
Stuart R. Ross - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
For the last 25 years, Mr. Ross has assisted public companies listed on the TSX Venture exchange and the NASDAQ exchange. Mr. Ross has held various senior positions including President, CEO, CFO and Executive Vice President within various sectors of industry including, mining, beverage production and distribution, medical services, industrial fabrication and merchant banking. His duties involved directing public transactions including, raising equity funding, arranging debt financings, administrative and financial advisory roles and property acquisitions.
Daniel Tellechea , B.Sc., MBA - Director
Mr. Tellechea is currently the President and CEO of Dia Bras Exploration Inc. He received a BSc in accounting in 1968 and a Master's Degree in Business Administration in 1983, both from the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico). From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Tellechea was President and CEO of Asarco LLC ("Asarco"). Previous to that, from 1994 to 2003, Mr. Tellechea served as the Managing Director of Finance and Administration of Grupo Mexico, Asarco's parent corporation. For the period between 1999 and 2003, he also served as Asarco's Chief Financial Officer and as Vice-President of Finance for Southern Peru Copper Corporation, which was majority owned by Grupo Mexico.
Wade Anderson, CA - Director
Mr. Anderson has been a chartered accountant for over 20 years. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1987. He worked an international accounting firm in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Toronto, Ontario performing assurance engagements for private and public companies. The range of experience includes public companies in financial institutions and a large uranium mining company. For the last 15 years, Mr. Anderson operated an accounting firm specializing in owner managed enterprises in Western Canada. Currently, he serves as the chief financial officer for a privately held group of companies.
Jeffrey Wilson, M.Sc. - Director
Mr. Wilson is also Executive Vice President and VP - Exploration for Lincoln Gold Corp. and brings 34 years of professional exploration experience, in the United States, Mexico and Central America to El Tigre Silver. He served as Director of Exploration for Echo Bay Exploration Inc. for 11 years, first in the western U.S. and later in Mexico and Central America. He earlier served as Exploration Manager, Western U.S., with Tenneco Minerals Company, working mostly in Nevada. Mr. Wilson earned his MSc. in Geology from The University of Southern California.
Ken Booth, B.Sc., MBA. - Director
Mr. Booth has more than 30 years of experience in exploration, mining corporate finance and public company administration. In mining corporate finance, he has worked for two of Canada's largest investment banks executing numerous equity financings for both junior and senior companies and was involved in a variety of significant mergers and acquisitions. While working for resource companies, Ken has held several positions including CEO and vice-president of corporate development. In these roles he was instrumental in raising equity funding and negotiating property acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Booth is currently CEO of Invenio Resources Corp., an exploration company with projects in Alaska, Nevada and Utah. He is also a director of two other exploration companies
Robert Papirnick - Director
Mr. Papirnick is an entrepreneur and businessman who has managed several private companies in Alberta in the automotive supply industry over the course of the last 35 years. In 1985 he founded Trend Motoring Acc. Ltd., an automotive supply company in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Steven D. Craig, B.A., M.Sc., P. Geo. - Vice President Exploration
Mr. Craig is an accomplished senior mining geologist and resource manager with 36 years of diversified industry experience. He was the Vice President of Exploration for Gryphon Gold beginning in Jan 2006 and concluding in Aug. 2011. Prior to joining Gryphon, Mr. Craig's background ranged from exploration and operational experience to being an officer and/or director of various resource companies, principally Kennecott Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group. During his 23 year tenure with Kennecott, he held progressively more responsible management and technical positions culminating in Regional Exploration Manager for Nevada and California. Mr. Craig received his M. S. degree in Economic Geology from Colorado State University in 1980 and a B. S. degree in Geology from Western State College in 1974.
Grant T. Smith, CA - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Smith is the senior partner with Clearline Chartered Accountants. a firm of chartered accountants, with offices in Vancouver and North Vancouver. Mr. Smith was previously a manager with Johnsen Archer and PricewaterhouseCoopers, both accounting firms. Mr. Smith also works in the public sector as CFO of Premium Exploration Inc. He was previously CFO for Aurcana Mining Corporation.
Jose Velazquez, B.Sc., G.Eng. - Country Manager
Mr. Velazquez brings over 30 years of experience in exploration and mine geology, field work and supervision of mining exploration projects in Mexico to El Tigre. He has managed projects from grass roots to pre-feasibility and has supervised over 100,000 meters of drilling. Projects that he was responsible for include the La Colorada, Sonora mined by El Dorado; Moris, Chihuahua mined by Manhattan and the San Filipe Deposit, Baja California mined by Frisco. Mr. Velazquez earned his Geological Engineer Degree from UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.