Management & Board of Directors

Gregory Beischer, B.Sc., CPG
President & CEO, Director
Mr. Beischer is a seasoned explorationist with a solid track record of success, previously with Inco Ltd., and the Bristol Bay Native Corporation.  He is a geologist and mining engineering technologist having graduated from Laurentian University (1987), Sudbury, Ontario, and the Haileybury School of Mines (1981), Haileybury, Ontario.   Mr. Beischer is a certified professional geologist (#10505) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists. Mr. Beischer is currently the President of the Alaska Miner’s Association, and serves on the Alaska Minerals Commission.

Philip St. George, B.S (Geol.)
VP of Exploration
Philip St. George obtained his bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Idaho. He is an exploration geologist with some significant discoveries to his credit.  Mr. St. George was the first to recognize the porphyry mineralization at the Pebble deposit in Alaska, and led the Cominco team that drilled out the initial 500 million tons of gold-copper-molybdenum mineralization.  As the Vice-President of Exploration for Novagold Resources (1998 - 2003), Mr. St. George was instrumental in building that company's portfolio of projects.

Michael Chen, CPA, MBA
CFO
Mr. Chen is a proven finance executive with substantial hands-on experience in financial management and business leadership.  He is a United States Chartered Public Accountant with a Masters in business administration, and is the principal of his own firm, DoubleOcean Financial Group.  Mr. Chen has extensive and progressive experience in three Fortune 500 companies and is currently CFO of other TSX Venture Exchange companies including Commander Resources, Magnum Resources and OpenEC Technologies.  

Janice Davies
Corporate Secretary
Ms. Davies is a highly experienced corporate secretary, having worked in office administration for the past 29 years.  She obtained a diploma from the Sir George Williams University in Quebec as a business stenographer in 1974.  She has extensive experience with exploration companies, and brings a broad knowledge of the public company mining sector, as well as strong office management skills and excellent corporate communications.  Ms. Davies is a self-employed consultant and acts as an officer of several publicly traded companies listed on the Exchange.

Darryl Cardey, CA
Director
Mr. Cardey obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990. Mr. Cardey has served as an officer and/or director of several publicly traded companies, and is the principal of Cardey Management Corp., a private British Columbia venture capital firm.

Charles C. Hawley, B.A., Ph.D.
Director
Dr. Hawley graduated from Hanover College, Indiana, with a B.A. in geology in 1951 and joined the U.S. Geological Survey in 1952 after graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. He earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado in 1963. Hawley worked for the Geological Survey until 1968. During his Survey years he specialized in uranium, precious metals, and beryllium primarily in the Rocky Mountain states. Since 1969, he has worked in the exploration industry as a field geologist, consultant and executive officer of junior mining companies, mainly in Alaska. Hawley has been instrumental in developing coal resources in the Wishbone, Beluga, and Nenana fields and precious metals and copper in the Alaska Range, Seward Peninsula, and Brooks Range.

In addition to his field studies Hawley served as Executive Director of the Alaska Miners Association from 1976-1979 and on the National Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from 1989-1992 where he chaired the Mining Law Task Force. He is a member of SME and Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. Hawley is registered as a geologist in the State of Oregon and is a Certified Professional Geologist in the AIPG.