Thomas Valentine

DIRECTOR AND AUDIT COMMITTEE MEMBER

With more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, both as a barrister and a solicitor. In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Valentine lived in Doha, Qatar, where he was senior counsel (projects) with Qatar Petroleum. While in Qatar, Mr. Valentine was responsible for a number of international gas and LNG projects, including projects in the United Kingdom (Qatargas II), India (RasGas) and Spain (Endesa Generacion). Since returning to Canada, Mr. Valentine’s work continues to focus on oil, gas (including LNG) and project development work, including fiscal regime analysis and negotiations, E&P work, joint venture structuring, joint operations issues, purchase and sale agreements, and decommissioning obligations. He currently provides legal advice to various gas and LNG projects (both upstream and downstream) in Asia, Nigeria, South America, North America and the Middle East. Each year Mr. Valentine delivers lectures and teaches workshops on natural gas and LNG contracts in Perth, Doha, London, Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, Algeria, Brunei, Johannesburg, Rio and Mozambique.

Michel Lebeuf

Director

Member of the Quebec Bar Association, Partner of Dunton Rainville LLP, Mr. Lebeuf has an expertise in securities, particularly in the areas of natural resources, institutional and corporate financing, and public and private mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Lebeuf represents public companies, securities brokers, buyers, sellers, bankers, and financial advisors. He provides strategic advice on access to public capital markets, securities, and structured products. Over the past years, Michel Lebeuf has worked for many mining projects in Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Angola and Republic of Congo) and his services are regularly used by mining developers, mining companies, and investment banking companies eager to develop mining projects in these countries. He also specializes in transactions such as “reverse takeovers” or RTO’s on various stock exchanges among which in particular the CSE and the TSX venture. Me Lebeuf also has extensive experience in corporate reorganizations, public and private transfers, and institutional funding. Me Lebeuf Jr. obtained his law degree from the University of Montreal.

Kyle Appleby

Director and Audit Committee Member

Mr. Appleby spent the first 10 years of his career working in public accounting where he worked in both audit and advisory practices working with private companies and investment funds. In 2007 Mr. Appleby left the world of public accounting to focus on providing management and accounting services to public companies across a variety of industries including junior mining, food production, agriculture, cannabis, technology, crypto-currency and others. Mr. Appleby has been the Chief Financial Officer for numerous companies, listed in Canada, US and London and has extensive experience in financial reporting, IPOs, fund raising, and corporate governance. He holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation and is a member in good standing of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario and Canada. Kyle is also a director of two other public companies.

Daniel Lucero

Mr Daniel Lucero More than 15 years experience in ressource exploration in Latin America and the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Exploration Manager in Quattro Exploration and Production Ltd. for 6 years, WCSB and Latin America Chief Geoscientist at Kintex Geosciences Exploration Gologist at CoalCorp Mining and Andicoal Graduate of the National University of Colombia (Bogota-Colombia) with BSc in Geology.

Nikolas Perrault

Nikolas Perrault is a Chartered Financial Analyst at the helm of Twilight Capital, a capital market advisory consulting firm based in Montreal, which he formed in 2008. Twilight Capital focuses its efforts primarily in the natural resources sector. Over the last 25 years, it has built an international network of strategic relationships within the field. Twilight is on a constant quest for opportunities to connect entrepreneurs internationally and to assist public and private companies in their overall capital market strategy. Nikolas Perrault and others at the firm have significant experience in going-public transactions, capital markets, spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and other matters related to those fields. Previously, Mr. Perrault served as an investment executive with some of Canada's largest institutions. This includes National Bank, Merrill-Lynch, CIBC and Scotia Capital. Nikolas Perrault graduated from Concordia University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He then went on to receive his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997. His professional knowledge is vast and includes experience in securities trading, human resources management and financial analysis. Nikolas was born in Rwanda and has spent decades traveling the world. His travel has instilled in him a passion for learning about different cultures and helping to bridge the gaps between them.