Management & Directors

John Timmons – Chief Executive Officer:

Mr. Timmons is an experienced mineral exploration executive with over 20 years of development stage and operational experience. Mr. Timmons spent 16 years with Guyana Goldfields and was instrumental in the development of the company from exploration to production. More recently, Mr. Timmons was President/CEO of Copper Road Resources Inc. from 2020-2024.

Daniel Noone (B.Sc. Geology, MBA) – Chairman
Mr. Noone has more than 30 years of international mineral exploration and development experience ranging from implementing grass roots programs through to feasibility studies. He is currently the VP Exploration and Director of G2 Goldfields Inc. Prior to this he was the VP of Peruvian Operations for Aquiline Resources Inc., which was acquired by Pan American Silver Corp. in January 2010. Mr. Noone has held various senior geologist roles managing projects in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. He holds a degree in geology from Ballarat University and an MBA from Melbourne University.

Yajian Wang ( CPA/CMA, MBA, & MSci.) – CFO

Ms.Wang holds a degree of Master of Applied Science, enterprise systems engineering, from the University of Waterloo; and a degree of Master of Business Administration, Financial and Accounting; from Wilfrid Laurier University; Waterloo, Canada. She has 25 years of financial and accounting experience.

Harry Burgess (P.Eng) – Director
Mr. Burgess is a mining engineer and a co-founder of Micon International Limited. He now serves as an Associate Consultant, on a part time basis to Micon. Mr. Burgess has B. Sc. degrees in both Mechanical and Mining Engineering. Mr. Burgess has been engaged in consulting since 1980. His prior operating experience includes senior positions in the copper industry of Zambia and gold mining in South Africa. In Zambia, Mr. Burgess held management positions with both technical and production responsibility. In South Africa, he was responsible for the introduction of mechanized mining systems to the gold mines of Anglo-American Corporation in the Orange Free State. Mr. Burgess has particular experience in the monitoring to completion of mining projects for banks and financial institutions. He is a member of public company boards and also technical advisory committees.

Bruce E. Rosenberg ( LL.B) – Director
Mr. Rosenberg has been practicing law in Ontario since 1980. He has extensive experience as a corporate lawyer and commercial litigator. Mr. Rosenberg has acted as legal counsel for several TSX listed junior mining companies and serves on the Board of Directors of three Canadian charitable foundations.

Peter Walsh (MBA) – Director
Mr. Walsh has worked in senior ministerial advisory roles at both the Australian Federal and State levels as well as in the commercial sector. In particular, Peter was instrumental in the government consideration and delivery of major infrastructure projects including: the Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail project, the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing and the Roads to Recovery Program. Mr. Walsh serves on the GPM Board in moving the project forward with the Traditional Land Owners and the Northern Land Council.

Kent Balas – Exploration Manager:

Mr. Balas is an Australian exploration geologist graduating from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science in 2010. Since then, Kent has worked in Australia, Africa, North America and Central Asia gaining experience in Coal Seam Gas, Iron Ore, Mineral Sands, Gold and Base Metals. Kent moved to Kazakhstan in 2013 and was the first boots on the ground for Iluka Resouces in Kazakhstan that led to Iluka gaining tenure over ~60,000 sq km in North Kazakhstan. Subsequent to this Kent was co-founder and Chief Geologist of Aurora Minerals Group in Kazakhstan. Aurora Minerals Group is a full-service consultancy firm was the agent of SkyTEM in the former Soviet Union. In 2017 Kent returned to Australia and founded Gippsland Prospecting which was sold in a cash and share transaction to Battery Minerals (ASX:BAT) in 2020.