Position: President & CEO
President and CEO of , Island Arc Exploration, and Navasota Resources;
Involved in the mining industry since 1982, Mr. Gillis brings extensive experience and expertise in business administration and mineral exploration. Mr. Gillis has been the President of James T. Gillis Management Co. Inc. since 1985, a private company which provides management services to public companies. He is the President and CEO of Cassidy Gold Corp., Island Arc Exploration Corp. and Navasota Resources Ltd., a Director of Providence Capital Corp., and a Director of MetroBridge Networks International Inc.
Position: Director, VP Exploration and Business Development
Mr. Ackert, a geologist, has been involved in gold exploration in Africa for over 10 yrs. Mr. Ackert has worked in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Ghana in West Africa, and Tanzania and Kenya in East Africa. Mr. Ackert has worked for several majors in the past including six years as a mine geologist at Barrick's Golden Patricia mine in Northern Ontario. Most recently Mr. Ackert held the positions of vice-president of exploration and vice-president technical services for Orezone Resources Inc.
Position: Director
Geological Engineer with over twenty years of experience in mining and mineral exploration in North and South America and Africa. Mr. Wild is a Director and V.P. Exploration and Chief Operating Officer of Navasota Resources Ltd., Director and VP Exploration of Cassidy Gold Corp. and Island Arc Exploration Corp., and a Director of Providence Capital Corp. Prior to becoming chief mine geologist for the Mount Polley Mine near Likely, BC, he was employed as chief mine geologist at the Goldstream Mine, north of Revelstoke, BC.
Position: East Africa Operations Manager,
Mr. Basha Hifato, is a director of Gold Rim Exploration as well as the President and CEO of Hifato Enterprises Inc., a company devoted to the expansion of knowledge, trade and investment between Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. A graduate of Ottawa's Algonquin College Business Administration program, Mr. Hifato has been a liaison between the Kenyan and Tanzanian High Commissions and prospective investors. Just recently, Basha was instrumental in bringing the Karen Heart Institute from Kenya together with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute to facilitate the sharing of information and equipment. Basha Hifato has built a strong network of contacts within the East African community including current and former government ministers. In Canada Mr. Hifato has been a charter member of the Nepean South Rotary Club and past Vice President of the Secretariat for African Trade Development and Information Services (SATDIS).
Position: Director
Guido ('Guy') Pas is a Belgian financier based in Geneva with 35 yrs of experience in finance, mining and exploration. He was a V.P. of Chase Manhattan Bank (Belgium; France and Switzerland) in structured and commodity finance, from 1973 to 1983. He has been involved in numerous start-up and early-stage resource ventures, including: in 1987 as co-founder of The Addax & Oryx Group Ltd., an integrated African oil group, (its upstream Addax Petroleum now listed (APC;TSX)) and in 2004, Afren Plc, a West African oil & gas company (AFR;AIM). In 1989, as director of Addax & Oryx he co-founded and was the chairman of Samax Resources Ltd, which enjoyed two major gold mine discoveries in Tanzania; Golden Pride now owned and operated by Resolute, and a part of the Geita Gold Mine now owned and operated by AngloGold Ashanti. Samax was acquired by Ashanti in 1998 for US$137M. In 1994 he founded what became Mano River Resources Inc. (MANA;AIM/MNO;TSXV) which discovered the 'New Liberty Gold' deposit in Liberia (1.4M ounces). He co-founded GAIA Resources Fund in 2004.
Position: Corporate Relations and Sustainability
With over 10 years experience in environmental management, Mrs. Turek brings skills that will compliment the team as it moves forward with integrating sustainability principles throughout the corporate culture and business activities. She has supervised large projects and processes in a wide variety of areas and has worked in both the government and non-government sectors. She holds a B.Sc. (1998) in Environmental Chemistry from the University of British Columbia.
Position: Corporate Secretary & CFO
Ms. Silver was a legal assistant until 2002, involved in corporate, mining and securities law, and has been a public company administrator since 1997. She is currently the Corporate Secretary and CFO of Cassidy Gold Corp. and Navasota Resources Corp. and Corporate Secretary, CFO and Director of Island Arc Exploration Corp.,