Team

Christopher Wensley
Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Wensley brings over 45 years of business and negotiating experience to the Company. For the past 29 years, he has provided services to public companies. His managerial experience includes, senior management and board of directors roles, chairmanship, raising capital, investor relations, marketing and communication, property acquisition and disposition, exploration, and development. Mr. Wensley was CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board of Petro Horizon Energy Corp., a public oil and gas exploration company.

Justin Lowe
Senior Geolgist – Manger of Exploration, Nevada

Justin is an experienced exploration geologist with a strong background in Nevada gold and silver systems. He has a Master’s degree from the Colorado School of Mines in economic geology, where he began studying the geology of Nevada in earnest; his thesis work was sponsored by Newmont and focused on the genesis of a prominent Nevada gold mine. Justin has since worked with a number of gold and silver exploration companies in Nevada, holding positions as project geologist, senior project geologist, and exploration manager. Moreover, Justin is intimately familiar with Gold Runner Exploration’s Nevada properties having held the position of VP of Exploration for Crestview Exploration Inc. from 2021 to 2024.

Robert Suttie
Chief Financial Officer

Robert is the President of Marrelli Support Services, bringing with him almost thirty years of financial reporting experience, ten of which were in public accounting prior to his tenure with Marrelli. He specializes in management advisory services, accounting and the financial disclosure needs of Marrelli’s public client base. In this capacity, Mr. Suttie also serves as Chief Financial Officer or director for a number of TSX Venture Exchange and Canadian Securities Exchange listed companies.

Alan Morris, Qualified Person
Advisory Board

Mr. Morris has over 40 years of experience in exploration for precious and base metals, lithium, and uranium in a variety of geologic environments in the western US and Alaska. He has worked for several major and junior companies performing generative and near-mine exploration prior to consulting full-time. This experience includes 13 years with Barrick Gold Exploration, along with staff positions at Agnico-Eagle, Kinross, and Placer-Dome. His junior company experience includes Fisher-Watt, Coral Gold, InZinc Mining, McEwen Mining, and Discovery Harbour Resources. Currently, Mr. Morris works as an independent consultant and project manager in Nevada and surrounding states. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, and a M.S. in Geographic Information Science from Simon Fraser University / Manchester Metropolitan University.

Alan is a Certified Professional Geologist, American Institute of Professional Geologists (10550) and Fellow, Society of Econonmic Geologists. He is a Qualified Person (QP) as defined by NI  43-101.

Dimitrios Liakopoulos
Chairman of the Board and Director

Dimitrios has been a business consultant for over 10 years, specializing in private and public equity financing. Over the years, Mr. Liakopoulos has specialized specifically in financing early stage companies. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Liakopoulos has successfully help finance a number of start-up and early stage companies. Prior to this, Dimitrios Liakopoulos was an Investment advisor for 8 years As a Financial Advisor, Mr. Liakopoulos was responsible for managing clients investments and explaining and coordinating the difficult financial decisions and complex estate planning issues that come with having substantial assets. Mr. Liakopoulos holds a Bcom in Finance.

Scott Reeves
Advisory Board

Scott is a partner at Tingle Merritt LLP with a practice focused on securities, corporate finance and commercial transactions for emerging and growth companies, joint ventures and partnerships. He has advised numerous private and public corporations (including registered dealers) in a wide range of business matters including access to capital markets, corporate governance and operational issues both nationally and internationally.

Jim MacKenzie
Director

Jim serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Viscount Mining Corp. and has been its Director since July 23, 2013. He is an expert in the development, structure, operation and financing of private/public companies with a successful track record of raising equity.

Mr. MacKenzie also serves as the Chief Executive Officer/President of Viscount Mining Corp. and was the founder in 2010. Jim has led the development of numerous Joint Venture mining agreements, land acquisitions, and exploration contracts, including partnering with Centerra Gold at Viscount’s Cherry Creek project in Nevada.

Wei-Tek Tsai
Director

Dr. Tsai holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, and has over 25 years of experience with public markets. Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, MA in 1979, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai has been a Director at St Georges Eco Mining Corp. since February, 2014.

Dr. Craig J. Mach
Consulting Geologist

Craig is a very knowledgeable and seasoned geologist with over 35 years of experience in the western US exploring for precious and base metals. He has worked with several major gold mining and exploration companies including Barrick Gold Exploration, Newmont Exploration, and Kinross Gold, and junior mining companies including Queenstake Resources, Victoria Resources, Gold Standard Ventures, and Ares Strategic Mining. His work has focused mainly on generative and early-stage exploration projects. He has also been involved with teams that have made significant gold and silver discoveries in Nevada. Craig has a PhD in Economic Geology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is a Certified Professional Geologist (12013) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists.

Juan Ruiz
Consulting Geologist

Mr. Ruiz is a consulting geologist with 17 years of experience working in Nevada on a variety of projects. He obtained a M.Sc degree in geology from the University of Nevada-Reno, where he studied the geology of the Chukar Footwall underground mine. Mr. Ruiz experience includes geologic mapping, drill targeting, core and chip logging, and drilling supervision. He has conducted mineral exploration briefly in Peru, and extensively in Nevada, including working as an underground geologist at Jerritt Canyon with Queenstake; as a project geologist for Victoria Gold and Comstock Mining; and as a consulting geologist for Battle Mountain Gold’s Lewis project in the Battle Mountain Mining District and for Coeur Mining on the Fluorspar Canyon project in Beatty, NV.