Board of Directors
James R. Trusler, P.Eng.
ChairmanMr. Trusler is a geological engineer with over 45 years of exploration experience with a history of discovery and strategic acquisitions of world class scale gold, uranium and Ni-Cu-PGE deposits. He has been the chairman of Platinex since 1998 and was the Company’s CEO and president from 1998 to 2018 and 2019 to 2021. Mr. Trusler has also been the president of J. R. Trusler & Associates (mineral consultant) since 1995.
Greg Ferron
President, Chief Executive Officer, DirectorMr. Ferron has 20 years of mining industry and capital markets experience. He has held various senior level roles in corporate finance, corporate development, and mining with companies such as Laramide Resources Ltd., Treasury Metals Inc., TMX Group and Scotiabank. Mr. Ferron has significant diverse merger and acquisitions experience, including Laramide’s Westwater ISR project acquisition. Recently, as CEO of Treasury Metals he led the completion of the Federal EA process leading to the Goldlund project acquisition, creating one of Canada’s largest gold developers. Mr. Ferron is head of Platinex’s board finance committee and is also currently a director of Fancamp Exploration Inc.
Sam Kiri, CFA, CMA
Director, Head of Audit CommitteeMr. Kiri has over 20 years of capital markets and asset management experience in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, with a primary focus on the mining and energy sectors. He was an equity analyst for the Scotia Pacific Rim Mutual Fund and one of the founders of Proactive Investors, a global media network which provides information on capital market activities, with considerable focus on the mining sector. In addition, he is involved in cross border capital markets with ASX, and London AIM companies onto the Toronto Stock Exchange. Sam was involved in macro policy research with focus on the impact of geo-politics on the energy and mining sectors. His past and present clients include Medley Global Advisors (US), Zimmerman Adams International (UK), CRU Group (UK) and Roskill/Wood Mackenzie (UK) global research institution specialized in Battery Metals and Industrial Minerals. Mr. Kiri’s education includes a B.Sc. In Mechanical Engineering – (Petroleum Refining) and he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (London).
Felix Lee, P.Geo.
DirectorMr. Lee is an economic geologist and senior executive with over 30 years of business and project management experience in the minerals industry both in Canada and internationally. Mr. Lee completed his tenure as director and principal consultant to CSA Global Canada in 2019 and was previously owner and president of the predecessor Toronto-based geological consultancy ACA Howe International Limited. Mr. Lee is a former director and president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (“PDAC”), the largest such mining industry organization in the world. During his fourteen years on the board and as President and Vice-President at PDAC, he has served on the Executive, Governance & Nominating, Human Resource Development, Membership and Awards committees.
Christophe Vereecke, MBA
DirectorMr. Vereecke is a businessman and entrepreneur based in Paris, with a background in finance, oil and gas, mine royalties and renewable energy (post mining). As an entrepreneur he has been involved in the startup of several businesses including co-founder and former chief financial officer of BOP Energy, a physical oil trading and logistics company operating in Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Vereecke’s current investment firm has a focus in the extractive industry, mine royalties, and the diamond markets. He has been a director of Treasury Metals Inc. since 2015. Mr. Vereecke holds a GG (Graduate Gemologist) from the GIA in USA and an MBA 2 (Wealth Management & Family Office) from Financia Business School in France.