Management Team

Daniel F. Hachey , B.Sc., MBA President and CEO

• Strong Capital Markets background, having held senior investment banking positions with a number of firms in Toronto, New York, and Montreal

• Key involvement in notable financings in various industries including mining, oil & gas, forest products, manufacturing, and technology

• Active in area of mergers and acquisitions and other advisory work
• Former Board Director of several public (NASDAQ, AMEX, TSX, and TSX-V) and private companies
• MBA degree in Finance from McGill University
• B.Sc. degree from Concordia University
  
  

Khadija Abounaim
CFO & Corporate Secretary

• Ms. Abounaim is the former CFO of a group of publicly-traded junior mining companies including Everton Resources, Focus Metals Inc., and Adventure Gold. Khadija was the Company’s Controller for over 4 years.
• Previously held the position of Senior Financial Auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers International.
• Her experience also includes management positions at several companies in Canada and abroad including the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
• Khadija holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Diplôme national d’expertise comptable.
  

• He has over 20 years of experience in the Canadian and international mineral exploration and mining sectors, providing advice to major and junior exploration and mining companies and to several governments.
• He has worked in 20 countries on a variety of base and precious metal deposits types, including volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS), porphyry copper-gold, magmatic nickel-copper sulphide, and magmatic platinum group element deposits.
  
•  He has authored or co-authored 40 journal papers, as well as over 60 qualifying reports, abstracts, and maps on metallic mineral deposits and related topics. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Windsor and Laurentian University in Canada.
  

Marc -André Bernier , P.Geo.
Senior Technical Adviser and Director

• Senior geoscientist with the James Bay Joint Action Mining Committee (TJCM) of Chibougamau and its wholly-owned applied research facility, the Centre d'Étude Appliqué du Quaternaire (2003-2011)
•  TJCM senior mining industry adviser to Makivik Corp. (2009-2011)
• Senior technical adviser and QP, Focus Metals Inc. (2011)
• Past President and CEO of Majescor Resources Inc. (2006-2009)
• Consulting Quaternary geoscientist and exploration geochemist, Ontario, Nunavut, and Central Africa (2001-2003)
• Managed Asquith Resources' Central African Republic gold exploration program from 1996 through to the successful takeover by Axmin Inc. in 2000
• Senior Quaternary geoscientist on regional drift-based surveys (Ontario Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Canada; Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources (1985-1996)
• B.Sc.H. (University of Ottawa) and M.Sc. (McGill) degrees focusing on applied Quaternary geology and exploration geochemistry
• P.Geo (Québec and Ontario)