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Board of Directors

  • Chris Buncic

    President & CEO, Director

    Mr. Buncic is an accomplished executive with over 24 years in a diverse career that spans senior roles in the mining industry and capital markets. He was most recently a co-founder and CEO of Alto Verde Copper Inc., a private exploration company focused on copper assets in Chile that was last year acquired by Interra Copper Corp. Prior to that he was President and CEO of Ascendant Resources Inc. where the team acquired and restored profitability to the operating El Mochito mine in Honduras and greatly advanced the exploration efforts of the Lagoa Salgada project in Portugal. In his career, he has raised substantial capital across the capital structure, and has served on several boards of TSX, TSXV and CSE-listed companies. Prior roles saw him in Institutional Equity Research at several leading Canadian independent full-service brokerage firms. Mr. Buncic is a CFA Charterholder, has an MBA from Schulich School of Business and B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto.

  • Graham H. Scott

    Corporate Secretary and Director

    Mr. Scott is Senior Counsel at Lawson Lundell LLP, and the former principal of VECTOR Corporate Finance Lawyers. Mr. Scott practices corporate and commercial law, with emphasis on securities law and mining law. He represents many Canadian public companies which are listed on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchanges, in addition to clients in the corporate finance business. Called to the bar in 1981, Mr. Scott is listed as “consistently recommended” in the area of Mining in LEXPERT.CA, a directory of Canadian lawyers based on a survey of the legal community. In addition, he is listed in The International Who’s Who of Mining Lawyers published by London-based Law Business Research Ltd.

  • Dr. Quinton Hennigh

    Director

    Dr. Hennigh is a globally renowned exploration geologist with 30+ years of precious metals mining experience. Dr. Hennigh began his career in gold exploration after obtaining his PhD in Geology/Geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. Early in his career he worked for major gold mining companies including Homestake Mining (now Barrick Gold Corp.), Newcrest Mining, and Newmont Corp. Later, Dr. Hennigh founded Novo Resources Corp, acting as its CEO and currently serving as co-Chairman. He has played a key role in major global discoveries such as First Mining Gold’s Springpole gold deposit in Ontario, Kirkland Lake Gold’s Fosterville gold mine in Australia, the Rattlesnake Hills gold deposit in Wyoming, and Lion One’s Tuvatu gold project in Fiji, among many others. Dr. Hennigh is CEO of private silver miner, San Cristobal Mining.

  • Robert T. Boyd, P. Geo.

    Director

    Mr. Boyd is an independent director of the Company since 2008, and a senior mining executive with 40 years experience in exploration, executive-level management, corporate finance and corporate governance. Mr. Boyd is President CEO and Director of Endurance Gold Corp. Mr. Boyd was President and CEO of Athabasca Potash Inc prior to its acquisition in 2010. He was President, CEO and a director of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. prior to its acquisition in 2007. Before joining Ashton, Mr. Boyd was a founding principal and major shareholder of a financial and strategic advisory firm to the mining and mineral exploration industry and was also formerly V.P. Exploration for Homestake Canada Limited. Mr. Boyd is a widely respected geologist and gemmologist. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C., the Society of Economic Geologists, and a Fellow of the Gemmological Associations of Great Britain and Canada. Mr. Boyd serves as a director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.

  • Paul Larkin

    Director

    Mr. Larkin is President of the New Dawn Group, an investment and financial consulting firm located in Vancouver, British Columbia. New Dawn is primarily involved in corporate finance, merchant banking and administrative management of public companies. Mr. Larkin held various accounting and banking positions for over a decade before founding New Dawn in 1983. He currently serves on the boards of Prime Mining Corp., and RE Royalties Ltd.

  • Francisco de Undurraga

    Director

    Mr. De Undurraga is a resident of Santiago, Chile, and a significant shareholder of the Company.

    Mr. de Undurraga is a member of the board of Sundance Investment LLC, a company controlled by Citigroup Venture Capital International (CVCI), operating in oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazonia since 2006. He is also the founder and Chairman of FIP Ariston Cima, a private investment fund based in Santiago, Chile, since 2004, and managed by BTG Pactal, one of the most important South American investment banks. Ariston Cima manages diversified investments in the forestry, real estate, oil and mining exploration and financial sectors.

    Mr. de Undurraga has had an extensive corporate executive career, holding positions as senior executive and CEO in several Chilean based companies that include Enersis and Laboratorio Chile, both with wide international operations in South America and listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange and NYSE as well.

    Mr. de Undurraga originally graduated as Civil-Industrial Engineer from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and subsequently graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Madrid, Spain. He also graduated from the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University in California.