CEO & Director
Mr. Dubey has over 11 years of experience originating and structuring investments in the natural resource space. He previously reported directly to the Board of Directors of BaseCore Metals LP which he led since its inception through to its sale. At BaseCore his focus included originating and executing stream and royalty investments, along with managing the company’s portfolio of assets. Previous to BaseCore, Mr. Dubey was a Principal within the Natural Resources team at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, where he gained extensive experience in both the energy and mining sectors; Mr. Dubey started his career working for CIBC in their investment banking division within the mining group.
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Tim Moody
Pan Global Resources
President, CEO & Director
Mr. Moody has more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry including mineral exploration, resource assessment, business development, strategy, and government relations. He spent 24 years with Rio Tinto, where he held the posts of Exploration Director (2005-2010) and Vice President and Director of Business Development (2010-2015). He currently holds directorships on the boards of Mirasol Resources, Prism Resources, and Indico Resources. Mr. Moody has a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics (Honours) from the University of New England. He is a graduate of the Senior Leadership Program from the London Business School, a graduate of the Business Leadership Development Program from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.
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Raza Bokhari
Medicus Pharma
**Chariman & CEO**
A recipient of Philadelphia Business Journal’s "40 under 40" award, Dr. Raza Bokhari is a serial entrepreneur with successful track record in accelerating Healthcare and Pharmaceutical R&D companies. Dr. Bokhari, is Executive Chairman & CEO of Medicus Pharma Ltd. and is the managing partner of RBx Capital, LP. He previously served as Chairman & CEO of FSD Pharma, where he successfully pivoted the company into a pharmaceutical R&D, a transition marked by a NASDAQ listing and raising nearly $100M. Dr. Bokhari received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Punjab, and an Executive MBA from Temple University.
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Adrian Mendes
Perimeter Medical
Chief Executive Officer
Adrian Mendes is an executive with 25 years of experience building and scaling technology companies across different industries. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer at Groq Inc, an AI hardware company, which he joined shortly after formation in 2016 and helped scale to a leading startup in the space. Prior to Groq, Adrian spent several years investing in, founding, and scaling technology companies in North America and internationally. Adrian began his career at Cypress Semiconductor where he spent 14 years leading various marketing, finance, and operations functions. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering.
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John McConnell
Victoria Gold
Director, President & CEO
John‘s +40 yrs of mining experience is mostly in Canada's north. As President & CEO since 2010 he has led the exploration, development, and financing of the Eagle Gold Mine in Canada's Yukon Territory. Previously, he was President & CEO of Western Keltic Mines; VP, NWT Projects for De Beers Canada - Snap Lake Diamond Mine; Breakwater Resources Ltd - Nanisivik Zinc & Lead Mine on Baffin Island; and Strathcona Mineral Services Ltd. John won the 2021 AME BC's EA Scholtz Award for Excellence in Mine Development for his role in building the Eagle Gold Mine. With a Colorado School of Mines B.Sc. in Mining Engineering, he is also a Director of Lahontan Gold Corp.
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Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
CVW Cleantech
Akshay Dubey
CVW CleanTech Inc. is a clean technology innovator, working to develop sustainable technology solutions. The Company has developed a suite of technologies called Creating Value from Waste™ (“CVW™”) that recovers bitumen, solvents, critical minerals and water from oil sands froth treatment tailings while significantly reducing their emissions and enhancing tailings management. With over 15 years and $100m spent on research and development, the company’s technology is at an advanced stage and is ready to be commercially deployed. CVW CleanTech is also reviewing potential diversification opportunities within the clean tech space with the goal of becoming a leader in the industry.
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Pan Global Resources
Tim Moody
Pan Global Resources is a mining exploration company actively targeting copper-rich mineral deposits in Spain, a tier-one jurisdiction for mining investment with well-developed infrastructure plus centuries-old mining and professional expertise.
The Company’s Escacena Project just north of Sevilla in the eastern Iberian Pyrite Belt hosts the La Romana copper-tin-silver discovery and more than a dozen other highly prospective drill targets. The recent inclusion of copper as a Strategic Raw Material by the European Commission supports the compelling supply-demand fundamentals, and the global outlook is for strong long-term prices as a critical metal essential for global electrification and the energy transition.
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Medicus Pharma
Raza Bokhari
Medicus Pharma Ltd. is a clinical stage holding company focused on investing in and accelerating novel life sciences and bio-technology companies. Skinject, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Medicus Pharma, is a development stage, life sciences company focused on commercializing novel, non-invasive treatment for basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer using patented dissolvable microneedle patch to deliver chemotherapeutic agent to eradicate tumors cells. The company currently has an FDA approved phase 2 trial actively recruiting patients.
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Perimeter Medical
Adrian Mendes
Based in Toronto and Dallas, Perimeter Medical Imaging AI (TSX-V: PINK) is a medical technology company driven to transform cancer surgery with ultra-high-resolution, real-time, advanced imaging tools to address areas of high unmet medical need. Available across the U.S., our FDA-cleared Perimeter S-Series OCT system provides real-time, cross-sectional visualization of excised tissues at the cellular level. The breakthrough-device-designated investigational Perimeter B-Series OCT with ImgAssist AI represents our next-generation AI technology that is currently being evaluated in a clinical trial, with support from a grant of up to US$7.4 million awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
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Victoria Gold
John McConnell
Victoria Gold (“VGCX”) is Leading Yukon’s New Gold Rush. The Company’s core holding is the 100% owned Dublin Gulch property in central Yukon, approximately 375 kilometers north of the capital city of Whitehorse. Dublin Gulch is home to the Eagle Gold Mine - the largest gold mine in Yukon history. The long-life Eagle Gold Mine has high likelihood for further mine life extension at depth and along strike. Exploration potential across the greater Dublin Gulch property is excellent and includes priority targets Raven and Lynx among others.