Board of Directors
Darin Wagner
President, CEO & Director
Mr. Wagner is a Professional Geologist with 25 years of exploration and corporate development experience. Mr. Wagner spent the first 10 years of his career with two of Canada’s largest and most successful exploration and mining companies (Noranda (now Glencore) and Cominco (now Teck)) as a project geologist and manager in North and South America.
In 1999 Mr. Wagner became Vice-President, Exploration for New Millennium Metals Corp. which was successfully merged with Platinum Group Metals Ltd. in 2002. Mr. Wagner served as Exploration Manager for TSX-listed Platinum Group Metals through the acquisition, discovery, and early phase of delineation of the multi-million ounce West Bushveld PGE deposit in South Africa.
Mr. Wagner became President of Sydney Resource Corp. in September 2005 and helped engineer the successful merger between Sydney and Band Ore Resources to form West Timmins Mining Inc. in 2006. He then served as a President, CEO, Director, and Qualified Person for West Timmins Mining through the discovery of the high-grade Thunder Creek gold deposit in Timmins, Ontario and the acquisition of West Timmins by Lake Shore Gold in an all share deal valued at $424 million, which was completed in November of 2009.
Mr. Wagner and the Balmoral team have been twice recognized as Explorers of the Year in Quebec for Balmoral’s Martiniere Gold and Grasset Nickel discoveries. Mr. Wagner and the team at Platinum Group Metals were awarded the NWOPA Explorer of the Year Award in 2004 for the Seagull Pt-Pd discovery near Thunder Bay, Ontario. In addition to his duties with Balmoral Mr. Wagner currently serves as the Chairman of VR Resources, was a co-founder Falco Resources, and a founding director of NewCastle Gold.
Daniel MacInnis
Chair of the Board of Directors
Mr. MacInnis recently retired as the President and CEO of TSX-listed MAG Silver Corp. During his tenure at MAG, he directed the financing of over $140 million dollars, and led one of the silver sector’s most successful explorers through the discovery of the high-grade Juanicipio/Valdecanas silver veins and the Upper Manto and Pegaso silver, lead and zinc mantos at Cinco de Mayo in Mexico. Mr. MacInnis has forty years’ experience in mineral exploration worldwide. He has managed and directed multi-million dollar exploration programs for MAG Silver, Noranda Exploration, Battle Mountain Gold/Hemlo Gold, and Sargold Resources. Mr. MacInnis has extensive global experience in property acquisitions and joint venture, management and operation. A significant number of mineral discoveries have been made under his guidance, including gold and base metal deposits in the US, Canada and Mexico. Mr. MacInnis is a Registered Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo) and is a graduate of Saint Francis Xavier University with a BSc. in Geology.
Graeme Currie
Director
Mr. Currie most recently served as Director, Investment Banking at
Canaccord Genuity Limited where he concentrated specifically on the
junior mining sector. He retired from Canaccord in August 2012. Prior to
his role in investment banking Mr. Currie was with Canaccord as a
Senior Mining Analyst for over 22 years, focusing specifically on the
junior mining sector. Mr. Currie brings to the Board over three decades
of experience evaluating junior exploration and development companies
worldwide and extensive knowledge of the capital markets as they relate
to the mineral exploration and development industry.
Mr.
Currie currently serves as Chairman of the Board and Director of Pure Gold Mining.
Lawrence W. Talbot
Director
Mr. Talbot is a mining lawyer with over 23 years experience representing
a wide range of clients in the mining industry, from individual
prospectors and junior and mid-size explorers and producers through to
major mining companies, in both the hard-rock and industrial mineral
fields. He has extensive experience acting for public natural resource
companies and providing advice on all aspects of their businesses,
including corporate finance, securities and regulatory matters,
corporate governance and shareholder issues, and all aspects of
corporate acquisitions, takeovers, divestitures and reorganizations.
He is a director of Minaurum Gold Inc. and was previously a director of Cardero Resources Corp and Pedro Resources Ltd. He serves as Vice President and General Counsel of Corvus Gold Ltd. and Wealth Minerals Ltd. Prior to July 1, 2006, he was a partner in one of
Canada’s largest law firms, and now acts as general counsel to a select
group of public companies.
Bryan Disher
Director
Bryan Disher (CPA,CA) spent 38 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Canada, Australia and Ukraine. He was admitted to partnership in PwC Canada in 1991 and from 2011 until his retirement in June 2015 was a partner with PwC Central and Eastern Europe, where he served as both Managing Partner of its 400+ person Ukrainian practice and leader of its Ukrainian audit and assurance group.
Mr. Disher worked in PwC’s Mining and Metals practice in Canada and Ukraine, serving both privately held and Canadian and US listed companies. He has assisted companies with initial public offerings and secondary offerings in both Canada and the US, going private transactions, acquisitions, audit, financial reporting and regulatory compliance and filings.
Mr. Disher was elected to PwC Canada’s Partnership Board in 2001 and his 8 years on the Board included a term as Chair of the Board. He was elected to the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, where he served as Chair and Vice-Chair, and also served on a number of not-for-profit boards in Canada.
Mr. Disher is currently a Director and Audit Committee Chair of Lexington Biosciences, Inc.
