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This list showcases the top British Columbia based Vice President operating in the Mining space. If you think a Vice President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
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Lindsay A Hall
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Hecla Mining Company
Lindsay A. Hall was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective July 18, 2016. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Hall was Chief Financial Officer for Goldcorp Inc. from April 2006 to March 2016 and also Executive Vice President from March 2006 to March 2016. Mr. Hall served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Placer Dome from November 2005 to February 2016. He served as Chief Financial Officer and Group Vice President at Duke Energy Corporation from January 2004 to October 2005 and also served as Vice President and Treasurer from June 2015 to October 2006. He was also Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Duke Energy Americas, of Duke Energy Corporation, from January 2005 to October 2005. Prior to that, from 1985 to December 2013, Mr. Hall held various positions with Duke Energy with companies that later became part of Canada’s Westcoast Energy.
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About Hecla Mining Company: Hecla Mining Company is the largest primary silver producer.
D. James Slattery
Senior Vice President and CFO of Capstone Mining Corp
Jim Slattery is a Canadian Chartered Accountant with over 34 years of financial and executive management experience. Prior to Capstone, Jim spent eight years as the CFO of Inmet Mining Corporation, a Canadian-based global copper and zinc producer. Before joining Inmet, Jim held various senior management roles, including Vice President and CFO for Wescast Industries, a publicly traded automotive parts supplier, and CFO for Canadian General Tower Ltd., a privately owned manufacturing business. He has broad management and corporate finance experience, including jointly developing and executing Inmet’s integrated growth strategy and leading financing activities for mine development projects totalling over $5 billion. Jim started his career with Ernst & Young, progressing through a number of roles in Canada and Europe from 1981 to 1997.
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About Capstone Mining Corp: Capstone is a Canadian base metals mining company, with three producing copper mines: Pinto Valley in the US.
Mark Santarossa
Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Corporate Development of GT Gold
BCom, UofT, CPA, CA, MBA – Schulich. Mr. Santarossa is a financial and capital markets professional with over 20 years of experience, predominantly in the mining sector. Most recently he was Director at Origin Merchant Partners, an independent M&A advisory firm. His experience also includes mining institutional equity sales at PI Financial, Macquarie Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets and Haywood Securities, and mining equity research at National Bank Financial. Prior to entering the capital markets sector, Mr. Santarossa worked at PwC LLP and KPMG LLP.
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About GT Gold: GT Gold Corp. is a new company focused on exploring for gold in the geologically fertile terrain of British Columbia’s Golden Triangle.
Charles Greig
Vice President, Exploration of GT Gold
With more than 35 years in the sector, Mr. Greig is among the most experienced geologists in B.C., having worked on projects such as Brucejack Lake (Pretivm), Red Mountain (Lac Minerals, IDM), Silbak Premier (Westmin, Ascot), IKE (HDI-Amarc), and abroad on projects such as La India in Mexico (Grayd, Agnico Eagle) and Bisha in Eritrea (Nevsun).
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About GT Gold: GT Gold Corp. is a new company focused on exploring for gold in the geologically fertile terrain of British Columbia’s Golden Triangle.
Tim Fletcher
Vice President of Reservoir Minerals
Tim has over 30 years of experience in international exploration with emphasis on exploration for porphyry and epithermal copper-gold deposits. Tim recently focused on the Tethyan Belt for Barrick Gold, and prior to that worked in South America with Magma Copper, Homestake Mining and Mount Isa Mines. Tim joined Reservoir in 2013 as a consultant. Tim has a Ph.D from Aberdeen University and is a Chartered Engineer through the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
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About Reservoir Minerals: Reservoir Minerals is a mineral exploration company.
Chris MacIntyre
Vice President of Reservoir Minerals
Mr. MacIntyre currently serves as Vice President Corporate Development. Mr. MacIntyre also presently serves as Vice-President of Corporate Development of Lara Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: LRA), whereby Mr. MacIntyre’s primary responsibilities include corporate and project finance, strategic development, and corporate communications. His promotion from Manager of Corporate Development to Vice-President of Reservoir Capital and Lara Exploration Ltd. followed his role of Manager, Corporate Development with Universal Power Corp. (TSXV:UNX) from October 2008 until March 2010. Mr. MacIntyre holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from the Queen’s School of Business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
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About Reservoir Minerals: Reservoir Minerals is a mineral exploration company.
Ed Meka
Executive Vice President of Ausenco
Ed has more than 29 years’ experience in senior management and operational roles in the global mining and minerals processing industry, and is one of Ausenco’s longest-serving executives. Ed is currently responsible for leading the pursuit of strategic opportunities, major projects and key client relationships across the organisation. Prior to this, Ed was accountable for all of Ausenco’s Americas operation, realising approximately 60% of the company’s revenue base through the delivery of consulting, engineering and project services across the resources and energy sectors. His previous roles within Ausenco have included running the Environment & Sustainability and Process Infrastructure business lines, as well as project delivery, study management and business development. Ed’s previous employers have included Mt Isa Mines Limited, BHP Ok Tedi (for BHP Engineering Limited), Pancontinental Mining Limited and BHP Coal.
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About Ausenco: We set high global standards for leading edge engineering and project management services in the resources and energy sectors.
Timothy C. Watson
Senior Vice President, Project Development of Teck
Tim Watson was appointed Senior Vice President, Project Development of Teck in August 2007. Prior to joining Teck, Mr. Watson served as the Chief Operating Officer, Power and Process Division with AMEC. He worked with the company in various other capacities during his tenure from 1999 to 2007. His career in the engineering and construction side of the mining business spans over 30 years. Mr. Watson holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He is currently a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC.
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About Teck: Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
Dale E. Andres
Senior Vice President of Teck
Dale Andres was appointed Senior Vice President, Copper in June 2013. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President, Copper Strategy and North American Operations. Mr. Andres has over 22 years of progressive operating, project and management experience in base metal and gold mines in both North and South America, and Australia. He joined Teck in August 1995 and has held a number of positions in the company, including Vice President, International Mining and General Manager, Underground Operations. Mr. Andres holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University. He is currently a member of the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of B.C. and the Canadian Institute of Mining.
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About Teck: Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
Marcia M. Smith
Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs of Teck
Marcia Smith was appointed Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs of Teck in January 2012. She joined Teck in 2010 as Vice President, Corporate Affairs. Prior to joining Teck, Ms. Smith was Managing Partner for National Public Relations in British Columbia and its predecessor company, Labrador Communications, from 1993 to 2010. Ms. Smith has also worked for the Governments of Ontario and British Columbia as an advisor to cabinet ministers in a variety of portfolios. Ms. Smith holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Political Science from Laurentian University.
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About Teck: Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
Alex Christopher
Vice President, Exploration of Teck
Alex Christopher joined Teck’s Exploration Group in 1984 and was appointed Vice President, Exploration in July 2012. He has held a number of positions in the company, including most recently that of General Manager, New Ventures within Teck’s Corporate Development Group. Mr. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Geology from McMaster University and an Environmental Biology Technology Diploma from Canadore College. He is currently a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists B.C. and the Association of Mineral Exploration B.C. where he was previously a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Christopher is on the Board of Directors of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and is a Director of Horizonte Minerals Plc.
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About Teck: Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
Dean Winsor
Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer of Teck
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About Teck: Teck is a diversified resource company with business units focused on copper, steelmaking coal, zinc and energy.
Rhylin Bailie
Vice President Investor Relations of Equinox Gold
Rhylin Bailie brings a diverse skill set and more than 17 years of mining experience to her position with Eagle Hill. Rhylin manages the Communications and Investor Relations programs for a number of publicly listed companies as an employee of J Proust & Associates, a public company management and venture capital company. Currently she is Vice President, Communications & Investor Relations for Southern Arc Minerals, a gold exploration company, and for New Zealand Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company. Before joining J. Proust & Associates, Rhylin was Director Communications & Investor Relations from 2006 to 2011 for NovaGold Resources, a TSX and NYSE-AMEX listed precious metals company. From 1995 to 2006 Rhylin held various positions in the Treasury group at Placer Dome. Rhylin is a graduate of University of Waterloo, Ontario, where she completed a Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree with a double major in Resource Studies and Biology and a minor in English. Ms. Bailie used her environmental background to introduce a number of initiatives at NovaGold, including a head office health and safety program and comprehensive sustainability reporting. She is a Board member of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute, British Columbia Chapter.
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About CarbonOne Technologies, Eagle Hill Exploration, Equinox Gold, Sandspring Resources, Southern Arc Minerals: Equinox Gold is a multi-asset mining company.
Curt Bernardi
Senior Vice President, Legal & Corporate Secretary of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Bernardi joined the Company in 2008 and has been practicing law since his call to the British Columbia bar in 1994. He worked for the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law until leaving to join Westcoast Energy in 1998. Following the acquisition of Westcoast Energy by Duke Energy in 2002. Bernardi continued to work for Duke Energy Gas Transmission as in-house legal counsel, working primarily on reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate/commercial work. In 2005, Bernardi joined Union Gas as their Director, Legal Affairs and was responsible for legal matters affecting Union Gas. He obtained his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and his Bachelor of Law from the University of Toronto.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Vincent Lau
Vice President, Finance of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Vincent Lau is a Vice President, Finance at Silver Wheaton.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Haytham Hodaly
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Hodaly joined Silver Wheaton in 2012, bringing with him over 16 years of experience in the North American securities industry, most recently as Director and Mining Analyst, Global Mining Research, at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, he was responsible for providing, to a wide range of institutional clients around the globe, up-to-date and insightful research coverage of North American-listed precious metals companies. Prior to this, Hodaly held the position of Co-Director of Research and Senior Mining Analyst at Salman Partners Inc., in addition to holding the titles of Vice President and Director of the firm. During his tenure, he helped to establish Salman Partners Inc. as a leading independent, resource-focused and research-driven investment dealer. Hodaly is an engineer with a B.A.Sc. in Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering and a Masters of Engineering, specializing in Mineral Economics.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Neil Burns
Vice President, Technical Services of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Neil Burns is a Vice President, Technical Services at Silver Wheaton.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Ryan Ulansky
Vice President, Engineering of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Ryan Ulansky is a Director of Engineering at Silver Wheaton.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Bettina Charpentier
Vice President, Tax of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Bettina Charpentier is a Vice President, Tax at Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Jamie Beirnes
Vice President, Controller of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp
Jamie Beirnes is a Vice President, Controller at Silver Wheaton.
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About Wheaton Precious Metals Corp: Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious metals streaming company dealing with the purchase of precious metals or cobalt production from mines.
Jonathan Gilligan
Vice President of Technical & Project Development of SSR Mining
Dr. Gilligan is our Vice President, Technical and Project Development and has 30 years’ experience in the mining industry. Prior to joining Silver Standard, Dr. Gilligan was Director and Principal Consultant of J M Gilligan Consulting Pty, Ltd. in Australia, providing strategic and technical mining-related professional services to the mining industry in the fields of exploration, resource development, capital project studies and mine operations evaluation. Previous to this, Dr. Gilligan held progressively senior roles with BHP Billiton including Vice President – Special Projects, Project Director – Mine Autonomy Project, Deputy Project Director – Olympic Dam Expansion, Manager Operations – Escondida Norte and Manager Geology – Escondida. Dr. Gilligan obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Geology from the University College London and his Ph.D. in Economic Geology from Southampton University.
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About SSR Mining: SSR Mining Inc. is a Vancouver-based mining company focused on the operation, development, exploration of precious metal projects.
Ken Engquist
Vice President, Project Development and Engineering of Pilot Gold
Mr. Engquist brings over 20 years of engineering and project leadership experience to his role at Pilot Gold, where he is primarily responsible for advancing the Company’s portfolio of projects from advanced exploration through to feasibility and development stages. Prior to joining Pilot, he was with AngloGold Ashanti as Manager, Projects Group for the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine, where he managed the mine life extension program. Prior to that, he spent over seven years with Rio Tinto in various project leadership roles, and was responsible for the development of best practices for improving capital effectiveness and project execution across Rio Tinto’s copper projects globally. In his last role at Rio Tinto, Mr. Engquist led the infrastructure engineering for the underground portion of the multi-billion dollar Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia. Mr. Engquist has worked in senior project leadership roles for a variety of other mining and project organizations, including Kennecott Utah Copper. He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from Michigan Technological University and is registered Project Management Professional.
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About Pilot Gold: Pilot Gold is led by the same management and technical teams that built Fronteer Gold, a strong growth company.
Mike Nielsen
Senior Vice President of Macro Industries
Mr. Nielsen has been the Senior Vice-President of Macro Industries and the Director of Macro Enterprises since January, 2006. He has more than 40 years of experience in capital project construction for the natural gas industry. Mr. Nielsen has worked as a construction manager and project coordinator for Westcoast Energy and Duke Energy Gas Transmission. He has also been involved in managing capital expansion projects of up to $300 million in value.
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About Macro Industries: Macro is an oil and gas industry specialist in pipeline and facility construction.
David Dreisinger
Vice President of Metallurgy of TriMetals Mining
Dr. Dreisinger has been working as a metallurgical consultant with the Company since May, 2006. In addition, he currently holds the position of Professor and Chairholder of the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Dreisinger, with co-workers, has been actively involved in developing and commercializing hydrometallurgical technology such as the Mt. Gordon and Sepon copper processes in Australia and Laos. Through the Industrial Research Chair in Hydrometallurgy, Dr. Dreisinger is engaged in research and in the teaching technical short courses to the global metallurgical industry. David is a director of PolyMet Mining Corp. and International Nickel Ventures Corporation.
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About TriMetals Mining: TriMetals Mining Inc. is a mining company that focuses on the exploration and development of properties in North America and South America.
Ryan King
Vice President Corporate Development of Calibre Mining Corp
Mr. King has seven years experience in the resource sector. Prior to joining Calibre Mining Corp. he was responsible for institutional and retail marketing and investor communications with several resources companies including Terrane Metals Corp. 2010 Terrane Metals was acquired by Thompson Creek Mining for +$700M and the company is currently in construction of the Mt. Milligan copper gold deposit in central British Columbia. Mr. King is currently on the board of directors of Edgewater Exploration Ltd. and Pinecrest Resources was a member of the board of Sandwell Mining which executed a reverse takeover with MBAC Fertilizer a TSX listed company with advanced stage phosphate and potash projects in Brazil.
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About Calibre Mining Corp, Edgewater Exploration, Newcore Gold: Calibre Mining Corp (CXB) is a Mining and Metals company.
Gordon Neal
Vice President, Corporate Development of Silvercorp Metals
Gordon Neal has more than 30 years experience in governance, corporate finance and investor relations. He founded Neal McInerney Investor Relations in 1991. Through marketing more than $4 billion in debt and equity financings, the company grew to be the second largest full service Investor Relations firm in Canada with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles. Clients included; BCE, Nortel, Bell Canada International, Bell Mobility, Clearnet, Intrawest, Canaccord Capital, BMO Nesbitt Burns, and Blackberry (RIM). Gordon Neal was VP Corporate Development at MAG Silver Corp. where he was the key personnel is providing capital market strategies and solutions to the board. He has served on the board of Falco Resources, Balmoral Resources, Americas Petrogas, Rockgate Capital, and Xiana Mining. He has raised more than $500mn for resources companies since 2004. Gordon Neal graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. 1977.
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About Silvercorp Metals: A China focused precious metals company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of silver containing properties.
James Miller
Vice President, Corporate Development & Procurement of Tree Island Steel
Mr. Miller is responsible for capturing and leading corporate strategic planning and procurement initiatives, inventory management processes, major supplier contract management and the China Operations for Tree Island Steel Ltd.. Mr. Miller previously served as Director of Strategic Business Investments with VanCity Group, Canada’s largest credit union. Mr. Miller has an Masters in Business Administration in Finance from Queens University.
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About Tree Island Steel: Tree Island Steel has grown to largest producers and global supplier of premium steel wire and wire products.
Remy Stachowiak
Vice President, Sales & Marketing of Tree Island Steel
Mr. Stachowiak leads the Sales, Marketing and Customer Service for Tree Island Steel Ltd. Along with vast experience within sales and marketing, Mr. Stachowiak holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University. He most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer and President of STT Stanco (Division of Semcan Inc.), a company that provides integrated chemical handling systems for Air and Water pollution control as well as liquid storage.
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About Tree Island Steel: Tree Island Steel has grown to largest producers and global supplier of premium steel wire and wire products.
Trevor Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Finance & Corporate Secretary of Canadian Zinc Corporation
Mr. Cunningham is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 15 years of senior management experience in the mining, forestry, manufacturing and public utilities sectors. He has been responsible for strategic planning initiatives, operations and all aspects of corporate and financial management and administration, with extensive experience in public company regulatory filings and compliance in Canada and the United States. As a financial executive, Mr. Cunningham brings a wide variety of experience in the mining industry including extensive responsibility for budgeting, cost management, corporate governance, government and securities compliance, taxation, as well as enterprise resource planning and information systems implementation.
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About Canadian Zinc Corporation: Canadian Zinc Corporation is a development stage company.
Robert Cinits
Vice President, Corporate Development of Entrée Gold
Mr. Cinits joined Entrée in July 2011 and was appointed Vice President, Corporate Development in January 2014. Mr. Cinits has worked in the mineral exploration industry for the past 28 years and has held a variety of positions with junior mining companies and consulting groups. Most recently, between 2007 and 2011, Mr. Cinits was the COO of MinCore Inc., a private Toronto-based exploration company, and prior to this position, he worked for AMEC, as a Principal Geologist and Head of the Mining/Geology Group for the Lima, Peru office between 2003 and 2007. Mr. Cinits holds a B.Sc. in geology from the University of Toronto and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C.
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About Entrée Gold: Entrée Gold Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration company engaged in the discovery and development of premium copper and gold prospects.
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