Directors

Emma Fairhurst

Ms. Fairhurst has over 20 years experience in the venture capital financial and public company markets, focused on the Canadian resource capital market and as well as Australian resource sectors. She currently sits on several Canadian and Australian boards, and manages several CSE listed companies. Previously, Emma worked at Canaccord Genuity where she administered hundreds of millions in assets, private placements and financings. She also has 15 years experience in International Development and Corporate Responsibility, working significantly in East Africa, both on the ground and in the boardroom, supporting various philanthropic projects.

Jason Cubitt

Mr. Cubitt has worked for the past fifteen years directly with mining exploration companies and held executive and non-executive board positions with both private and publicly traded companies on Canadian, US and Australian exchanges. Most recently he served for seven years as president and CEO of Solis Minerals Ltd., a mining exploration company with copper projects in Peru and lithium projects in Brazil. He was formerly focussed on venture capital primarily serving the natural resource sector. He co-founded Ascenta Asset Management and Vertus Investment Advisory, offshore investment advisory firms for which he was responsible for precious metals and special situations mining funds. Prior to this he co-founded Ascenta Finance Corp. in 2005 where he served for nine years as managing director and dealer, raising over $100m in public equity. Mr. Cubitt was a member of the steering committee and a founding investor in the Ascenta Foundation, a Canadian charitable foundation formed in 2007 providing urgent medical, dental, optometric and surgical services to medically underserved communities around the world.

Garry Stock

Mr. Stock has worked in resources, cleantech, ag, investment and tech for the past 24 years, helping build companies from inception to up to $500 million in market capitalization. He has been involved in $400 million in equity financings and has acquired/developed assets across most commodities within Canadian, US, Australian and British securities jurisdictions, serving in executive and financial roles, most recently as independent Director and Chair of Compensation Committee for Squire Mining, (now Taal Distributed Information Technologies). Garry holds an B.A. (Hons) in Economics, and passed the CFA Level III exam in 1997.