MANAGEMENT & BOARD OF DIRECTORS​

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MARK BILLINGS - CEO & PRESIDENT

Mr. Billings has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has been an investment banker, having raised hundreds of millions of dollars for small-cap companies, including several junior mining companies. Mr. Billings also founded and managed companies in the junior resource sector, in addition to being CEO, CFO or a director of a number of publicly traded resource companies in Canada and abroad.

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THOMAS WINSLOW - CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Mr. Winslow was born and raised in the US before matriculating to the École hôtelière de Lausanne for university. Since then, he has worked across Europe, the UAE, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and maintains a robust global network of business partners. In addition to extensive hospitality experience at Christies´auction house and as a sommelier for the Four Seasons, Mr. Winslow is an investor and entrepreneur with projects on five continents, including mining, vehicle mobility intelligence, and medical technology. After completing a dual MBA and Master of International Relations in Spain, he has recently moved to Dubai and is a founding partner in a MedTech and SaaS-focused VC firm.

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BUZZ WEST - BOARD MEMBER

A former soldier and head of Reuters, Middle East and Africa, Mr. West has spent the last 25 years as an entrepreneur in the fields of natural resources, high technology and security. He has recently retired as the group chairman at Kingswood Holdings Ltd., the owner of KW-Wealth, having assets under management of approximately £7 billion. Highly experienced in the financial services arena, Mr. West was the founder and chairman of Ashcourt Rowan plc, which had assets under management of approximately £6 billion. Mr. West was also the chairman of the leading loss adjustor GAB Robins, taking them from management buyout to trade sale to the US group Crawford. He was the senior non-executive director to Norwegian telecom company, Norcon plc. 

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SALVADOR BROUWER - BOARD MEMBER

Mr. Brouwer holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. With 30 years of experience at Falconbridge, he contributed to mining operations both in Canada and the Dominican Republic. From 1996 until his retirement in 1999, he served as the Exploration Manager for Latin America. Mr. Brouwer brings extensive expertise in the geology, mining, and processing of nickel laterites across Latin America.

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TARA ASFOUR - DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Ms. Asfour is an experienced executive consultant with over 12 years of management, investor relations, communications and marketing experience, specialized in capital markets. Ms. Asfour holds a MBA in Business Management, Financial Markets Certificate from Yale University, and Certificate in Alternative Investments from HBS. As Chief Development Officer for FairGreen Capital Partners and Managing Director of its Canadian division, Ms. Asfour has led over US$550 million worth of fundraising and strategic development initiatives. Previous positions include IR executive at Red Pine Exploration Inc, Communications Director at Dominion Water Reserves and advisor to various publicly listed firms. 

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TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD

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AHMED BOUAJILA - VICE-PRESIDENT R&D AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

Ahmed Bouajila, P. Eng., is a senior engineer with more than 30 years of extensive and cross-disciplinary background and experience in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy R & D, technical services and engineering. Mr. Bouajila served at CRM/COREM for near 20 years at all levels of project, technical, scientific, management and direction lead. He also acted as VP metallurgy and ore processing at G Mining Services Inc. for 5 years, period during which he participated as QP and principal for various due diligence review and study phase mandates of near $10 Bn developing and expending projects. Since 2016, Mr. Bouajila, is leading IGS Impact Global Solutions Inc., an emerging R&D laboratory that he founded with the commitment to contribute to solving the most challenging problems of the extractive metallurgy. Mr. Bouajila graduated from Laval University in 1986 with a degree in mining engineering and a master’s degree in mineral processing in 1988 and Project management Certificate from UQTR. He is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec since 1992.

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DARIA CAMILLA BOFFITO, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD - TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

Fields of research and competence Mrs Boffito is experienced in includes; Process Intensification by alternative energy methods, Biofuels and biochemicals synthesis with ultrasound and microwaves, Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of catalysts, Deposition and coating processes with ultrasound, Extraction processes with ultrasound and microwaves, Ultrasound emulsification, Thermal and catalytic conversion of biomass and wasted gas, Fatty Acids Methyl Esters (biodiesel): selection and pretreatment of feedstocks (esterification, degumming), synthesis (transesterification), reactor design, catalyst design, Green Diesel from Fischer-Tropsch and triglyceride cracking, Gas to liquids (GtL), Power to liquids (PtL), ultrasound and microwaves, Heterogeneous catalysis and industrial catalyst development, Designed and tested catalysts for: oxidation, esterification, transesterification, cracking, CH4 reforming, Fischer Tropsch, alkylation, isomerisation, hydrogenation, photocatalysis, Catalyst synthesis methods: sol-gel; micronization; hydrothermal synthesis; urea method; core-shell; impregnation; coating of powders, honeycombs, metal fibers; ultrasound-assisted synthesis; spray-drying, Photocatalysis and water treatment, Ultrasound water treatment, TiO2 based photocatalyst synthesis (nano- and micrometric), TiO2 doping for visible light activity, Degradation of resilient water pollutants, Synthesis of (bi-functional) drug delivery systems, Extraction of functional molecules from natural matrices. Mrs. Boffito has a Post-doc, Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a Doctorate, Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan, was a visiting PhD student in Chemistry at The University of Melbourne, completed a Master of Science, Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry-University of Milan.

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RICHARD BOUDREAULT, P. Phys., B.Sc., M. Eng., MBA, FRSC, HFRCGS, FCMOS, FInstP, FCASI, FWAAS, FCAE, FIAA, AFAIAA, SMIEEE - TECHNOLOGY  ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

A successful serial entrepreneur and C-level executive, Mr. Boudreault has held top corporate positions in organizations of all sizes in both the private and public sector and has sat on over 30 boards. He has led organizations across a variety of sectors including advanced materials, natural resources and metallurgy, clean technology, photonics, medical devices, energy (hydrocarbon) and nuclear, Big Data and AI, and aerospace. From 2005 to 2014, Mr. Boudreault was CEO of the cleantech firm Orbite Aluminae, where he raised over $140M in financing from institutional and government sources and grew the firm from start-up to publicly traded company with a valuation of $500M. Mr. Boudreault holds a bachelor’s in applied physics, an MBA and a professional master’s degree in engineering, which he earned at Cornell. He continues to be involved in academia, having published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and scientific publications, and he is an adjunct professor at École Polytechnique in Montreal where he teaches and performs applied research on environmental chemical engineering, green chemistry and clean tech innovation.

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JACK LIFTON, P. Chem. - ADVISOR & CONSULTANT

Jack Lifton was a co-founder of Technology Metals Research. He is a consultant, author, and lecturer on the market fundamentals of the technology metals, the term that he coined to describe those strategic rare metals whose electronic properties make our technological society possible. These include the rare earths, lithium and most of the rare metals. Educated as a physical chemist, specializing in high-temperature metallurgy, Jack was first a researcher before becoming both a marketing and manufacturing executive. Finally, he became a metal trader specializing in the field of technology metals and of rare metals. Today, after more than 55 years of industry involvement, he advises both OEM high tech industry and the global institutional-investment community, on the natural-resource issues that impact either a proposed business model or a high-volume manufacturing plan for the mass market. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.