IDG Investment Club #4 (Transatlantic Investment Club) 2019

Caen Contee is Co-Founder, Partner and Head of BD at Ozone Ventures. A serial entrepreneur and scaling expert, he was most recently a founding executive at Lime (the last-mile micromobility company). At Lime, he led the International Expansion, Marketing, Comms & Business Development teams. Under his shared leadership, Lime grew from its seed round to a Series D Valuation of $2.4B. With 15 years of operating experience in high-tech, venture-backed companies, he's helped raise $750M+ in venture capital, grown mobile products to 50M+ users, currently sits on the board or advises 10+ companies, and has angel invested in many others.

Ms. Thomas brings more than 25 years’ experience in the mining industry, including 14 years with Aber Diamond Corporation (now Dominion Diamond), where she served in ever increasing roles from initial discovery as a geologist to Vice President Exploration and ultimately a Director of the Board. She was co-founder of Stornoway Diamond Corp., serving first as CEO and then as Executive Chairman. There she led the acquisition of the Renard diamond deposit which subsequently became Quebec's first diamond mine. In 2007, she founded Lucara with partners Mr. Lukas Lundin and Ms. Catherine McLeod Seltzer. Ms. Thomas most recently served as CEO of Kaminak Gold Corporation which was acquired by Goldcorp in 2016 for $520 Million. Ms. Thomas is also a Director of Suncor Energy.

Ralph Rushton, MSc. President, CEO & Director Mr. Rushton holds a BSc in geology from Portsmouth University in the UK, and an MSc. in economic geology from the University of Alberta in Canada. He has worked in the mining industry for over 30 years, gaining experience in exploration, mining and business development. In 1990s he worked for the major mining company, Anglo American plc, exploring for precious and base metals in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In 2003, he relocated to Canada and has worked in business development for junior resource companies ever since. He is a director of 4 TSX Venture companies, and an adviser to two other exploration companies. He has helped to raise over $400 million through equity financings to finance exploration and development programs in Latin America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Michael Williams Chairman, Director Mr. Williams has over 20 years of experience as a senior executive within the mining industry. He is experienced in the structuring, administration and marketing of Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies and has raised significant capital funds for advanced exploration and development projects across North and South America and Australia. He has served as Executive Chairman of a number of public companies including Underworld Resources Ltd, which was successfully sold to Kinross Gold Corp for C$138-million. He has an extensive network of international banking and financial contacts and investors -retail and institutional- in all of the major mining centres around the world. He currently serves as a director, President and CEO of Vendetta Mining Corp.

James W. Beckerleg is President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Trustee of PROREIT, a publicly-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) he co-founded in 2013. Mr. Beckerleg has decades of executive leadership experience in real estate, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and has served as a director of several publicly-traded companies, including in the real estate sector. Prior to founding PROREIT, Mr. Beckerleg was president and CEO of CANMARC, a Canadian REIT with a national, diversified portfolio of commercial properties, acquired by Cominar for $1.9 billion in 2012. Gordon G. Lawlor, CPA, CA, is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Office and Secretary of PROREIT, a publicly-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) he co-founded in 2013. Prior to founding PROREIT, Mr. Lawlor was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of CANMARC REIT, acquired by Cominar for $1.9 billion in 2012. During his career, Mr. Lawlor held various senior management positions, including Chief Financial Officer of a private international real estate management company.

Eric Desaulniers is a professional geologist (OGQ #935) with a specialization in geophysics. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master in geophysics from Laval University in Quebec City. As a project manager for the world-leading geophysical corporation Sander Geophysics, he managed numerous international large scale interpretation and data acquisition projects in the Middle East, in Central and North African countries, and in North America for major clients like the British Geological Survey, Saudi Aramco, the Moroccan government, BRGM (France) and Shell. In 2007, He participated in an expedition to the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic with the Columbia University of New York. Since 2008, he offers geological and geophysical services to the mineral industry. Prior to start his career in the mining sector, M. Desaulniers served as an Infantry Officer in the Canadian Forces where he specialized in leadership instruction, advanced negotiation training and project management.

Mr. Crowe has over 30 years’ experience in the exploration and mining sector. This includes extensive exposure to precious and base metal projects throughout North and South America, Asia and Africa. Mr. Crowe has worked with major mining companies and has served as a Director and Executive of several junior and development stage resource companies. From 2002 until late 2015, Mr. Crowe was President and CEO of Entrée Gold Inc. He was instrumental in transforming Entrée from an early stage exploration play to one with an advanced development-mining project in joint-venture with Rio Tinto and its partner company, Turquoise Hill Resources. Over $12 billion has been slated towards production at Oyu Tolgoi, including Entrée’s JV project. In connection with the development of Entrée, Mr. Crowe played a key role in raising over $200 million, acquiring an Australian junior company for the procurement of a large copper project in Nevada and completing several other acquisitions and transactions. Mr. Crowe’s key role in helping to bring about this highly successful development story attests to his ability to not only build companies, but to successfully navigate political and partnership issues and to strategically maneuver through cyclical variations in commodity markets.

Mr. Awram is the co-founder and Senior Executive Vice President of Sandstorm Gold Royalties and has been instrumental in growing Sandstorm to a diversified stream and royalty company with over 185 assets, 23 of which are generating cash flow. Mr. Awram oversees the corporate development and technical teams at Sandstorm and has evaluated hundreds of resource projects and completed on-site due diligence on dozens of mines across the globe. Prior to Sandstorm, Mr. Awram was the Director of Investor Relations for Silver Wheaton Corp., where he was responsible for investor relations and corporate development. Mr. Awram graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.