About

Meet the Team

Vortex’s team is globally renowned for precious metals discoveries, and delivering unparalleled returns to shareholders.

Management Team

Vikas Ranjan
Co-Founder - Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Ranjan is a management professional with an MBA in Finance from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His background includes over 25 years experience in diverse areas of finance, capital markets, entrepreneurship and investing. He is a co-founder of Gravitas Group of companies and his experience encompasses working in senior executive roles, both in Canada and India. Mr. Ranjan has been involved in launching several public and private enterprises in the areas of capital markets and growth investing. He currently serves on the boards of several public and private companies.

Kevin Ma
Chief Financial Officer

Kevin Ma is a seasoned Chief Financial Officer with over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, strategic go-public initiatives, and management advisory services for both public and private companies. He has played a pivotal role in securing over $500 million in corporate financing and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Kevin’s previous roles include Director of Finance at Alexco Resource Corp and CFO at First Cobalt Corp. He currently serves on the board of several Canadian public companies.

Directors & Advisors

Michael Williams
Co-Founder - Executive Chairman

Michael Williams has over 24 years of experience as a senior executive within the mining industry. He is experienced in the structuring, administrating and marketing of Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies.

Mr. Williams has held the role of Executive Chairman of numerous public companies including Underworld Resources Ltd, which was sold to Kinross Gold Corp for $138,000,000. He has developed an international banking and financing network that includes extensive contacts with both institutional and retail investors. Mr. Williams has raised significant capital funds for advanced exploration and development projects worldwide. He currently serves as a director, President and CEO of Vendetta Mining Corp as well as being a Founder and Executive Chairman of Aftermath Silver.

Dr. John Larson
Director

Dr. John Larson is an executive with 42 years international experience in exploration, mining and resource/reserve/mine development. Mr Larson has worked with government geological surveys, junior mining companies and major international minerals companies, including 16 years with BHP and BHP Billiton in various international locations, holding positions as Manager, North America Copper Exploration, Leader, Global Porphyry Copper Exploration, and Manager, Latin America Exploration.

He served as General Manager, Exploration, Zinifex Ltd., Australia, where he built a broad portfolio of base and precious metals projects in 8 countries. From 2008 to 2010 he was Corporate Manager, Exploration for Hochschild Mining PLC of Peru developing a new program of international exploration throughout the Americas from Canada to Patagonia. He has served on the board of four junior explorers.

Paul Fürst
Director

Mr. Fürst, a partner and board member of Banco de Chile since its 2019 NYSE listing. Banco De Chile is Chile’s largest private bank, founded in 1893 with over US$ 12 billion market value. Based in Santiago, it operates 400+ branches and 1900+ ATMs nationwide. His mining sector expertise spans 18 years, focusing on Ventana Minerals and Terra Services. He is also a partner and director of Mall Plaza, the largest owner and operator of shopping malls in Latin America.

Vikas Ranjan
Co-Founder - Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Ranjan is a management professional with an MBA in Finance from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His background includes over 25 years experience in diverse areas of finance, capital markets, entrepreneurship and investing. He is a co-founder of Gravitas Group of companies and his experience encompasses working in senior executive roles, both in Canada and India. Mr. Ranjan has been involved in launching several public and private enterprises in the areas of capital markets and growth investing. He currently serves on the boards of several public and private companies.

Fulfilling The Legacy of the
“Mine Finder”

The story of Vortex Metals started with the vision of the late David Jones, a renowned geologist credited as spearheading the discovery of 7.43 million ounces of gold and 52.54 million ounces of silver in what eventually became known as Los Filos, one of the world’s largest gold deposits (now owned by Equinox Gold)

Jones was a recognized skarn expert and created the geological model responsible for multiple discoveries in what is now known as the 20-million-ounce Guerrero Gold Belt in Mexico, earning him the moniker “mine finder”.

Jones believed that both the Riqueza Marina- Zaachila (RQMZ) copper-gold projects, in Oaxaca, currently owned by Vortex Metals (TSXV:VMS), would be his next significant discovery and had personally curated five high-potential targets in his work toward discovering the next large mineralized system.

Los Filos Mine
7.43 million ounces of gold &
52.54 million ounces of silver

David Jones
The “Mine Finder”