CORPORATE
Directors
Michael Romanik
CEO, PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR
Mr. Romanik has served as a director of the Company since April 2008. He is the Chief Financial Officer and a director of First Lithium Resources (TSX:MCI) and is President of Verenex Capital Corp, a private investment company. Mr. Romanik also provides investor relations services for Pebble Creek Mining (TSX:PEB) and is the President of First India Resources Inc, a private company engaged in identifying mineral projects in India.
Jeff Smulders
CFO, DIRECTOR
Director of Skyline Gold Corporation, a junior resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. In addition, Mr. Smulders holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from City University and a CMA from the Society of Management Accountants. He began his career with one of the large accounting firms in the early 1970s then worked in the mining industry for Placer Development Limited for almost 10 years. For the past 20 years, Mr. Smulders has managed his own financial consulting company assisting a wide variety of businesses including public companies in the areas of financial management, taxation and accounting.
James Darcel
DIRECTOR
Mr. Darcel has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry including several years at the Toronto Stock Exchange. He became an investment counselor and portfolio manager more than ten years ago, and has worked as a financial analyst and consultant. He focused on the energy sector recently as a director and IC/PM with Regenesis Capital Management Inc. of Toronto, and has prepared several independent investment research reports on natural resource exploration companies based in Canada and abroad.
Andrew E. Nevin
DIRECTOR
Dr. Andrew E. Nevin, Ph.D., P.Eng. was educated at St. Lawrence University, University of California at Berkeley and University of Idaho. He previously worked with Phelps Dodge Corporation, Cannon-Hicks Associates Ltd., Nevin Sadlier-Brown Goodbrand Ltd., and more recently as an independent consultant and developer, and President and CEO of Pebble Creek Mining Ltd. (TSXV:PEB). Dr. Nevin has 44 years of global experience as a geologist and exploration manager. He has contributed to the discovery, development or augmenting of reserves of several mineral deposits around the world, including copper, gold and silver mines in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China and Colombia, and geothermal steam fields in Canada and Indonesia. Dr. Nevin has consulted for many leading companies and governmental agencies, and served on the boards of several junior Canadian companies. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, a member and past director of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, a Professional Engineer in British Columbia, and a Registered Geologist in Idaho.
