Mr. Tafel holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and contributes over 30 years of corporate structuring, strategic planning, financing and management experience to the Company. He has been a officer and director of a number of private and publicly listed resource companies. He was a co-founder of MBMI Resources which discovered and developed a producing Philippine nickel mine, reaching a peak market cap of over $450mm. He also founded Garson Gold Corp and led the $12mil financing to buy the New Britannia, Manitoba gold mine, which later sold for over $40mm. Mr. Tafel previously managed private investment funds at the (then) largest independent Canadian securities firm.