Why Lithium?
Lithium is essential in the global transition to a low-carbon economy and supporting sustainable energy solutions.
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Jim Paterson – Chairman of the Board
Mr. Paterson is a co-founder and principal of Discovery Group and has 25 years of executive leadership experience in the mining industry, including capital raises, acquisitions, joint-ventures, spinouts, and RTOs and IPOs. He was a driving force behind $80 million in equity financing for ValOre Metals, which led to multiple discoveries at the Angilak uranium project and Pedra Branca PGE project. He is a director of K2 Gold, Latitude Uranium and Gold Basin Resources. He was a director of Kaminak Gold Corp. (acquired by Goldcorp), Northern Empire Resources Corp. (acquired by Coeur Mining) and Great Bear Royalties (acquired by Royal Gold). He founded Corsa Capital in 2007, and a 2010 transaction created an industry-leading metallurgical coal producer with a C$250M marketing capitalization.
View ProfileCameron Tymstra – President, CEO & Director
Mr. Tymstra has over 15 years of mining industry experience managing projects in Canada, the U.S., and Latin America. He previously held the role of Chief Operations Officer of Latin American Minerals and is currently the President and CEO of CSE-listed Tarachi Gold. Cameron graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Mining Engineering and holds a Master’s in Mining Management from the South Dakota School of Mines.
View ProfileAndrew Rockandel – Executive Director
Mr. Rockandel is an accomplished entrepreneur whose four decades of business experience span mineral resources, renewable energy, forestry, and specialized chemicals. Involved in the junior mining market for over 25 years, he has helped found multiple junior companies, bringing together management teams, assets, and financing.
View ProfileLorne Warner – Vice President Exploration
Mr. Warner graduated from the University of Alberta in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in geology. Mr. Warner is a registered professional geologist in British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, with over 30 years experience in mineral exploration and underground and open-pit mining with Noranda Exploration and Placer Dome Inc. His career started in mineral exploration in British Columbia but has now worked throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. As the vice-president of several junior mining companies, his team discovered the western extension of the Detour Lake gold deposit, now in production in Ontario, as well as the Falea North zone (uranium, silver and copper deposit) and the Fatou Main gold deposit in Mali.
View ProfileJeremie Pfister – Geology Manager
Mr. Pfister recently completed a PhD at Laurentian University in pegmatite ore deposit geology and has an undergraduate degree in geology with a minor in mining engineering from the University of Arizona. Originally from Switzerland, Mr. Pfister speaks fluent English and French and is leading Targa’s pegmatite exploration strategy.
View ProfileDilshan Anthony – CFO
Mr. Anthony is a thorough, distinguished, and highly organized Chartered Professional Accountant with over 15 years of experience spread throughout various sectors of accounting. He has extensive history with the hotel industry and is currently involved in the mining industry. The cumulation of his past experiences have led him to become accustomed with forensic accounting, bringing forth new technological solutions, engineering efficient accounting procedures, and updating his skillset with modern innovations in the field of accounting. Mr. Anthony received his Chartered Professional Accountant designation from the CGA, BC, in 2014.
View ProfileJon Ward – VP Corporate Development
Jon is a proactive and resourceful investor relations and capital markets professional responsible for leading investor and marketing initiatives for the Inventa Capital companies. His experience includes the development and communication of corporate strategy to the financial markets, stakeholder relations, project management, capital markets, business development and marketing. Jon has previous experience working in business services for Global accounting firm BDO (Australia) and holds a BBus (Finance and Accounting) with extended majors in Funds Management, Professional Accounting and Banking from Queensland University of Technology.
View ProfileJennifer Hanson – Corporate Secretary
Jennifer is a dedicated and versatile Senior Professional that brings more than 22 years of excellence in all aspects of human resource management, accounting, and administration, by generating invoices, resolving problems quickly, designing email system, processing income statement requests, administering HR functions, and achieving outcomes through a people-first method.
View ProfileMahesh Liyanage – Director
Mr. Liyanage is a seasoned, organized, and responsible Chartered Professional Accountant with more than 20 years of experience across diverse industries. Special strengths in Canadian public company reporting and regulatory compliance, business spin-offs/mergers and acquisitions, treasury management, Canadian and US tax compliance. He has many years of experience with Mexican mining companies and specializes in helping Canadian companies achieve optimal operations in Mexico. He was most recently with Evrim/Orogen and in the past he had worked with the Manex Resource Group.
View ProfileKarlene Collier – Director
Karlene is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of industry experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and publicly listed companies trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture, Canadian Securities Exchange and in the U.S. markets. She is an expert in overseeing business operations located both locally and internationally; leading operations in five different countries. Karlene scaled the first publicly listed cryptocurrency company in Canada with a market capitalization of over $1B and has guided start-up companies from private to publicly listed entities, including leading management through the regulatory landscape and lead financings. Karlene’s recent focus has been in the natural resource sector where she has managed and scaled a portfolio of companies in her current role as Vice President of Operations. Karlene is a director of Baltic I Acquisition Corp., TinOne Resources Inc. and Vizsla Copper Corp.
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