Gregory J. Romain

President & CEO, Director

Mr. Romain was President & CEO of Gowest Gold Ltd. from May 2008 – June 2021, a publicly traded junior exploration company where he advanced its flagship Bradshaw gold project in Timmins Ontario from pure exploration to a fully permitted1,500 TPD Mine Site. Prior to this, Mr. Romain was President & CEO of Norcast Castings Company Limited a company that he joined in 1989 as a Technical Sales Representative. During his tenure with Norcast, Mr. Romain held several positions including International Sales Manager in 1993 and Vice President of Sales & Marketing in 1999. He was responsible for growing the consumable liner business globally. He assumed the position of President of Norcast in 2001 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in May 2005. Mr. Romain was successful in taking Norcast public as an Income Trust (Norcast Income Fund) on June 22, 2005. He was also responsible for selling the company to a private equity group based in Switzerland on March 23, 2007, after the Canadian Government announced the taxation of Income Trusts. Prior to joining Norcast, Mr. Romain held operational roles at Indal and Toronto Refiners & Smelters. Mr. Romain is past director of Gowest Gold Ltd, the Canadian Association of Mining Equipment for Service and Export and Norcast Income Fund. He is the past Chairman of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Mineral Processors. Mr. Romain graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering Technology (1986) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and in 2001 completed the Executive Program at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.

Jean-Francois Montreuil, PH.D.

Chief Geologist

Dr. Montreuil has over 11 years of national and international experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry and in research on Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold (”IOCG”) and affiliated deposits. He obtained his M.Sc. from Laval University (Quebec) and his Ph.D. from INRS-ETE (Quebec) in collaboration with the Geological survey of Canada. Dr. Montreuil ‘s Ph.D. and on-going scientific research, published in major international journals on economic geology, cover the metal associations possible in the deposits formed in IOCG systems. Click here for a list of Dr. Montreuil’s Publications.

Fiona Fitzmaurice, BA, ACCA, CPA, CGA

Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Fitzmaurice, is a chartered accountant with over 12 years of experience in accounting and financial control for both private and publicly listed companies.  Fiona is currently CFO of MacDonald Mines Ltd., Pedro Resources Ltd. and Provenance Gold Corp and was previously CFO for Honey Badger Silver and the financial controller for Noront Resources Ltd. Fiona has been involved in private placements, prospectus filings, flow-through financing’s and corporate audits.  Ms. Fitzmaurice holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland.