Management

Benjamin Ascuncion

CEO, DIRECTOR

Mr. Asuncion has over 17 years of experience in the capital markets and natural resources sector. Since 2017, he has acted as principal of a private company that provides management consulting services to public companies and has held senior management, board of director and advisory roles with several public companies in the mineral exploration, healthcare, technology, and life sciences sectors. From 2007 through 2016, Mr. Asuncion acted as a mining analyst with Haywood Securities Inc.

Joel Leonard

CFO

Founding Partner of JCL Partners Chartered Professional Accountants located in Vancouver. Joel has developed an extensive background in finance and accounting with a focus on financial reporting and internal control implementation. Joel completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Thompson Rivers University and later received his CPA designation from the CA School of Business. Joel has spent the past three years consulting for publicly traded entities listed on various exchanges including the NYSE, TSX, TSX-V and the CSE.

Tim Heenan, QP-Geo

DIRECTOR

Mr. Heenan has over 30 years of exploration experience, mostly within Central and South America, with a focus in Chile and Argentina. Over his career, he has worked within a wide range of companies from junior through mid-tier and also major multinationals both as an employee and consultant. He has worked in all aspects of exploration from grassroots through advanced exploration and he was directly involved in several discoveries, including the famous Cerro Negro Mining District in the Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina and several other high-profile projects throughout the region.

Martin Kowcun, P.Eng

DIRECTOR

Mr. Kowcun has over 19 years of experience as a Sr. Process, Facility and Project Engineer in operation, technical support, plant design and project management of upstream raw-material processing facilities in Western Canada. He currently provides comprehensive on-site engineering support to Operations & Maintenance teams in Heavy Oil (SAGD) processing plants with major Canadian Oil Producers; Cenovus and Suncor Energy. He previously worked with consulting firms on projects for Exxon Mobile, Chevron, EnCana, PennWest and Conoco-Phillips.