EMERGING GOLDFIELDS - Key Persons
Mining professional with over 45 years experience spanning coal, base and precious metals in underground and surface mines across three continents
Significant operational and executive experience, and has worked in Armenia since 2005
Over 30 years of mining experience in NIS countries with an emphasis in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and internationally in Mexico, Spain and Ghana
Founder of Bolnisi Gold, a gold producer with assets in Georgia and Mexico, Acquired by Coeur d'Alene Mines in 2007 for US$1.1 billion
Over 25 years experience in raising project finance, equity and debt for natural resource projects in the private and public markets
Extensive international experience in developing assets in Asia, Africa and South America
Over 35 years of international experience in exploring and discovering mineral deposits (Hunter Dickinson, Kinross Gold, BHP Minerals and founder and CEO of Eagle Mines Management)
Led teams to the grassroots discovery of mines in the western USA and Russia, as well as developing strategies that led to brownfield discoveries in western Canada and Southern Africa
Past president and board member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), past president of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and past president of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA)
Recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and the Daniel C. Jackling Award from SME for career achievements, two of the highest mining recognitions in the USA
Over a decade of experience in the capital markets, assisting in financings and M&A transactions worth over $1 billion in transaction value
Previously investment analyst with Salman Partners Inc. and subsequent experience in merchant banking, investment banking and portfolio management
Professional geologist with broad geological, geochemical and management skills in exploration methods and mining operations, with significant regional experience in Armenia