Darren Pylot
President & CEO
Director
Mr. Pylot has been the President and CEO of Silverstone Resources Corp since 2006 and in 1994 created Capstone Mining Corp. He serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for both companies, and has been responsible for bringing Capstone’s Cozamin base metal mine into production as well as negotiating and securing Silverstone’s silver by-product streams agreements. Silverstone’s business model of pursuing silver by-product streams and exploration projects are unique in the industry; and in less than 2 years Capstone has increased production at the Cozamin mine by 200%.
Mr. Pylot has over 17 years experience in the management, administration and financing of public companies focusing on the junior resource sector. He has raised over C$200 million in equity financings in the past three years.
He is also a director of East Asia Minerals Corp. a well-financed, Asian-based Canadian mineral exploration company with uranium properties and advanced gold and gold-copper properties.
East Asia
recently sold one of its uranium projects for C$83 million, to date, the largest sale ever of a uranium property on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Hugh Willson, M.Sc, P.Geo
Vice President - Exploration
Director
Hugh Willson, Vice President - Exploration, is a professional geologist with a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto. His 30 years of hands-on experience as an exploration geologist throughout the Americas, has given him extensive skills in the management of all phases of exploration for base and precious metals. The companies for which Mr. Willson has worked include Hanna Mining, Getty Minerals, Newmont Mining, FMC Gold, Hecla Mining, Magma Copper and Cyprus Mining. He was part of the three-man team that identified the exploration target that became the Peñon Mine in Chile. Mr. Willson supervises Silverstone’s exploration programs in Mexico.
Jason Howe, CA
CFO
Jason Howe is the Chief Financial Officer at Silverstone Resources Corp. Mr. Howe has spent the past 10 years in public practice, and spent 2000-2004 at PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Vancouver, BC.
John Wright, B.Sc, P.Eng
Business Development
Mr. Wright is a co-founder, and former Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pan American Silver Corp. Mr. Wright is also the co-founder of Equinox Resources. Previously, he spent 10 years with Teck Cominco where he worked at the Trail Smelter of operations and later participated in the management of the feasability studies, marketing and mine construction of the Afton, Highmont, Bull Moose and David Bell Mines.
Jack Marr, P.Geo
Director
Jack Marr is a geologist with more than 30 years experience in the financing, administration and management of resource companies. Mr Marr spent more than 13 years of his career in various roles with Esso Minerals Canada. He was also the Regional Exploration Manager of Kennecott Canada Inc. He is currently a director and Vice-President of Exploration for Geodex Minerals Ltd., a Vancouver based mineral exploration company.
Tony Chan
Director
Mr. Chan has worked in the securities industry since 1983. He was a co-founder of Golden Capital Securities Ltd. (“Golden Capital”) in 1990 and retired from the firm in 2004. Mr. Chan helped build Golden Capital into a successful boutique firm encompassing retail, institutional and corporate finance activities. During his time as a principal of Golden Capital, Mr. Chan sat on the Board of Governors of the Vancouver Stock Exchange for two terms and was chairman of the membership committee.
Ken R. Thorsen, BSc, P.Eng
Director
Ken Thorsen has 35 years of experience in the exploration business having spent most of his career in various positions with Teck Cominco. He has extensive experience in the exploration of many commodities, including gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. He has also been involved in exploration programs all over the world including Mexico, Canada, USA, Peru, Chile and Argentina.
Munir Ali
Director
Mr. Ali has represented the following companies in Agriculture commodities; Toepfer International, Asia pte Ltd., Glencore International, Trafigura Ltd., Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Land o Lakes and Agrocorp International.
Sarah Kennedy
Corporate Secretary
Sarah has 10 years experience in the investment industry. Prior to working for Capstone, Sarah spent 7 years as a project manager for Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management.
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