Position: President & Chief Executive Officer / Director
Gordon Keevil graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Science (Hon.) in geology and is a designated Professional Geologist in the province of Alberta. He brings to the company over 25 years of technical and corporate experience related to the management and operation of resource companies. Mr. Keevil has focussed his professional efforts towards junior listed companies involved in mineral exploration.
He is currently the President of Copper Star Management Inc., a consulting geological firm He has been a director of Burnstone Ventures (formerly Pure Diamonds) since February 2000 and the President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2006.
Position: Director
Don Sheldon is a 1966 graduate from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Philosophy, and a 1969 graduate from the University of Western Ontario with a Masters degree in Business Administration. From 1984, Mr. Sheldon was the President and director of D. S. Management Ltd. and then, since 2009, Sayonara Holdings Ltd., private companies involved in the organization and management of a number of reporting and non-reporting companies. Mr. Sheldon has experience in financing and operating junior resource exploration ventures and serves or has served as a director or officer of various companies trading on the CNSX, the TSX Venture Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange, including, among others, Range Energy Resources Inc.(since March 2005), Burnstone Ventures Inc. (since June 1992), Bard Ventures Ltd. (December 1992 to March 2007), Cross Lake Minerals Ltd. (December 2003 to April 2007), Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (December 2003 to March 2006), and Selkirk Metals Corp. (April 2005 to April 2007).
Position: Vice President of Administration and Corporate Secretary / Director
Eugene Beukman holds B. Iuris and LLB degrees from the University of South Africa and brings over 22 years of legal and financial expertise in mineral exploration and development to the company. With his specialization in mining law from South Africa, he relocated to Vancouver in 1993. Eugene also serves on the Board of Directors for a number of other public mining companies based in Canada.
Position: Director
Emmet McGrath serves as a director for Bard Ventures Ltd., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and Beatrix Ventures Inc., a company listed on the Canadian National Stock 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.
Position: Director
Robert Stikeman, of Toronto, Ontario, a director of the Company, has practiced law in the Province of Ontario for approximately twenty years. Since 1986, he has served as senior partner in a law firm which he was instrumental in establishing, Stikeman, Graham & Keeley. Prior to that he was employed in private practice since approximately 1975. Mr. Stikeman received a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, an LLB from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA also from the University of Western Ontario. Mr. Stikeman works extensively in securities and tax law and has served as a director of several reporting issuers.