About Us

Harry Dobson is a former investment banker and senior partner of Yorkton Securities. He currently engages in various merchant banking and venture capital activities in North America and Europe and was formally a founding shareholder and Chairman of Kirkland Lake Gold Inc., and is a founding shareholder of Rupert Resources Ltd.  He has acted as Chairman of several resource companies, including American Pacific Mining Company Inc. and Lytton Minerals Limited, and is currently chairman of Western Gold Exploration Ltd. and Borders & Southern Petroleum plc.

Mr. Williams is a mining financier and since 2015 has been a director of Smaller Company Capital Ltd, which focused on raising funds in the natural resources industry. In the last fifteen years, Mr. Williams has been instrumental in raising more than £500 million in capital for mining companies and managing key corporate clients. He co-founded Ocean Equities in 2003 to take advantage of rising commodity prices. Mr. William's role at Ocean Equities was to bring in corporate clients and organize fund raisings both primary and secondary. There he led a sales team of six with the support of four research analysts concentrating efforts on junior and mid cap mining companies.

Ms. Hayes has been working as marketing and communications advisor for over 25 years. Ms. Hayes was a Founding Director of financial PR consultancy, Pelham Public Relations, in November 2004, growing it to a 40-strong, £6m business and advising technology, media, mining and energy companies, before merging with Bell Pottinger and then leaving the business. Since then she has been involved in founding and growing several other businesses in the UK. She holds an MBA from Henley Business School. She is also a Director of Western Gold Exploration Ltd.

A finance and accounting professional with over ten years of experience in the mining sector, focused primarily on assets in North and South America. Mr. Dunlop was previously the Corporate Controller of Discovery Silver Corp. where, over his three-year tenure, had a broad scope of authority, including executive guidance for finance, accounting, treasury, taxation, and regulatory filings. Mr. Dunlop was the Corporate Controller and VP of Finance for Sierra Metals Inc. from 2015 – 2019, and the Corporate Controller of Scorpio Mining Corporation from 2011 – 2015. Mr. Dunlop holds a Bachelor of Accountancy, with Honours, from Brock University and holds the designation of Chartered Professional Accountant and Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Erickson grew up in the Eureka and Ely, Nevada communities in a mining oriented family. His father, Einar C Erickson PhD, was a noted exploration geologist in Nevada for over 60 years, who acquired the Prospect Mountain Mine complex over 40 years ago. His parents both worked at Kennecott in Eastern Nevada.

Dr. Erickson has a dual board certification in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery and serves on the faculty as an urogynecologist at the UNLV School of Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada. He trains surgeons on advanced pelvic floor reconstruction in the United States and has taught surgery in twenty countries on four continents. He has been a director on four health care organizations and currently is chairperson of a charitable nonprofit, The Janice Foundation: focusing on reducing the suffering of women.  

Mr. Thomson was the former CFO of Kirkland Lake Gold during its important years of strategic exploration investment and growth. Mr. Thomson has significant experience in building joint venture and distributor relationships in the FMCG and pharmaceutical sectors internationally and has worked internationally in a variety of senior roles for companies including PepsiCo. Most recently, he has built up a successful consulting business providing advice to institutional shareholders and management teams in the media, minerals, and technology sectors.

Mr. Ouellette serves as Principal/Managing Director of Starboard Advisors, a US-based multi-family office and has over two decades of executive leadership in the family office industry. Throughout most of his career, he has worked with closely-held companies, private and public investments on board governance including several appointments as a Director or an advisor for private and non-profit organizations. He has a degree in Business Management from the University of Maine and also holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Muskie School of Public Policy at the University of Southern Maine.

Mr. Chmilar is a corporate lawyer with 20 years of experience and is the founder of Modern Finance Law in Calgary, Alberta.

Mr. Chmilar frequently represents issuers, underwriters, and investors in public and private securities offerings, and has gained extensive experience in international mining, technology, and oil & gas related financings and transactions and joint ventures. Mr. Chmilar holds a law degree from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta.