Management and Directors
Gordon Blankstein (MBA)
CEO & Chairman
Gordon Blankstein holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Blankstein is an international financier having founded several startup companies, overseen their growth and ultimate disposition. He has over 30 years experience in the capital markets both in Canada and the United States where he has had roles ranging from Directorships to Chairman and CEO roles. Most notably these include ICG, GST Telecom, NACT Telecom and Bestel SA de CV,. Mr. Blankstein was nominated as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and has assumed these roles. Blankstein is also the founder and remains active in the Mountainview Conservation Society.
Mark Bloom
Director
Mark Bloom is a senior investment advisor with a strong background in compliance and finance. Presently, he is a Director on a number of hedge funds including Da Vinci Global Futures Fund, Da Vinci Capital Management, Da Vinci FX Futures Fund and Da Vinci FX Capital (collectively “Da Vinci”). Da Vinci is a Swiss licensed financial intermediary that offers Swiss private banking services including portfolio advice and discretionary accounts to a number of select clientele. As well, Bloom is a Founder and Senior Advisor of Amici International Corp that specializes in mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) consulting, raising capital for hedge funds and product structuring. Other job responsibilities include portfolio construction, marketing, general corporate business matters, scripting resource newsletters and as an advisory on M&A activity in the mining sector. Bloom holds an Honors degree in Business Studies from Greenwich University and Research Masters in Economics from Tokyo University.
Michael R. Carter
General Manager Chief Consolidated Utath
Mr. Carter has extensive industry experience with many mining companies since his graduation, with a B.S.Geology from the University of Idaho. He is a past Director of the Nevada Mining Association and the South Dakota Mining Association. During the last 40 years his management positions have included the following;
- Capital Gold Inc. – Contract Consultant (Gold – Open Pit 7500 tpd)
- Alamos Gold Inc. – General Manager/ Project Manager Malatos (Gold – Open Pit 10,000 tpd)
- Geomaque Exploration Ltd. – Vice President Operations (Gold – Open Pit)
- Coeur d’Alene Mines – Mine Manager (Gold/ Silver – Open Pit)
- Occidental Minerals Corporation – Project Manager (Gold/ Silver – Open Pit)
William L. Iggiagruk Hensley.
Director
Mr. Hensley is a native Alaskan born in Kotzebue, Alaska. He attended the University of Alaska for two years before graduating with a BA from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He also has an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alaska.
Mr. Hensley has devoted life long attention to Alaskan Native affairs. He spearheaded the formation of the Northwest Alaskan Native Association in 1966. He also served in various positions for 40 years with the Alaska Federation of Natives, the organization that represented the 100,000 Alaskan Natives in pursuit of their land claims. These positions included Director, Executive Director, President, President Emeritus and Chairman. This work resulted in the passage of the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971 which provided a payment of approximately $ 1 Billion dollars and 44 million acres of land to corporations owned, controlled and operated by Alaskan Natives. Mr. Hensley also helped create the NANA Regional Corporation, where over a 20 year period he has acted in various positions including as a Director, Executive and President. The NANA Regional Corporation oversees the 2.4 million acres of NANA land and the money received from the Alaskan Native Land Settlement Act.
Dr. Stewart Jackson
Director
Dr. Stewart Jackson is an accomplished mining professional with over 49 years of experience in the exploration and development of mineral deposits and in the management of public companies. His extensive background includes involvement in a number of significant resource findings including uranium oxide, molybdenum and nickel resources in Sweden; nickel sulphide deposits in northern British Columbia, Canada; gold discoveries in Washington State, USA; and zinc-lead deposits in western Alaska, USA. Jackson holds a Professional Geologist (P. Geol.) registration in Alberta, Canada. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science (Geology) from the University of Western Ontario; Masters of Science in Stratigraphy and Mineral Deposits from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Stratigraphy and Economic Geology from the University of Alberta.
David J. Lajack, (B.S., Central Michigan University)
Director
Mr. Lajack has worked in lode mineral exploration since the early 1980′s. In 1985 he founded a successful prospecting syndicate (Lajack and Associates) which still has active properties in Alaska. Lajack is a founding member and President of Royal Pretoria Gold Ltd., a private exploration company, incorporated in Alaska in August 2000. Lajack has worked as a consultant in the industry and has co-authored and published papers on geology and geochemistry.
Peter Legault
Director
Peter Legault of Toronto, Ontario, has had a long career as an investment banker; Mr. Legault’s career includes tenures at both bulge bracket investment banking houses and Canadian Independently owned and operated firms. Prior to his role in investment banking Legault also served in the role as an investment analyst, and has extensive experience in serving on companies Board of Directors and in mergers and acquisitions.
Bradley C. Peek., B.Sc., Geology, M.Sc., Geology
General Manager, SUN Project Alaska
Mr. Peek has extensive industry experience with multiple mining companies since his graduation with a B.Sc., Geology from the University of Nebraska followed by his M.Sc., Geology from the University of Alaska. Mr. Peek has also completed a Hazardous Waste Management program at Colorado School of Mines.
Mr. Peek’s 35 years work experience includes employment with Cominco American Inc, Houston Oil and Minerals, Tenneco Minerals, and Crown Resources among others.
Manfred Schauer
Director
Mr. Schauer has over 40 years of experience in the financial and investment industry, including 15 years with the Deutsche Bank group culminating as Regional Treasurer Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. He now manages his own consultancy business from New Zealand advising companies and entrepreneurs in the technology and metal mining/exploration fields.
Kent Turner
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Turner received his Bachelor’s degree in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University and his Master’s degree in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and a member of the Alaska Miners Associations and the Northwest Mining Association. Mr. Turner has been actively involved in all phases of the mineral exploration business for more than 30 years. Mr. Turner spent much of his professional career with Cominco American (Teck Resources Ltd.).
Mr. Turner has worked on many successful exploration and development projects. These include making significant contributions to the discovery and development of several major gold, copper and zinc deposits. Examples include the Paalaaq and Anarraq zinc-lead deposits in the Red Dog District, (Alaska), the Pebble Copper deposit (Alaska), Kinsley gold deposit (Nevada), Pogo gold deposit (Alaska), Summitville gold deposit (Colorado) and the Jerrit Canyon gold deposits (Nevada).
Roland Vetter
CFO
Roland Vetter Chief Financial Officer for Andover Mining Corp.
Roland’s entrée into the Mining Industry began in South Africa as Group Financial Services Director for Zimco, a Division of Anglo American Corporation. He was also a former Chairman of the Anglo American Audit Liaison Committee. Roland spent twelve years with Zimco before emigrating to Canada in 1998.
Prior Positions have included roles of Chief Financial Officer, President and Board Director for companies such as Cardinal Minerals Inc., a producing Copper & Silver Mine in Mexico; Globtech Ventures Corp., which is involved in mining exploration in Brazil.
As an executive with a significant background in developing start-up companies, Mr. Vetter specialises in mining, with the skill to highlight opportunities and find innovative solutions to successfully grow such companies.
He has diverse financial and operational ability at an executive level, including specialist skills in completing due diligence, business plans and fund-raising. His expertise includes assimilating and rationalising operations as well as implementing projects, mergers, acquisitions and disposals. He has been responsible for risk management, internal controls, corporate-governance and optimising funding structures including corporate tax planning.
Roland holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce and a Bachelors degree in Accounting Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of South Africa and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, Canada.
Sherman Young, B.Sc. Geo.
Director
Young graduated from Pepperdine School of Law and is licensed to practice law in the States of Utah and Colorado. He is a partner in the firm Ivie & Young located in Provo, Utah. This firm has represented Chief Consolidated Mining Co. (“Chief”) since the late 1970′s. Young has an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah with a minor in geology. After graduation Young worked for nearly a decade in the mining industry for the Geologic/ Raw Materials Exploration Division of United States Steel Corporation. These exploration activities covered the Western United States seeking deposits of iron, copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, uranium, gold, silver and other base and precious metals, using radiometric, geochemical, geophysical, and other state of the art technologies. Young has also supervised and worked on numerous drilling projects, seeking to define the extent and grade of known ore deposits.