Management Team

Mr. Sandhu has over 18 years of experience in the capital markets in corporate finance and development. Mr. Sandhu has assisted domestic and international mining companies in raising multi million dollars for exploration, development and expansion. He has dealt extensively with strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, financings and operations for various companies. Mr. Sandhu has held various senior level executive positions in several listed companies. He received his Bachelor of Economics degree from Simon Fraser University in 1990. 

Mr. Atkinson is an experienced exploration geologist and project manager with over 45 years of experience. Mr. Atkinson has spent his career in both mineral exploration and mining and in the environmental field attaining positions of Vice President, Exploration Manager and Regional Manager with junior and major mining companies such as Newmont Corporation (TSX: NGT), BHP Group Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) and Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd (TSX: AEM). He has reviewed, evaluated and acquired projects around the world and recently has also been part of the team responsible for mergers and acquisitions at Americas Gold and Silver Corp. (TSX: USA) (NYSE: USAS). He has worked with investors to form and run junior exploration companies. In the area of mineral exploration, he has designed and managed multi-million-dollar programs searching for and discovering various commodities including industrial minerals.  These programs comprised of up to 100 staff and involved geophysical, geochemical and drilling programs as well as prospecting and geological mapping. He has negotiated option and purchase deals for mineral properties. 

Mr. Stevens is a CFA charterholder with over a decade of experience in the capital markets, first as an investment analyst with Salman Partners Inc., then as a merchant and investment banker. While at Salman Partners, he became a top-rated analyst by StarMine on July 17, 2007. Mr. Stevens was also a Portfolio Manager registered with Wolverton Securities Ltd. and over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in assisting in financings and M&A activity worth over $1 billion in transaction value.  

Mr. Grewal is currently a Partner with HWG Chartered Accountants in Surrey, BC. He received his Bachelor of Commerce from UNBC in 1998, received his CA designation in 1998 and has completed Parts I & II of the CICA In-Depth Tax Course. Mr. Grewal joined Heming, Wyborn & Grewal in 2005 and was promoted to Partner on January 1, 2009. Mr. Grewal has been the CFO of several publicly listed junior mining companies in Canada. He has extensive experience in the financial management of corporations that are doing business in a variety of industries.  

Dr. Ramcharan has an extensive background in exploration, project evaluation, investment banking and corporate development spanning over twenty years. Dr. Ramcharan recently was the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development for Roscan Gold Corp. where he has been instrumental in raising over $40 million and a five-fold increase in market valuation of over $100 million in 14 months. In a similar role with IAMGOLD Corp as Manager of Corporate Development, Dr. Ramcharan was involved with raising over $600 million in equity and over $800 million in project acquisitions. Dr. Ramcharan has also held senior investment banking roles, including Sprott Resource and Resource Capital Funds, where he performed over 300 project evaluations and numerous debt and equity financings valued over $1 billion. Dr. Ramcharan holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics, and attended the Colorado School of Mines, University of Leoben, and Harvard Busines School Continuing Education Program. Dr. Ramcharan is a P.Eng in Ontario, a Registered Member of The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) in USA, a Fellow of both The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM).