Global Bauxite Mining and Exploration Company
Ioannis (Yannis) Tsitos
President and Director
Mr. Tsitos, MSc., has over 20 years experience in the Mining Industry, having spent the last 18 years with BHP Billiton group. Mr. Tsitos has lived and worked in South Africa, Ecuador, Greece and United Kingdom, and has been working in Canada since 2000. Originally a physicist-geophysicist, he left BHP Billiton in December 2007, where he had the title of New Business Manager for Minerals Exploration in Vancouver. He holds a B.Sc degree in Physics from the University of Athens and a Master's degree in Applied Geophysics and Geology from the University of Birmingham, U.K. In addition, he has done management and finance studies as part of an MBA program with Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Mr. Tsitos brings to the Company a wealth of knowledge and extensive experience in the mining sector focused on exploration for a wide spectrum of commodities, from gold, base metals, nickel and diamonds to bulk minerals such as bauxite, coal and iron ore. Well-known in the Canadian and international exploration communities, he has worked on projects and has travelled for business in 32 countries. He has been instrumental in the identification, negotiation and execution of more than 50 exploration agreements with juniors, majors, as well as with state exploration and mining companies. Mr. Tsitos has also been part of two discovery teams with BHP Billiton in porphyry-copper and nickel-sulphide deposits. He is a member of the Association for Minerals Exploration British Columbia and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
Hilbert N. Shields
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Hilbert N Shields, MSc., has over 28 eight years experience in the Mineral Exploration and Mining Industry, the core years consisting of 14 years with Golden Star Resources Inc., as Vice President with responsibility for gold exploration in Guyana and Venezuela and diamond exploration worldwide. Mr. Shields managed the exploration of Omai gold deposit in Guyana, from acquisition by Golden Star through to the completion of the Feasibility Study with the involvement of Cambior, and later became a Director of Omai Gold Mines Ltd. He was also responsible for the acquisition by Golden Star of the Gros Rosebel Property in Suriname and managed the early exploration of this, now Iamgold Inc. operated, producing mine. He was also a member of the successful acquisition and transition management team of the Bogosu Mine in Ghana, again for Golden Star. Mr. Shields attained a Bachelors Degree in Geology & the Environment from Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom, and a Masters Degree in Geology from the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, USA. His career has been spent acquiring global experience through exploring, evaluating prospects and/or mining either Gold, Diamond or Bauxite in a number of countries. In 2000 he resigned from Golden Star and founded his own companies holding bauxite and gold Mining and Exploration Concessions in Guyana. In late 2001 to early 2002 he was attached to the Adam Smith Institute of the UK, to provide consulting services to the Government of Guyana as they consolidated operatorship of the Berbice River Bauxite Mines. For two years from 2002, he was a senior member of the management team of the Aroaima Bauxite Mining Company, which produced 1.2 million tons per year of metallurgical, chemical and cement grade bauxite. Mr. Shields was also the Chairman of the Mining Chapter of the National Development Strategy, a Carter Center of the USA funded, private sector blueprint, for the development of Guyana, which was adopted by its national parliament.
Demetreus (Jim) Heras
Chairman & Director
Mr Heras is a well-known businessman and entrepreneur and during his career he has been a director and executive of several private and public companies. He has been President and owner of World Wide Seafoods from 1997 to present and of Seven Seas Fish Co. from 1964 to 1997. In the mid-nineties he was Director and Chairman of the Board of St. Philips Resources Inc., and negotiated the agreement with Royal Oak Mines on the Kemess copper-gold deposit (which later became a mine) in British Columbia and the final acquisition of St. Philips Resources by Royal Oak Mines. He was Director and President of Highgrade Ventures Ltd. from April 1993 to 2000 (subsequently this company was named Brasilca Mining Corp.). Mr. Heras is also Director of Carat Explorations Inc. In addition, he has has held various directorships in private and public companies in land development and other real estate ventures.
Lee Graber
Director
Mr Lee Graber has over 30 years relevant experience in the mining industry, including 23 years with Homestake Mining Company. As Vice President, responsible for corporate development, Lee initiated, managed and closed 55 major acquisition and divestment transactions totaling $9.2 Billion. Subsequent to Homestake, Lee served as Managing Director, Mergers and Acquisitions for Endeavour Financial Ltd in Vancouver advising junior resource companies, he consulted for clients developing non-metallic mineral deposits and served as a director of resource companies in Thailand, West Africa, Russia and Canada.
Albert Wu
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Wu is a Certified Management Accountant and he received his Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1969 and his MBA in 1971, both from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the last twenty five years, Mr. Wu has been working with public companies in providing accounting and management services on a part-time basis. Mr. Wu is currently the Chief Financial Officer of First Bauxite Corporation, Carat Exploration Inc., Silver Lake Resources Ltd., Urastar Energy Inc., and Pacific Imperial Mines Inc., all of which are public companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Harry Katevatis
Director
Mr. Katevatis is President of Lakithra Management Corporation and a Director of Totem Minerals Inc. He was President of Carat Explorations Inc. from November 2003 to December 2007 and remains to this date as Chairman and Director. He was a registered representative with Canaccord Capital Corporation from 1976 to November, 2003. Mr. Katevatis has a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Political Science) from Panteios University, Athens, Greece (1965).
Marsha Panar
Director
Ms. Panar has been a civil servant with the British Columbia Ministry of Human Resources from 1974 to present. Ms. Panar has been a Director of Carat Exploration Inc. since 2003 to present.