Our Team
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Mr. Jay Jiang Yu – Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & CEO
Mr. Yu is a serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of capital markets experience on Wall Street. Mr. Yu’s experience includes advising both private and public company executives and providing corporate advisory services with respect to equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, initial public offerings and listings on recognized stock exchanges in North America. Mr. Yu previously worked as an analyst as part of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in New York City. Mr. Yu is an active philanthropist and the founder of a non-profit organization that provides access to sports and education to underprivileged youth in New York City.
In 2021, Mr. Yu was a recipient of The Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business award. Mr. Yu holds a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) degree from the City College of New York and has also completed core courses at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Columbia University in the City of New York.
Mr. Nicolas Lin,
CFO & Board of Directors – Corporate Director
Mr. Lin is an experienced Corporate Finance Executive with particular expertise in the field of U.S. ECM transactions on the NASDAQ markets. Mr. Lin has advised and participated in a number of such transactions, often on behalf of Chinese and other Asian clients. Mr. Lin has also previously served as Legal and Admin Director of Moxian Inc. a NASDAQ listed entity. Mr. Lin has a vast experience in public companies’ directorships, and he was also a Manager at 8i Capital Limited, where he was involved in advising businesses to list in the United States and London, fund-raising and restructuring work. Mr. Lin graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with LLB in Law in June 2010.
Sean Tufford, Director of Business Development
Mr. Tufford of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has many years of experience in the investor relations and capital markets realm with strong personal connections to the international financial community. He has previously assisted several junior and development staged mineral resource companies in Canada, USA, and Mexico, including Canadian Metals, GoGold Resources, Brigus Gold, and he can call upon his team and wealth of experience in marketing, strategic partnerships, business development, raising capital, and mergers and acquisitions.
TECHNICAL TEAM
In Loving Memory of
Dr. Stewart A. Jackson – Technical Advisor
Over a career spanning several decades, Stewart Jackson, Ph D. was involved in the discovery and development of several major resource discoveries including the multi-billion dollar Red Dog zinc-lead deposits in Northwestern Alaska, currently operated by Teck; the Viken deposit in Sweden containing over 1 billion pounds of U3O8 and a multi-billion pound resource of molybdenum, vanadium, and nickel and zinc; and the Turnagain nickel-cobalt-platinum deposit at Dease Lake, British Columba, from prospect to that of a large nickel resource, currently held by Giga Metals.
Mr. Terence F. Coughlan, P.Geo, Board of Advisors
Actively involved in the mineral resource industry since 1984, Mr. Coughlan brings with him a nearly 40-year record of success in mineral exploration, operations and corporate development. The founding Chief Executive Officer of GoGold Resources (TSX – T: GGD), a Canadian-based gold and silver producer established in 2008 with initial assets in Newfoundland, during his role as CEO the company had raised tens of millions of dollars in financing for GoGold Resources. Notably, each of the last three public companies that he has been involved with have all developed a producing mine. Mr. Coughlan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Saint Mary’s University and is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.