Stephen Akerfeldt
Stephen Akerfeldt became the Chief Executive Officer on January 11, 2008. He has also served on the Board of Directors since September 12, 2006 and as Chairman in June 2007. Mr. Akerfeldt is currently a member of the board of Jura Energy Corporation which is an oil and gas exploration company based in Calgary, Canada. In 1998 he became part owner and currently serves as a director and president of Ritz Plastics Inc. which produces plastic injection molded parts used primarily in the automotive industry. In 1991, Mr. Akerfeldt and certain partners acquired two major chains of dry cleaning operations in the Toronto, Ontario marketplace which were then sold in 2003. Mr. Akerfeldt has worked as a business consultant to various companies and entrepreneurs since the mid-1990¹s. From 1987 to 1990 Mr. Akerfeldt was Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Magna International Inc. a multi-billion dollar public company auto parts manufacturer. Mr. Akerfeldt joined the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand in 1965 and from 1974 through 1987 he was a partner in the firm¹s Toronto office. His accounting practice included a broad range of clients including investment dealers, public mining companies, insurance companies, public oil and gas producers and manufacturing companies, both public and private. Mr. Akerfeldt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo and became a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1970.
Scott Dockter
Scott Dockter is the company Founder and Chief Operations Officer. Additionally, he served as the Chief Executive Officer from November 1996 until February 2000, and December 2000 until January 2008, as well as Chairman from December 2000 until June 2007.
He has held a Class A General Engineering and Contracting License for more than 20 years, operating his businesses in California, Nevada and Montana. Specializing in earth moving, mining and pipeline projects, Mr. Dockter has directed his companies in large landfill operations, underground concrete structures projects, large excavations and reclamation projects. He has worked on state and local municipal projects, oil & gas projects and has spent 15 years in the mining industry. He has personally owned mines, operated mines, constructed mine infrastructures (physical, production and process) and produced precious metals.
James W. Kluber
James W. Kluber has been the Chief Financial Officer of Firstgold Corp. since February 2000. Additionally, he served as a director from April 2000 to June of 2007. Mr. Kluber has served as a senior financial consultant in a variety of service and technology environments with special focus on high growth companies and restructuring operations. He has successfully raised capital for companies in a variety of markets, utilizing public and private equity as well as securitized and unsecured debt to accomplish funding requirements. Mr. Kluber has over 30 years of financial experience in both public accounting and the private sector.
Stephen Tibbals
Stephen R. Tibbals is the Mine Manager for the Relief Canyon mine site. Mr. Tibbals has served as a mining engineer and mine manager for several other mining companies during his 30+ year mining career. He has a B.S. in Mining Engineering from Mackay School of Mines (University of Nevada - Reno), and extensive knowledge of all aspects of mining operations.
Terry Lynch
Mr. Lynch has spent the last fifteen years operating start up companies in Industrial Products, (Pallet Pallet TSE) Oil & Gas (Pacific Tiger TSXV), and Media (Prolessons.com, McLellan Group). Now Mr. Lynch is a partner at Kingsmill Capital Partners a Toronto based merchant bank. Experienced in developing the unique financial structure that mitigates investor risk and maximizes the companies ability to secure growth capital Mr. Lynch has raised corporate capital via Debentures, Limited Partnerships, & Royalty Financing in addition to conventional equity placements. Mr. Lynch graduated in 1981 from St. Francis Xavier University with a joint honours degree in Economics and a BBA. He is a married father of four and lives in Oakville.
Donald "Bob" Heimler
Mr. Heimler's career spanned 29 years with Scotia Capital Inc. (Scotia McLeod, McLeod Young Weir), as Director, Institutional Equities where he successfully managed several of the firm's largest clients by the time he retired in October 2006. Previous to that he was the Chief Accountant of a chain of optical stores under the corporate umbrella of Imperial Optical. He attended the University of Western Ontario, enrolled in the Certified General Accounting program and has successfully completed many investment industry accredited courses.
Fraser Berrill
Fraser Berrill was appointed to the Board on June 26, 2007. Mr. Berrill is currently the CEO and President of Renasant Financial Partners, which is a publicly held financial services and technology trading organization. He also serves as a Trustee of Vicwest Income Fund and a number of private companies. From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Berrill was Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development of publicly held Acklands Limited, which sold its industrial distribution and auto parts assets to WW Grainger and Carquest transforming into Morguard Corporation. Positions held prior to that included Vice-President, Corporate Development for the Paja Group and President of the Sherman group of companies. In addition, Mr. Berrill was a member of litigation team for Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP from 1975 to 1981.
Kevin Bullock
Kevin Bullock is currently the President & CEO of Volta Resources (TSX : VTR). He is a registered Professional Mining Engineer in the province of Ontario and a qualified person under the act. Kevin has had over 20 years experience, at senior levels, in mining exploration, mine development and mine operations. Mr. Bullock has a wide knowledge base in the mineral industry and has completed several exploration and mining projects, both in North America and abroad, including projects in Mexico, Sweden, and West Africa, where he was Iamgold Corporation Ltd's General Manager. Throughout his career, Kevin has been involved in projects from inception through exploration to development and production and until recently was VP, Operations for Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. Kevin was instrumental in the reopening of the Macassa Gold Mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
