Luka Capin
Director & CEO
Mr. Capin is a capital markets professional with over five years of experience in the investor relations, capital markets strategy, and public company communications across the mining and technology sectors.
Leon Ho, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Ho is a chartered professional accountant working at Cross Davis & Company LLP, a chartered professional accountant firm providing accounting services to publicly listed entities, primarily in the mining sector. Mr. Ho works directly with mining chief executive officers and directors, assisting with their regulatory and accounting needs.
Steven McMullan, P. Geo
Director
Mr. McMullan is a senior exploration geoscientist with over 40 years of diverse international experience in mineral exploration and discovery, mine development, and project management across five continents. He was a member of the Kamoa copper deposit discovery team, which received the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2015 Thayer Lindsley International Discovery Award.
Jason Bahnsen, B.Sc. Mining Engineering, MBA
Director
Mr. Bahnsen is a Canadian mining engineer with over 30 years of experience in natural resources finance and operations. Jason’s career has spanned a broad range of roles in the resources industry. He began his career in mine development, working for underground mine contracting companies in Canada, Indonesia and Australia. He has held production roles at several gold and base metal mine operations in capacities as mine planning engineer, project engineer and shift boss. Following several years working with Rio Tinto in Australia where Jason was involved in mine feasibility study work and business development roles, he moved into investment banking. Jason spent approximately 10 years working as a resource banker working with firms including Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank, and Fox Davies Capital on major international resource acquisition and equity market transactions. Following a successful career in banking, Jason became involved in resource company development and has held CEO roles for several private and listed resource exploration and development companies. Mr. Bahnsen holds a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the Queen’s University in Kingston and an MBA from University of New England, Australia.
Gordon Tainton
Independent Director
Mr. Tainton has over 27 years of experience at senior management levels in various sectors of the fertilizer industry, including inspection and testing services across all commodities, distribution, port/terminal development, trading, shipping, off-take agreements, and project finance. Within management teams, he has financed and developed port/terminal projects for bulk liquid and solid products in the Americas, Asia and Oceania. He spent eight years with Sumitomo Corp. of Tokyo sourcing, purchasing and delivering key intermediate bulk and bagged products to the phosphate production industry. In 1992, he participated in a management led acquisition of Inspectorate plc, one of the world's largest independent control services groups, which was subsequently sold to British Standards Institute in 1998. Since 2010 Mr. Tainton has held various executive and non-executive Board positions in both public and private companies. Gordon is currently President and Director of CROPS INC, a TSX.V listed company developing a large scale phosphate project in Peru.
Graham Keevil
Non-Executive Director
Graham Keevil brings 13 years of public company experience; specifically in the funding and management of Publicly Traded Resources Issues.
He has worked with Teck Resources, Selkirk Metals, Pure Diamonds, Cross Lake Minerals, and a variety of other public ventures. Graham has been President of Tajiri Resources since July 2013.
