Leadership Team

Mr. Ellis has been involved in the mining industry since the 1960’s. A Professional Engineer, he has participated in the management of numerous public companies, and was directly involved in the financing and construction of several mine sites and processing plants.

He has been involved with the mining industry and resource development for over 40 years. He is a former owner/manager of a geophysical exploration consulting firm and has held senior management and director roles with a number of publicly-traded mining exploration and development companies. The last two companies for which he was chairman were acquired by much larger firms in 2003 and 2010.

Mr. Jones is a seasoned finance executive with 30+ years of public company and project build-out experience in North and South America.

He previously served as CFO and Corporate Secretary for Corriente Resources Inc., which sold all of its corporate and South American resource assets to CRCC-Tongguan in May 2010 for C$680 million.

Additionally, Mr. Jones was the former CFO of Lupaka from 2011-2018 and, hence, is very knowledgeable of the Company’s development history and potential.

Mr. Burstow is a seasoned professional with more than fifty years of underground and field exploration experience in base and precious metals, in diverse geologic
environments and geographic regions of North, Central and South America, Asia and Africa. He is proficient in all aspects of mineral exploration operations and
management.

Mr. King has over 15 years of experience as a controller in the junior mining space. Most recently he was Controller with Corriente Resources.

Ms. Scales has worked for several public companies in the capacity of corporate secretary..