Corporate

Mr. Wiesblatt has over two decades of experience in the financial industry in various roles including focused expertise in the mining industry as an analyst and institutional investor. Mr. Wiesblatt specializes in equity research, portfolio management, capital markets, hedge funds, and investment management. His expertise in US and Canadian capital markets. Mr. Wiesblatt has spent the last 15-years as an institutional investor working as a Portfolio Manager for several multi-strategy funds, a Canadian Equity Mutual Fund at Sprott Asset Management, as well as recently serving as an advisor to one of Canada’s largest Family Offices, Reichmann International Development Corp. He is a graduate of The University of Western Ontario.

Jordan Trimble is the President and Director of Trident Resources Corp. By background, he is an entrepreneur and has worked in the resource industry in various roles with numerous companies specializing in management, corporate finance and strategy, shareholder communications, business development and capital raising. Previously, he was the Corporate Development Manager for Bayfield Ventures, a gold company with projects in Ontario which was successfully acquired by New Gold (TSX: NGD) in 2014. Bayfield made a high grade gold and silver discovery at its Burns Block property in the Rainy River district which is now a part of the producing Rainy River Mine.

Through his career Mr. Trimble has founded and helped manage several public and private companies and has been instrumental in raising substantial amounts of capital for mining companies with his extensive network of institutional and retail investors. He is a frequent speaker at resource and mining conferences globally and has appeared on various media outlets including BNN and the Financial Post. Mr. Trimble holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Minor in Commerce from the University of British Columbia and he is a CFA® Charterholder and served a full term as a Director of the CFA Society Vancouver.

Dr. Ramcharan has an extensive background in corporate development, mining and exploration, project evaluation, and investment banking spanning over twenty years. Previously, as Manager of Corporate Development for IAMGOLD, Dr. Ramcharan was involved in raising over $600 million in equity financings and worked on project acquisitions totalling over $800 million. Prior to that, he was at SRK Consulting for several years and worked with uranium companies including SXR Uranium One, Ur-Energy, and UraMin which eventually sold for $2.5 billion in 2007 to Areva. Dr. Ramcharan has also held senior roles with Sprott and Resource Capital Funds, where he performed over 300 project evaluations and helped complete numerous debt and equity financings. More recently he was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations for Roscan Gold where he has been instrumental in raising over $40 million.

Dr. Ramcharan holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics, and attended the Colorado School of Mines, University of Leoben, and Harvard Business School Continuing Education Program. Dr. Ramcharan is a P.Eng. in Ontario,, a Fellow of both The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM).

Cornell McDowell is a Professional Geologist registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. He has worked continuously in mineral exploration since graduating from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science, Specialization in Geology degree in 2005. As a geological consultant he has worked with both privately held and publicly listed mineral exploration companies in multiple jurisdictions. He has served as Vice President of Exploration for Aben Minerals since 2017, currently sits on the Board of Directors with Jade Leader Corp and has been involved with Surge Copper Corp since 2011 on their Ootsa and Berg Cu-Mo-Au-Ag-PB-Zn porphyry projects in west central British Columbia.

Ms. Collins, holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants Association of BC (CPA, CGA). Ms. Collins has over 17 years' experience working in the public sector and is well versed in the financial reporting requirements of public companies and serves as an officer in two other public companies.

Mr. Gallucci is a senior capital markets executive and corporate director with over 20 years of experience in investment banking and equity research. His career focused on mining, base metals, precious metals and bulk commodities on a global scale.  He is currently the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. where he oversees the investment banking practice in entirety.

His career has spanned across various firms including BMO Capital Markets, GMP Securities, Dundee Securities, and he was a founding principal of Eight Capital where he led their Mining Investment Banking Team.

In his previous and current roles, he has acquired experience in corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, business and operational development, financings and corporate strategy. He has been directly involved in raising several billion dollars for mining companies as well as lead advisor on significant M&A transactions.

Prior to investment banking, Mr. Gallucci spent over a decade in equity research with a focus on global mining at both GMP and Dundee Securities.  At Dundee Securities, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Metals and Mining Research Team, where he oversaw the entire mining franchise.  

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University and an MBA in Investment Management from the Goodman Institute of Investment Management. Mr Gallucci obtained the ICD.D designation in 2022.

Tim is a professional geologist with over 35 years’ experience in the mineral exploration industry. Since leaving Cominco in the late 1980’s, Tim has worked on exploration projects throughout North and South America and currently oversees a broad range of projects targeting various commodities throughout British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon and Northwest Territories. He has been involved with numerous publicly-traded corporations since 1994, including Copper Canyon Resources Ltd., which was acquired by NovaGold in 2011 for approximately $65M.

Mr. McElroy is a professional geologist with over 35 years of experience in the mining industry; He is the winner of the 2014 PDAC Bill Dennis award for exploration success and the Northern Miner ‘Mining Person of the Year’ Has held senior technical and executive positions with both major and junior mining companies, which include BHP Billiton, Cogema Canada, and Cameco; member of the early-stage discovery team of the giant MacArthur River uranium deposit. Mr. McElroy was a key part of the hugely successful Fission Energy Corp. team as President, COO and Chief Geologist; headed up the technical team that made the discovery at Waterbury Lake, SK and Fission Uranium Corp.’s Triple R deposit at its PLS project.

Ronald Netolitzky is an accomplished Canadian geologist who has always remained an independent-minded prospector at heart. Mr. Netolitzky has been responsible for some of Canada’s most significant mineral discoveries including those at the Snip and Eskay Creek properties in northwest British Columbia, which became two of Canada’s most successful, high-grade precious metal mines. He has also contributed to the growth of many junior mining companies and has been involved in 12 significant corporate transactions including mergers-and-acquisitions over the course of his career. Mr. Netolitzky remains active in gold and uranium exploration, notably in Saskatchewan, where he began his career almost 50 years ago.

Mr. Netolitzky has been honoured with the Prospector of the Year award from the PDAC, and Developer of the Year award from the BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines. In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. Mr. Netolitzky graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in geology in 1964 and a M.Sc. from University of Calgary in 1967. He joined the Saskatchewan uranium rush as a consultant and by 1985, Mr. Netolitzky was president of Delaware Resources and seeking a project of merit. The Snip property optioned from Cominco fit the bill and the first drill program led to a major gold discovery.

Scott Broughton is an accomplished mine development and minerals exploration professional with global experience in the mining sector for over 35 years. He has worked in diverse geographic and technical settings with international consulting practices including time at Stantec, BGC and Klohn Crippen Berger. Mr. Broughton has also led several public and private mineral exploration businesses focused on gold, copper, lead/zinc, and industrial minerals.

His work has been recognized by governments and industry associations for excellence in community engagement, permitting and the environment. Mr. Broughton has an extensive mining network and has served as past chair of the Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) and a director of the Association of Mineral Explorers of BC (AMEBC).