Thomas Valentine
Calgary, Alberta
With more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, both as a barrister and a solicitor. In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Valentine lived in Doha, Qatar, where he was senior counsel (projects) with Qatar Petroleum. While in Qatar, Mr. Valentine was responsible for a number of international gas and LNG projects, including projects in the United Kingdom (Qatargas II), India (RasGas) and Spain (Endesa Generacion). Since returning to Canada, Mr. Valentine’s work continues to focus on oil, gas (including LNG) and project development work, including fiscal regime analysis and negotiations, E&P work, joint venture structuring, joint operations issues, purchase and sale agreements, and decommissioning obligations.
He currently provides legal advice to various gas and LNG projects (both upstream and downstream) in Asia, Nigeria, South America, North America and the Middle East. Each year Mr. Valentine delivers lectures and teaches workshops on natural gas and LNG contracts in Perth, Doha, London, Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, Algeria, Brunei, Johannesburg, Rio and Mozambique.
Michel Lebeuf
Director and Audit Committee Member
Member of the Quebec Bar Association, Partner of Dunton Rainville LLP, Mr. Lebeuf has an expertise in securities, particularly in the areas of natural resources, institutional and corporate financing, and public and private mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Lebeuf represents public companies, securities brokers, buyers, sellers, bankers, and financial advisors. He provides strategic advice on access to public capital markets, securities, and structured products. Over the past years, Michel Lebeuf has worked for many mining projects in Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Angola and Republic of Congo) and his services are regularly used by mining developers, mining companies, and investment banking companies eager to develop mining projects in these countries. He also specializes in transactions such as “reverse takeovers” or RTO’s on various stock exchanges among which in particular the CSE and the TSX venture. Me Lebeuf also has extensive experience in corporate reorganizations, public and private transfers, and institutional funding. Me Lebeuf Jr. obtained his law degree from the University of Montreal.
Robert Rosner
Director and Audit Committee Member
Mr. Rosner has significant experience as a mining industry entrepreneur and executive. In addition to being a Director and CFO CEO of Petro Viking Energy Inc., Gold Corp and Director, and CFEO and Exec VP of Lucky Minerals Inc., Director and CFO of Emgold Mining Corporation, Director and CFO of CAT Strategic Metals Corp., and Executive Chairman of Tomagold Corporation. Early in his career he initiated the formation of a number of junior exploration mining companies, including Fortuna Silver Mines (NYSE: FSM) and Nigel Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NOX – Acquired and wholly owned by Osisko), and played instrumental roles in managing these, and other, resource ventures involved in early stage exploration, resource location, delineation, and development. He has successfully utilized his extensive experience in public and private company management for over 30 years. Mr. Rosner has acted as an officer and director of both Canadian and U.S. listed companies, providing senior management of reporting compliance, oversight and fiduciary capacities, and directing corporate activities. He also has significant experience in Initial Public Offerings, Mergers & Acquisitions, and reverse takeovers.
Daniel Lucero
Mr Daniel Lucero
More than 15 years experience in ressource exploration in Latin America and the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin,
Exploration Manager in Quattro Exploration and Production Ltd. for 6 years, WCSB and Latin America
Chief Geoscientist at Kintex Geosciences
Exploration Gologist at CoalCorp Mining and Andicoal
Graduate of the National University of Colombia (Bogota-Colombia) with BSc in Geology.
