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Board of Directors
Management
Board of Directors
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Stephen J. Kay
President,
Chief Executive Officer
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Mr. Kay has been President, CEO and a Director of the Corporation since its inception in 1993. He is a geologist with over 38 years of gold exploration experience in Europe, South Africa, South America and the United States. From 1985 to 1993, he was founder and President of GD Resources Inc., a successful smelter of precious metal by-products from U.S. gold mines. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Kay worked with Amselco Exploration (BP Minerals) where he was involved in the discoveries of the Colosseum and Yellow Aster gold mines, both in California. During his 10 years with Gold Fields Mining Corporation until 1983, he was responsible for the initial drilling of the three-million ounce Mesquite gold mine in California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom. Mr. Kay is also a director of New Dimension Resources and Delta Mining and Exploration Corp.
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Rod C. McKeen
Non Executive Director and Corporate Secretary
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Mr. McKeen is a lawyer and senior partner with Axium Law Corporation in Vancouver, Canada since January 2004. Mr. McKeen has more than 25 years experience in all facets of securities and corporate law pertaining to the mining and exploration industry. Prior to forming Axium Law Corporation, Mr. McKeen was a partner in the law firm of Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP from April 2000 to December 2003 and a partner with the law firm Montpellier McKeen Varabioff Talbot and Guiffre from July 1996 to March 2000. Mr. McKeen’s practice encompasses emerging to mid-size mineral resource companies with projects and operations around the world and involves dealing with stock exchanges and mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions on a similarly global basis. He is also Secretary and a co-director with Stephen Kay of Ventura Gold Corporation.
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Jorge Paz Durini
Non Executive Director
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Dr. Paz is a partner with Paz and Horowitz Cia. (attorneys) and has practiced in the mineral law field since 1983. Dr. Paz has been extensively involved in advising companies on mineral exploration and development in Ecuador and was the Subsecretary of Mines of Ecuador from 1992 to 1993 and legal attorney of the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mines. He also helped draft the mining law of Ecuador from 1989 to 1990 and is currently a consultant to the World Bank, with responsibilities that included drafting the new mining law for Argentina. He is also a consultant to the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) with respect to legal aspects of the mining sector. Dr. Paz earned a doctoral degree in law from Catholic University of Ecuador and received an LL.M degree (Fulbright Scholar) from Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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Gabriel Bianchi
Non Executive Director
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Mr. Bianchi is the Founding Partner of Bianchi & Partner AG, a private Swiss asset management company based in Zurich since 1997. He is a graduate of the Business and Economic School, AKAD, as well as the Swiss Banking School, both in Zurich. He previously worked in private banking with BSI-Banca della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland and England. Prior to that, Mr. Bianchi worked as a Manager with UBS in Zurich for over 12 years.
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Michael Smith
Non Executive Lead
Director and Chairman
of the Audit Committee
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Mr. Smith, a graduate in economics and mathematics from Queens University, Ontario, Canada, has been a Chartered Accountant since 1971 and retired as partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004 after 37 years of service, where he was principally involved in the precious and base metal mining industry. Currently he serves as the director and officer of several private institutions.
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Roberto Baquerizo
Non Executive Director
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Mr. Baquerizo is the Managing Director at ProVentures Inc, overseeing the Latin American region. He also serves as the President of Mission Hills Holdings, a financial advisory and investment firm specializing in Latin American clients. His educational qualification includes a Master’s Degree in public administration from Columbia University and a Master’s Degree in education from Antioch University. He is also a graduate of Catholic University in Washington, DC. Mr. Baquerizo was the head of the Ecuadorian Central Bank from 1992 to 1993 and has also spent 15 years of his career in executive-level positions within the Noboa Group in Ecuador.
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John W. W. Hick
Non Executive Director
and Chairman of the
Compensation Committee
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Mr. Hick has a law degree and has been President and CEO of John W. W. Hick Consultants, Inc., a private consulting firm, since 1997. He has over 30 years of executive management experience in the mining industry and has been a director and/or executive officer of numerous mining companies, including Dome Mines, Inc. (1981-87), Placer-Dome, Inc. (1987-90), Rayrock Yellowknife Resources, Inc. (1990-93), TVX Gold, Inc. (1993-97) and Rio Narcea Gold Mines, Ltd. (1997-2006). Prior to 2009 Mr. Hick served as Chairman and a director of Silver Eagle Mines, Inc. From October 2009 to September 2010, Mr. Hick was President, CEO and a director of Medoro Resources Ltd. Mr. Hick earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and an LLB degree from the University of Ottawa.
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Management
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Stephen J. Kay
President,
Chief Executive Officer
and Executive Director
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Mr. Kay has been President, CEO and a Director of the Corporation since its inception in 1993. He is a geologist with over 38 years of gold exploration experience in Europe, South Africa, South America and the United States. From 1985 to 1993, he was founder and President of GD Resources Inc., a successful smelter of precious metal by-products from U.S. gold mines. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Kay worked with Amselco Exploration (BP Minerals) where he was involved in the discoveries of the Colosseum and Yellow Aster gold mines, both in California. During his 10 years with Gold Fields Mining Corporation until 1983, he was responsible for the initial drilling of the three-million ounce Mesquite gold mine in California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom. Mr. Kay is also a director of New Dimension Resources and Delta Mining and Exploration Corp.
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Scott M. Brunsdon
Chief Financial Officer
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Mr. Brunsdon is Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation and brings to the Company over 25 years of financial and management experience in the mining sector with both junior and major companies, including 17 years with Placer Dome in the United States and Canada. He has also held senior management positions with Dayton Mining, Hillsborough Resources and Revett Minerals.
Most recently he was a financial advisor to the CFO for Timmins Gold assisting the company to enhance its internal and public reporting functions as it transitioned to an operating company from a pure exploration company. His extensive experience ranges from directing all financial aspects of mining and exploration activities to corporate development, corporate administration and mergers-and-acquisitions (“M&A”) activities.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Economics) from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and an MBA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Nick Appleyard
Vice President,
Corporate Development
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Mr. Appleyard is Vice President, Corporate Development for IMZ. Except for a short period, he has worked with IMZ since1995. Prior to his recent appointment as VP Corporate Development, he was responsible for the technical management of all IMZ exploration and development projects in Ecuador and Peru, together with playing a key role in identifying and evaluating potential new corporate acquisitions for IMZ. He graduated from Curtin University in Perth, Australia with a B.Sc. (Geology) in 1991 and has worked predominantly in gold exploration, development and mining projects in Australia, South America and East Africa. With his involvement in various precious metal projects ranging from exploration through to development, construction and operation, he has developed specialized skills in marrying resource and reserve estimation techniques with project management and economic evaluation requirements.
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Paul Durham
Vice President,
Corporate Relations
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Mr. Durham has been employed for the past 30 years in the Financial Services Industry, in both institutional equity sales and research, specializing in the Natural Resources Sector and has spent the past 15 years based in New York working with institutional clients in the US and Canada. Most recently he was Senior Vice President – Global Mining and Metals for Auerbach Grayson, based in New York and his extensive experience includes 10 years with HSBC in New York and 13 years with Scotia Bank, based in New York and London. His client base included the major specialist resource funds, together with emerging market and hedge funds and some of the larger generalist funds involved in the mining sector.
Born in the UK and a geologist by training, Mr. Durham spent five years working in the South African gold and base metal mines with Gold Fields. He graduated in 1974 from University College Cardiff in Wales with a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Mineral Exploitation and in 1980 obtained a Masters degree in Management Studies from Durham University Business School in England.
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Alan F. Matthews
Vice President,
Special Projects
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Mr. Matthews, a graduate from the Camborne School of Mines and a Chartered Engineer, has extensive experience of over 35 years in mining and exploration in the minerals industry, specializing in gold, copper and industrial minerals. Mr. Matthews started his career in South Africa with Anglo American Corporation and for the first 10 years of his career was closely involved with producing mines in various countries. Since then he has been involved with the start-up and commissioning of mines in Scotland (Aberdeen Barytes), Papua New Guinea (Ok Tedi), the United States (various SX-EW copper operations) and Portugal (Jales gold deposit). He is a director of Redzone Resources, Ltd. and a member of the Institute of Directors (UK).
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Mark Cannuli
Exploration Manager,
South America and
United States
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Mr. Cannuli is a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. Most recently, he was a consultant to International Minerals, focused on epithermal gold/silver exploration. Prior to joining International Minerals, he worked in a variety of exploration management roles with mining companies including Cominco Peru and Placer Dome. Mr. Cannuli holds a Bachelor’s Degree in geology and a Master’s Degree in mineral exploration, both awarded by McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Noe Vilcas
General Manager, Peru
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Mr. Vilcas is a geologist who worked previously for Echo Bay Mines and several Canadian junior mining companies operating in South America. More recently he was “Business Development Manager for Latin America North” for the well-known analytical laboratory ALS Peru S.A, based in Lima, Peru. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in geology from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and he is fluent in English.
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Hernan Moreno
General Manager, Ecuador
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Mr. Moreno has been involved in finance and administration for more than 20 years, with experience in property acquisition, valuation, and restructuring and establishment of companies. Prior to joining International Minerals, Mr. Moreno was in management positions in the industrial and service sectors in Ecuador. Mr. Moreno has been part of the Corporation since it entered Ecuador in 1993, serving in various management positions with wide ranging duties, including overseeing government and regulatory matters, labor and community relations. Mr. Moreno holds a degree in finance and administration, an MBA Degree and is an Authorized Accountant (Ecuadorian equivalent to a Certified Public Accountant designation). He is currently studying for a law degree and is fluent in English.
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