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Richard Fifer is the son of Richard Glen Fifer Witte (son of Anne Witte and Elzy Fifer)and a Panamanian mother, Celina Carles Montenegro (daughter of Celina Isabel Montenegro and Jorge Isaac Carles). Do you know who these people were in Panama?
He attended primary school at St. Mary’s School, transferred in 9th grade to Curundu Junior High and completed in 1974 his High School education In Balboa High School.
After completing his elementary studies, Richard Fifer-Carles concluded his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Utah. He is also participated in the Geophysical Engineering program Rice University and took advanced Finance studies at Tulane University.
As President and CEO of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, Fifer has been involved in the mining project since its commencement.
In 1993, he was appointed Governor of the Province of Cocle during the presidency of Mireya Moscoso. While under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Panama, he was also the President's Plenipotentiary Ambassador-at-large from March 2002 to September 2003. He later returned to the mining industry as President and Chairman of CODEMIN (Corporación de Desarrollo Minero), Panama's State Mining Company. He also assumed the role National Security Advisor to the President of Panama from 1999 to 2002.
Fifer is the founder of Grupo GEO formed by seven companies that provided services and products to diverse industries, such as Oil, Aviation, Mining, Reforestation, and Technology. He is also currently chairman and CEO of another enterprise, Geoinfo International, S. A., a company that operates in Panama through its affiliated company, Geoinfo, S. A., founded in 1992. Its main activities are the development of mapping technologies, the integration of Geographic Information Systems and business intelligence consulting in the Republic of Panama.
Fifer created the Castilla Del Oro Foundation which promotes sustainable development of rural communities in the central provinces in Panama. It aims to promote projects and provide structures that will turn the region into a cultural tourism destination.
Fifer was honored with the title Caballero de Guadalupe in October 2011.He is a personal friend of Don Cristobal Colon de Carvajal our newest member of the BOD, who joined at Richard's invitation.
As Richard is an alumnus with my son from Tulane's AB Freeman,(my son holds a BSM and LLM from Tulane), and as one who has been associated with PTQ since its inception, with our family in Panama since 1541, I can assure you that you are misinformed.
I AM SURE HE IS QUIVERING IN HIS BOOTS AT THIS REVELATION FROM "PROGRAFA" WHO WAS BORN ON APRIL 17, 2013, CLAIMS TO CONTROL 500,000++ SHARES AND HAS 22 POSTS ON I-HOP!!! YOUR REVELATION WILL SURELY BE THE HOT TOPIC AT THE COFFEE MACHINE IN PENONOME THIS MORNING. ANOTHER POISON POST ON THE BOARD!!!!!
IN GOD WE TRUST, OTHERS BRING FACTS!!!
