JAXON MINING - Key Persons


Brian Crawford - CFO, Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Corporate Secretary
Mr. Crawford, CPA, CA, holds a B. Com. from the University of Toronto and has extensive experience as a senior financial executive with public and private companies and as a partner in a national firm of chartered professional accountants. Brian founded and/or co-founded several companies currently listed on the TSXV or the CSE. Brian currently serves as a Director, Corporate Secretary, and/or CFO of several TSX Venture Exchange or Canadian Securities Exchange listed companies including Silver Bullet Mines Corp., Searchlight Resources Inc., CBLT Inc., and Tempus Capital Inc.

Gregory Hall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Committee
  • Consultant of Golden Phoenix International Pty Ltd
Greg Hall is a geological consultant of Golden Phoenix International Pty Ltd. Greg was Chief Geologist for Placer Dome Group from 2000 to 2006. He managed exploration in Western Australia for Placer Dome from 1988 to 2000 and CSR Limited from 1984 to 1988. The discovery of Rio Tinto's Yandi iron ore mine and Gold Fields's Granny Smith gold mine in WA are highlights in his career. Greg graduated from University of New South Wales in 1973 with Bachelor of Applied Science (1st Class Honours).

John King Burns - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Burns has extensive experience in managing risk and financing resource projects in the exploration, development and production stages, in the Americas and across the globe. Previously, Mr. Burns served as a non-executive, independent director of China Gold International Resources (TSX, HKEX), the affiliate of China National Gold Group. He also previously served as Chairman of Athabasca Potash (TSX.V), as Chairman of Dolly Varden Silver (TSX.V), as a director of Corazon Gold (TSX.V), as Chairman of Titan Goldworx Resources (CNSX), and as Chairman of Northern Orion Explorations (TSX). Mr. Burns is former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Drexel Burnham Lambert Commodity Group in New York, London and Chicago; former Managing Director and Global Head of the Derivative Trading and Finance Group of Barclays Metals Group, Barclays Bank PLC in London; and former Managing Director of Frontier Risk Management LLC, a grains and livestock focused CTA, in Chicago. Mr. Burns serves as lead director and an audit committee member for a number of private venture focused companies. Mr. Burns was born and resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Laurence Stephenson P.GEO

Job Titles:
  • Director
Mr. Stephenson has been a Director of JAXON MINING INC., since November 2008. He has over 40 years' experience in the field of mineral exploration and in guiding new companies in the acquisition and utilization of capital. He was instrumental in starting Glencairn Exploration Ltd., a listed company and its subsidiary, Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. (formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange before its plan of arrangement with Goldcorp Inc.). Mr. Stephenson received his B.Sc. from Carlton University and his MBA from York University. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Ms. Melinda Hsu

Job Titles:
  • Director
Ms. Melinda Hsu has over 30 years of diversified experience in areas of accounting, finance, corporate development and administration. She has held senior management positions with various mining and oil & gas companies with both Canadian and international operations and has served as CFO and corporate secretary for various TSX and TSX Venture listed companies. Ms. Hsu is a member of Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia and Ontario and has a Master of Arts in Commerce from Renmin University of China.

Russell Mason

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Committee
  • Structural Geology Consultant
Russell Mason is a structural geology consultant employed by Tectonite Geology. He has worked primarily as a consultant both independently (2003-present) and for a consulting company (Fractal Graphics 1996 - 2003) with a period working as a research scientist for CSIRO (1994 -1996) and minor exploration roles and contract mapping projects (1984 - 1990). Russell's work is field based structural geology and is most commonly applied to gold and copper exploration and mining. Russell graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Science (1st class honours) and completed a PhD from Imperial College, London University in 1994.

Wenhong (Wilson) Jin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Committee
Wilson Jin has three decades of field exploration, acquisitions, financing and investment experience for precious and non-ferrous metals in Asia, Africa and in North America. He has served as Chief Geologist, VP of Acquisitions, President and CEO of Huakan International Mining Inc. Based in Vancouver since 2010, Mr. Jin led a successful exploration on the J&L Gold polymetallic deposit in BC. He also discovered a medium sized gold deposit and made significant achievements in the exploration of adjacent claims of Jinduicheng molybdenum porphyry deposit in Shaanxi province, China. Mr. Jin is CEO and President of Transcontinental Gold Corp., CEO and President of Wildsky Resources and serves as an independent director to two other publicly listed companies.