Koby Kushner has spent most his career as a mining engineer and more recently, an equity research analyst. Prior to entering finance, Koby worked at several mines in Ontario and Manitoba, including Hemlo (Barrick Gold), Detour, Rice Lake, and others. During this time, Koby has seen projects advance through all stages of development, including exploration, production, and closure. He then moved into equity research at Red Cloud Securities, a mining-only investment bank, where he wrote on over 100 companies across various stages of development and a wide range of commodities, with a particular focus on lithium. His expertise on lithium has attracted interest from major media outlets and investors. He holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University, is a licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, and is a CFA charterholder.

Ben Kuzmich is a professional geologist with a proven track record of exploration success throughout Ontario, Manitoba, and the Yukon. His accomplishments include the delineation of the E-Zone at Barrick’s Hemlo mine, where he managed a $20M drill program, and where his reinterpretation of geologic models resulted in a 23% improvement in underground head grade for 2019. Outside of Hemlo, he lead the discovery of the Little Wing occurrence at Alamos’s Lynn Lake project as well as numerous REE pegmatite, precious, and base metal occurrences throughout the Superior Province. He completed his MSc thesis at Lakehead University on the highly endowed, critical mineral-rich Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, and his undergraduate thesis on S-type granitic intrusions. Ben has been involved in the exploration of the Georgia Lake Pegmatite field and has been contracted to produce numerous 3D geologic models of LCT pegmatite deposits.

Andrew has consulted for multinationals in the Forestry, Mining, Energy, Aerospace and Tourism industries for more than 30 years. He oversaw the communication campaign for the Council of Yukon First Nations land claims, created award winning communications for the BC Treaty Commission, and worked extensively with the Inuvialuit and Inuit in the Northwest Territory and Nunavut. His business development, marketing and communication work has helped organizations and governments bridge technical, geographical and cultural gaps to cultivate successful, long-term business relationships.

Mr. Sameer Uplenchwar has over 20 years of financial and business development experience. Mr. Uplenchwar’s expertise is in financial structuring and modeling as well as investment banking. With significant depth of contacts within the Canadian and US energy sector Mr. Uplenchwar generates significant deal flow opportunities for investors. He is currently the cofounder of Helios Group of companies with investments in critical minerals, energy, IT infrastructure and agriculture. Previously, Mr. Uplenchwar served as Managing Director and Head of US Equity Research with GMP Capital LLC in Houston, Managing Director with Global Hunter Securities in Calgary/Houston. Before immigrating to Canada about a decade ago, Mr. Uplenchwar was Senior Energy Analyst supporting a $1.4B long/short hedge fund in New York for Surveyor Capital LLC, VP at Morgan Stanley and has worked at KPMG and Lasalle/ABN AMRO Bank.

Andrew Jedemann is an experienced geologist with a strong technical background who has been exploring for various commodities in northwestern Ontario over the past 7 years. Andrew has spent most of his career on several early- to advanced-stage Au and Ni-Cu-PGE projects around Northwestern Ontario, most notably of which included conceptualising, designing, implementation of >20,000m of drilling at the Barrick – Hemlo gold mine. Additionally, Andrew has worked in the prolific Ring of Fire where he assisted in generating new base and precious metal targets as well as directly overseeing field exploration work. Andrew has completed MSc from Lakehead University in partnership with the University of Tasmania (CODES) on characterizing an early-stage porphyry and epithermal prospect.