Frank Giustra is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist and the Founder and CEO of the Fiore Group, a private investment and advisory firm that brings together leaders in mining, capital markets, and corporate management to incubate and scale innovative small-cap companies with a disciplined, long-term approach to value creation. Recognized for establishing Lionsgate Entertainment, Mr. Giustra has built a distinguished career in investment banking and natural resource finance, founding and leading numerous successful public companies.
Beyond business, he is deeply engaged in philanthropy through The Giustra Foundation, a Canadian charity that supports initiatives focused on women and children, education, and refugee resettlement. Outside of Canada, the Giustra International Foundation supports organizations in conflict resolution and foreign policy. In 2007, he launched Acceso, a social business builder that addresses global poverty through entrepreneurial solutions, particularly in agribusinesses in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
He serves as a Board member and past-chair of the International Crisis Group and is a recipient of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Gordon Keep has extensive business experience in investment banking and creating public natural resource companies. Mr. Keep currently is CEO of Fiore Management & Advisory Corp., a private financial advisory firm. He also serves as an officer and/or director for several natural resource companies. From January 2001 to July 2007, Mr. Keep was Managing Director of Corporate Finance at Endeavour Financial Corporation, September 1997 until March 2004, he was Senior Vice President and a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., and from April 1987 until October 1997, he was Vice President, Corporate Finance in the Natural Resource group of Yorkton Securities Inc. He obtained his B.Sc. in Geological Science from Queen’s University in 1979 and his Master’s of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1983 and is a Professional Geologist in the province of British Columbia.
Mr. Khunkhun has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets, mineral exploration, and development sector with a focus on enhancing shareholder value. He has served in a variety of strategic roles, including CEO, Director, and Executive Chairman. Mr. Khunkhun has been instrumental in creating awareness for undervalued companies, including explorers, developers, and producers.
Mr. Khunkhun’s experience in incubating and growing companies through capital raises, acquisitions, and spinouts, as well as long-standing relationships with an extensive global network of High-Net-Worth investors, private equity and institutional investors, analysts, brokers, and investment bankers, have been a valuable asset to growing mining companies.
Mr. Khunkhun is a Director of GoldX2 & Gladiator Metals. Shawn is also an advisor to West Red Lake, Nations Royalty & NexGold and founder of Argenta Silver.
Mr. Khunkhun has facilitated over $3B in capital raises. He is currently CEO & Director of Dolly Varden Silver, where he has grown the market cap from $20M to $600M, raising over $185M in equity.
Ryan is a mining executive and Professional Engineer with over 15 years of experience across engineering, operations, finance, M&A, and company building.
He is the Co-Founder and President of Fuse Advisors, a 45+ person consultancy recently acquired by SLR Consulting, and a Partner at the Fiore Group where he helps create and grow new mining ventures. He has co-founded multiple public and private companies including Selkirk Copper, West Red Lake Gold Mines, and Nations Royalty, and currently serves as Executive Vice President of Cambria Gold Mines following a major restructuring and financing.
Ryan has also worked closely with Indigenous governments on investment partnerships and ownership transactions, including the historic acquisition of the Minto Mine by the Selkirk First Nation. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Mining & Mineral Process Engineering from UBC and is a licensed P.Eng.
Rob is an accomplished geologist, executive and third-generation miner from Stewart, BC. He started his career as a mill operator at the Premier Mine for Westmin Resources in 1991 and as a junior geologist for Lac Minerals at the Red Mountain Project from 1992-1994. He has extensive experience in gold projects throughout North America including multiple discoveries and Company sales. He was previously CEO of IDM Mining, who advanced the Red Mountain Project through resource expansion, feasibility and receipt of EA and EIS approvals and was acquired by Ascot in 2019. Rob is a partner in the Fiore Group and co-founder with the Nisga’a Nation of Nations Royalty Corp, with Selkirk First Nation of Selkirk Copper Mines and West Red Lake Gold Mines. He is a Director of Nations Royalty, Dolly Varden Silver and Nexgold Mining, Rob is an advisor to several additional junior Companies and Director of the Britannia Mine Museum. He has a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia and Masters in Mineral Exploration from Queens University.
With over 15 years at the Fiore Group, Lara Dauphinee serves as Managing Director of Fiore Financial Corporation, a private company with a diversified portfolio of investments and companies across multiple sectors. She is Chair of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Gold British Columbia chapter and Chair of the CKNW Kids’ Fund, and serves as director of YYOGA and The Giustra Foundation. Ms. Dauphinee is deeply committed to advancing business leadership and driving community impact initiatives. From 2001 to 2011, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Premier of British Columbia. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and has completed the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.
Joaquin is a geologist and mining executive with over 16 years of international experience in mineral exploration, project development, and corporate leadership across the Solomon Islands, Argentina, Australia, Canada, and Alaska. He is President, CEO and Director of Argenta Silver Corp., which he co-founded alongside Frank Giustra and the Fiore Group. Under his leadership, Argenta raised CAD $60.5 million and, in its first year as a public company, was recognized among the TSX Venture 50™ 2026, ranking in the top 50 out of more than 2,000 TSXV-listed companies. He also serves as Director of Crossroads Gold and Lunex Metals. Joaquin combines technical expertise with disciplined capital markets execution, building companies entirely focused on creating sustainable value for stakeholders.
Ian R. Harris, mining engineer, is Chief Executive Officer of Copper Giant, leading the Mocoa copper-molybdenum porphyry project in Colombia—one of the largest undeveloped copper resources in the Americas. He has more than 25 years of mining experience, primarily in South America, advancing projects from exploration and feasibility through construction and operations.
Harris began his career in ASARCO’s management development program at the Ray copper mine in Arizona and has since held executive leadership roles across the Americas and the Middle East. As Senior Vice President and Country Manager of Corriente Resources, he guided Ecuador’s Mirador copper project from feasibility into construction, culminating in its US$690 million acquisition and the development of the country’s first industrial-scale copper mine. He later served as Chief Executive Officer of AMAK Mining, the first private mining company in Saudi Arabia, overseeing operational turnaround and growth prior to its public listing.
Derrick Pattenden is currently President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Nations Royalty Corp. (TSX-V: NRC). He was an accomplished investment banker with 15 years of extensive experience in the mining industry, specializing in finance, mergers, and acquisitions. Throughout his banking career, he has completed M&A transactions with a combined equity value of over C$20 billion. He has direct experience with transactions involving the creation of new mining royalties and royalty companies, as well as the restructuring of existing metal streaming agreements.
He began his investment banking career in Vancouver in 2009 with Genuity Capital Markets. Prior to joining Nations Royalty, Mr. Pattenden was Director, Investment Banking, at Canaccord Genuity where he worked with TSX and TSX Venture listed companies and focused exclusively on the mineral exploration and mining industry. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining Engineering from the University of British Columbia and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a band member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation.
Morgan Lekstrom is a mining executive and corporate strategist with over 19 years of experience building and transforming resource companies. He is Chairman and Co-Founder of Streamex, a NASDAQ-listed tokenization platform creating new ways to trade commodities through blockchain-based securities, where he has led over $100M USD in financing.
Morgan previously served as CEO of NexMetals Mining Corp., advancing critical metals projects in Botswana backed by a US$150M letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He is also President, Co-Founder, and Director of NexGold Mining, where he helped lead a series of mergers to build a near-term Canadian gold producer advancing two new mines.
Earlier in his career, Morgan held technical roles at major operations including Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia, Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, and G3’s Vancouver Grain Terminal.
Prior to joining West Red Lake, Mr. Shane Williams was the Chief Operating Officer for Skeena Resources where he was involved in advancing the past producing Eskay Creek Gold project towards a restart. Between 2013-2019 he was Vice President of Operations and Capital Projects at Eldorado Gold where under his leadership the Lamaque Gold project was brought from Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) to commercial operation in just 18-months. He also served as Project Director for Eldorado Gold for their Greek assets and was responsible for the development of both the Skouries and Olympias projects which together had a capex of over US$1B. Mr. Williams has extensive open-pit development experience from his time working with Rio Tinto at the Iron Ore Company of Canada and at Kaunis Iron in Northern Sweden where he, as Project Director, was responsible for the successful staged development of this large, open-pit iron ore operation from early exploration into commercial operation over a rapid 3.5 year period. Mr. Williams has a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology Ireland and an M.Sc. in Project Management from the University of Limerick Ireland.
Mr. Joudrie is an accomplished business leader with over 30 years of diverse mineral resources industry experience with a track record of unlocking investment opportunities across the globe. Prior to his current role as President & CEO of Selkirk Copper, Mr. Joudrie was Vice President, Business Development with Teck Resources Limited, a position he held from 2011 through 2024, where he was responsible for advancing several advanced base and precious metal development projects in the Americas through Preliminary Economic Assessment, Prefeasibility, and Feasibility study work.
Ranj Pillai is a business executive and former public sector leader who served as the tenth Premier of Yukon. Over nearly a decade in territorial politics, he held the positions of Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of Economic Development, and Minister responsible for the Yukon Energy Corporation and the Yukon Housing Corporation.
As a cabinet minister, Ranj focused on strengthening and diversifying the Yukon’s economy through the responsible development of the territory’s resource sectors, investment in strategic infrastructure, and targeted support for entrepreneurs, while advancing reconciliation. Before entering territorial politics, he held senior leadership roles with Gorilla Minerals Corporation, Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, Northern Vision Development, the City of Whitehorse, and Yukon University. He is currently the CEO of Seva Mining, a gold exploration company. Ranj holds a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College, comes from a proud multi-generational mining family, and lives in Whitehorse with his wife and sons.
Mr. Motton is an exploration geologist with nearly 40 years of global experience in the mining industry, having been active in mineral exploration since 1986 and serving as a director of mining and exploration companies since 1988. He has a strong track record in project generation, exploration strategy, and discovery across multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, South America, Central America, Jamaica, and the Philippines.
He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Fosterville South Exploration (now Great Pacific Gold), where he led exploration strategy, target generation, community relations and program execution across the company’s gold projects in Victoria, Australia. He has extensive experience exploring for orogenic gold systems in Australia and has also worked on a range of base metal deposit styles including porphyry copper, VMS copper-lead-zinc, Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc, and nickel laterite deposits.
Mr. Motton holds an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Geology from Federation University Australia. He is a Chartered Professional of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Mr. Monaghan brings 25 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and a proven track record of creating shareholder value. He has helped raise over $150 million for exploration projects around the globe and has worked with several companies that delivered significant exits through M&A. Notably, Canplats Resources Corp., which was acquired by Goldcorp Inc. in 2010 for approximately $300 million. Mr. Monaghan holds an MBA from Royal Roads University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and a diploma in public relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
Mr. Monaghan brings 25 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and a proven track record of creating shareholder value. He has helped raise over $150 million for exploration projects around the globe and has worked with several companies that delivered significant exits through M&A. Notably, Canplats Resources Corp., which was acquired by Goldcorp Inc. in 2010 for approximately $300 million. Mr. Monaghan holds an MBA from Royal Roads University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and a diploma in public relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
Frank Giustra is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist and the Founder and CEO of the Fiore Group, a private investment and advisory firm that brings together leaders in mining, capital markets, and corporate management to incubate and scale innovative small-cap companies with a disciplined, long-term approach to value creation. Recognized for establishing Lionsgate Entertainment, Mr. Giustra has built a distinguished career in investment banking and natural resource finance, founding and leading numerous successful public companies.
Beyond business, he is deeply engaged in philanthropy through The Giustra Foundation, a Canadian charity that supports initiatives focused on women and children, education, and refugee resettlement. Outside of Canada, the Giustra International Foundation supports organizations in conflict resolution and foreign policy. In 2007, he launched Acceso, a social business builder that addresses global poverty through entrepreneurial solutions, particularly in agribusinesses in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
He serves as a Board member and past-chair of the International Crisis Group and is a recipient of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Gordon Keep has extensive business experience in investment banking and creating public natural resource companies. Mr. Keep currently is CEO of Fiore Management & Advisory Corp., a private financial advisory firm. He also serves as an officer and/or director for several natural resource companies. From January 2001 to July 2007, Mr. Keep was Managing Director of Corporate Finance at Endeavour Financial Corporation, September 1997 until March 2004, he was Senior Vice President and a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., and from April 1987 until October 1997, he was Vice President, Corporate Finance in the Natural Resource group of Yorkton Securities Inc. He obtained his B.Sc. in Geological Science from Queen’s University in 1979 and his Master’s of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1983 and is a Professional Geologist in the province of British Columbia.
Mr. Khunkhun has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets, mineral exploration, and development sector with a focus on enhancing shareholder value. He has served in a variety of strategic roles, including CEO, Director, and Executive Chairman. Mr. Khunkhun has been instrumental in creating awareness for undervalued companies, including explorers, developers, and producers.
Mr. Khunkhun’s experience in incubating and growing companies through capital raises, acquisitions, and spinouts, as well as long-standing relationships with an extensive global network of High-Net-Worth investors, private equity and institutional investors, analysts, brokers, and investment bankers, have been a valuable asset to growing mining companies.
Mr. Khunkhun is a Director of GoldX2 & Gladiator Metals. Shawn is also an advisor to West Red Lake, Nations Royalty & NexGold and founder of Argenta Silver.
Mr. Khunkhun has facilitated over $3B in capital raises. He is currently CEO & Director of Dolly Varden Silver, where he has grown the market cap from $20M to $600M, raising over $185M in equity.
Ryan is a mining executive and Professional Engineer with over 15 years of experience across engineering, operations, finance, M&A, and company building.
He is the Co-Founder and President of Fuse Advisors, a 45+ person consultancy recently acquired by SLR Consulting, and a Partner at the Fiore Group where he helps create and grow new mining ventures. He has co-founded multiple public and private companies including Selkirk Copper, West Red Lake Gold Mines, and Nations Royalty, and currently serves as Executive Vice President of Cambria Gold Mines following a major restructuring and financing.
Ryan has also worked closely with Indigenous governments on investment partnerships and ownership transactions, including the historic acquisition of the Minto Mine by the Selkirk First Nation. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Mining & Mineral Process Engineering from UBC and is a licensed P.Eng.
Rob is an accomplished geologist, executive and third-generation miner from Stewart, BC. He started his career as a mill operator at the Premier Mine for Westmin Resources in 1991 and as a junior geologist for Lac Minerals at the Red Mountain Project from 1992-1994. He has extensive experience in gold projects throughout North America including multiple discoveries and Company sales. He was previously CEO of IDM Mining, who advanced the Red Mountain Project through resource expansion, feasibility and receipt of EA and EIS approvals and was acquired by Ascot in 2019. Rob is a partner in the Fiore Group and co-founder with the Nisga’a Nation of Nations Royalty Corp, with Selkirk First Nation of Selkirk Copper Mines and West Red Lake Gold Mines. He is a Director of Nations Royalty, Dolly Varden Silver and Nexgold Mining, Rob is an advisor to several additional junior Companies and Director of the Britannia Mine Museum. He has a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia and Masters in Mineral Exploration from Queens University.
With over 15 years at the Fiore Group, Lara Dauphinee serves as Managing Director of Fiore Financial Corporation, a private company with a diversified portfolio of investments and companies across multiple sectors. She is Chair of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Gold British Columbia chapter and Chair of the CKNW Kids’ Fund, and serves as director of YYOGA and The Giustra Foundation. Ms. Dauphinee is deeply committed to advancing business leadership and driving community impact initiatives. From 2001 to 2011, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Premier of British Columbia. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and has completed the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.
Joaquin is a geologist and mining executive with over 16 years of international experience in mineral exploration, project development, and corporate leadership across the Solomon Islands, Argentina, Australia, Canada, and Alaska. He is President, CEO and Director of Argenta Silver Corp., which he co-founded alongside Frank Giustra and the Fiore Group. Under his leadership, Argenta raised CAD $60.5 million and, in its first year as a public company, was recognized among the TSX Venture 50™ 2026, ranking in the top 50 out of more than 2,000 TSXV-listed companies. He also serves as Director of Crossroads Gold and Lunex Metals. Joaquin combines technical expertise with disciplined capital markets execution, building companies entirely focused on creating sustainable value for stakeholders.
Ian R. Harris, mining engineer, is Chief Executive Officer of Copper Giant, leading the Mocoa copper-molybdenum porphyry project in Colombia—one of the largest undeveloped copper resources in the Americas. He has more than 25 years of mining experience, primarily in South America, advancing projects from exploration and feasibility through construction and operations.
Harris began his career in ASARCO’s management development program at the Ray copper mine in Arizona and has since held executive leadership roles across the Americas and the Middle East. As Senior Vice President and Country Manager of Corriente Resources, he guided Ecuador’s Mirador copper project from feasibility into construction, culminating in its US$690 million acquisition and the development of the country’s first industrial-scale copper mine. He later served as Chief Executive Officer of AMAK Mining, the first private mining company in Saudi Arabia, overseeing operational turnaround and growth prior to its public listing.
Derrick Pattenden is currently President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Nations Royalty Corp. (TSX-V: NRC). He was an accomplished investment banker with 15 years of extensive experience in the mining industry, specializing in finance, mergers, and acquisitions. Throughout his banking career, he has completed M&A transactions with a combined equity value of over C$20 billion. He has direct experience with transactions involving the creation of new mining royalties and royalty companies, as well as the restructuring of existing metal streaming agreements.
He began his investment banking career in Vancouver in 2009 with Genuity Capital Markets. Prior to joining Nations Royalty, Mr. Pattenden was Director, Investment Banking, at Canaccord Genuity where he worked with TSX and TSX Venture listed companies and focused exclusively on the mineral exploration and mining industry. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining Engineering from the University of British Columbia and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a band member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation.
Morgan Lekstrom is a mining executive and corporate strategist with over 19 years of experience building and transforming resource companies. He is Chairman and Co-Founder of Streamex, a NASDAQ-listed tokenization platform creating new ways to trade commodities through blockchain-based securities, where he has led over $100M USD in financing.
Morgan previously served as CEO of NexMetals Mining Corp., advancing critical metals projects in Botswana backed by a US$150M letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He is also President, Co-Founder, and Director of NexGold Mining, where he helped lead a series of mergers to build a near-term Canadian gold producer advancing two new mines.
Earlier in his career, Morgan held technical roles at major operations including Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia, Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, and G3’s Vancouver Grain Terminal.
Prior to joining West Red Lake, Mr. Shane Williams was the Chief Operating Officer for Skeena Resources where he was involved in advancing the past producing Eskay Creek Gold project towards a restart. Between 2013-2019 he was Vice President of Operations and Capital Projects at Eldorado Gold where under his leadership the Lamaque Gold project was brought from Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) to commercial operation in just 18-months. He also served as Project Director for Eldorado Gold for their Greek assets and was responsible for the development of both the Skouries and Olympias projects which together had a capex of over US$1B. Mr. Williams has extensive open-pit development experience from his time working with Rio Tinto at the Iron Ore Company of Canada and at Kaunis Iron in Northern Sweden where he, as Project Director, was responsible for the successful staged development of this large, open-pit iron ore operation from early exploration into commercial operation over a rapid 3.5 year period. Mr. Williams has a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology Ireland and an M.Sc. in Project Management from the University of Limerick Ireland.
Mr. Joudrie is an accomplished business leader with over 30 years of diverse mineral resources industry experience with a track record of unlocking investment opportunities across the globe. Prior to his current role as President & CEO of Selkirk Copper, Mr. Joudrie was Vice President, Business Development with Teck Resources Limited, a position he held from 2011 through 2024, where he was responsible for advancing several advanced base and precious metal development projects in the Americas through Preliminary Economic Assessment, Prefeasibility, and Feasibility study work.
Ranj Pillai is a business executive and former public sector leader who served as the tenth Premier of Yukon. Over nearly a decade in territorial politics, he held the positions of Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of Economic Development, and Minister responsible for the Yukon Energy Corporation and the Yukon Housing Corporation.
As a cabinet minister, Ranj focused on strengthening and diversifying the Yukon’s economy through the responsible development of the territory’s resource sectors, investment in strategic infrastructure, and targeted support for entrepreneurs, while advancing reconciliation. Before entering territorial politics, he held senior leadership roles with Gorilla Minerals Corporation, Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, Northern Vision Development, the City of Whitehorse, and Yukon University. He is currently the CEO of Seva Mining, a gold exploration company. Ranj holds a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College, comes from a proud multi-generational mining family, and lives in Whitehorse with his wife and sons.
Mr. Motton is an exploration geologist with nearly 40 years of global experience in the mining industry, having been active in mineral exploration since 1986 and serving as a director of mining and exploration companies since 1988. He has a strong track record in project generation, exploration strategy, and discovery across multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, South America, Central America, Jamaica, and the Philippines.
He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Fosterville South Exploration (now Great Pacific Gold), where he led exploration strategy, target generation, community relations and program execution across the company’s gold projects in Victoria, Australia. He has extensive experience exploring for orogenic gold systems in Australia and has also worked on a range of base metal deposit styles including porphyry copper, VMS copper-lead-zinc, Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc, and nickel laterite deposits.
Mr. Motton holds an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Geology from Federation University Australia. He is a Chartered Professional of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Mr. Monaghan brings 25 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and a proven track record of creating shareholder value. He has helped raise over $150 million for exploration projects around the globe and has worked with several companies that delivered significant exits through M&A. Notably, Canplats Resources Corp., which was acquired by Goldcorp Inc. in 2010 for approximately $300 million. Mr. Monaghan holds an MBA from Royal Roads University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and a diploma in public relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
Mr. Monaghan brings 25 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and a proven track record of creating shareholder value. He has helped raise over $150 million for exploration projects around the globe and has worked with several companies that delivered significant exits through M&A. Notably, Canplats Resources Corp., which was acquired by Goldcorp Inc. in 2010 for approximately $300 million. Mr. Monaghan holds an MBA from Royal Roads University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and a diploma in public relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
