James Hennessy, 68, has, since 2013 and 2016, respectively, served as a director of the general partners of two private equity funds: Waterton Precious Metals Fund II Cayman, LP and Waterton Mining Parallel Fund. The two funds are headquartered in Toronto and invest in precious metal mining assets located primarily in Nevada, Arizona and Ontario, Canada. From 2002 to 2007, Mr Hennessy was CEO of ING Funds, which was the U.S. mutual funds division of Netherlands based ING Group. Before that, Mr Hennessy practiced corporate law in New York City and then joined a private equity firm and served as a corporate officer with various financial services companies including a California based mortgage bank where he served as CEO. Mr Hennessy is also Chairman of the Law, Science and Innovation Center at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University.