Management

Brian Kerzner

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Kerzner has over 23 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur in retailing and real estate. Mr. Kerzner is the Founder and President of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Canada Inc., which operates retail chocolate stores from coast to coast in Canada. He has also founded several other private companies that have completed extensive residential and commercial development in Toronto, Phoenix, Whistler and Vancouver. Mr Kerzner has been extensively involved in providing seed capital for many successful public and private companies in the resources, environmental and technology sectors. He currently sits on the board of directors of Pan Global Resources and Indico Resources.

Mr. Kerzner is an Honours graduate of the University of Toronto Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) program and was a Director of Norsemont Mining Inc. He is also a member of the BC Children’s Hospital Circle of Care and is actively involved in many other charitable organizations.


Scott Ross

Corporate Secretary & Interim Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Ross has many years of experience working with public and private companies. From 1988 to 1999 he served as Manager, Development for Canlan Investment Corporation, a public real estate development company specializing in the construction and management of recreational ice rink facilities across North America and golf course residential development in British Columbia. Since 2001 he has served as Vice-President and Director of Rosstree Capital Corporation, a private investment holding company and he is currently a Director and President and Chief Executive Officer of Bearclaw Capital Corp., a reporting issuer on the TSXV. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario


Hector Arenas

General Manager, Compania Minera Prism Peru SAC

Mr. Arenas is a mining engineer with over 25 years experience focused in finance. He holds experience in both the technical and financial environments, bringing with him a unique perspective to mining projects. Mr. Arenas is currently Managing Director of Cia. Minera San Valentin and General Manager of Compania Minera Prism Peru SAC. He is also a financial and technical consultant for several mining and exploration projects currently being developed in Peru. During the last 25 years Mr. Arenas has been involved in different roles such as treasury management, financial restructuring, financial controller, syndicated term loans, capital markets, M&A and strategic planning for different companies, mainly mining and power companies. His knowledge of Peru’s banking system and local capital markets aa well as his contacts in the financial markets make Mr. Arenas a valuable asset to the company.

Mr. Arenas is a mining engineer graduated from The Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (Peru) and holds a MBA from ESAN (Peru).