Team

Mr. Coles has served as CEO and President for several Toronto Venture Stock Exchange listed junior mining exploration and development companies, throughout the past seven years. Mr. Coles entered the mining business as part of an effort to develop a mineral resource discovered on family farmland in Virginia. He was previously an analyst for Cadence Investment Partners, from 2005 through to 2007. Prior to that Mr. Coles worked for UBS Investment Bank in New York as a Senior Research Analyst in the bank’s High Yield Group. Mr. Coles started at UBS Investment Bank in 1999 as an Associate reporting to the bank’s Global Head of Fixed Income Strategy. Mr. Coles holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Richmond.

Mr. MacRitchie is a Chartered Public Accountant who has held management roles in several TSX Venture-listed mining companies over his 16-year career. During that period, he has assisted those companies in raising more than $100 million. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has since gathered experience working on gold, silver, diamond and base-metals projects in North America, South America, and Africa.

Mr. Geddes has more than 20 years of exploration and resource development experience in precious and base metals with a focus on economic geology. His career ranges from greenfield to brownfield exploration, holding progressively senior roles with major and junior mining companies including Noranda Mining and Exploration, Teck Exploration, INCO Technical Services, North American Palladium, Rainy River Resources and Barkerville Gold Mines. During his tenure at Rainy River Resources, he was an instrumental member of the team responsible for a ten-fold increase in global gold resources prior to the Company’s takeover by New Gold in 2013. Mr. Geddes is a registered professional geoscientist and member in good standing of APEGBC.

Ms. Earle is an Investor Relations professional and a geologist. Ms. Earle spent several years in the field prior to making the transition into the corporate side of the industry. She received her Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of British Columbia and her Certified Professional Investor Relations designation from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. She is a founding member of the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance (BC RMA), a regional partnership between Aboriginal groups, industry and provincial government representatives to promote mining investment in the Golden Triangle of northwest BC and the current Industry Advisory Board Chair for CASERM (Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models), a new I/UCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center) between the Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech, backed by the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Himmelright has over 25 years of experience in environmental management and developing social licence for natural resource projects. He’s a graduate of Simon Fraser University (B.Sc.) and the University of British Columbia (M. Eng.) and is a Registered Professional Biologist in BC. Mr. Himmelright previously served as Vice President responsible for sustainability matters for several publicly listed companies and has also worked as a consultant to Indigenous communities on mining proposals within their Territories and with non-profit organizations. He’s a former Board member of the Yukon Mine Training Association and the Autism Society of BC and is currently an associate instructor at the Norman Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering (UBC) on the topic of Indigenous peoples and mining in Canada.

Mr. Nichols worked as a geologist for Cominco Ltd. from 1967 until 1990. During his 23 years with Cominco, Mr. Nichols led numerous advanced exploration projects throughout Canada, Greenland and South America. Mr. Nichols also has direct experience in the transitioning projects from exploration to development. Examples include the Valley Copper and the Snip mines in British Columbia, as well as the Black Angel mine in Greenland. After Cominco, Mr. Nichols became a partner in Keewatin Engineering where he managed exploration projects in Western Canada for junior exploration companies associated with Ron Netolitzky.

Ms. Arviola has over 20 years’ experience in the accountancy field, working for several companies in the Philippines and the UAE before joining Skeena Resources in 2011. Ms. Arviola holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy from Far Eastern University.

Ms. Sutherland recently entered the mining industry as the first point of contact for Skeena Resources. Pulling from her background in customer service she is focused on driving the company’s communication initiatives. Ms. Sutherland holds a BBA, specializing in Sustainable Business Leadership, from BCIT.

Mr. Russell has over 30 years of experience working as Project Geologist through to Exploration Manager for both junior and major exploration and mining companies. He has worked throughout Canada and overseas, on projects ranging from grassroots through to feasibility. Mr. Russell holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of British Columbia, is a registered member of the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and past President and Director of the Kamloops Exploration Group.