Management
Luke Alexander
President, CEO & Director
Luke Alexander brings extensive resource sector experience, knowledge and contacts to Newcore, particularly in West Africa. He has raised billions of dollars and structured deals for major mining companies while advising some of the world’s top institutional investment funds. Mr. Alexander began his investment banking career in the private client group at BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto, then started up an equity trading desk for Toronto Dominion in London before doing the same for National Bank. In 2008, he became senior partner at GMP Securities in London. Throughout his investment banking career, he helped fund many major resource projects in West Africa. In 2018, Mr. Alexander founded Park Road Capital, a Vancouver-based, natural resource focused consulting company where he continued to leverage his relationships in London.
Danny Lee
CFO
Mr. Lee is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with over 25 years of experience in financial reporting, auditing, equity financings and regulatory compliance. He currently also serves as the CFO of Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd., Interfield Global Software Inc. and Genix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. He also serves as a Director of Edgewater Exploration Ltd. Mr. Lee has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.
Greg Smith
Vice President, Exploration
Mr. Smith, P.Geo. is an exploration geologist with more than 30 years of experience. He has worked for both junior and senior mining companies in various parts of the world which has included the management of multi-million-dollar work programs that have been successful in outlining more than 10 million ounces of gold. Greg brings a broad range of experience from the evaluation of grass roots properties to supervision of advanced projects including resource and reserve estimation, oversight of geological and technical activities for active underground and open pit mining operations including grade control, QA/QC programs and NI43-101 compliance, and advanced technical and economic studies including Preliminary Assessments (Scoping Studies), Prefeasibility, and Feasibility Studies.
Mal Karwowska
Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Mal Karwowska has over 15 years of experience in the mining sector, spanning both corporate development and investor relations roles within publicly listed mining companies, as well as corporate finance and principal investing. She spent the first five years of her career at National Bank Financial as a member of the investment banking team, focused on the metals and mining sector. Her prior principal investing roles include Investment Manager at Pacific Road Capital Management, a mining-focused private equity investment firm with approximately US$800 million under management, and Senior Investment Research Analyst at Boston-based Liberty Metals & Mining Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Ms. Karwowska’s prior corporate experience includes Business Development Director at Oxygen Capital Corp., where she worked closely with the management team on the sale of True Gold Mining Inc. to Endeavour Mining Corporation in the spring of 2016. Prior to joining Newcore Gold she served as VP, Corporate Development at First Mining Gold Corp. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Accounting from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
Branden Fraser
Vice President, Projects
Mr. Fraser, P.Eng., has over 10 years of on-site experience in construction and operations in both mining and processing roles, as well as study management and consulting experience. His experience spans diverse regions including Africa, South America, Central America, Europe, and subarctic Canada. He began his career in trades roles within mining and milling operations, after which he transitioned to project and field engineering positions. In his capacity with Canadian Northern Mining Corp. and JDS Mining and Energy Inc. he was involved with construction and commissioning of a number of gold mines in Canada. Mr. Fraser’s experience also incudes consulting support for preliminary and Pre-Feasibility designs, specifically including several heap leach projects including Newcore Gold’s 2021 PEA for the Enchi Gold Project. Before joining Newcore Gold, Branden was a Process Engineer and Project Manager at BBA. Mr. Fraser holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering from Montana Technological University and is a registered professional engineer with Engineers & Geoscientists British Columbia.
Daniel Wilson
Country Manager, Ghana
Mr. Wilson has worked in the mineral exploration field for over 26 years. He provides extensive experience managing field exploration and drilling programs in Africa. Mr. Wilson has previously held senior positions with Ashanti Gold Fields and Red Back Mining. During his time at Red Back, Mr. Wilson supervised various field exploration programs including the exploration work carried out by Red Back on the Enchi Gold Project during 2005-2006. Mr. Wilson also worked as a Supervising Geologist at Coffey Mining during 2007-2009, where he managed various exploration programs in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Mali. From 2010 to present, Mr. Wilson has managed Newcore's Enchi Project.
Alan Pangbourne
Strategic Advisor
Mr. Alan Pangbourne has over 35 years of management and senior operational experience in the mining sector, with industry expertise in operations, engineering and major project development, along with a successful track record of M&A. He was most recently the President and CEO of Guyana Goldfields Inc. from January 2020 through to its sale to Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. in August 2020. Mr. Pangbourne’s extensive industry experience includes Chief Operating Officer of SSR Mining Inc.; Vice President Projects South America for Kinross Gold Corporation; and before that several increasingly senior roles over 15 years at BHP Billiton Ltd., including President and Chief Operating Officer of Nickel Americas, Projects Director for BHP’s Uranium Division (including the Olympic Dam Expansion), and Project Manager for BHP’s Spence copper project in Chile. He was also General Manager at an engineering company that specialized in gold heap leach and carbon-in-pulp plants. Mr. Pangbourne holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Extractive Metallurgy) and a Graduate Diploma in Mineral Processing from the Western Australia School of Mines.
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