Advisory Board

Mr. Graham has over 20 years of experience in the development and exploration of mineral projects, corporate transactions, project evaluations, and exploration. Mr. Graham’s experience is mostly at major mining companies, namely Rio Tinto and Anglo American, including as Chief Geologist with the Project Generation Group at Rio Tinto. He has been involved with evaluation and pre-development work on several projects in Canada and abroad, including Resolution Copper (Arizona, USA), Diavik Diamond Mine (Northwest Territories, Canada), Eagle Nickel (Michigan, USA), Lakeview Nickel (Minnesota, USA) and Bunder Diamonds (India).

Mr. Graham’s experience in the junior sector are mostly in C-level positions and includes exploration startups that have made new discoveries or acquired overlooked discoveries in base and precious metals and industrial commodities (graphite, potash). He is a passionate believer in the positive social and economic benefits of responsible resource development and is a proponent for the deployment of venture capital for the expansion of the global resource base. Ian studied Geology at the University of Regina and earned a BSc (Hons) in Geology at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.

Rory Kutluoglu is a Canadian geologist with over twenty years of exploration experience in a wide variety of commodities across Europe, Africa, Asia, North, and South America. Rory began his professional career working on the team that discovered the Broken Hammer deposit in Sudbury for Wallbridge Mining. He then went on to conduct exploration for Aeroquest Surveys Limited, Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd., Goldfields Canada and Kiska Metals Corp. Rory then acted as VP Business Development and was part of the founding management team, creating and then listing, Evrim Resources on the TSX-V (now Orogen Royalties), a prospect generator at the time and now a royalties company focused in Mexico.

The next role Rory held was Exploration Manager for Kaminak Gold Corporation from 2012 to 2015 as part of the team that delivered the maiden resource, positive preliminary economic assessment and positive feasibility study for the Coffee Gold Project in Yukon which was subsequently acquired by Goldcorp Inc (now Newmont) for $542 million. After that project, Rory has held executive suite roles for several exploration companies (VPX for Dolly Varden Silver, QX Metals (formerly Blacksea Copper & Gold), and Kutcho Copper Corp). While with Kutcho, Rory contributed to the raising of a C$100M finance package, including Wheaton Precious Metal’s participation. Rory then oversaw and directed the updated Pre-feasibility study and the field studies used to create the Feasibility study on which the ongoing Environmental Assessment process by the British Columbian government is being based upon for the Kutcho copper project.

From 2021 to 2023 Rory was COO of Cloudbreak Discovery another prospect generator. During that time was also a director of Temas Resources, where Rory coordinated the completion of a maiden pre-feasibility study on their TiO2 project in Quebec, Canada. Currently he consults to several private and public companies. Mr. Kutluoglu obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Lakehead University in 2004 and has been a Professional Geoscientist, registered with The Engineers & Geoscientists of British Columbia since 2011, and is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.

Mr. Michel Robert (B.A., B.A.Sc. (Hons), M.A.Sc (Hons)) is a metallurgist and mining engineer with over 45 years of diverse technical experience in the mining industry, both identifying assets for acquisition and then putting those assets back into production. In recent years he has focused on identifying and advancing earlier stage mineral properties for eventual sale to public and private companies. His experience in mining operations with major companies, include Quebec Cartier Mining Ltd., Teck Corp., SNC, Lac Minerals (now Goldcorp), AMEC, Minero Peru, Fluor Daniel and Pan American Silver Corp., where Michel’s roles have ranged from foreman to President. He has practical experience in operation, commissioning, design, construction, finance and due diligence.

As Senior Vice President for Pan American Silver Corp. from 1995 to 2001, Michel managed operations in Latin America including the expansion of the company into Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. During this time he was responsible for the identification, purchase and turnaround of the long lived historic operations of Quiruvilca, Huaron and the San Ignacio de Morococha Mines in Peru, and the La Colorada Mine in Mexico, as well as for acquisition of the San Vicente Mine in Bolivia. All but Quiruvilca are still running today. Michel previously served for nine years at Teck Corporation as corporate metallurgist, lead engineer and start-up manager. He was also a director of SNC (now SNC Lavalin Group Inc.) and one of three founders of Simons Mining Group (now AMEC Foster Wheeler).

Michael Williams has over 24 years of experience as a senior mining executive. He has held the role of Executive Chairman with several different public companies, including Underworld Resources Ltd, which was sold to Kinross Gold Corp in 2010 for $138 million. Michael has developed an extensive global network which has enabled him to raise significant capital for exploration and development projects around the world. He currently serves as the President and CEO of Vendetta Mining Corp. and the Chairman of Aftermath Silver.