Board of Directors

John Paterson currently a private investor and advisor. Mr. Paterson is an advisor to private and public companies and sits on the board of directors of the Company among others. Mr. Paterson has extensive experience in business and financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and business strategy. He spent his professional career in banking in Toronto, New York, Asia and the UK. He is a graduate of McGill University and currently lives in Toronto.

Chartered Accountant

Mr. Levin has been an Officer and Director of many publicly-traded Canadian resource companies. He began his career in public accounting at Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young and is a certified chartered accountant in South Africa. Gadi holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Cape Town and the University of South Africa and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.

Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, is Villanova University’s first Provost. In this role, Dr. Maggitti serves as the number two officer of the University and its Chief Academic Officer, leads the University’s overall strategic efforts, and has oversight of the academic enterprise including six colleges and academic areas such as Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Research, Student Life, Enrollment Management, Falvey Library, the Career Center, the Honors Program, Decision Support and Data Integrity, and Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness.

Dr. Maggitti previously served as the Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova School of Business, spearheading its 2015 ranking as the #1 undergraduate business school in the U.S. by BloombergBusinessweek. A faculty member at the University since 2008, he holds the rank of Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and is the founder and former Carmen and Sharon Danella Director of the Villanova Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE Center).

A widely recognized scholar in entrepreneurship and strategic management, Dr. Maggitti has authored numerous publications for premier journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies and the Academy of Management Journal, widely considered the field’s most elite research publication. He is also cited and published in numerous popular media outlets. His research interests focus on two areas: The dynamic nature of competition between organizations; and the manner in which executive and top manager’s characteristics, processes and behaviors influence strategic decision-making, innovation, creative problem-solving, and financial performance.

Mike Silver has 20 years of resource sector experience, including co-founding companies, advising, structuring, and executing on billions of dollars in value-enhancing M&A transactions and industry-leading financings across a full array of product groups and commodities. Previously, Mike led HSBC’s Americas mining advisory franchise. Prior to HSBC, he held similar roles with Stifel GMP Securities, BMO Metals & Mining, as well as BofA Merrill Lynch Investment Banking. Mike has an MBA from RSM Erasmus University (Netherlands), and a BComm from Dalhousie University (Canada).