Corporate Directory
Directors
Hans Boge, P. Eng., Chair and President
Mr. Boge is a civil engineer, and founder and president of Boge and Boge (1980) Ltd., a consulting engineering firm started in 1976. Boge and Boge (1980) Ltd.'s major clients in the mining sector include Inco and Hudson's Bay Mining and Smelting. In the gold mining sector, customers have included Placer Dome, Campbell Red Lake Mines, Dickensen Mines (now GoldCorp), and Bissett Gold Mine. He is co-founder and president of Canadian Project Management Team Inc., a project development and management service firm developing activities in Ghana and Egypt. Boge is a co-founder of Langreen (1984) Ltd., a construction company operating in Manitoba and Ontario, and is president of Diaser Management (2006) Ltd., a firm providing design-build services to the mining and agricultural processing industries.
Don Flinn, P. Eng., Director & V.P. of Operations
Mr. Flinn is a civil engineer, with over forty years business experience in the private and public sectors as an owner/operator of construction companies, a consulting engineer, a corporate executive and a project manager. He is president and CEO of Innovative Construction Technologies, Inc. and former Managing Director of Energy Solutions Centre Inc. of Whitehorse, Yukon. The Centre won several national awards for its performance in energy conservation, renewable energy solutions and greenhouse gas emission reduction. Flinn is past president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon, a former provincial member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and a former Technical Director for the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition, a federally incorporated company.
Albert Khelfa
A senior management and international development consultant since 1994, Mr. Khelfa has multiple degrees and diplomas in dental surgery, biology, natural sciences, business administration and education from the University of Cairo, the University of Quebec and the University of Montreal. His career encompasses significant experience in developing business and trade relations, negotiating joint ventures and other commercial ventures, management training programs, and conducting market and feasibility studies at the international level. These projects and activities have extended to Canada, Egypt, Algeria, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Mr. Khelfa is an independent director, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee.
Ayman Shahin
Head of Treasury for ARY Traders, Dubai, U.A.E., Ayman Shahin has a strong understanding of financial and physical precious metals markets developed over a period of fifteen years from working with major bullion houses in four major centers for the industry - Toronto, New York, London and Dubai. Shahin has worked with Rudolf Wolff UK, Lehman Brothers Inc. NY, the Republic National Bank NY, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as a senior bullion dealer, proprietary trader, foreign exchange and bullion consultant variously. Shahin's formal education includes the CSC, COC and CFE from the Canadian Securities Institute, studies for an MBA from the Monetary Institute of International Studies, and a Bachelor of Science. Mr. Shahin is an independent director and member of the Audit Committee.
George Wakim
Mr. Wakim, P. Eng is a civil engineer with over twenty years of international business leadership, senior project management, commercial, civil infrastructure and industrial engineering experience for multi-million dollar projects in excess of US$ 700 million in the mining, oil and gas and petrochemical sectors. Currently the Managing Director/Partner of an international engineering, contracting and trading company operating in Australia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen and Afghanistan. His experience in the mining sector includes projects with coal, bauxites, gold, silver, copper and uranium. Holding a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and a Masters of Engineering Science from Melbourne University in Australia, Mr. Wakim is an independent director, Chair of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee and member of the Audit Committee.
Offices
1031 Ten Mile Road
P.O. Box 20116
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 7A2
Legal Counsel
James B. Parsons, Lead Corporate and U.S. Counsel
Parsons/Burnett, LLP
Suite 2070, 10900 NE 4th St.
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Rodney A. Snow, Canadian Counsel
Davis & Company LLP
Suite 200, 304 Jarvis Street
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 2H2
Transfer Agent
Signature Stock Transfer Inc.
One Preston Park
2301 Ohio Drive, Suite 100
Plano, Texas, U.S.A. 75096
Auditors
PMB Helin Donovan
221 W Main, #200
Spokane WA 99201
