AMERICAN POTASH - Key Persons
Mr. Besserer has more than two decades of mineral exploration experience working in over 50 countries, including across much of North America and often leading projects with annual exploration budgets exceeding US$20 million. Mr. Besserer was previously Vice-President and Partner at APEX Geoscience Ltd., a consulting firm with offices in Canada, South America and Australia. In addition, Mr. Besserer previously served as a director of Brilliant Mining, Niblack Resources, Sentosa Mining and as the VP Exploration for various junior mining companies. He is a Professional Geologist and a "Qualified Person" as defined in National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101").
In his long career, John has played a pivotal role in many successful exploration/ development projects in Canada and internationally.
Jonathan George, BSc. Geology, is a geologist and entrepreneur, and has been active in all aspects of mineral exploration, development and resource capital markets for over 35 years, with projects throughout the world.
He has held senior positions with numerous publicly traded resource companies over the years, most notably as the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Creston Moly Corp. where he oversaw the advancement of Mexico's largest molybdenum deposit to the Prefeasibility stage in under 2 years, resulting in a valuation at the time of $560 million. Creston merged with Mercator Minerals in a transaction valued at $178 million.
Mr. Holmes began his legal career in 1982 and spent ten years in a predominantly corporate and securities practice, but which also included a full complement of commercial, real estate, tax technology and intellectual property matters and often had international issues and elements. This resulted in exposure to and an understanding of a broad range of businesses and transactions, including natural resources (mining, oil and gas) companies.
Since 1991, Mr. Holmes has been acting as in-house counsel and senior management of, or consulting to, companies, public and private, involved in businesses ranging from natural resource exploration, franchising, television production and gaming.
Dr. Ausburn is a senior geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mineral exploration/mining industry, with three years experience as a consulting hydrogeologist, leading to a focus on property acquisition with equity positions in both private and public companies. He has extensive field and management experience in the minerals business in a wide variety of mineral deposits, rock types and geologic terrains.
He has worked and managed exploration programs in several countries including the Western USA, Alaska, Mexico, Colombia, SW Mainland China and Malaysia and has also consulted for several environmental consulting companies in the highly competitive and regulatory-complex Los Angeles-Orange County areas of Southern California.