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Position: Director
Feisal Somji has more than 15 years of experience in mineral exploration and development, and has been involved in early stage, late stage and mine development projects around the world. He provides expertise in areas of corporate finance and governance, as well as mineral exploration management. Mr. Somji has acted as an officer and director of several public companies involved in diamond, gold and platinum group element assets in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Africa.
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| | | Marshall L. Farris
Position: Director
Marshall Farris, age 45, has 20 years of experience assisting public and private companies with corporate operations, capital development, corporate communications and regulatory compliance activities. A co-founder and principal of Ascenta Finance Corp., a registered Exempt Market Dealer, Mr. Farris has participated in raising over $150 million in capital financing for public and private companies. Mr. Farris has completed the Investment Funds Institute of Canada's Exempt Market Products Course.
Mr. Farris is also a founder and principal of Ascenta Capital Partners Inc., which specializes in corporate communications and includes Ascenta Ventures, which specializes in corporate creation. He serves as a Director of Prize Mining Corp. (TSXV: PRZ), Director of Empire Capital Corp. (TSXV: EPM) and is a former director of Mindoro Resources Ltd. (TSXV: MIO) and a co-founder and former director of Panoro Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: PML).
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| | | Jim Glass
Position: Director
Jim Glass has a diversified business background that includes the management, operation and administration of a number of public companies namely in the mining and oil & gas sectors. He has also been successful in taking companies from their formative stages through development, financing and initial public offerings. Mr. Glass is a principal of Ascenta Capital Partners Inc., a leading provider of investor relations services to Canadian public companies.
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| | | Craig Lindsay, MBA, CFA
Position: Director
Mr. Lindsay has more than 20 years' experience in corporate finance, investment banking and business development in both North America and Asia and is currently the President and CEO of Otis Gold Corp. and Managing Director of Arbutus Grove Capital Corp., a private company offering corporate finance and merchant banking services. Mr. Lindsay is a former resident of Hong Kong where he was a senior executive at The Pacific Rim Group, which provides financial advisory, venture capital and related services to Asian and North American clients. He was a co-founder and CFO of OneAsia.com, an innovative B2C internet retailer of Asian language entertainment products, which was acquired by tom.com Limited. Mr. Lindsay has extensive experience in the natural resource sector and currently sits on the boards of Tarsis Resources Ltd. and Galena Capital Corp.
He is also currently serving as the President of the Hong Kong Canada Business Association, Vancouver Section and a Director of the Association's National Board. Additionally, he is a former Chairman of the Family Services of Greater Vancouver.
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| | | Roberto Delgado
Position: Director
Mr. Delgado is the founder and Chairman of Transnational Diversified Group, an Asia-based group of more than 30 dynamic member companies that are major players in diverse regional and world-wide industries. Mr. Delgado brings a wealth of knowledge and business acumen to the Philippine Metals team and will be assisting with the development and growth of the company
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The board of Directors of Philippine Metals' 100% owned subsidiary
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| | | Feisal Somji, BSc, MBA
Position: Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Feisal Somji has more than 15 years of experience in mineral exploration and development, and has been involved in early stage, late stage and mine development projects around the world. He provides expertise in areas of corporate finance and governance, as well as mineral exploration management. Mr. Somji has acted as an officer and director of several public companies involved in diamond, gold and platinum group element assets in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Africa.
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| | | Marshall L. Farris
Position: Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Marshall Farris has 17 years of experience assisting public and private companies with corporate operations, capital development, investor relations and regulatory compliance activities. A co-founder and principal of Ascenta Finance Corp., a private, independent Canadian institutional investment bank, he has participated in raising over $150 million in capital financing for public and private companies. Mr. Farris is also a founder and principal of Ascenta Capital Partners Ltd., which specializes in investor relations, and Ascenta Ventures, which specializes in corporate creation. He is a former director of Mindoro Resources Ltd. and a co-founder and former director of Panoro Minerals Ltd.
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| | | Michael Whiting
Position: Treasurer & Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Michael Whiting is the co-founder, and current Managing Director, of Sinclair James International Corporation, one of the leading financial advisory firms in Southeast Asia. A long-term resident of the Philippines, Mr. Whiting he is the Vice Chairman of the British Chamber of commerce of the Philippines. He is also an independent director of a Canadian company with energy and mineral assets in the Philippines and sits on a number of advocacy groups in the Philippine that promote mining.
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| | | Tom Vaillancourt, BBA, DipFin
Position: Director
Tom Vaillancourt has a wide-ranging business background that includes experience in accounting, finance, business administration, and investment and risk analysis. He began working in the geological exploration industry more 12 years ago and his work in the office and in the field has given him a deep appreciation of the industry. He has directed the logistics and support for exploration camps and projects and overseen the management and training of field crews. Mr. Vaillancourt has also worked closely with engineers in developing sites, processing plants and systems. He has an abundance of international experience and is well versed in multi-cultural management.
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| | | Roberto Delgado
Position: Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Mr. Delgado is the founder and Chairman of Transnational Diversified Group, an Asia-based group of more than 30 dynamic member companies that are major players in diverse regional and world-wide industries. Mr. Delgado brings a wealth of knowledge and business acumen to the Philippine Metals team and will be assisting with the development and growth of the company.
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| | | Leo Dominguez
Position: Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Leo Dominguez recently retired from QuisumbingTorres, the Philippine arm of the law firm Baker and McKenzie, where he specialized in mining law, M&A, environmental advisory and oil & gas law. During the course of his career, Mr. Dominguez was a key lawyer involved in writing the 1995 Philippine Mining Act. He currently travels the world on behalf of the Philippine government to promote mining in the Philippines.
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| | | Arthur N. Aguilar
Position: Director of Philippine Subsidiary
Arthur Aguilar has a well-respected career in investment banking, management, corporate reengineering and privatization of government assets. His stint as general manager of the National Development Company (NDC) resumed following re-appointment by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in December 2004 after having served in the same position from 1992 to 1997. The NDC is the investment arm of the Philippine Government where he undertook a highly successful program of reengineering and selling government assets and enterprises. He was likewise concurrent Chairman and CEO of the Philippine National Construction Corporation.
During that time, he is credited with profitably managing and successfully privatizing Interbank (a joint venture with American Express) as well as the National Shipping Corporation of the Philippines and Filipinas Palm Oil Corporation.
Mr. Aguilar also helped craft the original asset privatization law in the Philippines and played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Asset Privatization Trust which in turn tasked him to privatize Island Cement Corporation, and to manage Maricalum Mining Corporation and the Menzi Development Corporation.
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