Speakers

André Gauthier holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and has completed the required Masters courses in Project Management from University of Quebec in Montreal. From 1994 to 1996 he was Vice-President of the public junior mining company Q.E.X. Resources Inc. (which became Adventure Gold Inc. in 2007). From 1984 to 1992, he was secretary-treasurer and CFO of Abior Exploration Inc. (which became Exploration Diabior Inc., now merged with Virginia Gold Mines Inc.). He joined Matamec in 2003 as Vice President, Administration and became President and CEO in 2005.

A qualified mining engineer with more than 35 years’ experience in the global resources industry, Mr McFadzean has led the financing, development and operation of several new mines around the world. Bruce McFadzean’s professional career includes 15 years with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in a variety of positions and four years as Managing Director of successful Western Australian gold miner Catalpa Resources Limited (ASX:CAH).

Mr. Jones has over 30 years of experience in positions of increasing management and operational responsibility in the mining and energy industries. He was most recently President and CEO of Wildcat Silver, now called Arizona Mining, where his team doubled the size of the resource twice. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Mining General Manger at Albian Sands Energy in Alberta. Mr. Jones was in management at Phelps Dodge Sierrita. and Cyprus Amax Coal. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Curtis Moore is VP of Marketing and Corporate Development for Energy Fuels Inc. He oversees product marketing and investor relations, and is closely involved in M&A, public relations, and legal. He has been with Energy Fuels for eight years, holding various roles of increasing responsibility. Prior to joining Energy Fuels, Mr. Moore worked in real estate development, government relations, and private law practice. Mr. Moore is a licensed attorney in the State of Colorado. He holds JD and MBA degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a BA in Economics-Government from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California

Graphite mining engineer Donald Baxter is the CEO of Alabama Graphite Corp. and one of the premier graphite experts in world, having helped define three graphite deposits and having built and operated one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. A graphite industry veteran, Mr. Baxter is the only CEO in the graphite development space with demonstrated graphite mining and processing experience, in addition to extensive secondary processing, value-added graphite product and battery-ready graphite experience.

Mr. Baxter’s Coated Spherical Purified Graphite (CSPG) battery-ready graphite work at Alabama Graphite Corp. is widely regarded as the premier battery-ready graphite program in the industry. Mr. Baxter holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University.

Graphite mining engineer Donald Baxter is the CEO of Alabama Graphite Corp. and one of the premier graphite experts in world, having helped define three graphite deposits and having built and operated one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. A graphite industry veteran, Mr. Baxter is the only CEO in the graphite development space with demonstrated graphite mining and processing experience, in addition to extensive secondary processing, value-added graphite product and battery-ready graphite experience.

Mr. Baxter’s Coated Spherical Purified Graphite (CSPG) battery-ready graphite work at Alabama Graphite Corp. is widely regarded as the premier battery-ready graphite program in the industry. Mr. Baxter holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University.

Mr. Parnham brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and international contacts to Broadway and has over 30 years of experience in the mining and hydrocarbon industries. He has spent his career developing and founding several resource-focused companies, specializing in finding, exploring and securing undervalued assets at an early stage and applying the wealth of knowledge, experience and skills he has gained in his career to create and maximize shareholder value. To date, this includes over C$1.2 billion in shareholder value for companies in which he has been directly involved with through the facility of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Gavin has a degree in Accounting and Finance, and joined Arafura Resources in 2006 as its CFO and Company Secretary. He previously served as Financial Controller with the Tethyan Copper Company, held various senior finance and treasury positions in Newcrest and Newmont, and previous to that had a successful investment banking career with Bankwest and ANZ in Australia, and Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank in London.

Gavin’s diverse, global experience has provided management and leadership opportunities in a range of disciplines including Financial and Investment Banking, Resource Development and Operations, and Global Bank Treasuries. Over the past 25 years his career has exposed him to business practices in Australia, Europe, the US, Japan, China and Pakistan.

He has been MD of Arafura since July 2013

Mr. Neal has more than 30 years experience in governance, corporate finance and investor relations. He founded Neal McInerney Investor Relations in 1991. Through marketing more than $4 billion in debt and equity financings, the company grew to be the second largest full service Investor Relations firm in Canada with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles. Clients included; BCE, Nortel, Bell Canada International, Bell Mobility, Clearnet, Intrawest, Canaccord Capital, BMO Nesbitt Burns, and Blackberry (RIM). Mr. Neal was VP Corporate Development at MAG Silver Corp. where he was the key personnel is providing capital market strategies and solutions to the board. He has served on the board of Falco Resources, Balmoral Resources, Americas Petrogas, Rockgate Capital, and Xiana Mining. He has raised more than $500mn for resources companies since 2004. Mr. Neal graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. 1977. He has also served as a member of the Dalhousie University Senate and Board of Governors.

Mr. Bourassa is President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium Inc. since the Company’s inception in 2008, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry to this role. Among other things he was instrumental in identifying and negotiating the acquisition of the Whabouchi lithium property and securing over $150 million through different types of financing to develop the Whabouchi project. Through his leadership, the Company brought an historical lithium showing to a world class deposit and has developed new innovative processes of producing high purity lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate, which should allow Nemaska to become a world leader in these lithium salts markets. Mr. Bourassa is a recognized industry expert on lithium exploration and development and has spoken at numerous national and international conference. Throughout his career, Mr. Bourassa has been involved in exploration and mining companies as President and CEO, legal counsel and in-house corporate counsel and director. These companies were producers of gold, copper, calcite and dolomite. Mr. Bourassa holds a law degree from Université Laval.

Mr. Bebek has over 17 years’ experience in financing, foreign negotiations, and acquisitions in the mineral exploration industry. His understanding of the capital markets and ability to position, structure and finance companies that he has been associated with has been instrumental in their successes. Mr. Bebek formerly was the President, CEO and co-founder of Cayden Resources Inc., which was sold to Agnico Eagle Mining Limited for $205 million in November 2014, a co-founder and a Director of Stratton Resources Inc. and a co-founder of Keegan Resources Inc. (now Asanko Gold).

James McDonald President and CEO of Kootenay is a registered professional geologist with over 30 years of combined technical and financial experience in the exploration and mining sector. In 2000, he co-founded National Gold, which was later merged with Alamos Minerals to form Alamos Gold for which he served as a Director and on numerous committees until June 2012. Mr. McDonald also served as President of Genco Resources, which operated the La Guitarra Silver Mine located in Mexico. Mr. McDonald is a founder of Kootenay Silver Inc. and also a co-founder and director of Northern Vertex Mining Corp.

Jesse Irving Seligman is a Partner at The RBS Investment Group, being a Toronto-based family office and emerging market investment firm focused in real assets.

Josh Spoores joined CRU in 2012 with editorial responsibility for CRU’s leading Steel Sheet Monitor and the Steel Sheet Market Outlook while also contributing to the Steel Monitor as well as the Plate Market Outlook. Prior to this role at CRU, he was a Senior Marketing Analyst at Severstal North America, founder of Steel Reality, a forward-looking market analysis firm using a models-based approach for flat rolled and plate steel. He was also the Market Research Manager at Majestic Steel USA, one of the largest flat rolled service centres in the USA. He has a BSc in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.

Ken Berry, B.Comm, Chairman, CEO and co-founder has played an instrumental role in acquiring and raising in excess of $52 million to advance the Company’s 100% owned Moss Mine Gold-Silver project in Western Arizona from the exploration stage to final feasibility. Mr. Berry brings over 20 years of senior level experience in capital markets, mine exploration and development. Among his accomplishments, as a co-founder and current Chairman of Kootenay Silver Inc., Mr. Berry helped guide Kootenay through a major transitional period that included the strategic acquisition of Northair Silver Corp. and a carried interest to production option agreement with Pan American Silver Corp.

Joined the Board of Condor Gold plc on the 24th May, 2006 as a non executive Chairman. Following the moratorium of all mining in El Salvador in 2008, Mr Child successfully repositioned the company in Nicaragua, acquiring 100% of ten concessions. Mr Child is a shareholder with 7.5% of Condor Gold. He has provided the leadership from no resource to 2.5m oz gold resource, maiden reserves and permitting a 1mtpa processing plant, spending 25% of his time in Nicaragua.

Mr. Child is a versatile, entrepreneurial senior executive with a speciality in emerging markets. He worked for 20 years in equity capital markets as an institutional stockbroker and in corporate finance/private equity. At board level Mr. Child has been an executive director of Hong Kong listed Regent Pacific Group, an emerging market fund manager and private equity group. He has been a Non Executive director of several private companies.

Matt is a mining engineer with over 35 years’ experience. He has a strong technical, operational and executive management background, having worked in roles ranging from an underground miner through to CEO and managing director, in Australia, Papua New Guinea, India, Ghana and Bolivia. He holds three First Class Metalliferous Mine Manager’s Certificates of Competency and has been instrumental in the successful development of three gold mines. He is a three-time winner of the Australian Mine Manager of the Year Award and received the AusIMM Leadership Award in 2008. Matt has previously worked for Singapore-listed LionGold Corp, Renison Goldfields, Placer Pacific, WMC and Rio Tinto, and is currently MD&CEO for ASX-listed White Rock Minerals

Mr. Pierre Arcand was re-elected MNA for Mont-Royal riding for the fourth consecutive time on April 7, 2014. He is now the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Minister responsible for the Northern Plan and the Minister responsible for the Côte-Nord region.

During his political career, he has served, for example, as Minister of International Relations, Minister responsible for La Francophonie, and Minister of Sustainable Development, the Environment and Parks. He previously served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and the Minister of Tourism, and to the Minister of Finance and the Chair of the Conseil du trésor. He was also vice-president of the Committee on Education and a member of the Comité ministériel de la prospérité économique et du développement durable.

Patrick Chidley, CFA, MS, BSc. ARSM. Currently partner with the 3ppb Group, an international mining-industry focused firm investing in mining industry private equity opportunities and providing management consulting and corporate strategy advice to mining and exploration companies. Mr. Chidley has over 25 years’ experience in mining and mining finance; extensive evaluation and investing experience in broking, (as a well-known, leading gold industry analyst with HSBC), in fund management with USAA Investment Management Company, and in investment banking and commodities. He started his career as a mining and exploration geologist in Southern Africa. Holds a CFA, a BSc. in Mining Geology (Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London) and an MS in Mineral Economics (Penn State University).

Ross Orr was instrumental in relocating the Company from Perth, Aus in 1997 as well as the IPO the same year. In late 2010 he split BacTech Mining into 2 companies. One for mineral processing (now Aquila) and one for environmental remediation. A Director since 1997, Mr. Orr is firm in his belief that bioleaching will play an important role in mine tailings remediation and mercury reduction in artisanal mining.