Advisors

Mr. Terry Salman has 35 years of experience in exploration finance. He currently serves as Chairman of the Essential Needs Foundation and CEO of Salman Partners Inc. Mr. Salman began his career with Nesbitt Thomson, where he rose to the position of Executive Vice-President and Director, overseeing all corporate and government finance activities in the Pacific Rim and Western North America. He was responsible for underwriting activities, including mergers and acquisitions, valuations, and private placements. After leaving Nesbitt Thomson, he founded Salman Partners, where he served as President, CEO, and Co-Director of Research, helping to raise over $20 billion for more than 400 exploration and mining companies.

Today, Mr. Salman is the President and CEO of Salman Capital Inc. He was honored with the 2016 Murray Pezim Award for his outstanding career in Canadian mining finance and was inducted into the Cambridge House Resource Hall of Fame in 2018. Additionally, Mr. Salman is the Chair Emeritus of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation, Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Singapore, and has held various leadership roles in numerous charities. He also served as the former Chairman of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. A Vietnam veteran, Mr. Salman served with the United States Marine Corps. He was recently appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to mining exploration and his generous philanthropy and community activism. In November 2021, he received the Public Service Star from the President of Singapore at the National Day Awards Investiture.

Robert Willis has worked in the mineral resources industry for more than 35 years and currently holds the role of Senior Advisor for Sun Summit Minerals. He has founded several junior mining companies, including Pioneer Metals Corp., Manhattan Minerals Corp, Geologix Exploration, and San Marco Resources (now Sun Summit Minerals), where he held a variety of executive roles such as President, Director and CEO. Under his leadership, he successfully acquired and managed the startup of several producing mines, including the Stibnite heap leach gold mine (Idaho) and the Moris open pit heap leach gold property (Mexico), as well as advanced exploration at the Silbak Premier gold and silver property (Golden Triangle, B.C.) and the Tambo Grande copper-gold VMS deposit (Peru). Mr. Willis graduated in 1973 from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.

Christopher Leslie is an economic geologist with experience in project generation, project evaluation and district-scale targeting in porphyry to epithermal environments. Past roles included Vice President Exploration for Tower Resources Ltd., Senior Project Geologist for Richfield Ventures Corp. where he was an integral member of the discovery team at the Blackwater Gold Mine, as well as roles in mineral exploration and government geoscience, working on numerous deposit styles both in grassroots exploration and in production. Mr. Leslie has a Ph.D. in economic geology from CODES, University of Tasmania, an M.Sc. in geological sciences from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in geological sciences from the University of Alberta. Mr. Leslie is a registered Professional Geoscientist with APEGBC.