Our Team

Jon Bey

Chief Executive Officer, Director, (Chair)

Jon Bey

Mr. Bey is a capital markets executive with over 15 years in the junior exploration industry with experience in uranium, gold, silver, lead, zinc, diamonds and oil and gas. He has public company experience across several sectors and with companies listed on the TSX, TSX-V, CSE, and LSE Exchanges. Mr. Bey is the founder and Managing Director of the Steel Rose Group of companies.

Sean Hillacre

President & VP of Exploration

Sean Hillacre

Mr. Hillacre has over a decade of experience working as an economic geologist in the Athabasca Basin uranium district of Saskatchewan, with 5 years as part of the technical team progressing the Arrow uranium deposit towards production with NexGen Energy. A high-energy, results oriented geoscientist, Mr. Hillacre brings a unique and balanced background integrating academic geoscience with industry experience, along with a comprehensive understanding of project development. Mr. Hillacre received his B.Sc. & M.Sc. degrees in Geology from the University of Saskatchewan and published the first comprehensive academic study on a world-class uranium deposit in the SW Athabasca Basin in Economic Geology.

Vivien Chuang

Chief Financial Officer

Vivien Chuang

Ms. Chuang is a Chartered Professional Accountant (BC, Canada) with more than fifteen years of experience in the resource and mining sector. Her experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer of Azincourt Energy Corp., a uranium developer in the world-class Athabasca Basin uranium district of Canada; BluEnergies Ltd.; and Muzhu Mining Ltd. Ms. Chuang also served as Chief Financial Officer of Northern Empire Resources Corp., a Nevada-focused mining company that was acquired by Coeur Mining in 2018, K2 Gold Corporation (formerly West Melville Metals Inc.) and Chakana Copper Corp. (formerly Remo Resources Inc.). Currently, Ms. Chuang is Vice President Finance of Jasper Management and Advisory Corp. andPresident of VC Consulting Corp. which provides CFO and other financial accounting and compliance services to a number of companies. Ms. Chuang articled with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University.

Neil McCallum

Lead Technical Director

Neil McCallum

Mr. McCallum has over 15 years of experience primarily in North American mineral deposit exploration, with a focus on targeting and discovery of unconformity-related uranium deposits. He is currently a project manager at Edmonton based Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd. Mr. McCallum has managed and conducted uranium exploration in and around the Athabasca Basin and other jurisdictions for multiple companies.

Blair Jordan

Independent Director

Blair Jordan

Mr. Jordan is the co-founder and CEO of HighMont Advisors Inc., a North American focused strategy and finance consultancy.  Previously, Mr. Jordan served as CFO and Interim CEO of several listed companies, and prior thereto, as Managing Director of Investment Banking at Echelon Wealth Partners Inc.  Before joining Echelon, Mr. Jordan spent nearly 10 years with Credit Suisse in London, New York and Tokyo. Before joining Credit Suisse, he was a securities lawyer with Bennett Jones LLP in Calgary. He holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia. As a former banker, Mr. Jordan has extensive experience working in public markets, and currently sits on the board of several companies, including those listed on the TSXV and TSX, as well as private companies.

Kenneth Judge

Independent Director

Kenneth Judge

Ken Judge is a highly experienced investor and developer of public and private companies having been a founder, chairman, CEO or Non-Executive Director of more than 30 companies operating in many different countries and across various sectors including the exploration and production of natural resources (including Gold and Silver, Uranium, Diamonds and Titanium minerals) oil and gas and “big data” and digital marketing technologies. Mr. Judge has extensive experience in evaluating and executing public and private “cross border” merger and acquisition opportunities and the public listing and regulatory compliance of companies listed on the TSX, TSX-V, Nasdaq, LSE, ASX, HKSE, Philippines and Peru stock exchanges. Mr. Judge is a long-time resident of Monaco, has undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in law and finance from the University of Western Australia and is the chief executive officer of Hamilton Capital Partners Limited.

Zoya Shashkova

Independent Director

Zoya Shashkova

Ms. Shashkova has over two decades of consulting and finance executive experience, spanning audit and consulting, tax structuring, risk management, reporting, disclosure and mining finance.  She is currently the CFO of EnviroGold Global, a clean technology company engaged in selective reprocessing of mining tailings.  Her previous executive roles include Treasurer for Torex Gold Resources, a mid-tier Canadian gold producer, where she raised over $1B in debt capital to support ongoing operations as well as long-term strategic initiatives, CFO for UraniumOne’s operations in Central Asia, where she provided leadership in all areas of business and financial management, including strategic planning, performance measurement, debt financing, accounting, international tax structuring and risk management, as well as senior leadership positions with Deloitte and E&Y.  During her tenure with UraniumOne, Ms. Shashkova also served on the boards of operating joint ventures as the Audit Committee Chair. 

Zoya holds a MSc in Biology and Chemistry, an MBA in Banking and Finance, and is an ICD.D certified director, Institute of Corporate Directors. 

Mike Young

Independent Director

Mike Young

Mr Young is a mining executive and resource development geologist with a strong capability in team building, feasibility studies, managing joint ventures, execution of mine development and management of mining operations. Mr Young holds a BSc (Geology) from Queen’s University, Kingston.

He was the CEO and Managing Director of Vimy Resources Limited which owned and operated the Mulga Rock and Alligator River Projects. Vimy was recently acquired by Deep Yellow Limited.

His previous experience also includes inaugural CEO of BC Iron Limited which developed an iron ore mine from first drilling program in under four years.  He also founded Cassini Resources Limited which acquired and expanded the Nebo-Babel Cu-Ni-PGE deposit in Western Australia. Cassini was acquired by OZ Minerals Limited in 2019. Mr Young was also CEO of Frontier Energy, a solar-hydrogen clean energy company.

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