Mr. Fields has over 35 years of industry experience in mineral exploration and development. Mr. Fields has broad experience in overseeing mineral properties from exploration to production. Mr. Fields served as a geologist and business manager for the Rio Tinto Group (1991-1997), where he was involved in all aspects of Rio Tinto’s Canadian exploration activities and was intimately involved in advancing the Diavik diamond project from various exploration stages to feasibility studies. Mr. Fields also served as the Corporate Affairs Manager for La Teko Resources Ltd. (1997-1999), where he oversaw corporate planning and reporting and project evaluation until the company accepted a $44 million take-over offer from Kinross Gold Corporation. Mr. Fields was the Vice President (1999-2001) and a director (1999-2009) of Copper Ridge Explorations Inc., where he was responsible for directing geological programs, project evaluations and continuous disclosure obligations of the company. Mr. Fields received the E.A. Scholz award in 2012 from the Association for Mineral Exploration BC for excellence in mine development for his key role in developing the Willow Creek metallurgical coal mine during his time at Pine Valley Mining Corporation as Executive Vice President (2001-2005).
Mr. Dusenbury, CPA, CA has experience in public accounting, providing services to both public and private sector clients reporting in Canada and in the United States over a broad range of industries including, but not limited to, technology, agriculture, engineering, mining & exploration, manufacturing and financing. Mr. Dusenbury obtained his Chartered Professional Accountant designation in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business and Accounting from Capilano University. Mr. Dusenbury has served as consultant for audit and public practice firms in both Canada and the United States and has held Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Aujla brings over 16 years of experience acting as a lawyer, director and officer for both public and private companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and a Juris Doctor from the University of Victoria. Mr. Aujla was previously a corporate lawyer who worked with top international law firms. He has experience advising companies in financial services, corporate mergers and acquisitions and commercial real estate in various jurisdictions. Mr. Aujla is currently the Founding Partner of Hunter West Legal Recruitment.
Mr. Parmar’s corporate experience includes over 12 years of working with both public and private companies in various sectors, including the resources, health care, manufacturing, and real estate sectors. Mr. Parmar has extensive experience in the capital markets and has been involved in corporate restructuring and financing for both public and private companies. Mr. Parmar obtained a Chartered Professional Accountant designation in 2012 and holds a Bachelor of Technology in Accounting from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Mr. Rosenberg is a corporate executive with experience in global food service and other product distribution and executive leadership. Mr. Rosenberg led in his position as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer the successful buyout of Accent Food Services and transitioned the enterprise to private equity ownership and management, ultimately spear heading a strategic shift in customer strategy and company culture which resulted in Accent Food Services progressing from a single state operator to one of the largest multi-state operations in the Unattended Retail Industry. During Josh’s six years in his position as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Accent Food Services grew top line revenue by more than six-fold from $38 million to $155 million, expanded operations to cover 11 U.S. states from being a single state operator, and grew to encompass more than 600 associates (from 179), 30,000+ customers (from 14,000), and the service of more
than 750,000 customers. Mr. Rosenberg was also an executive in the Coca-Cola System, where he led in his position as Vice President of Sale of the unattended retail and convenience services segment of the Coca-Cola Company after heading in his position as Channel and Product Commercialization of their food service division, their $700 million, multi‐channel business. Over a progressive 18-year career, Josh rose through the ranks of the Coca Cola System, starting as a merchandiser and holding roles in sales, operations, commercial strategy, and call center management.
Mr. Rosenberg holds a Marketing degree from Madison University, completed the KPMG Quantum Shift ‘Most Promising Top 40 Entrepreneurs Program’, as well as the ‘Power of Listening Leadership Program’ at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Cornell University. Mr. Rosenberg’s honours include being named the National Automatic Merchandising Associations’ ‘2016 Person of the Year’ and Automatic Merchandisers’ Magazine’s ‘2015 Pro to Know’. Mr. Rosenberg is a director of the Company and devotes approximately 30% of his time to the Company’s affairs. Mr. Rosenberg has not entered into a non-competition or non-disclosure agreement with the Company.
Mr. Wheatley is a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists in Saskatchewan. With over 44 years of uranium exploration experience in Canada, Mr. Wheatley started uranium exploration in 1980 and was involved with the discovery of a number of deposits: Amok Ltd. (Cluff Lake, Dominique Janine deposits), Minatco (McClean Lake, Sue deposits), Uranerz Exploration and Mining Ltd. (Key Lake, BV and P-Patch uranium occurrences) and Areva Resources Canada Inc. (now Orano) where he led the exploration team in discovery and delineation of the Midwest A deposit. Most recently Mr. Wheatley was the Vice President of Exploration for Forum Energy Metals Corp. where he discovered the Opie, Barney and Otis West uranium showings at Northwest Athabasca. He also explored for uranium in Nunavut around the Kiggavik deposits, explored for copper at the Janice Lake project and for nickel / platinum / palladium at the Love Lake project.
Mr. Wheatley has a record of mineral discoveries, including eight uranium deposits, four of which became producing mines in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. Mr. Wheatley graduated with an H.B.Sc. from Laurentian University in 1980, and a M.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985.
Mr. Cognets has fifteen years’ experience in commodities sectors, spanning leadership roles in operations, finance, strategy, and investing. He is currently the Vice President of Strategy and Financial Planning & Analysis at First Bauxite, an independent producer of industrial minerals. James’ experience includes five years with Resource Capital Funds, one of the largest and oldest mining-focused private equity funds, where he was responsible for RCF’s global royalty portfolio, as well as investments in energy transition metals and industrial minerals. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering and French from Vanderbilt University and an MBA (high honors) from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. James has also received his ICD.D accreditation from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
