Senior Management
| Bruce Counts CEO, President, Director | ||
| Bruce Counts has been involved in the mineral exploration industry for more than 25 years. Between 1992 and 1997 he was employed by BHP Minerals Canada Ltd. and was an integral member of the team responsible for the discovery and development of the Ekati Diamond Mine(tm). In 1997 Bruce joined Dia Met Minerals Ltd. and was senior consultant on their international portfolio of projects until the sale of the company in 2001. Following this, Bruce consulted to junior exploration companies until 2004, when he became President and CEO of Bluestone Resources Inc. Bruce is also founder and Director of West Melville Metals Inc. Bruce holds a degree in Geological Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is a Professional Geophysicist. In addition to his experience in mineral exploration, Bruce also has a unique background in Papua New Guinea having lived and spent significant amounts of time in there over a 35 year period while his parents conducted anthropological research. As such he is very familiar with all aspects of Papua New Guinea life, culture, customs and government and retains a number of active contacts in that country. | ||
| Alex Shaw CFO, Director | ||
| Alex Shaw is a Certified Public Accountant and a principle of Shaw Shaw & Shaw, CPA based in Jacksonville Florida where he currently resides. Mr. Shaw obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and in Political Science from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in 1992, and a Bachelor in Accounting from Florida State University in 1996. He received his CPA license in 1997. He has served as a Director at NEMI Northern Energy and Mining Inc since March 2011. | ||
| Dal Brynelsen Director | ||
| With over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, Mr. Brynelsen has been the President, CEO and a Director of the Company for the past 16 years. Mr. Brynelsen was also the Western Manager of Corporate Finance for a national brokerage firm for four years during the recent downturn in mining and mineral exploration. He has discovered, financed and brought to production two gold mines in Canada. Mr. Brynelsen was instrumental in the restructuring of Vangold. He is also a founding Director of Griffin Mining Ltd., a $200m company listed on the AIM Exchange in London. Griffin is the first western company to build a mine in China in the last 100 years. | ||
| Michael Cooney Director | ||
| Mr Cooney has been Chairman of NEMI Northern Energy & Mining Inc. since March 2009 after successfully leading a proxy contest at NEMI's 2009 Annual General Meeting and has been CEO since May 2010. Prior to that he was a private investor who worked for 15 years as an independent market maker on both the Pacific Options Exchange in San Francisco and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan and a BA in Physics from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. | ||
