About

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.

Roger He is a finance and accounting professional with a Msc in finance from Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. His background includes over 10 years’ experience in diverse areas of assurance, accounting, corporate finance, capital market, and investing. He is a partner of GIC Merchant bank and his experiences encompasses working in varieties of finance and accounting senior executive roles. Mr. He has extensive experiences to seek growth capital from oversea institutions. He currently serves on the board of numbers of public companies and private companies. He is a CPA with practitioner license and a member of CFA.

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.

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.

James Franklin is a distinguished geoscientist who helped build and advance the knowledge base of Canada’s minerals industry. He spent much of his career with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) documenting the complex evolution of the Canadian Shield and the link to its phenomenal mineral wealth. He was a pioneer in the development of models and techniques to guide exploration for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits and led ocean-based research of “black smoker” systems to understand how VMS deposits form. In addition to these technical contributions, which led to new mines and discoveries, Franklin served the minerals sector as a geological consultant, educator, author and lecturer, and industry ambassador.

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.