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| Nikolas Perrault, President & Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Mr. Nikolas Perrault is a Chartered Financial Analyst who has spent the first 15 years of his career working as an investment executive with some of Canada’s largest institutions, including National Bank, Merrill-Lynch, CIBC and Scotia Capital. He is President, CEO and Director of Colt Resources Inc., a Canadian-based junior exploration company engaged in the acquiring, exploring and developing mineral properties with an emphasis on gold and tungsten. His focus throughout his career has been on small cap resource companies. His work has focused on small companies in the energy and resource sectors in Canada and abroad, which has allowed him to develop an extensive international network. In May 2007, he founded a management consulting company providing strategic advice to early stage energy and resource companies. Mr Perrault is also a director of TSX listed Calvalley Petroleum as well as NEX listed Bitumen Capital and is a member of the Advisory Board of Quantitative Alpha Trading. Mr. Perrault is President of Twilight Capital Inc., which is registered as an exempt market dealer in Ontario. Mr. Perrault holds a Bachelor of Commerce and obtained his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997. |
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| Aurelio Useche, Chief Financial Officer | ||
| Mr. Useche has held several senior management positions in both Private and Publicly traded corporations including CEO, COO, General Manager and Vice-President, Operations. Mr. Useche has been involved in several entrepreneurial ventures and serves on the board of several private companies and non-for-profit organizations. Mr. Useche holds a BA, Economics from Concordia University (1992), an MBA Degree from Queens University School of Business (2001) and holds the professional designation CMA- Certified Management Accountant (2003). |
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| Declan Costelloe, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer | ||
| Mr. Declan Costelloe serves as President of Celtic Mining, Ltd., an independent mining consulting firm. Mr. Costelloe is a chartered engineer (UK Engineering Council) and a mining geologist with over 20 years experience. During 2007, Mr. Costelloe served as Investment Manager with the Goldfish Fund, a Denver based private gold equity investment group. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Costelloe served as an investment manager with Veneroso Associates Gold Advisors (“VAGA”), an investment company focused on the gold industry, prior to which he served as research director of VAGA from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Costelloe holds a B.Sc. in geology from University College, Galway, and a B.Sc. in mining geology from the University of Wales College Cardiff. Mr. Costelloe also currently serves as a director of U.S. Gold Corporation (TSX:UXG), Bravo Gold Corp (TSXV:BVG), and Alexandria Minerals Corporation (TSXV:AZX) |
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| David A. Johnson, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | ||
| Mr. Johnson is an attorney and trade-mark agent with his own law firm based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mr. Johnson specializes in corporate law, commercial transactions and intellectual property. He also practises across several industries including mining, software, energy, manufacturing, clean tech, transportation and entertainment. His international legal experience includes work in France, Portugal, Germany, Albania, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Israel. Mr. Johnson has several years’ experience at the senior management level in a variety of companies and not for profit organizations. He is presently a director of Genoil Inc. (TSX-V. GNO), and a director and the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Law Association, Canadian Branch, a registered charity. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Queen’s University, a Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University. He also completed the Directors’ Education Program at the Rotman School of Management - Institute of Corporate Directors, University of Toronto, the International Executive Program for Mining Leadership at the School of Business, Queen’s University and the Canadian Securities Course at the Canadian Securities Institute. |
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| Filipe Faria, Vice President, Exploration | ||
| Mr. Faria is a geologist with over thirty years experience in mineral exploration. Over the last thirteen years he has been a partner and the principal consulting geologist of GEOLOG – Gabinete de Geociências Lda, a geological consultancy based in Lisbon, Portugal. Prior to that he worked for Rio Tinto plc, Ashanti Goldfields Ltd, European Gold Resources Inc., and as an independent consultant. Over the course of his career, he has been responsible of numerous geological and mineral exploration/evaluation projects for a number of domestic and international companies focusing in Western Europe and Southern Africa. Fluent in Portuguese and English, Mr. Faria has been a member of the Portuguese Association of Geologists since 1982 and the Geological Society of Portugal since 1978. |
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| João Carlos Gaspar de Sousa, Vice President, Operations | ||
| Joao comes to Colt from having worked as the senior project geologist of Genius Mineira, Lda., an Angolan company. He is a Senior Exploration Geologist with 28 years of experience including 5 years as the Country Manager for Iberian Resources Portugal (the former owner of Colt’s Montemor project), more than 2 years with Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, S.A. and its subsidiary, 13 years with Rio Tinto and 5 years with Lundin Mining Corporation (EuroZinc Mining Corp.) which owns the "Neves-Corvo" copper mine in Portugal. Mr. Gaspar de Sousa has a Geological degree from Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa. |
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| Steven James McRobbie, Vice President, Mining Geology | ||
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Mining and exploration geologist with nearly 20 years’ experience in Africa and the FSU. He has spent the last 7 years in Russia and Central Asia in senior management positions specializing in advancing projects from exploration through feasibility study into development. He has experience of managing both brown field and green field exploration programmes for several commodities including gold, base metals and diamonds. He has worked for Rio Tinto in Africa and Europe and held the position of General Director for subsidiary companies of Monaro Mining NL in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhmys plc. in Kazakhstan. As Exploration Director for Kazakhmys Exploration he has been a key contributor to Kazakhmys’ major capital copper porphyry projects. He a British Citizen and qualifies as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. |
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| Jorge Valente, Vice President, Engineering and Development | ||
| Jorge Valente is a Portuguese citizen and resides in Brazil. Mr Valente has over 40 years of extensive experience in the mining industry. He is a mining engineer (graduated from IST, Lisbon, 1970), specializing in Geomathematics (mineral resources and ore reserves estimation and mine planning). He also teaches post-graduate courses at the School of Mines of UFOP (Ouro Preto Federal University), and is a certified CP (“competent person”, by SME – USA). He is the author of two books and many articles dealing with subjects of his specialty, some of which havebeen published in English. |
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