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Corporate
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| Board of Directors
| | | Tom McKeever
Executive Chairman
The appointment of Mr. McKeever is a significant step in the development of Abacus as a mineral exploration and development company. Mr. McKeever has a distinguished career that spans over forty years, most of which were spent as senior management in the mining and metal trading industry. Mr. McKeever's experience and advice will benefit Abacus as it rapidly advances the development of our copper gold resources in the historical Afton mining camp.
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| | | Douglas Fulcher
President and CEO
Mr. Fulcher has held numerous positions during a successful thirty-five years in the mineral exploration industry. He has sat on several boards including Redstar Gold Corp., Skygold Ventures Ltd., and Niblack Mining Corp. and has developed an extensive relationship with both institutional and retail investors. Mr. Fulcher has also worked as a consulting geological contractor with expertise in logistics and capital markets for several major and junior mining companies in North America and overseas. Mr. Fulcher's main responsibility is for the management of the Company's activities.
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| | | Mr. Michael McInnis
Director
Mr. McInnis brings over 35 years of experience in mineral exploration in North America and overseas to the Company. He provides sound management expertise with over 25 years of experience in managing public resource companies and has a demonstrated track record in acquiring and developing high quality mineral projects. He serves on the Boards of several other minerals companies including Canadian Gold Hunter Corp., Canasil Resources Inc. and Gateway Gold Corp.
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| | | Mr. Victor Lazarovici
Director
Mr. Lazarovici has worked as a highly ranked and successful global metals and mining analyst for the past 20 years. Prior to entering the financial sector as an analyst, he spent over 14 years in the corporate sector in engineering, financial management and corporate development roles. Most recently, Mr. Lazarovici was the managing director and senior base metals and minerals analyst for BMO Capital Markets in New York. There, he led a team of analysts covering the base metals sector that was consistently ranked amongst the top tier in all of the major Canadian polls of institutional investors. Mr. Lazarovici has also served as a managing director and senior metals analyst for Smith Barney, where he was consistently ranked in the top tier of Wall Street mining and metals analysts in all of the major U.S. polls of institutional investors. He is the only analyst to receive the top honour in both the Canadian and U.S. Greenwich Associates surveys. He also worked at UBS, HSBC and Scotia Capital.
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| | | Louis Montpellier
Director
Mr. Montpellier has been practicing law in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1981 and since 1983 has worked exclusively in the capital markets as counsel to emerging issuers and listed public companies engaged in mineral exploration and mining. Mr. Montpellier has assisted a wide range of businesses in the entire spectrum of corporate finance activities, from accessing seed capital for private companies through to IPO's and subsequent public and private financings. Mr. Montpellier has worked extensively in the field of mergers and acquisitions, hostile and friendly take-over bids, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations and arrangements. Mr. Montpellier also has experience in debt and project financing, acting both for lenders and borrowers, with a particular emphasis on the financing of mineral projects. Mr. Montpellier is identified in a number of publications including the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Lexpert Guide to the Leading 100 Industry Specialists in Canada, Who's Who Legal, the International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in Canada, as one of Canada's leading mining lawyers. Mr. Montpellier also has a wide range of experience in the mineral exploration and development business.
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| | | Archie Nesbitt
LLB. Director
Mr. Nesbitt has a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Commerce With Honours Degree from Queen's University. He has been an active member of the Law Society of Alberta since 1978. Mr. Nesbitt began his career in resource exploration and development and has held positions as President, CEO, CFO, COO and Chairman of the Board. From 1977 to 1984 Mr. Nesbitt was President and COO of the Calgary, Alberta headquartered GEOMEX and MINEXCO energy groups of private uranium/mining and oil and gas exploration companies, which invested in excess of $300,000,000 in worldwide resource exploration and development. Mr. Nesbitt also holds directorships in Dejour Enterprises and Northpine Energy. Since 1984 Mr. Nesbitt has been actively involved in wildlife conservation and the sustained use of wildlife resources internationally. He was the founder of the Foundation for Norht American Big Game, a registered Canadian charity, and is currently the founder and President of The Alberta Chapter of Safari Club International and Public Action for Wildlife, Inc.
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