|
|
| Jay Sujir, L.L.B.
Director and Non-executive Chairman
| | | Mr. Sujir is a securities and natural resource lawyer, who has considerable experience in advising and assisting public companies. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Victoria in 1981 and obtained his L.L.B. in 1985. He has been a lawyer in the law firm of Anfield Sujir Kennedy & Durno and its predecessor since August 1986 and has been a partner of that firm since 1991. |
|
| Mark J. Morabito, B.A., L.L.B.
Director
| | | Mr. Morabito is Crosshair's founder and an executive with a background in corporate finance and securities law. He has over 15 years experience in public markets with a strong focus on junior mining and small business venture capital with extensive experience in capital-raising and corporate development.
Mr. Morabito graduated from Simon Fraser University with a B.A. in 1990 and completed his L.L.B. at the University of Western Ontario in 1993. Mr. Morabito has been a Member of both the Ontario Bar and British Columbia Bar since 1995.
After completing his initial training with a full service Toronto law firm, Mr. Morabito practiced law in Vancouver until 2001. His practice focus was on corporate commercial and corporate securities work. Since taking over Crosshair in 2003, Mr. Morabito is directly responsible for raising over $48.8 million and taking the company from a one room office to a company with over 50 employees, a first rate exploration team, an expanding asset base and listings on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange.
Mr. Morabito is also CEO of Target Exploration & Mining Corp., a junior exploration company currently listed on the TSX Venture board, trading under the symbol TEM that has a focus on US uranium projects. |
|
| Ian Smith
Independent Director
| | | Mr. Smith has been a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Fe Metals Corp. since February 2007. He was formerly President, CEO, COO and a director of bcMetals Corp. Mr. Smith has over 40 years experience in corporate, operations and project management and consulting within the international base, precious metals and coal industries. He has worked around the world including Africa, China, southeast Asia and extensively in the Americas. Mr. Smith was President and Founding Partner of 'MRDI' which became one of the largest and most successful mining consultancies in North America. |
|
| David Ying Tat Lee, B.A., M.A.
Independent Director
| | | Mr. Lee holds a B.A. from Occidental College, Los Angeles and a M.A. from California State University. Mr. Lee is a professional banker, his last position being Regional Vice President of British Columbia for Canada Trust from 1995 to 1999. He has operated his own business consulting firm, DMR Financial Corporation, since 1999, specializing in general financial consulting for both public and private companies in Canada and China. He has also provided major financing for international and Canadian projects. |
|
| Leo Power, B.A., MBA
Independent Director
| | | Mr. Power received his MBA from the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program at York University. Mr. Power has a combined 5 years experience in direct employment with the Government of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and another 15 years as an independent Newfoundland and Labrador based business and government relations consultant. Mr. Power served as Senior Assistant to the Honourable John C. Crosbie (1984-1989) during Mr. Crosbie's tenure in the federal portfolios of Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada, Minister of Transport and Minister of International Trade. He also acted as Principal Secretary to the former Premier of Newfoundland, the Honourable Tom Rideout, during his term of office in 1989, with wide ranging responsibilities including: coordination of federal-provincial activities, responsibility for political staff in both the Premier's office and Ministers' offices, and acting as senior contact person for provincial cabinet, bureaucracy, business community and interest groups.
Mr. Power has a number of business interests throughout Newfoundland & Labrador. |
|
| Chris Collingwood, BComm
Independent Director
| | | Chris Collingwood is the Chairman and CEO of Baine Johnston Corp. ("Baine Johnston"), a privately held Newfoundland firm. Baine Johnston is active in commercial and industrial real estate, commercial insurance, Leon's Furniture Ltd. Franchised Operations for Newfoundland and has investments in a number of other Newfoundland companies.
Baine Johnston also owns Cape Harrison Marine Limited ("CHML") of which Mr. Collingwood is Chairman and CEO. CHML has boats that service the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia, and also operates tugs that handle the oil tankers that supply the Come By Chance Refinery/North Atlantic Petroleum.
Mr. Collingwood is a board member of a number of Newfoundland and Labrador companies including Consilient Technologies Ltd. and Pan Maritime Energy Services Inc. He is also a past public director of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada ("IDA"). |
|
| Derrick (Rick) Gill, BComm
Independent Director
| | | From 1995 to 2007, Mr. Gill was executive vice president and a director of Voisey's Bay Nickel Company Inc. (VBNC). His principle responsibility was government relations and public affairs. He was a member of the 3 person team that negotiated the Voisey's Bay Development Agreement with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and was chief negotiator for the Impacts and Benefits Agreements with the Nunatsiavut Government and the Innu Nation.
Mr. Gill was executive vice president and director of Diamond Fields Resources Inc. (DFR) in 1995 and 1996. He was the resident executive of DFR for the Voisey's Bay project in Newfoundland and Labrador with specific responsibilities for government and aboriginal relations. He also managed corporate communications and was company spokesperson with the news and financial trade media during the takeover battle between Inco and Falconbridge for the $4.3 billion acquisition of VBNC. Mr. Gill has more than 30 years experience as an executive and director of public and private companies operating throughout North and South America. Mr. Gill is a principal consultant and director of Strategic Concepts Inc. (SCI), which provides strategic planning, financial modeling and business development services to numerous resource companies. Mr. Gill co-founded SCI in 1990. |
|
| Ron Atlas
Independent Director
| | | Mr. Atlas is the Chairman and CEO of Universal. Mr. Atlas received his CPA designation from the University of Illinois and his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University in Chicago Illinois. Mr. Atlas is an independent businessperson and an Attorney in the State of Illinois, U.S.A. |
|
| |
