Management & Board Overview

 

Victor Goncalves, President, CEO and Director

B.A. Economics, University of Winnipeg

Victor Goncalves earned a B.A. in Economics from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Winnipeg, where he completed a thesis on the energy efficiency of uranium. He has a strong economic background, with nearly ten years as a successful market analyst and a consultant for several funds, including The Harvard Management Fund. Mr Goncalves was founder and director of The Equities and Economics Report, whose proven track record includes predicting several major inflection points in the markets. He continues to write for publications such as Barron’s Magazine, Resource Magazine, Kitco and other successful internet newsletters. Well-respected for his success as an analyst and his expertise in project valuations, Mr Goncalves makes regular appearances on BNN and Mining Industry TV, and as a speaker at many international investment conferences.

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Antoine Fournier, VP Exploration, COO and Director

M.Sc. Geology, M.Sc. Geology – McGill University, Montreal

Antoine Fournier earned a B.Sc. in Geology from Concordia University, Montréal, and an M.Sc. from McGill University, Montréal, where he studied rare earth element mineralization associated with the St-Honoré Carbonatite in the province of Québec. For almost twenty years, he has focused on the exploration of precious and high-tech metals and minerals as well as diamonds. Mr Fournier was involved in several significant discoveries during his career, namely the Lac Knife graphite deposit (Québec), the Youga gold deposit (Burkina Faso), and the Cargo diamondiferous kimberlite (Nunavut). He is a member of the Ordre des géologues du Québec.

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Octavio Soares, Chief Financial Officer and Director

FCA – Université Laval , Québec

Octavio Soares holds a B.A. in Business Administration and a Bachelor in Accounting Sciences from Université Laval in the province of Québec. He is also a member of the Ordre des comptables agrées du Québec. Before joining Threegold Resources—first as a director in 2008 and shortly after as CFO—Mr Soares accumulated more than 10 years of experience working for various government agencies in Canada and abroad, mainly in resource management and risk assessment. By virtue of his educational background and expertise in public finance, Mr Soares became an electoral expert in Québec with Directeur général des élections, as well as an authority on political party financing and an electoral observer on the international scene during elections in Africa and South America.

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Richard Tanguay, Chairman of the Board

DEC – Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec , Montreal

Richard Tanguay graduated in Hotel Management from the Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec in 1984. He is the president and founder of LOC International, an award-winning company that has provided supplies to the hotel and restaurant industry since 1988. In 2007, Mr Tanguay co-founded another company, Hygie Canada Inc, a distributor of innovative hygiene products for the medical and paramedical sectors. Mr Tanguay also sits on the boards of directors for several private companies and he volunteers for the Fonds de développement du collège Édouard-Montpetit.

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André Le Bel, Director

B.Sc.A Université Laval, Quebec
LL.B. Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke

André Le Bel is the Vice President Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary of Osisko Mining Corporation since November 2007. From 1997 to November 2006 he held the position of Senior Legal Counsel for Cambior Inc and was promoted to Vice-President Legal Affairs of IAMGOLD Corporation following the acquisition of Cambior by IAMGOLD in November 2006. Mr Le Bel is also a director of RedQuest Capital Corp, a capital pool company.