NORTHCLIFF RESOURCES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
- Chartered Professional Accountant
Andrew Ing holds Chartered Professional Accountant and Corporate Finance designations, as well as specialized designations in corporate governance, internal audit and the strategic management of information technology. He has more than 15 years of experience in the natural resources sector, focusing on corporate development activities with an emphasis on capital finance, business agreement negotiations and risk management. He previously held positions with professional services firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu, providing advisory services to mining companies in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Barry Coughlan is a businessman and financier who has been involved in the financing of publicly traded companies for over 30 years. His principal occupation is President and Director of TBC Ventures Ltd., a private investment company. Mr. Coughlan serves on Northcliff's Audit and Risk, the Nominating and Governance
Dave Gaunt, PGeo, specializes in computer-based deposit modeling and quantification, and his involvement spans projects worldwide. He brings a strong geological perspective to resource estimation and geostatistical analysis having worked in all phases of mineral exploration as well as underground and open pit mine operation.
Job Titles:
- CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Chartered Professional Accountant
Luqman Khan is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA CGA), with more than 25 years of professional experience in accountancy and business management. Mr. Khan is currently the CFO RE Royalties Ltd, a renewable energy royalty company and CFO of Electric Royalties Ltd, a royalty company established to take advantage of the demand for a wide range of commodities (lithium, vanadium, manganese, tin, graphite, cobalt, nickel, zinc and copper) that will benefit from the drive toward electrification of a variety of consumer products: cars, rechargeable batteries, large scale energy storage, renewable energy generation and other applications. He has been involved in the acquisition of over 100 royalties to date. Mr. Khan has served as CFO for several publicly listed TSX-V resource companies and previously with Ernst and Young in their assurance practice.
Marchand Snyman has 30 years experience in corporate finance and business development, with 26 years in the mining industry with a global merger, financing, acquisition and divesture track record of more than 50 transactions. He is a co founder of a renewable energy royalty company and a battery minerals focused royalty company. He is a dual Australian and South African Chartered Accountant.
Michael Wolley holds a first class honors degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland and a Masters of Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He spent 15 years with Mobil Oil Australia in a range of roles including engineering, operations, strategic planning and business development in Australia and New Zealand. In 1995, he left Mobil to pursue opportunities in Asia Pacific and worked in a number of senior executive roles in the manufacturing and industrial sectors including a period as President of BlueScope Steel China. Mr. Wolley returned to the resources sector in 2007 as Chief Operating Officer of Lynas Corporation, an ASX 100 business, and subsequently as a director of an ASX listed gold development business. Mr. Wolley joined Todd Corporation in 2011 and is currently Vice President Minerals. He is a director of ASX listed iron or development business, Flinders Mines Ltd.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Professional Accountant
Peter Mitchell is a Chartered Professional Accountant who over the past decade has been extensively involved in leading and managing growth in private equity portfolio companies through acquisitions, integrations and greenfield initiatives as well as all related financing activities. Mr. Mitchell serves on Northcliff's Audit and Risk, the Nominating and Governance and the Compensation Committees and is the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Bob Dickinson is an economic geologist who holds an Honors BSc degree in geology and an MSc degree in finance from the University of British Columbia. He has been active in mineral exploration and development for more than 40 years and is a founding director of Hunter Dickinson Inc. Mr. Dickinson was Canada's Developer of the Year in 1990 and British Columbia's Mining Person of the Year in 2000. In 2008, he was recognized by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum with the Dufresne Award for his contributions to exploration and mining in British Columbia. In 2010, Mr. Dickinson received the Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal for distinguished achievement in mining administration. Mr. Dickinson and Hunter Dickinson Inc. co-founder Robert Hunter were inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2012 in recognition of their demonstrated outstanding lifetime achievements benefiting the Canadian minerals industry.
Scott Cousens is a businessman previously focused on the development of relationships within the international investment community for 25 years as the Director of Capital Finance for Hunter Dickinson Inc. Mr. Cousens serves on Northcliff's Audit and Risk, the Nominating and Governance and the Compensation Committees and is the Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Tanya Yang, PEng, has over 25 years experience in mining project development and engineering worldwide, including 12 years with consulting firms. She has been involved in key projects such as Pebble and Stillwater, USA; Snap Lake, Ekati, Highland Valley and Kemess North, Canada; Xietongmen, China; Jacobina expansion, Brazil; Agua Rica, Argentina; Refineria de Cajamarquilla and Quebrada Honda, Peru; and Ok Tedi, Papua New Guinea.
Trevor Thomas has practiced in the areas of corporate commercial, corporate finance, securities and mining law for more than 25 years, both in private practice as well as in-house positions. Prior to joining Northcliff and Hunter Dickinson Inc., he served as in-house legal counsel for Placer Dome Inc.