Advisory Board

The International Advisory Board to the Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines provides high-level strategic advice relating to and ensuring the long-term goals and success of the School. The Advisory Board and its members provide insights, ideas and resources to assist the School in developing strategic initiatives to advance the well-being of society through excellence in teaching, research and service, to exploit the rapidly changing needs of the mining industry, and to foster closer ties between the School and its constituents.

 

The International Advisory Board consists of 8-15 members who are representative of external stakeholders. External members are appointed to a renewable 3-year term by the Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines after consultation with the Executive Director of Advancement. A permanent seat is provided for an appointee by the Goodman family. The Executive Director of the Goodman School of Mines, the directors of schools and departments delivering programs related to mining education (engineering, earth sciences, management, and indigenous programs) and the Executive Director of University Advancement are ex-officio members of the advisory board.

 

Role of Advisory Board:

 

 

Advisory Board Members

 

 

Ned Goodman

Founder, Dundee Corp.

 

Ned Goodman has made transformative and enduring contributions to Canada’s minerals industry and capital markets as a company-builder, merchant banker and investment advisor during a dynamic career spanning almost half a century. He applied his geological training and business acumen to help build several successful mining companies — notably International Corona and Kinross Gold — and nurtured many other mineral producing companies through astute and timely investments. In addition to being anoutstanding member of the philanthropic community, Montreal-born Goodman is considered one of the leading architects of Canada’s investment management industry.

Along with his partners, he founded the first exploration flow-through partnership, CMP Group, which has raised almost $5 billion since the 1980s to help companies explore and develop mining and petroleum companies, leading to the generation of jobs and benefits for rural and northern economies in Canada. He was also the driving force of the Dundee group of financial companies, which grew under his leadership from a $300-millionbase to a $50-billion mutual fund entity.

 

 

Jonathan Goodman

Chairman & CEO of Dundee Corporation

 

Jonathan Goodman is Chairman and CEO of Dundee Corporation, a diversified holding company with investments in companies in the wealth management, resources, agriculture and real estate verticals and President and CEO of Dundee Goodman Merchant Partners, a mining focused merchant bank.

Mr. Goodman served as CEO of Dundee Precious Metals (DPM-T) from 1995 to 2003, Executive Chairman from April 2013 to September 2017, at which time he was appointed Chairman. Mr. Goodman also serves as Chairman of Toachi Mining Inc. (TIM-V).

Mr. Goodman has over 30 years of experience in the resource and investment industry, working as a geologist, senior analyst, portfolio manager and senior executive. Mr. Goodman joined Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. in 1990, where he was responsible for the selection of Canadian equities and played a major role in developing asset allocation strategies, before becoming the company’s President. He is also the founder of Goepel Shields and Partners, an investment firm.

Mr. Goodman graduated from the Colorado School of Mines as a Professional Engineer, holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Goodman also serves as the executive in residence for the Faculty of Management at Laurentian University.

 

 

Martin Bayer

Lawyer, Weaver Simmons

Mr. Bayer was born in Sudbury and raised on the M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. He continues to be an active member of the Sudbury and Manitoulin communities. His practice is in the areas of Aboriginal Law, Natural Resources, General Litigation, Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

 

Practice Areas

Aboriginal Law, Natural Resources, Mining Law, Corporate and Commercial Law.

 

Educational Background

• University of Toronto – Juris Doctor – LL.B. (1994)

• Laurentian University – B.A., Political Science (1991)

• University of Windsor – Introductory and Advanced Alternate Dispute Resolution (1999)

• Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology – Three Year Business Administration Diploma (1984)

• Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Program, Certificate in Mining Law 2012

 

Organizations and Memberships

• Law Society of Upper Canada

• Canadian Bar Association – Ontario-Aboriginal Law Section

• Sudbury and District Law Association

• Indigenous Bar Association

• Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association

• Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

• Idywilde Golf and Country Club, member

 

Community Associations

• University of Sudbury, Board of Regents

• Waubetek Business Development Corporation, Chairman

• Past Board Member, Sudbury Regional Hospital

• Past Governor & Vice Chair of the Board, Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology 1995-2005

• Past Tribal Chairman, United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin

 

 

 

Dominic M. DeR. Channer, M.A., Ph.D

Vice-President, Community Relations, Kinross Gold

 

Dominic is currently Vice-President Community Relations at Kinross Gold Corporation, with responsibility for relationships with local stakeholders across Kinross mines and projects. Prior to this role, held since January 2016, Dominic had spent all of his professional career in South America. He has been with Kinross since 2008, based in Ecuador until late 2015, where he was at different times Vice-President Ecuador, Vice-President External Affairs, and Vice-President External Affairs for the Americas Region. He arrived in Ecuador in late 2006 to take up the role of President Aurelian Ecuador S.A., a subsidiary of Aurelian Resources which had discovered a large gold deposit, subsequently acquired by Kinross. From 1994 until 2006 Dominic lived in Venezuela and worked with Guaniamo Mining Company, a private diamond exploration group. Following receipt of his Ph.D in Geology at the University of Toronto in 1994, Dominic started work as an exploration geologist in the south of Venezuela. Over following years he became the Vice-President Exploration, responsible for the activities of this small exploration company.

 

 

Catharine Farrow

CEO, Director and Co-Founder of TMAC Resources Inc.

 

Catharine is a professional geoscientist with more than 25 years of mining industry experience. Since November 2012 she has been CEO, Director and Co-Founder of TMAC Resources Inc., a public exploration, development and mining company based in Toronto and Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. TMAC was taken public in July 2015 and is currently focused on achieving production at the Hope Bay – Doris Mine in early 2017. Before TMAC, Catharine was most recently COO of KGHM International (formerly Quadra FNX Mining Ltd.). Previously at Quadra FNX and FNX Mining Company Inc. she held multiple senior executive roles ranging from Exploration, Corporate Development, Technical Services and Project Evaluation. Before FNX, Catharine was with both Inco Ltd. and the Ontario Geological Survey. She currently serves as a Director of Franco-Nevada Corporation and is an Adjunct Professor at Laurentian University. She also currently serves on the Ontario Government’s ‘Women in Business’ Initiative Steering Committee and the Footprints Technology Transfer Committee for the Canadian Mining Innovation Council. Catharine obtained her BSc (Hons) from Mount Allison University, her MSc from Acadia University and her PhD from Carleton University.

 

 

David Harquail

President & CEO, Director, Franco-Nevada

 

David Harquail led the successful initial public offering and listing of Franco-Nevada onto the Toronto Stock Exchange in late 2007. He previously held senior executive roles at Newmont Mining Corporation and prior to that was a senior executive of the original Franco-Nevada group of companies from 1987. Mr. Harquail has served on many senior mining boards, industry associations and not-for-profit committees. He holds a degree in geological engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from McGill University.

 

 

Greg Huffman

Managing Director | Global Head – Mining Sales, Canaccord Genuity

 

Gregory Huffman joined Canaccord Genuity in February 2016 as Global Head of Mining Sales, following six years at Scotiabank in 2010 in a variety of roles within the mining group.  In addition to authoring the highly-regarded “High Grade Mining Minute” daily sales note, Greg has been consistently recognized as one of the “Top Sales Coverage of Resource Portfolio Managers” by Brendan Wood International.  Greg spent almost 3 years as a buy-side global materials analyst for a U.S. multi-strategy hedge fund and 3.5 years as a sell-side mining research analyst with two independent Canadian brokerage firms, covering base and precious metal, as well as uranium companies.  A geologist by training, Greg graduated from Laurentian University in Sudbury with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Earth Sciences and worked as a geologist in Sudbury for Falconbridge and in Ontario and Quebec for a number of junior exploration companies including Lakeshore Gold, Aurora Platinum, Canadian Royalties, Golden Valley Mines, etc.   He also sits on the Advisory Board for the Goodman School of Mines at Laurentian University.

 

 

Paul Parisotto

Chairman, Noront Resources

 

Mr. Parissoto is Chairman of Noront Resources Ltd., as well as its current Interim CEO, a position he held previously from November 2008 to June 2009.

Mr. Parisotto is also the current President and CEO of Chantrell Ventures Corporation, as well as the President of Coniston Investment Corp., a private company which provides management services to the resource sector.

From February 2009 to October 2010 he was the President and CEO of Tamaka Holdings Inc., a private company involved in the exploration and development of gold in Ontario. He was formerly the President and CEO of Arizona Star Resource Corp., a company which was acquired by Barrick Gold Corporation in 2007.

Previously he was Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance for Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc. (January 1995 to January 1998); Vice-President and Director, Investment Banking for HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. (March 1998 to June 1999); and Manager, Original Listings at the Toronto Stock Exchange (1985 to 1994). During his tenure at the Toronto Stock Exchange he was involved in the listing process for over 250 companies.

Mr. Parisotto was also a Director of Pinetree Capital Ltd., RX Exploration Inc. (2011-2012) and Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., a public company acquired by US Gold Inc.

Mr. Parisotto holds a B.A. in Economics from Laurentian University (‘83). He currently resides in Oakville, Ontario.

 

 

Rachel Pineault

Human Resource Consultant

 

Rachel Pineault is a results-focused Human Resources Leader with extensive senior management experience and proven success developing and implementing strategic HR initiatives and Aboriginal engagement to drive organizational effectiveness, on both corporate and operational levels.

Ms. Pineault has over 20 years’ experience in mining with a focus in Human Resources and Aboriginal Affairs. Progressively moving into senior positions at a number of Canadian mining operations. She was instrumental in putting in place essential HR framework, including developing and implementing policies and procedures to optimize the participation of Aboriginal communities. She held accountability for full workforce ramp-up and also developed a sustainable business model to bring long-term benefits to five Aboriginal communities which incorporated training and educational initiatives.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Pineault has held prime responsibility for Aboriginal engagement strategy. A recognized industry expert in this area, she has successfully negotiated and implemented Impact Benefits Agreements with multiple First Nations groups as well as the first mining agreement with the Metis Nation of Ontario. Each Agreement reached has been fundamental to establishing and validating the respective operation’s social license to operate. Once in place, Ms. Pineault effectively managed each relationship to ensure that both party’s interests were respected, and that the benefits committed to communities were realized and maximized.

Ms. Pineault was recently appointed to the CHRO Advisory Council of the Human Resources Professional Association, as well sits as a Board Member of the International Mining Advisory Board – Goodman School of Mining. Ms. Pineault sat on the Board of Northern College as a Governor as a provincial appointment and a member of the Executive Committee for six (6) years.

 

 

Shastri Ramnath

Co-Founder, Executive Chair, Orix Geosciences Inc.

 

Ms. Shastri Ramnath is a Professional Geoscientist with over 19 years of global experience within the exploration and mining industry. She started her career at Falconbridge in Winnipeg in 1999 and then moved to Sudbury to join FNX Mining in 2002. She was a key member of the exploration and resource group at FNX and part of the team that discovered the Victoria Deposit. In 2010, Shastri joined Bridgeport Ventures Inc. as President and CEO where she raised over 17 million in the capital markets before merging the company with Premier Royalty.  In 2012 she co-founded and co-owns Orix Geoscience Inc., a consulting firm that partners with exploration and mining companies to provide front end geological support. The success of Orix in its inaugural 3 years resulted in Shastri being nominated for the RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year for Canada and was one of 3 finalists for the Momentum Award.  More recently, Shastri co-founded Exiro Minerals, a junior exploration company focused on project generation that combines technology with traditional exploration methodologies. Shastri received a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Manitoba, a M.Sc. in Exploration Geology from Rhodes University (South Africa), and an Executive MBA from Athabasca University.