Joseph Mullin, CEO and Director, QuestEx Gold & Copper Ltd. Joseph Mullin has served as the CEO of QuestEx Gold & Copper Ltd. since August 2019. He is a Partner and Director of Mount Arvon Partners LLC, and he was previously the CEO and Director of Buckingham Copper Corp. He is an Independent Director of Industria Metals. and Pure Energy Minerals Limited. Mr. Mullin has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, private equity, restructuring, resources and consulting. He has served as a Consultant, Trust Advisory Committee Member, Chief Restructuring Officer, Creditor Committee Member and executive to several companies through Joseph E. Mullin LLC. He began his career as a Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance Department at Goldman Sachs, was a Private Equity Analyst at WL Ross / Invesco Ltd. and a Portfolio Manager at Millennium Global Investments Ltd. He has a B.A. from Harvard University.

Dr. Barresi is a geologist with over fifteen years of precious and base metal exploration experience. He has conducted successful exploration programs on grassroots and brownfield projects, and specializes in exploring for porphyry, epithermal gold and volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) style deposits. Dr. Barresi obtained his B.Sc. (honours) from Saint Mary’s University in 2004 and Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2015. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the interplay between island-arc evolution and mineral deposit formation in northwestern British Columbia, including within the prolific Golden Triangle where many of QuestEx’s key properties are situated. Dr. Barresi was awarded the prestigious Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award for his Ph.D. thesis by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and the Geological Association of Canada (GAC). Dr. Barresi was previously President and Director of Triumph Gold Corp. During his tenure at Triumph he built a fifty person team of explorers and support personnel who are credited with discoveries of the high grade Blue Sky and WAu Breccias, which yielded some of the best greenfield drill intersections globally in 2018 and 2019. Dr. Barresi continues to act as a Technical Advisor for Triumph Gold Corp., and is an outside Director of ArcWest Exploration Inc.

Cecil R. Bond is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 25 years of professional experience in public and private companies. He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Cape Town in 1981. Mr. Bond currently serves as a director and Executive Vice President Finance of Rugby Mining Limited (Rugby) and holds senior executive positions in a number of private companies. His recent experience is in the junior mining industry, where he served as a director, Chief Financial Officer or senior executive of a number of public companies, notably Exeter Resource Corp., Extorre Gold Mines Ltd, Argosy Minerals Ltd, Argosy Mining Corp., Mzuri Energy Corp and Kibo Mining., Over the last 20 years he has held various positions with public exploration companies with projects and discoveries in Canada, South America, Africa, Europe and Australia. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Rugby until 2009, and then served as a Director until 2012. Prior to his re-appointment as a director of Rugby in March 2018, he served as an Advisor of Rugby, where the team of highly experienced directors and explorers is focused on the Cobrasco Copper Porphyry in the Choco Copper Belt in Colombia, the Otways Gold Project in Pilbara, Australia and the San Antonio Gold Project in the Mid-Cauca Gold Belt in Colombia. Mr. Bond was the Chief Financial Officer of Exeter Resource Corp. from 2005 until 2017, during which time he aided in the discovery and advancement of the enormous Caspiche copper-gold sulphide project. Exeter was purchased by Goldcorp Inc. in 2017 in order to cultivate the true value of the project. He successfully managed capital raisings and the spin out of Exeter’s high grade goldsilver Cerro Moro project in Argentina to Extorre Gold Mines Ltd., which was taken over by Yamana Gold in 2012.

Ms. Earle is an Investor Relations professional and a geologist. She spent several years in the field prior to making the transition into the corporate side of the mining industry. She received her Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of British Columbia and her Certified Professional Investor Relations designation from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. Currently, Ms. Earle is Vice President, Communications for Skeena, a TSX-listed development-stage mining company that’s revitalizing the past-producing Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia. She’s a founding member of the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance (BCRMA), a regional partnership between Aboriginal groups, industry and provincial government representatives to promote mining investment in the Golden Triangle of northwest BC and the Founding Industry Advisory Board Chair for CASERM (Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models), a new I/UCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center) between the Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech, backed by the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Wilson has worked in the mining industry for over 30 years in geological and financial analyst positions. He has held senior management and executive positions in resource exploration and mining companies. Mr. Wilson was CEO and President of St. Genevieve Resources and Gee Ten Ventures Inc., and Director of Spider Resources, his previous financial roles include being a Mining Analyst for C.M Oliver and Dominick & Dominick Securities Inc. and as a corporate Finance Specialist for Thames Capital. Mr. Wilson is currently the Director of Exploration and Business Development of Centerra Gold Corp, and a director of Doubleview Capital and Dynasty Gold Corp.

Mr. Thiessen, a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, has over 23 years of international accounting and finance experience, with the last 16 years in the mining industry. His experience has included holding the position of CFO for a number of publicly-listed mineral companies including Aurcana Corporation, SnipGold Corp. (acquired by Seabridge Gold in 2016), Metallic Minerals Corp., Group Ten Metals Inc., Granite Creek Copper Ltd. and Foran Mining Corporation. Prior to this, Mr. Thiessen spent 7 years as VP of Finance for Endeavour Financial Ltd., an advisory firm in the mining industry that specialized in mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings, being part of a team that spawned industry-leading companies such as Wheaton Precious Metals Corp., UrAsia Energy Ltd., Peak Gold Ltd. and Coastal Energy Corp.  

Mr. Fleming has over 35 years’ experience in the generation, management and implementation of successful mineral exploration throughout North America. He began his career with Amax Minerals/Canamax Resources Inc., an exploration group responsible for Yukon exploration and development at the Ketza River Gold Mine and Sa Dena Hes zinclead-silver mine. Mr. Fleming has worked with several major mining companies, including Cyprus Canada and Kennecott Canada. More recently, he was part of exploration and development at the Meadowbank Gold Deposit with Cumberland Resources Ltd. (acquired by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. in 2007) as well as Vice President of Exploration for Foran Mining from 2011 to 2018. Mr. Fleming is a Professional Geoscientist with the APEGBC and holds a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia.