The Company’s officers, directors, project geologists and consultants combine to form a group of trained professionals with years of successful natural resource company financing, exploration and production experience.
President & Director
Brad Moynes has been instrumental in developing the corporate structure required to meet future business development and financial requirements of the company as it commences its exploration and drilling programs on the Big Hammer Gold, Silver Bay and Kshish Copper properties. He brings to Jet Gold over 15 years of public finance and corporate management experience and has served as a Director of several public companies that focus on the Canadian natural resource sector; including gold, silver, zinc, petroleum and other industrial metals.
Consulting Project Geologist
Alex Burton is a professional geologist and engineer with over 50 years of extensive experience in mining exploration and development. After holding management positions with Noranda, Copper Range Exploration and Phelps Dodge (Canada), he formed his own mining consulting company in 1974. He is considered an expert in geology and geochemistry and has planned and supervised numerous field programs for many companies on diverse types of mineral properties in many different countries. He has extensive experience in setting up major exploration programs and bringing mineral deposits into production. Mr. Burton teaches the placer mining courses for BCIT/BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines and is a founding member of the Association of Exploration Geochemists. He is a member of other professional associations and has held executive positions with them.
Big Hammer Gold
Mr. Strachan, with more than 35 years as an Economic Geologist and Hydrogeologist, has acquired extensive experience from all corners of the globe. Mr. Strachan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Geology in 1973 from California State University, Fresno and received his Masters in geology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro in 1976. In late 2009, Donald visited the Big Hammer property and prepared an internal report on the gold and tellurium potential which inspired the Company to move forward vigorously to the next stage of development.
Director
Zigurts Strauss has an extensive background in sports, medicine and venture investing. His medical career has spanned three decades. A former Canadian Olympic decathlete, Dr. Strauss was an early proponent of sports medicine, thermal imaging and pain management. As a corollary, he consulted to a variety of companies in the area of nutritional product development. Dr. Strauss’ entrepreneurial background includes his involvement in software and technology ventures. He has been an active market investor since his teens. During 1989 and 1990 he concentrated on commodity trading. He has served as a director and consultant for publicly traded Skina Resources, has been instrumental in a number of IPOs and has raised capital for both private and public ventures. Dr. Strauss’ diverse background, experience and contacts brings demonstrated value to the Company’s board.
Director
Mr. Lecky has been involved in the development of a number of previous resource ventures and has been instrumental in the establishment and development of corporate partnerships and relationships on their behalf. He also serves as a Director of RainChief Energy Inc. Previously, Mr. Lecky has directed major projects for four World Expositions and an Olympic Games. He has been involved in various projects for the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, Gettysburg National Park, the Ford Museum and the Museum of Civilization. He has also acted for a number of major corporate clients, including Fluor Corporation, Air Canada, Boeing, Coors/Molson and Intrawest Properties.
Chief Financial Officer
Blaine Bailey received his Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours) from the University of Manitoba in 1977 and qualified for the CGA designation in British Columbia in 1983. He has served in the capacity of accountant for Molson Brewery (BC), controller for Nabob Coffee and is currently CFO and Director of Qumana Software Inc. (Formerly ThoughtShare Communications Inc.) He is a management consultant specializing in providing financial and administrative services for medium to small public and private companies.
Legal Counsel
Peter Jensen serves as the company’s corporate and legal advisor and is a member of the Bacchus Law Group. He has broad international legal counseling experience and a depth of knowledge in trans-border transactions for Canadian and US companies wishing to become US or Canadian reporting and trading issuers. He also has extensive experience in conducting legal affairs for clients in the Orient, Europe, Africa and Latin America and has served as a director of companies with capitalization in the hundreds of millions of dollars.