Board of Directors
Stan Bharti, Chairman
David Gower, CEO
Helio Diniz, President
David Argyle, Director
Peter Bojtos, Director
Mr. Bharti is a professional engineer and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbers and Manhattan Inc., a private merchant bank operating in Canada, the United States and Western Europe. From February 2002 to April 2006, he was Chairman and a director of Desert Sun Mining Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed mining company which was acquired by Yamana Gold Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in operations, public markets and finance. Mr. Bharti is also a director of several public and private companies.
David Gower
P.Geo, Chief Executive Officer
David Gower has over 20 years of experience in exploration with Falconbridge, Noranda (now X-strata) most recently as Director of Global Nickel and PGM exploration. He was a member of the Senior Operating Team responsible for mining projects with Falconbridge. He has led exploration teams which were responsible for brownfields discoveries at Raglan and Sudbury, Matagami, Falcondo – DR, and greenfield discoveries at Araguaia in Brazil, Kabanga in Tanzania and significant increases in known resources at Kabanga in Tanzania and El Pilar in Mexico.
Helio Diniz has spent more than 26 years in exploration, most recently as Director of Exploration, Brazil for Noranda – Falconbridge (now Xstrata) where he was a primary discoverer of the Araguaia Nickel Deposits which are currently undergoing scoping studies by Xstrata. He also assembled one of the most impressive IOCG property portfolios in the renowned and prolific Carajas Mineral District and the land position at Mangabal which is a current focus for Castillian. With Gencor, he was involved in the evaluation and development of the Sao Bento gold mine, which operated for 25 years.
In August 2007, David Argyle was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Dynamite Resources. Prior to joining Dynamite, he was the Managing Director of Tau Mining. Mr Argyle brings with him 20 years experience in senior management positions on mining and chemical projects in China, South East Asia, Central Asia and Australia. He holds a degree in Commerce from the University of Western Australia and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Mr. Bojtos has held senior executive positions with various mining companies over the past 30 years. He is currently a Director of several other public natural resource companies and brings to the Company an international background in various facets of the mining industry from acquisitions to exploration, production and financing. Mr. Bojtos received a Bachelor of Science Honors degree from the Leicester University in England.
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