Michael Thompson, P.Geo
VP Exploration, Director
Michael received his Honours B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Toronto in 1997. Michael has worked for several junior and major companies since 1997 in both gold and base metal exploration, most notably Teck Cominco Ltd., Tri Origin Exploration Ltd., Placer Dome CLA Inc. and Goldcorp Inc. Michael specializes in structural interpretation of gold deposits as well as management of large exploration programs. He is a founding partner and 33% owner of Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corporation of Thunder Bay, ON, a full service mineral exploration consulting firm.
Marian Myers P. Geo.
Project Manager, Director
Marian Myers, P.Geo, has a M.Sc (Geology) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and has 35 years’ experience working for a wide array of major and junior mining companies including Gold Fields (GFI), Anglo American (A.L.), AngloGold (AU), Balmoral Resources and Cardero Resource Corp. Ms. Myer’s breadth of international experience has taken her from her home town near Johannesburg, South Africa to work on projects in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Australia, Alaska, Peru, Chile and now Canada where she resides in Vancouver. She specializes in the GIS integration of geochemical, geophysical and geological information, including historical data sets with expertise in QA/QC procedures, field data collection supervision, and assessment and technical report development.
Brian Gusko
VP Finance
Brian Gusko has an MBA from the University of Calgary, and attended the European Summer School of Advanced Management. Mr. Gusko has over 15 years’ experience in capital markets and has helped raise over $75 MM for various enterprises. He has served on the board and as Chief Financial Officer of various private and public companies. Mr. Gusko has assisted with the interlisting of over 10 companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and has helped numerous companies access German capital markets. Previously Mr. Gusko was Chief Financial Officer of private and public companies. The last company he helped take public on the CSE had a market capitalization of over $200M at the time of listing.
John Da Costa
CFO
John has 30 years of accounting experience managing and reporting for Canadian public companies, 10 years with US public companies. John worked with a Canadian public company operating in Chile in the late 1990s and has experience with Chilean subsidiaries. He is the founder and president of Da Costa Management Corp., a company that provides management and accounting services to both public and private companies in the US and Canada since 2003.Caitlin Jeffs, P. Geo.
President, CEO
Ms. Jeffs is a founding partner of Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corporation of Thunder Bay, Ontario, the largest, full service, mineral exploration consulting firm in Northwestern Ontario. She has over 20 years of mineral exploration experience in gold and base metal exploration with junior and major resource companies including Placer Dome and Goldcorp. Ms. Jeffs is also a director of Kesselrun Resources Ltd. and TomaGold Corporation.Cody McFarlane
Director
Based out of Santiago, Chile, Cody is managing partner of Axiom Legal, an international and multidisciplinary law firm specializing in cross border transactions between Australia, Canada and Latin America. Cody brings extensive experience in the mining and regulatory environment in Chile.