Eng. Director, Chief Technical Officer
- Mr. Doyle is a geologist and is a chartered engineer with over 35 years global experience of mining and exploration with Rio Tinto, Inmet, Wardell- Armstrong and Sun Valley Investments.
- He is chartered engineer and geologist and also holds an MSc in Environmental Management.
- Mr. Doyle has experience across exploration, feasibility studies, environmental permitting, construction, and exploitation of small to major mining projects.
- While at Rio Tinto Mr. Doyle directly led the exploration team that discovered the Las Cruces deposit in southern Spain that has produced 15Mt @ 5% Cu and currently has resources of 36Mt @ 2.5% Cu equivalent.