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Board of Directors
Lithium One's Board of Directors is comprised of mining industry professionals with an impressive history of success in discovery and value creation.
Martin R. Rowley; Chairman of the Board
Mr. Rowley has had a distinguished career for over 25 years in the mining industry, being involved in the financing and development of several successful mines. Most notably Mr. Rowley was a co-founder of First Quantum Minerals Ltd in 1996. First Quantum is a highly successful mining and metals company with operations in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mauritania in Africa, as well as in Finland. Mr. Rowley served as First Quantum's CFO and as a Director until January 2007, and is currently the company's Executive Director, Business Development. He is also non-executive Chairman of Forsys Metals Corp, a leading company in the uranium sector.
Maurice J. Colson; Vice Chairman of the Board
Mr. Colson holds a masters degree in business (M.B.A.) and has been involved in the investment business for more than thirty five years. He was managing director in the U.K. for a major Canadian investment dealer for many years, and in Canada, he has been actively involved in providing strategic counsel and assistance with financing to emerging private and public companies. His network in the resource industry has expanded significantly from Canada ,and he has been actively involved in financing Canadian companies operating in China, Africa, and South America. He sits on the board of several TSE and TSX listed companies and is the former President and CEO of Lithium One Resources.
Patrick Highsmith; President and CEO, Director
Mr. Highsmith is a Geochemist/Geologist with 20 years of multi-commodity minerals industry experience. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geological Engineering and Economic Geology/Geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. Mr. Highsmith brings experience from more than 200 mines and projects in over 20 countries, and he has been directly involved with numerous deals, project start-ups, and financings.
Mr. Highsmith has held positions in mining, exploration, and business development with Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Newmont Mining. He also served as Chief Geochemist and US Manager for ALS Chemex Labs. Most recently he was Global Manager - Exploration Business Development with Newmont before leaving in 2008 to found Intuitive Exploration, Inc. and the BitterRoot Group LLC. In addition to his role at Lithium One, Patrick is also Chairman of Copper One Inc.
Paul Matysek; Director
Mr. Matysek is President and CEO of Potash One, he is an experienced geochemist/geologist with a Bachelor of Science degree and a Masters of Science degree in Geology. Mr. Matysek has held management and director positions with several natural resource exploration and development companies.
Previously Mr. Matysek was the CEO and President of Energy Metals Corporation, a uranium company traded on New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange. During the mid 2000's, Energy Metals became one of the fastest growing companies in Canada, growing from a market capitalization of only $10 million in 2004 to $1.8 billion when it was sold to a larger uranium producer in 2007.
He has been involved in raising over $200 million for various exploration and development projects since 1999. Mr. Matysek is a founder of Lithium One.
Jeff Pontius; Director
Jeff has over 30 year's geological experience and possesses a distinguished track record of successful discovery that includes four precious metal deposits in North America. Significantly, he led the discovery and development team for Cripple Creek Deposit in Colorado, which is operated by AngloGold Ashanti and contains over 15 million ounces of gold. Additionally Jeff led the discovery work on two other Nevada gold deposits as well as the recent discovery of the new Livengood Gold Deposit in Alaska, which now has a total resource of more than 12 million ounces of gold and continues to rapidly expand.
Jeff spent the past three years as the President and CEO of International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. which has made a number of gold and copper-gold discoveries in Alaska and Nevada the most notable of which being the Livengood Gold Deposit. For the seven years prior to this Jeff served as the US and North American Exploration Manager for AngloGold Ashanti as well as participating as a Director of Anglo American (USA) Exploration Inc. and a member of AngloGold Ashanti's regional business development team providing support for the company's acquisition program.
Darren Pylot; Director
Mr. Pylot is the founder of Capstone Mining Corp and in 2006 created Silverstone Resources Corp. He serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for Silverstone, and has been responsible for bringing Capstone's Cozamin base metal mine into production as well as negotiating and securing Silverstone's silver by-product streams agreements. Silverstone's business model of pursuing silver by-product streams and exploration projects are unique in the industry; and in less than 2 years Capstone has increased production at the Cozamin mine by 200%.
Mr. Pylot has over 17 years experience in the management, administration and financing of public companies focusing on the junior resource sector. He has raised over C$200 million in equity financings in the past three years. Mr. Pylot is also a director of East Asia Minerals Corp. a well-financed, Asian-based Canadian mineral exploration company with uranium properties and advanced gold and gold-copper properties, and he serves as Chairman of the Board of Zena Capital Corp.
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