Corporate Profile
Robin Ross
Chairman & CEO
Mr. Ross is a twenty-year veteran in the financial services sector and a ten year veteran in merchant banking. His corporate finance activities have covered a wide range of industries including but not limited to technology and resources. Through his network of international relationships, he has been a founder or co-founder of both public and private companies. Mr. Ross has held management positions at major Canadian investment dealers for over 18 years and he has been a director of companies both public and private.
Vicki Rosenthal
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Rosenthal has more than 30 years experience as a qualified accountant in both England and Canada. She has worked with medium sized, owner-managed entrepreneurial businesses providing a full range of accounting, tax, estate and financial planning advice through her own accounting practice. In addition, she has also provided consulting services to a number of large Canadian, publicly traded enterprises. Ms. Rosenthal has also been the chief financial officer of a number of corporations in a variety of industries including advertising, manufacturing, not-for profit and service.
Dan T Gosselin
Director
Mr. Gosselin has held senior global management positions with International and Domestic firms including CIBC World Markets, Merrill Lynch Canada and Blackmont Capital. He was a member of Midland Walwyn’s Executive Committee prior to the Merrill Lynch acquisition. Throughout his career, he has been exposed to all facets of the Financial Service Industry including Fixed Income & Equity Trading and Sales, Investment Banking, Wealth Management and Investment Management. At Blackmont Capital he was a senior member of the Wealth Management Group and was the Managing Director of the Public Venture Capital Group responsible for servicing the Junior Issuer market. Recently, he has assisted a number of Private Equity Funds and Issuers in their capital raising activities and is currently a consultant with a leading domestic Independent Investment Banking firm.
Mr. Gosselin has a strong corporate strategic leadership background, a very good understanding of both the Public and Private markets and has an in-depth knowledge of the Retail and Institutional buy-side. Mr. Gosselin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from McGill University.
Outside roles of note include being a member of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee, a member of the IIROC (IDA) Capital Markets Committee and a player for US College Hockey.
A.C.A. Howe
Director
Mr. Howe is a mining engineer who graduated with a B.Sc. from Imperial College, and an A.R.S.M. at the Royal School of Mines, London, England in 1949. He attended schools in England and Australia. He is a registered professional engineer of Ontario, Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian and Australian Mining and Metallurgical Societies. He was the founder of A.C.A. Howe International Ltd., an international mining and exploration firm based in Toronto and with associates throughout the world. Over his lengthy career as a principal of A.C.A. Howe International, Mr. Howe has been involved in mining exploration and development as well as mine construction and operation in most parts of the world. Mr. Howe has served as an officer and director of several mining companies during his career.
Dr. David Humphrey
Director
Dr. Humphrey brings both medical knowledge and business experience to the board of Mantis. Dr. Humphrey is a 1978 graduate from the University of Toronto School of Medicine and served as a clinician in the field of General Medicine for 14 years in Seattle, Wa. Dr. Humphrey served on the Advisory Board of The Better Life Institute, a nutritional sciences organization. Dr. Humphrey has vast experience in the field of consumer distribution and marketing team development in the field of direct marketing. Dr. Humphrey is the President and owner of ILD Global, a coaching, training, business development and personal development firm for Independent Business Owners in the field of Direct Distribution. Dr. Humphrey had a 3 year tenure with the IBOAI (Independent Business Owners Association International) representing hundreds of thousands of Independent Business owners in the US.
Walter Hanych, P.Geo.
Senior Consulting Geologist
Mr. Hanych has twenty-eight years experience in the exploration industry with grass-roots projects and advanced mine feasibility projects including corporate structure and financing. He has worked in gold, base metal, nickel, diamond, PGE and industrial mineral exploration throughout Canada. He has held positions of Chief Geologist and Project Manager for various exploration companies. Currently he works as an independent consultant – contract geologist. Mr. Hanych holds an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from Laurentian University and is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.
Albert G. Formosa
Legal Counsel
WeirFoulds LLP
The Exchange Tower, Suite 1600
P.O. Box 480, 130 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5X 1J5
416.947.5012 | aformosa@weirfoulds.com