MANAGEMENT
Martin Kepman
Jay Richardson
Roger Dahn
Perry MacKinnon
Martin Kepman, CEO & Director
Martin Kepman and Associates Inc, founded in 1982, is a business development and management consulting firm owned and operated by its president Martin Kepman . Martin, in his 34 years of consulting experience, has consulted on a wide range of projects, in multiple industries ranging from software , softgoods, printing, food to mining. Martin is highly skilled at planning,organization as well as assisting Corporations in financing He has successfully implemented a variety of installations for a significant number of major corporations and because of his practical approach, has been recognized as an expert in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of Corporations for strategic business plans; recognized within various industries as a successful specialist in turnarounds.
Martin has brought innovative projects to fruition, while assembling key people to minimize risk thus resulting in maximizing return on investment.
Jay Richardson, Chief Financial Officer
James A. (Jay) Richardson is a Canadian Chartered Accountant, a Singapore Certified Public Accountant and a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of the United Kingdom. He has practiced as a Partner of Clarkson Gordon Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young, Canada and Singapore) and a Partner of KPMG (UK) prior to establishing his own practice as a company doctor in Toronto, Canada in 1993. Specializing in interim management in troubled situations, he has served as the CEO or Chairman of listed public companies on five occasions and in many other CFO and private company situations.
He has extensive public company governance experience from over a dozen Board memberships including recently having served as Interim Chairman of the Argus Corporation. In his very extensive charitable and community activities he is most commonly associated with the visual arts, having served among others as the Chairman of the Royal Canadian Academy Foundation. Jay will bring to the Company the marketing and financial expertise to help bring our projects to fruition.
(Jay Richardson is the President and CEO of EnerSpar Corp)
Roger Dahn, Chairman & Director
Mr. Dahn has over 30 years experience in the mining and exploration industry. His experience includes over 16 years with Noranda Inc. and Hemlo Gold Mines Inc., Exploration Manager-Eastern Canada for Battle Mountain Gold Company and Vice President-Exploration with Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc. and most recently Tri-Star Resources plc.
Mr. Dahn has been involved with a number of base metal and gold discoveries which advanced to development stage and production.
His extensive mineral exploration experience covers both Canadian and International settings. Mr. Dahn is a registered professional geologist and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Perry MacKinnon, Vice-President of Exploration
Perry MacKinnon, PGeo, graduated in 1982 from Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S. (BSc, geology), and is an accredited professional geologist with the respective professional associations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Mr. MacKinnon has over 30 years experience in the mining industry, having worked continent-wide on a variety of projects from the Alaskan Cordillera, the greenstone belts of Northern Manitoba and Quebec, and an array of mineralizing environments in Atlantic Canada, as well as porphyry-style projects in Mexico. He has worked as an independent consultant since 2005, with a significant focus on Canada’s east coast. Mr. MacKinnon is a registered professional geologist and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Board
Luisa Moreno
Robert Tjandra
Dr. Luisa Moreno, Ph.D., has over 12 years of experience in technical and economic research, with unparalleled expertise in strategic minerals and related processes. Dr. Moreno is currently Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tahuti Global. Prior to this, she spent 7 years as a Financial and Senior Equity Analyst at Canadian Financial Research and Investment Banking firms, including 4 years covering the specialized field of industrial minerals within the metals and mining sector of these firms. Dr. Moreno possesses strong insight into materials processing and metallurgy of industrial and precious metals and an astute understanding of supply and demand dynamics.
She has published a number of advanced technical reports on key strategic materials, and is a sought after consultant to numerous mining and processing companies and industrial end-users. Dr. Moreno is a frequent guest speaker on television and at international conferences, and is often quoted in national and international media and newspapers. Dr. Moreno is a Physics Engineer with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Mechanics from Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom. She now serves as CEO of Graphano Energy Ltd. (“GEL”), the significant, separately listed graphite recent (Sept. 2021) spin-out from MN.
Mr. Tjandra brings with him a unique blend of professional management, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills, and has over 25 years of combined experience, working, consulting, and developing businesses in construction, trading, oil and gas, fintech, and cleantech. He is passionate about the development of EV and energy storage, including sustainable mining development. Mr. Tjandra has served on various listed companies. He served as the President, Chief Operating Officer, and director of Canbud Distribution Corporation (CSE: CBDX). He currently serves as a Director of Florence Wealth Management Inc. (a registered Exempt Market Dealer in Canada), and as CEO and Chairman of Mineto Power Corp., a private company in EV materials and Tech space.
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