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Trey Wasser
CEO & Director
- Served as President & CEO of Ely Gold Royalties Inc., 2010-2021. Transformed Ely Gold from an $6M exploration/development company to $300M royalty company – sold to Gold Royalty Corp
- President & Director of Research for Pilot Point Partners specializing in precious metal mining and oil & gas development.
- Brokerage and venture capital business for over 40 years, including bond salesman and trader with Merrill Lynch, Kidder Peabody and Paine Webber. Clientele included Fortune 100 companies & institutional money managers.
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Scott Kelly
CFO & Director
- 20 years of experience.
- Senior officer and/or director of various private and public companies with large scale resource assets throughout North and South America.
- Assisted and managed companies through all stages from IPOs through to successful acquisitions by major multi-national corporations.
- Acted as CFO of Marlin Gold Mining Ltd and Mako Mining Corp; V.P. Finance for Pediment Gold Corp; Served as CFO of Ely Gold Royalties, which was eventually acquired by Gold Royalty Corp.
- Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University in 2001.
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Christina McCarthy
Independent Director
- Geologist with over 15 years of experience in the resource capital markets.
- Former President & CEO of Paycore Minerals Inc, recently acquired by I-80 Gold for $90 million.
- Served as Director of Corporate Development for McEwen Mining Inc. from December 2014 to December 2019.
- Influential in building an exempt market dealer focusing on resources, equity research at Euro Pacific and Institutional Sales at Haywood Securities.
- Currently serving as a director for I-80 Gold, Kirkland Lake Discoveries and Palamina Corp.
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Jason Jessup
Independent Director
- 24 years of experience in the mining industry.
- Co-founder, CEO & Director of Magna Mining Inc.
- Has held key roles in corporate and operations management.
- The majority of his career in the Sudbury region, at Inco and FNX where he led the operations team that brought the Morrison Deposit into commercial production.
- Graduate of The Haileybury School of Mines and has an MBA from Athabasca University.
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Darin Wagner M.Sc., P. Geo.
Strategic Advisor
- 30+ years of exploration and corporate development experience, including fund raising, corporate management, and M&A.
- Recognized expert in gold exploration in the Archean greenstone belts of Canada.
- Co-founded/founder of Abitibi region explorers West Timmins Mining, Falco Pacific Resources and Balmoral Resources.
- West Timmins and Balmoral third party acquisition deals valued at $424, $160 million respectively.
- Falco transferred to the Osisko Group to advance the the multi-million ounce Horne deposit in Quebec.
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Stephen Kenwood P. Geo.
Advisor
- Geological and management consultant to public and private companies.
- Vast experience working on exploration programs worldwide including; Snip gold deposit (BC, Canada), Eskay Creek polymetallic deposit (BC, Canada) and Cobre copper-gold porphyry in Panama.
- Bachelor of science from University of British Columbia.
- Director and President of Majestic Gold Corp. and director on three other TSX Venture exchange listed companies.
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Dr. Ben Frieman, PhD
Strategic Advisor
- Dr. Frieman will add his expertise in structural interpretation, tectonics and economic geology.
- He is currently engaged in applied research in these fields at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO.
- His 15-year academic career also includes the University of Maine and Laurentian University. At Laurentian, Dr. Frieman was a post-doctoral fellow & research associate at the Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Harquail School of Earth Science (“Metal Earth”) where he led the most comprehensive recent appraisal of the geology of the Manitou Area, now the Dryden Gold District, from 2018-2021.
- His expertise on the formation of gold systems and specifically the Dryden Gold property will aid in more informed targeting strategies and further support continued exploration success.
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Gary Baschuk B.SC.
Strategic Advisor
- Mr. Baschuk has almost 40 years of industry experience as an Investment Banker/Mining Analyst/Geologist.
- He has spent the past 19 years in Capital Markets and over 20 years in the Mining Industry.
- His analytical focus has been on small to mid-sized exploration, development and production precious metals companies. Industrial experience, all with Barrick Gold, ranged from early-stage exploration across northern Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec plus development and production on two Mines, the Holt-McDermott in northern Ontario and the Rodeo/Griffin (part of the Meikle Mine at the Goldstrike Mine Complex) in Nevada.
Board of Directors and Advisors
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Trey Wasser
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Scott Kelly
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Christina McCarthy
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Jason Jessup
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Darin Wagner M.Sc., P. Geo.
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Stephen Kenwood P. Geo.
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Dr. Ben Frieman, PhD
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Gary Baschuk B.SC.