Management Team
Dino Titaro, M.Sc., P.Geo
Chairman, Director
Dino Titaro has over 35 years of international experience in the mining and exploration mineral resource industry. He has been involved in project management, feasibility studies, reserve estimation, due diligence studies, valuation studies, social and environmental permitting processes for mine construction and development and related risk management and has extensive corporate and operational experience. He was the founder of Carpathian Gold Inc., a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX, and was the President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2003 to January 2014 and a director from January 2003 to August 2014. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Titaro was the principal owner and President and Chief Executive Officer of A.C.A. Howe International Limited, a geological and mining consulting firm. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Titaro was employed by Getty Mines Limited in various supervisory roles as a geologist, working on base and precious metal projects as well as uranium, principally in resource definition stages.
Mr. Titaro currently serves as a director of Allied Gold Corp., Golconda Gold Ltd, as well as EV Minerals. Mr. Titaro has been a director and officer of several other publicly traded companies in the mining, industrial and health care technology fields. Mr. Titaro holds a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Western Ontario. He is also a qualified person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) and is registered as a P.Geo in Ontario.
Steve Roebuck, B.Sc., P.Geo
President & CEO
With over 25 years of service to the North American mineral exploration and mining industry, Steve Roebuck is a dynamic mineral resource executive and Professional Geologist, as well as an NI 43-101 Qualified Person. His extensive experience includes capital markets engagements, raising approximately $15M for exploration and development projects, and marketing throughout North America and Europe. Steve possesses expertise in commodity exposure for gold, iron ore, diamonds, lithium, nickel, copper, and manganese, and has managed complex projects in the Canadian Arctic. Additionally, he is skilled in fostering relationships with First Nations communities, mentoring young geoscientists, and has strong communication abilities in English and intermediate French.
Donna R. McLean, B.A.
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. McLean has over 25 years experience working with numerous publicly-traded and private companies, specializing in the areas of financial reporting, controls and administration. She has held the positions of Chief Financial Officer and Controller for several mineral exploration companies, including Intrepid Mines Ltd., Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. (formerly Excalibur Resources Ltd.), Firestone Ventures Inc. and Aurania Resources Ltd. Ms. McLean is founder and President of DMc CORPORATE SERVICES INC., a private company that provides financial and administrative services to established and emergent businesses, operating in a variety of sectors and industries.
John N. Schaff, B.Sc.
Vice President, Exploration, President Avidian Gold US Inc.
John Schaff is an exploration geologist with over 30 years of mineral exploration experience throughout North America. John’s most recent experience as Exploration Manager for Coeur Mining includes having an integral part in the recent discovery of the C-Horst deposit located in the highly active Bare Mountain-Fluorine mining district near Beatty, NV. During the 1990s through the early 2000s, John was fortunate enough to actively participate in numerous discoveries including, Kennecott’s Gemfield, Midway, and Castle gold deposits located in Nevada, USA and the Whistler Cu-Au deposit in Alaska, Rio Tinto’s Eagle and Tamarack Cu-Ni deposits located in Michigan and Minnesota, USA, the Diavik Diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada and Noranda’s Lynne VMS deposit located in Wisconsin, USA. Additional experience includes grassroots property generation through advanced exploration, project management, brownfield exploration surrounding Kennecott’s Green Creek mine, Alaska and Denton-Rawhide mine, Nevada, underground exploration at Coeur’s Kensington mine, Alaska.
John’s experience on a wide variety of mineralized systems and technical support on previous exploration programs contributes to the development of innovative exploration technologies improving the efficiency and effectiveness of mineral exploration.