Management and Board
Nav Dhaliwal
President
Mr. Dhaliwal brings a wealth of entrepreneurial, sales, and financing experience. He is particularly adept at nurturing early stage companies through their critical phases of evolution, having founded a number of companies over his career. Mr. Dhaliwal is also very experienced in corporate development, corporate communications and investor relations, bringing valuable business relationships with international analysts, brokers and investment bankers from Canada, the United States and Asia.
Dale Ginn, B.Sc., P.Geo.
Director
Mr. Ginn is an experienced mining executive and geologist of nearly 30 years. He is the founder of two exploration and mining companies and has led and participated in numerous gold and base metal discoveries, many of which are in production today. While specializing in complex, structurally-controlled deposits, he also has extensive mine-operations, development and startup experience. Mr. Ginn is recognized as an advocate of First Nations and local community participation in mining and exploration.
Mr. Ginn’s career has included mine and exploration geology, mine management and various executive roles. He is currently the Vice-President of Kerr Mines Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of SGX Resources Inc. and was a founder of San Gold Corporation and Chief Executive Officer until 2010. Prior to that, he held positions with Harmony Gold, Hudbay, Westmin, Goldcorp and Granges Exploration. Mr. Ginn is a registered professional geologist in Manitoba and Ontario and is a graduate of the University of Manitoba.
Richard Boulay, B.Sc. (Geology)
Director
Richard Boulay is a geologist with over 40 years of experience in the exploration and mining industries in Canada and internationally, including 15 years of mining and infrastructure financing experience gained with Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Tokyo. He has extensive experience in the management and financing of public companies in Canada and the United States. Mr. Boulay also brings extensive lithium-related experience that can be applied to Noka’s Nevada projects as a result of his work as Chairman of Latin American Minerals in combining the large Cauchari lithium brine project in Northern Argentina with an adjoining property and the subsequent spin-off formation and significant financing of Lithium Americas Corporation in 2010.
Richard Kusmurski, M.SC., P.GEO.
Director
Mr. Kusmirski has over 40 years of exploration experience in North America and overseas, and has actively participated in the discovery of a number of uranium, gold and base metal deposits. For several years, in his capacity as Exploration Manager, he directed Cameco Corporation’s uranium exploration projects in the Athabasca Basin. In 1999, Rick joined JNR Resources Inc. becoming Vice President of Exploration in 2000. Subsequently, he directed the exploration program that led to the discovery of the Maverick Zone on the Moore Lake uranium joint venture in the Athabasca Basin with partner Kennecott Canada. Rick became JNR's President and CEO in January of 2001. In February of 2013, Denison Mines Corp. successfully acquired all of the outstanding shares of JNR by way of a friendly all-share take-over bid.
Joseph Meagher, CA
Chief Financial Officer & Director
Mr. Meagher is a Director at Triumvirate Consulting Corp., a financial consulting firm, where he specializes in accounting and financial reporting. Mr. Meagher currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer and a Director for several publicly listed companies. Prior to joining Triumvirate, Mr. Meagher worked at Smythe Ratcliffe LLP as a manager focusing on publicly listed and private company audits, as well as staff training and development. He was a member of Smythe Ratcliffe’s IFRS conversion team as well as a technical reviewer for complex accounting topics. Mr. Meagher holds a CPA, CA designation and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.