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To provide maximum oversight and leadership, Colt’s highly qualified senior management team has strategically divided its presence between the administrative and field offices in Beloura, Tabuaço and Escoural, Portugal, with a corporate office in Montreal, Canada.
Nikolas Perrault, President & Chief Executive Officer
Nikolas Perrault is a Chartered Financial Analyst who has spent the first 15 years of his career working with some of Canada’s largest financial institutions, including National Bank, Merrill-Lynch, CIBC, and Scotia Capital. His focus throughout his career has been on small cap resource companies worldwide, which has allowed him to develop an extensive international network. In May 2007, he founded a management consulting company providing strategic advice to early stage energy and resource companies. Mr. Perrault is also an independent director of TSX listed Calvalley Petroleum as well as NEX listed Bitumen Capital. Perrault holds a Bachelor of Commerce and obtained his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997.
Shahab Jaffrey, Chief Financial Officer
Shahab Jaffrey is an experienced chartered accountant possessing strong commercial and technical skills with core expertise in financial reporting and advisory related issues having worked with large International and Canadian accounting firms. He possesses more than 13 years of experience across Australia, Canada, Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and the Middle East with major clients being listed companies in the Mining and Oil & Gas sector. His last role was with Sherritt International Corporation as part of their senior internal audit and risk management team.
Declan Costelloe, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Declan Costelloe is a chartered engineer (UK Engineering Council) and a mining geologist with over 25 years of experience. In addition to his roles at Colt, Costelloe also serves as President of Celtic Mining Ltd. and independent mining consulting firm. In 2007, he served as a portfolio manager with the Goldfish Fund, a Colorado-based investment fund with a diversified portfolio primarily directed at the mining and natural resources exploration and development field. From 2003 to 2006, Costelloe served as an investment manager with Veneroso Associates Gold Advisors, an investment company focused on the gold industry, prior to which he served as research director from 2000 to 2003. He also currently serves as a director of Homestake Resources Corp., a Canadian exploration company. During his mining career he held positions with several resource focussed companies including BHP Gold, SRK (UK), Monarch Resources and Golden Star Resources. Costelloe holds a B.Sc. in Geology from University College, Galway and a B.Sc. in Mining Geology from the University of Wales College Cardiff.
David A. Johnson, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
David A. Johnson is an attorney and trade-mark agent with his own law firm based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Johnson specializes in corporate law, commercial transactions, and intellectual property. He also practises across several industries including mining, software, energy, manufacturing, clean tech, transportation, and entertainment. His international legal experience includes work in France, Portugal, Germany, Albania, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Israel. Johnson has several years’ experience at the senior management level in a variety of companies and not for profit organizations. He is presently a director and the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Law Association, Canadian Branch, a registered charity. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Queen’s University, a Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.), and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University. He also completed the Directors Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and has been certified at the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D), the International Executive Program for Mining Leadership at the School of Business, Queen’s University, and the Canadian Securities Course at the Canadian Securities Institute.
Filipe Faria, Vice President, Exploration
Filipe Faria is a geologist with has more than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration. Over the last 13 years he has been a partner and the principal consulting geologist of GEOLOG – Gabinete de Geociências Lda, a geological consultancy based in Lisbon, Portugal. Prior to that, Faria worked for Rio Tinto plc, Ashanti Goldfields Ltd, European Gold Resources Inc., and as an independent consultant. Over the course of his career, he has been responsible of numerous geological and mineral exploration/evaluation projects for a number of domestic and international companies focusing in Western Europe and Southern Africa. Fluent in Portuguese and English, Faria has been a member of the Portuguese Association of Geologists since 1982 and the Geological Society of Portugal since 1978.
João Carlos Gaspar de Sousa, Vice President, Operations
Joao Carlos Gaspar de Sousa previously worked as the senior project geologist of Genius Mineira, Lda., an Angolan company. He is a Senior Exploration Geologist with 28 years of experience including five years as the Country Manager for Iberian Resources Portugal (the former owner of Colt’s Montemor project), more than two years with Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, S.A. and its subsidiary, 13 years with Rio Tinto and 5 years with Lundin Mining Corporation (EuroZinc Mining Corp.) which owns the "Neves-Corvo" copper mine in Portugal. Gaspar de Sousa has a Geological degree from Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa.
Jorge Valente, Vice President, Engineering and Development
Jorge Valente is a Portuguese citizen and resides in Brazil. Valente has more than 40 years of extensive experience in the mining industry. He is a mining engineer (graduated from IST, Lisbon, 1970), specializing in Geomathematics (mineral resources and ore reserves estimation and mine planning). He also teaches post-graduate courses at the School of Mines of UFOP (Ouro Preto Federal University), and is a certified CP (“competent person”, by SME – USA). He is the author of two books and many articles dealing with subjects of his specialty, some of which have been published in English.
Luís Martins, Advisory Board Chairman and Director Business & Development Europe
Luis Martins is a geologist with 30 years of experience in the exploration and mining sector. He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon (1973) and has a MsC in Economic Geology from the same faculty (1995) and also several national and international post-graduation courses. He was a former Director of the Mineral Resources Department at the Geology and Mining Institute (the Geological Survey) and a former Director of the Mines and Quarries Department at the Directorate-General of Energy and Geology (the Mining Authority). He has participated in several national and international research projects, especially in the mineral exploration, environmental geology and mining heritage fields, the majority of them with co-ordination functions and coordinated several international working groups, like the "Mineral Resources Topic Network" and the "Minerals Policy Sector" of the EuroGeoSurveys (1997-2002) and the CYTED Ibero-American Network "Land Use and Mineral Resources" (2002-2007). He was the Portuguese representative on the “Raw Materials Supply Group” of DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission (June 2010-August 2012) and, as an expert, on the “UNECE Expert Group on Resource Classification” (October 2010-August 2012). He has published over 100 national and international peer-review publications. He has participated in 350 conferences, workshops and seminars where he has presented papers in 80 of them and taught more than 20 graduate level short courses.
