Management
| Eugene Beukman Position: President, Director and C.E.O. Eugene Beukman is the Corporate Counsel of the Pender Group of Companies, a position he has held since January 1994. He graduated from the Rand University of Johannesburg, South Africa with a Bachelor of Law degree and a Bachelor of Law Honors Postgraduate degree in 1987. Mr. Beukman was previously employed as a legal advisor to the predecessor of BHP Billiton. He has over twenty years experience in the acquisition of assets and joint ventures. | |
| John B. Malysa Position: Director John B. Malysa is a mining engineer with extensive experience in the mining and exploration environment. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado with a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Penn State University, and a MBA from University of Colorado. He has more than 30 years of progressive mining experience in all aspects of both surface and underground mine exploration, design, feasibility, construction, operations and management. Hands on underground and surface mining experience in both North and South America in union and non-union operations. His project and operations experience include underground mines up to 22,000 tons per day; and surface mines up to 100,000 tons per day. He has management, design and construction experience in various precious and base metals with new mines costing +US$250 million. His mineral process experience includes Crushing and Screening, CIL, CIP, Heap Leach, Gravity and Flotation recovery methods. John has participated in financial and union negotiating experience with banks, investors and employees. He has a proven track record with several positions as President and/or General Manager of entrepreneurial mining companies with P&L responsibility and reporting to the Board of Directors. | |
| Jim Miller-Tait Position: Director Jim Miller-Tait graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1986 with a BSc Geology, acquired his P. Geo. in 1992, and has over 20 years of continuous exploration, development and production experience. He has been President of Sikanni Mine Development Ltd., his own Geological Consulting Company, as Consulting Geologist since May of 1996; Project Manager (previously Chief Geologist), Oniva International Services Ltd., September 1987 to May 1996 and has worked extensively in all areas of North America, Bolivia, Mexico and Europe. Mr. Miller-Tait has worked on grass root exploration programs up to full production in open pit and underground operations and his experience covers gold, base metal and diamonds and he has worked in a multitude of geological settings including vein, skarn, volcanogenic massive sulphide, carbonate-hosted, Sedex, kimberlite and porphyries. | |
| Emmet McGrath Position: Director Emmet McGrath serves as director for Selkirk Metals Corp., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. He graduated from the University of Calgary in 1971 with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and is a Chartered Accountant. From 1981 to 2002, he was employed as a partner at KPMG for Greater Vancouver. | |
| Robert Pryde Position: Director Robert Pryde is Vice President of Exploration for Unbridled Energy Corp., an independent natural gas evaluation and production company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. From 2004 to mid-July 2006 he served EnCana Corporation as Geological Advisor of their Unconventional Natural Gas Group. From 2001 to 2004, Robert was employed as Exploration Manager by Tom Brown Resources. Prior to this, he was Group Leader/Senior Exploration Geologist at the former Alberta Energy Company, in which he was instrumental to the discovery of Diamondiferous Kimberlites within the Red Earth region of Alberta. Robert has also held positions as Senior Exploration Geologist for Norcen Energy Ltd. and Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1982 from the University of Calgary, and is a member of CPSG, AAPG, APEGGA and GSA. |