Daniel W. Kappes; age 71; director since April 2012. Mr. Kappes is a founder
and the President of Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (“KCA”).
KCA has provided extractive metallurgical services to the international mining
industry since 1972, specializing in all aspects of heap leach and cyanide processing,
including laboratory testing, project feasibility studies, engineering design,
construction, and operations management. KCA has pioneered many of the techniques
now employed in heap leaching, and for the past several years has expanded into
the design of agitated leach plants and other metallurgical processes. Mr. Kappes
is a recognized authority on gold and silver metals heap leaching. In addition
to providing engineering and design work on numerous projects, he has directed
laboratory and field-testing on several projects that have subsequently become
major precious metal mines. Mr. Kappes also has substantial experience in strategic
planning, project evaluation and project management.
Mr. Kappes graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with an Engineer of Mines
degree and the University of Nevada’s Mackay School of Mines with a Master’s
degree in Mine Engineering. Mr. Kappes is and has served as a “Qualified
Person” under National Instrument 43-101 and has also presented several
technical papers on precious metals heap leaching in his career. He is a registered
Professional Mining and Metallurgical Engineer in Nevada, and was named Alumnus
of the Year at Mackay in 1995.
William J. Nance; age 73; director since October 2005. Mr. Nance also serves
as the Chairman of the Audit and Finance, Compensation and Nominating and Governance
Committees. He is the President and CEO of Century Plaza Printers, Inc., a company
he founded in 1979. He has also served as a consultant in the acquisition and
disposition of commercial real estate. Mr. Nance is a Certified Public Accountant
and, from 1970 to 1976, was employed by Kenneth Leventhal & Company where
he specialized in the area of REITS, restructuring of real estate companies,
mergers and acquisitions, and most phases of real estate development and financing.
Mr. Nance has been a Director of InterGroup since 1984 and of Santa Fe and Portsmouth
since May 1996. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration
from California State University in Los Angeles. Mr. Nance has extensive management
experience within a wide range of businesses and brings over 20 years of experience
as a director on public company boards.
Robert A. Reseigh; age 70; director since September 2008. Mr. Reseigh retired
from Atkinson Construction Company in 2005, as the Executive Vice President
in charge of operations and then worked a technical adviser for the Barnard
Construction Company, Inc. until April 2015 and has acted an independent consultant
for various mining firms. He has over 40 years of experience in the mining and
underground construction industries. Following graduation from the Colorado
School of Mines in 1968 with a Master’s degree in Mining Engineering,
and service in the U.S. Army, Mr. Reseigh joined Peter Kiewit Sons and progressively
held the positions of Project Engineer, Superintendent, Project Manager, and
Estimator before being promoted to District Manager, Vice President, and Area
Manager. Bob retired from Peter Kiewit after 18 years of service, and joined
Atkinson Construction in the capacity of Executive Vice President where he ran
the Underground Group for 15 years until 2005.
Mr. Reseigh’s career specialized in underground construction, both domestically
and overseas. He is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable individuals
in the country in deep shaft and drill and blast tunnel work, having been responsible
for in excess of six miles of shaft sinking and 55 miles of tunnel/horizontal
mine development in his career. In addition, his work has involved both mine
development and heavy civil projects, including subways, outfalls, railroads,
dams, pump storage, water and sewer, marine construction, and municipal work.
Mr. Reseigh served in executive positions at a large mining company and several
construction companies during his professional career. His roles encompassed
significant operational management, providing him knowledge and experience in
an array of functional areas critical to public companies.
Corrado De Gasperis; age 51; director since June 2011, Executive Chairman since
September 2015 and President, Chief Executive Officer since April 2010. He brings
more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing, industrial metals and mining
operational management, project management, financial and information management,
restructuring, capital markets and board level governance.
Mr. De Gasperis was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Barzel Industries
Inc. (“Barzel”). Barzel operated a network of 15 manufacturing,
processing and distribution facilities in the United States and Canada that
offered a wide range of metal solutions to a variety of industries, from construction
and industrial manufacturing to transportation, infrastructure development and
mining. Mr. De Gasperis resigned from Barzel in September 2009, after Barzel
reached an agreement to sell substantially all of its assets in a planned transaction
that was consummated in a sale pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code following a multiple party bidding process with suitors focused on both
in-court and out-of-court transactions. Barzel and substantially all of its
U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries were purchased for $65 million in cash.
From 2001 to 2005, he served as Chief Financial Officer of GrafTech International
Ltd. (“GrafTech”), a global manufacturer of industrial graphite
and carbon-based materials, in addition to his duties as Vice President and
Chief Information Officer, which he assumed in 2000. He served as Controller
of GrafTech from 1998 to 2000. From 1987 to 1998, Mr. De Gasperis was a Certified
Public Accountant with KPMG LLP, an international provider of financial advisory
services. As a Senior Assurance Manager in the Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution
Practice, he served clients such as General Electric Company and Union Carbide
Corporation. KPMG announced his admittance, as a Partner, effective July 1,
1998.
Mr. De Gasperis holds a BBA from the Ancell School of Business at Western Connecticut
State University, with honors. Mr. De Gasperis is also a founding member and
the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Comstock Foundation for History
and Culture, a Director of Comstock Real Estate, Inc., and a Director of Nevada
Works, furthering Northern Nevada’s economic development plans. He is
also a Member of the NYSE Markets Advisory Committee, the Northern Nevada Development
Authority and the Northern Nevada Network. Mr. De Gasperis has served as a director
of GBS Gold International Inc., where he was Chairman of the Audit and Governance
Committee and the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominations and
Advisory Committees.
Judd B. Merrill; age 46; Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since February
2015. Mr. Merrill previously served as Chief Accounting Officer since January
2014. Mr. Merrill previously served as our Controller beginning in December
2011 to December 2013. Mr. Merrill brings strong financial planning, treasury
and cash management experience in the mining sector in addition to his broader
financial accounting, reporting and internal control experience, having worked
as Controller of Fronteer Gold Inc. and Assistant Controller at Newmont Mining
Corp., both in Nevada. He also worked for Meridian Gold Company and Deloitte
& Touche LLP. Mr. Merrill holds a BS in Accounting from Central Washington
University and a MBA from the University of Nevada Reno. He is also Certified
Public Accountant.
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