Our team has a broad skill set, bringing together the technical, exploration, development, community relations and financial experience required to advance Plateau Energy Metals' portfolio of assets.
Our team
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Laurence Stefan
President, Interim CEO, COO & Director
Laurence Stefan
President, Interim CEO, COO & Director
Founder of Plateau Energy Metals (formerly Macusani Yellowcake), serving as Managing Director in Peru since 2007. Dr. Stefan previously worked at Gold Fields of South Africa and JCI (Pty) Ltd. with his experience spent mainly on South American projects.
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Philip Gibbs
CFO
Board of Directors
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Alan Ferry
Chair
Alan Ferry
Chair
Mr. Ferry is an independent businessman with over 28 years of experience in the investment industry following a career as a geologist, mainly in uranium exploration. With significant experience in mining analysis, mineral economics and corporate finance, Mr. Ferry has served on the boards and audit committees of several publicly traded mining and exploration companies, and is currently a member of the board of directors of Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Geological Sciences from Queen’s University (1977) and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation (retired).
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Maryse Bélanger
Director
Maryse Bélanger
Director
Ms. Bélanger has over 35 years of experience in the mining industry with strengths in operational excellence and efficiency. Ms. Bélanger is the CEO and Director of Bullfrog Gold Corp. and previously was President, Americas for St Barbara Mining, joining them in July 2019 following St Barbara’s acquisition of Atlantic Gold Corporation, of which she was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director. From 2014 to 2016, she was the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Mirabela Nickel Ltd. where Ms. Bélanger was responsible for the remarkable turnaround of the company and the reestablishment of the Santa Rita Nickel-Copper sulphide open pit mine in Brazil. Ms Bélanger has also held senior executive roles with Goldcorp, ultimately appointed as Senior Vice President, Technical Services where she oversaw the global geology, mine planning and design, metallurgy, hydrology, tailings dam and geotechnical engineering functions and Kinross Gold Corporation as Director, Technical Services. Ms. Bélanger currently serves as a director on the boards of Equinox Gold Corp., Sherritt International and Pure Gold Mining. She holds a Corporate Director designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
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Wayne Drier
Director
Wayne Drier
Director
Mr. Drier is a seasoned finance executive with over 20 years of corporate finance and capital markets experience within the global mining sector, spanning a wide range of commodities and jurisdictions. He is currently Chief Financial Officer of Ero Copper Corp., a TSX-listed copper company with operations in Brazil. Previous roles have included senior executive positions at Asanko Gold, Mantra Resources, Norilsk Nickel International and BHP Billiton. Mr. Drier holds a Bachelor of Business Science Honours degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Christian Milau
Director
Christian Milau
Director
Mr. Milau is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CA) with executive experience in acquisitions, financing, mine development, construction and operations. He is currently the CEO and Director or Equinox Gold Corp. Prior to that, Mr. Milau was CEO of True Gold Mining Inc. In addition to his extensive background in finance and capital markets, Mr. Milau brings important operational, government and stakeholder relations experience, including successfully negotiating various community, security, fiscal and tax agreements. Mr. Milau has also held senior positions at Endeavour Mining Corp., New Gold Inc., and in investment banking at BNP Paribas in London.
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Ted O’Connor
Director & Technical Advisor
Ted O’Connor
Director & Technical Advisor
Mr. O’Connor P.Geo., M.Sc., B.Sc. is a Professional Geoscientist with over 25 years of experience, predominantly in the uranium exploration industry. Most recently, as Director of Corporate Development at Cameco, he was responsible for evaluating, directing and exploring for uranium deposits worldwide. Mr. O’Connor sits on the board of another public company and has successfully led new project generation from early exploration through to discovery on multiple unconformity uranium projects.
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Alex Holmes
Director
Alex Holmes
Director
Mr. Holmes, MSc, CFA, has spent more than 15 years working in the mining industry. Until he joined Plateau Energy Metals in August 2018, Mr. Holmes was a partner and co-founder of Oxygen Capital Corp., leading business development activities for all affiliated companies, including True Gold Mining Inc. where he served as VP Business Development and co-founder. Mr. Holmes played an instrumental role as part of the senior leadership team from initial asset acquisition in 2013, reserves and resources growth, advancing True Gold’s Karma Mine from Preliminary Economic Assessment to Feasibility Study, through project finance and ultimately gold production in early 2016. Over that period Mr. Holmes and team raised in excess of $215 million to help construct and operate True Gold’s Karma mine. Previously, he led the mining teams at two independent Canadian investment banks and raised capital for and advised on transactions for numerous companies.
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Laurence Stefan
President, Interim CEO, COO & Director
Laurence Stefan
President, Interim CEO, COO & Director
Founder of Plateau Energy Metals (formerly Macusani Yellowcake), serving as Managing Director in Peru since 2007. Dr. Stefan previously worked at Gold Fields of South Africa and JCI (Pty) Ltd. with his experience spent mainly on South American projects.
