CEO & Director
Zayn Kalyan is an experienced investment banker and business development executive.
Starting his career as a software engineer, his background in the “ground-up” development of startup technology companies serves as his foundation in finance. As a partner at Altus Capital Partners, Zayn has played an instrumental role in the origination of over $50 million in financing. Zayn has served in upper management and on the boards of multiple public companies since 2014.
CFO
Andrea a CPA, CGA in British Columbia, Canada, and also a CPA in New Hampshire, USA. She has many years experience as an auditor of public companies as well as from working in China. She specialize in providing accounting, financial and management consulting to venture companies listed on TSX-V, CSE, OTCBB and ASX. Over 20+ years in the industry, Andrea has significant experience in public company mergers & acquisitions, reverse take-overs, initial public offerings and CPC qualifying transactions.
VP Exploration
With over eight years of experience in mineral exploration, Mr. Pokrandt has developed extensive geologic knowledge working on various styles of gold deposits worldwide. His global experience includes projects in Canada, Nevada, Uzbekistan, Finland, Japan, and Mali. Primarily with major producer B2Gold, he has been involved in projects and mines at all stages of development, from grassroots exploration to active mining operations. Notable projects he has worked on include B2Gold’s Fekola, Skeena Resources’s Eskay Creek, and most recently B2Gold’s Back River Project. Additionally, Mr. Pokrandt serves as an Independent Director of Saga Metals Corp.
VP Operations
Mr. Lindstrom has spent his career in the mining industry with over 30 years of experience. He began as a mine engineer with Pegasus Gold Corporation, including working at the Black Pine gold project currently under development by Liberty Gold. Jeff was Operations Manager for Atlanta Gold Corp. and worked on a development strategy for Atlanta to move from bulk mining and cyanide heap leaching plans to a combined shallow open-pit and underground operation with on-site milling without cyanide. As Engineering Manager for ISR Capital and Owyhee Gold he worked on several open pit and underground mineral projects in Idaho and Montana. With Gold Torrent, Inc. he worked on the high-grade, underground Lucky Shot gold project in Alaska. His work with Daniel Kunz & Associates, as Senior Mine Engineer, includes engineering activities for a high-grade gold-silver exploration in Mexico, services to Scorpio Gold related to the Company’s Manhattan gold project, and supporting various DKA project due diligence. He holds degrees from Boise State University and Phoenix Institute of Technology. He has significant work experience in project design, modelling, construction, and material processing with his more recent work in project assessment and development.
Chief Geologist
Thomas Poitras is a professional geologist with over 13 years’ experience throughout the petroleum, mining, and consulting industries. Managing projects with budgets up to $35M, his versatile skillset has recently supported him in his roles as Senior Geologist and Mine Manager while progressing projects at stages throughout the entire mine life cycle. Notable projects he has worked on include Graphite One, Skeena Resources’s Eskay Creek & Snip Mine (Hochschild Mining), Seabridge Gold’s KSM, and Vale’s Copper Cliff Mine. Mr. Poitras completed his B.Sc. in Geology at the University of Alberta.
Executive Technical Director
Technical Advisor
Advisor
Mr. Funk has over 14 years of industry experience for major and junior mining and companies including Newcrest Mining and Evrim Resources. Charles is a geologist specializing in business development for gold, silver and copper projects from early stage to production. Charles has led or supported multiple deposit discoveries in Mexico and Australia and contributed to over $60 million dollars in capital raisings.
