Position: Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Bell, joined INV Metals in July 2007, is a registered professional geoscientist with approximately three decades of domestic and international mineral exploration experience. He holds an Honours B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario. Mr. Bell joined Inco (now Vale Inco) in 1980 and worked in Canada, the USA, Brazil, Peru, Indonesia, Turkey, Greenland and Australia.
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Position: President and CFO
Ms. MacGibbon is a CA and CPA (Illinois) and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Sir Wilfred Laurier University. Ms. MacGibbon has extensive experience in the mining sector, along with significant contacts within the financial community, as a result of her previous employment as a global mining institutional salesperson with RBC Capital Markets and in base metals research as a mining associate with BMO Capital Markets. Ms. MacGibbon's experience in accounting matters includes her previous role as a Manager at Deloitte LLP and as a cost analyst with Inco Limited. Ms. MacGibbon joined INV Metals in March 2008.
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Position: Accountant
Mr. Vinas joined INV Metals in December 2007. He has extensive experience in auditing and financial reporting. Prior to joining INV Metals Mr. Vinas was with Kleiman Consulting Group Ltd. Canada, KPMG, SANLUIS Corporacion SA, and Grupo Horus SA, Mexico. Mr. Vinas holds a Bachelor of Accounting from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City).
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Position: Corporate Controller
Mr. Zaritsky, Corporate Controller of INV Metals is a Chartered Accountant with over 5 years of experience in the mining business. Prior to joining INV Metals in 2008, Mr. Zaritsky worked as a senior manager with Smith Nixon LLP (now Collins Barrow LLP). He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute of Business Valuators where he has completed two years of valuation courses including securities law. Blair has finance experience in Canada, United States, Australia, Africa and Brazil. Blair holds an Honours B.A. in accounting from Brock University as well as a B.A in economics from the University of Western Ontario.
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Position: Project Manager, Namibia
Mr. Jennings joined INV in August 2009, following a successful 25 year career with Teck Resources and its predecessor companies, Teck Cominco and Cominco. Mr. Jennings served as Teck's Country Manager in Namibia from 2001 to 2009, where he was responsible for generating the Kaoko property. He was awarded Cominco's President's Award for his part in the discovery of the Anarraaq zinc deposit in the Red Dog district of Alaska. In addition to acting as Exploration Manager for Cominco at Red Dog, Mr. Jennings served as Cominco's Chief Geologist in Mexico. Mr. Jennings has worked in Spain, Puerto Rico, the Canadian Arctic (Pine Point), and throughout the western U.S. He holds a M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Montana and a B.Sc. in Geology from Northern Arizona University.
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Position: Country Manager, Namibia
Mr. Stuart joined INV Metals in March 2010, following two and half years as a sell-side analyst in metals and mining with Numis Securities in London, England. Mr. Stuart was previously with First Quantum for over 9 years, serving in various capacities in the Africa copper belt, including as Chief Geologist at the Kansanshi Mine in Zambia. Mr. Stuart also has previous gold exploration experience in Australia, the Congo, and Tanzania. He holds an MBA from the University of Bath, a M.Sc. in Mineral Exploration and Mining from Leicester University, and an Honours B.Sc. in Geology, from Oxford Polytechnic (now Brookes University).
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Position: Contract Geologist
Mr. Eckhart Freyer joined INV Metals in November 2009, on secondment from our partner Teck Resources. He has more than 25 years of experience in southern Africa. Prior to joining Teck in 2003, Eckhart was the Namibian country manager of Ambase Exploration (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd (Anglo American) for five years, spent three years with Prospecting Ventures in Zimbabwe, and seven years with Erongo Mining and Exploration in Namibia, participating in the teams that developed the Navachab Gold and Skorpion Zinc Mines of Anglo American. He participated in the Kaoko Copper Project for Teck and guided the field team that discovered the numerous copper prospects that INV Metals is now evaluating. Eckhart is a born and bred Namibian, graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in geology from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1981, and spent four years in research on the structure and metamorphism of the Lower Ugab Domain in the Kaoko belt at the Stellenbosch.
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Position: Geologist
Saave Nakashole joined INV Metals in May 2010, on secondment from our partner Teck Resources. She participated in the Haib porphyry copper project in southern Namibia for Teck. Ms. Nakashole was born in Elyangadja village in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. She graduated with a B.Sc. in geology from the University of Namibia in 2009 and a B.Sc. (Hons) in geology from Rhodes University, South Africa in 2010.
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Position: Geologist
Mr. Paulo Aruanã is a Brazilian geologist, having graduated in 2005 from UNESP-Rio Claro - São Paulo, Brazil with a B.Sc. in Geology. He joined INV Metals in January 2010 to work at the Rio Novo Project. Mr. Aruanã previously worked with data base management and geological mapping at Votorantim's Aripunanã lead-zinc project in Mato Grosso, Brazil and at Avanco Resources' Rio Verde copper-oxide project in Carajás, close to the Rio Novo property.
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Position: Project Geologist
Mr. Schwarz is a Brazilian geologist and a graduate of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2003) with a B.Sc. in Geology. Mr. Schwarz joined INV Metals in June, 2010 to supervise the Company's Rio Novo Project. Mr. Schwarz's previous experience includes brown field exploration at both Votorantim's Niquelândia laterite nickel mine in Goiás, Brazil and Rio Tinto's Curuá bauxite project in Pará, Brazil. Most recently, Mr. Schwarz was employed by Vale as an exploration geologist, exploring several base metal projects in Carajás in close proximity to the Rio Novo property.
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Position: Senior Geologist
Mr. Bisneto joined INV Metals in November 2009, on secondment from our partner Teck Resources. He has more than 30 years of international experience. Prior to joining Teck in 2001, Mr. Bisneto worked with Peñoles in northern Mexico, Rio Tinto in northern Brazil and Golden Star Resources in Surinam, where he participated in the discovery of the Gross Rosebel gold deposit. He generated the Rio Novo project for Teck and led the team that discovered the numerous copper prospects that INV Metals is now evaluating. Mr. Bisneto holds a B.Sc. in geology from the University of Federal do Pará and spent two years in a master's economic geology program at the University of Arizona.
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