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Management
Robert Eadie
,Chief Executive Officer, President & Director
Robert Eadie has been actively involved in public resource companies for more than 15 years, raising over $80 million for various exploration and development projects around the world. Mr. Eadie has built an impressive network of contacts in Europe, North America and Asia and has established a reputation as the catalyst behind various successful start-up resource companies. He brings extensive marketing and public relations expertise to the board and decision making based on long term sustainable growth.
Mr. Eadie is a predominant business figure, family man and compassionate community member. Mr. Eadie's unique past experience as a private business owner reflects his down-to earth approach to business and dedication to company growth.
Gary Arca, CA
,Chief Financial Officer
Gary Arca is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and British Columbia Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1980. Mr. Arca was a partner with two separate public accounting firms from 1996 to December 2005. Mr. Arca has extensive experience dealing with public companies and, since 2005, has served as a director of many publicly traded resource companies.
Ross R. Grunwald
,VP of Exploration
Dr. Grunwald is the owner and principal consultant of GeoResource Management headquartered in Jamestown, California, a consulting firm offering geological and environmental services to North American mining companies. Dr. Grunwald holds a M.Sc. from the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He brings to Highland and the Keweenaw-Houghton copper projects his more than 40 years of experience in the fields of mining, mineral exploration, and ground water resource evaluation, as well as environmental site characterization and remediation. Mr. Grunwald will be the key figure in heading up the Company's operations in Michigan as well as other projects.
Ken Sumanik, M.Sc.
,Director
Mr. Sumanik is a professional biologist and specialist in environmental mining issues. From 1989 to 1999, he was Vice-President of Environment and Land Use for the Mining Association of British Columbia and then served as Assistant to the Minister for Mining in British Columbia until he joined the Company in October 2002
David J. Salmon
,Director
David is currently Vice-President (Western Canada) of Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC, a North American firm providing strategic solicitation and corporate governance consulting services. Mr. Salmon's career includes 15 years of financial services experience, specializing in shareholder strategies related to hostile and friendly acquisitions, proxy contests, and corporate governance issues. Prior to joining Laurel Hill, Mr. Salmon spent over 5 years gaining significant business development and sales management experience in the retail banking industry with Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Mr. Salmon graduated from the University of Toronto in 1995 with a major in Economics and subsequently completed the Canadian Securities course in 1997. He is a member of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute and the Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries.