Directors
Quinton Hennigh
Director
Quinton HennighDr. Quinton Hennigh is an internationally-renowned economic geologist with over 25 years of exploration experience and expertise with major gold mining companies such as Homestake Mining Company, Newcrest Mining Limited and Newmont Mining Corporation, where he last served as senior research geologist in 2007.
He has since made a number of significant gold discoveries for Canadian exploration companies such as the 5 million oz. Springpole alkaline gold deposit near Red Lake, Ontario, for Gold Canyon Resources. He is currently Chairman and President of Novo Resources Corporation, which he helped start in 2010, Chairman of Westward Gold Inc. (CSE: WG, OTCQB: WGLIF, FSE: IM50) and serves on the boards of Barksdale Resources, Condor Resources, Electric Metals, and Irving Resources. He is an adviser to Eskay Mining Corp. and Lion One Metals Ltd. Dr. Hennigh holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Missouri and M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in geology and geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member (P.Geo.) of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. He is currently CEO of private miner, San Cristobal Mining Inc.
Steve Durbin
Director
Mr. Durbin has spent his entire career in financial services and brings extensive experience investing in a wide range of industries across the capital spectrum. He is currently President of Quail Bend Capital Partners, a boutique private equity firm he founded in 2010. Quail Bend has made several investments since its founding, including four current portfolio companies that operate in various sectors of the mining industry. He is also a co-founder and CEO of RYT.io Limited.
Prior to Quail Bend, Steve was Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at The Watley Group, where he focused on providing a variety of financial, operating and advisory services for companies in or near chapter 11.
Prior to that, he worked at Red Mountain Capital Partners, an activist hedge fund, where he was a Principal and responsible for sourcing and managing several investments.
Prior to Red Mountain, Steve worked at Oak Hill Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, where he focused on the business and financial services sectors. Steve started his career as an investment banker at JP Morgan where he worked on several large leveraged.
Mr. Durbin graduated from Harvard University with an AB in economics. He currently serves on the boards of SaveDaily Holdings Corp., Electric Metals Corp., and Silver Bow Mining Corp.
David McMullin
Director
Mr. McMullin is a senior executive with over 30 years of experience in various sectors, including mining, banking, retail and leadership training. He has a proven track record in organizational improvement, employee development and project management. He currently serves as CEO of JEX Technologies Corporation and President and CEO of Black Icon LLC, and previously held roles including Vice-President at Altair Resources Inc. and Chief Procurement Officer at NewGenRNG.
David has raised over $300 million in equity financing and has held key management roles in multiple mining and resource companies. He is also a board member of several philanthropic entities and companies
Andy Holloway
Director
Mr. Holloway is a mining industry professional with over 35 years of diverse industry experience, more than 20 of which have been in shareholder/ownership positions. A metallurgical process engineer by training, his background includes the management of consulting businesses and plant operations, process consulting, plant design, capital & operating cost estimation, cashflow modelling, project management, procurement and commissioning – on an international scale and with a focus on base and precious metals. He has been involved in a number of private equity start-ups, including a tin/tungsten processing & trading company in Myanmar.
He has served as Vice-President Metallurgy at Foran Mining and Vice-President Engineering at Blue Coast Research, and currently serves as a director of Sasquatch Resources Corp. He has also held board roles with the Halyard/Micon Group.
He has held a variety of senior management and board positions, including AGP Mining Consultants Inc. Bluecoast Research Ltd. and Foran Mining Corp. He co- founded and ran a Toronto-based consulting firm of roughly 15 professional engineers from 2010 to 2020 and prior to that managed the North American office of Dowding Reynard and Associates (DRA) – an international engineering company specialising in mineral processing plant design and project management. He has significant work experience in Africa, Asia and the Americas.