Administrative Profiles

Patrick D. O'Brien – President, CEO

Patrick O’Brien, ICD.D has been involved with the resource sector for thirty years. Since 1992 he has served as either an Officer or Director of numerous companies in the sector. In 1992 Patrick joined Apella Resources Inc. and has served as President, CEO and Chairman of Apella. He has led the company through numerous project acquisitions, divestures and joint ventures throughout Canada. Patrick has been directly involved in raising millions of dollars of exploration and acquisition funds. He identified the opportunity to spin out Apella’s gold assets into a new public entity named Pro Minerals Inc. which allowed Apella’s shareholders to receive a dividend equity interest in this newly listed venture. Patrick and his management team negotiated and completed the multi-million dollar divesture of the company’s Raglan assets**. He has recently guided the Company through its acquisition of some of Canada’s key Vanadium-Iron-Titanium assets. Patrick is a qualified Corporate Director who has earned the designation ICD.D in Canada. He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) in Canada and the Institute of Directors (IOD) in London, England. Patrick also has the distinction of receiving an Honors in Canadian Securities.

Stewart Carmichael, PGeo – Consulting Geologist

Graduated from McMaster University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology. He possesses 27 years of exploration experience, primarily for gold in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, with extensive related work in the Kirkland Lake area. He joined Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. in April, 2002 as Chief Exploration Geologist. In 2006 he was the co-winner of the 2006 Ontario Prospectors Award in recognition of the discovery of the South Mine Complex at the Macassa Mine in Kirkland Lake.

He is a past Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada and a current member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.

Ian Casidy – Director

Ian Casidy has extensive experience in the mining industry and has worked as Geographic Information System Specialist for many years. He has more than 20 years of experience in various regions of Canada, Europe and Central America. He has experience in designing, implementing, executing and reporting on various exploration programs, including search for massive sulphide porphyry copper and epithermal gold deposits, VMS deposits, nickel/cooper deposits and uranium deposits.

Christopher Chu - Director

Christopher Chu has been a member of the law society of British Columbia since September 1984 and has served as a director of Apella Resources Inc., an Exchange listed company, from February 1996 to April 2002. He is currently the Corporate Secretary of Apella Resources.