In January, 2000 Neil through his ownership of Nominex Ltd., created and became the President and Managing Partner in the consulting company Billiken Management Services Inc. Neil remained as President and MD of Billiken Management through to the beginning of June 2007, when he sold his one third interest to an arm’s length company owned by various senior geological consultants to Billiken. Billiken, under Neil’s management and guidance entered into various contracts with Spider Resources Inc. and joint venture partner KWG Resources Inc. to manage all exploration activities of the KWG/Spider joint venture in the capacity of "appointed manager" in early 2000. Through Billiken, Neil assembled and maintained a team of geological and engineering professionals that have, over the past 10 years become extremely familiar with the projects of Spider, and return each exploration season to the various projects, thus maintaining the continuous flow of information from one year to the next, without Spider having to hire staff on a full time basis. Billiken is hired on a project by project basis and is only employed on an as needed basis, in addition Billiken provides office space for Spider in Toronto’s financial district. With Neil’s departure from Billiken in 2007, agreements with Spider were all renegotiated.
Neil through his involvement in Billiken also provided geological consultation and management expertise regarding exploration for several other resource companies in Canada and worldwide. As a partial result of this involvement with others, along with Neil’s long career in the junior resource industry, Neil was invited to join various public company boards including Noront Resources Inc., Simberi Mining Corporation, and Cadillac Ventures Inc. In addition to Neil’s role as CEO and President of Spider, Neil is also Vice President of Noront Resources Ltd., overseeing this company’s exploration activity.
Neil has the following professional affiliations:
Practising member of Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario
Member of Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
Member of Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Fellow of Geological Association of Canada
Volunteer member of Aboriginal Working Group of the Ontario Mineral Cluster Council
**this bio copied verbatim from SPQ website
