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Stephen Coates
President, CEO and Director
Mr. Coates is a Principal of Grove Capital Group since October 2009. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Homeland Energy Group Ltd (“HEG”) a position he held from December 2004 to October 2009. In 2003, Mr. Coates formed Grove Communications Inc. to provide communications and business development services to small-cap public companies primarily in the mining industry and, in August 2006, Mr. Coates resigned as President of Grove Communications Inc. remaining as Chairman. In May 2001 Mr. Coates joined Independent Equity Research Corp. as Vice President, Business Development and, from June 1999 to May 2001, Mr. Coates served in Communications with the Government of Ontario, including as Special Assistant to Premier Mike Harris. Mr. Coates graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
Nicholas Tintor
Chairman and Director
Mr. Tintor is a geologist with more than 25
years of experience in the mining industry, most recently as President of Anaconda
Gold. Mr. Tintor has been involved with all aspects of the management of junior mining company, including finance and project acquisition. Mr. Tintor began his career in the field as an exploration geologist for Urangesellschaft (Canada) Ltd. and the Ontario Geological Survey. Most recently, Mr. Tintor has been involved as an officer or director of companies such as Andina Minerals,
San Anton Resources, and Moto Gold Mines.
James Garcelon, CFA
Director
Mr. Garcelon has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets. He began his career at RBC Dominion Securities where he acted in a number of capacities and areas including investment banking, derivatives and quantitative research. In 1997, he joined Pacific Century Group a Hong Kong based private equity fund. Pacific Century was then a strategic investor in Gordon Capital Corporation, which was acquired by HSBC Securities in late 1998. Mr. Garcelon played an instrumental role in the restructuring and merging of the two organizations. He was appointed Managing Director, Institutional Research at HSBC Securities in 2000. In 2003, Mr. Garcelon joined National Bank Financial and was promoted to Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales in 2005. Currently Mr. Garcelon is a Principal with, and cofounder of, Grove Capital Group a merchant banking group. Mr. Garcelon is also currently CEO and a director of Telferscot Resources Inc. and is a director of Southern Andes Energy Inc. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Masters of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics in addition to an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Robert Kirtlan
Director
Mr. Kirtlan is a finance professional with over 20 years of experience in company management and arranging equity and debt financing in the resource sector. For the last 11 years, Mr. Kirtlan has taken active roles in the financing, management and development of exploration opportunities across a broad spectrum of commodities in various countries. Prior to that he spent 7 years in investment banking with Hartley Poynton, Deutsche Bank Securities and Solomon Smith Barney as a specialist in the mining and natural resources sector. Mr. Kirtlan was a founding shareholder and director of ASX listed Cooper Energy Limited. He was a founding shareholder, director and CEO of ASX listed NGM Resources Limited (“NGM”). Under Mr. Kirtlan’s leadership, NGM made an important uranium discovery south of Arlit, Niger. NGM was subsequently acquired by Paladin in 2010. He was a founding shareholder and director of MM Mining Limited, an exploration company focused on copper exploration in the Mt Isa region of Queensland, Australia. MM Mining was taken over by the Aston Group in 2011. Mr. Kirtlan is currently Executive Chairman of RMG Ltd which is exploring for zinc and copper in Australia, an on-executive director at Aviva Corp. Ltd which is developing base metal and coal deposits in Africa, and an executive director of Credo Resources Limited which is exploring for gold in Burkina Faso.
Jun He
Director
Mr. He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of operational and investing experience. Mr. He has successfully completed a number of multijurisdictional joint venture transactions and has effectively conducted business in China, Hong Kong, North America, Africa, and Europe. The foundation of Mr. He’s businesses are manufacturing and international trade. In 2002, Mr. He began to invest in mineral exploration and mining in West Africa - Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast – with a particular focus on Niger. Mr. He controls a gold tailings mine, the Tounte Project located in Burkina Faso. He was also instrumental in assembling a 250 sq km highly prospective gold property in Burkina Faso near the Mali border close to the Essakane and Inata mines. Recently Mr. He has spent a significant amount of time in Niger establishing operations focusing on the exploration of uranium properties. Mr. He holds an MBA from Universite de Nice Business School in France as well as a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies from IAE Paris. Mr. He speaks four languages – English, French, Mandarin and Cantonese. |
