Board of Directors

Mr. Kennedy, B.Comm., J.D., is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. After an initial career at the Federal Department of Justice, Mr. Kennedy has primarily focused as a legal, financial and business consultant to publicly-traded companies. Mr. Kennedy is also an officer and/or director of several TSX-V publicly traded companies.

Mr. Rees, B.Comm, has been involved with public resource companies since 1998. Mr. Rees also serves as President of WellStar Energy Corp. and serves as Director for several other resource companies.

Mr. Smoliak is a Chartered Public Accountant (Chartered Accountant and Certified Management Accountant) with over 40 years experience in public practice and industry. He has broad experience in finance and management, international business experience and has held senior management positions in private and public companies.  Mr. Smoliak graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accounting and Management Information Systems. After university he spent five years with the Chartered Accounting firm Thorne Riddell (later merged to be KPMG) working in the areas of auditing, taxation and business valuations. He then set up and operated his own successful public accounting practice.

Mr. Harder is a capital markets and corporate lawyer and practices in association with Caravel Law, a Canada-wide business law firm. He is active in corporate governance and is and has been an independent director, committee member and special committee member of numerous reporting and private companies.  Glen brings 35 years of international experience in mining law, contracts, corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, government relations, native relations, marketing and capital raising. He has developed leading strategies to drive performance through excellence in corporate governance, partnership, joint venture management and good business practice.