Mr. James has been Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TVI Pacific Inc. since January 1987, and Chairman of TVI Resource Development Phils, Inc. (“TVIRD”) since 1994. Mr. James is a geologist and business executive with over 50 years of technical and financial experience in the natural resource sector. His work has taken him throughout North America, Africa and Asia where he has held senior positions in both mining and oil & gas companies. Mr. James spearheaded TVI Pacific’s activities in the Philippines and is responsible for bringing onstream the Canatuan mine, the first foreign funded, modern, full-scale producing mine in the Philippines since the passage of the Mining Act in 1995. At Canatuan, Mr. James developed two highly successful mining operations, one that produced 105,200 ounces of gold and 1.8 million ounces of silver from 2004 to 2008; and another that produced 199,778 tonnes of copper concentrate and 30,558 tonnes of zinc concentrate from 2009 to 2014. From 2012 to present, Mr. James has successfully developed and brought into production two more mines in the Philippines, including the Agata nickel/iron mine, which has shipped a total of 20.7 million wet metric tonnes of nickel laterite through 380 shipments since commercial operations began in 2014 and through to July 31, 2023, and the Balabag gold-silver mine, which commenced shipping in September 2021 and has through July 31, 2023 completed sixty-two (62) shipments of 76,428 gold equivalent ounces. Mr. James has also overseen the commencement of soft-commissioning at the Siana gold mine that began in December 2022 and through to July 31, 2023, has shipped through this initial phase a total of 450 kilograms of doré containing 5,124 ounces of gold and 8,998 ounces of silver.