Board of Directors

Peter Miles

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Miles has a B.Comm from the University of British Columbia. He has more than 25 years' experience in finance and was formerly a Vice President of Midland Doherty Inc., Dean Witter Reynolds, and CIBC World Markets. Prior to becoming President and CEO of Sanatana Resources Inc., Mr. Miles was an advisor to a number of public and private companies, primarily in the natural resource sector including Roughrider Uranium Inc. At a private stage, Mr. Miles financed Roughrider and was later instrumental in Hathor Exploration Inc.'s acquisition of Roughrider. Hathor was acquired by Rio Tinto plc in 2011 for $654 million. Mr. Miles is a Director of Gamehost Inc., and is the founder of Sanatana Resources Inc. Mr. Miles is a commercial pilot with some 3000 hours pilot in command of over 15 different types of aircraft.

Buddy Doyle

President and Director

Mr. Doyle has a degree in Geology, from the Queensland University of Technology, graduating in 1981. Since graduation he has been engaged in the mineral exploration industry. Highlights include being involved in the discovery and evaluation of the Lihir Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea and the Diavik Diamond mine in Canada, both while working for Rio Tinto PLC. In 2004 he received the  Hugo Dummitt award for Excellence in diamond exploration for his involvement in the Diavik discovery.  Since 2004 Mr. Doyle has been involved in geology consulting and creating and operating mining exploration start-ups listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange and the AIM London Exchange.

This work has been diverse. As CEO of Amarillo gold from 2004 to 2017 he oversaw a near production gold project in Brazil and he was founder and a director of Western Potash from 2007-2017, which discovered and developed the now in production Milestone Potash Project in Saskatchewan. Additionally, Mr, Doyle is a long standing  Member of the AUSIMM (since 1994) a professional association. From 1999 to 2004, he was the Vice Chairman of the MRDU, (Mineral Research development unit) at the University of British Columbia, a group designed to focus on industry needs and seek in kind funding. Mr. Doyle is the founder and current director of Stratus Aeronautics Inc, a private company,  that pioneered the use of robotic aircraft. 

Ian Smith

Chairman and Independent Director

Mr. Smith, a mining engineering graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia, has 50 years’ experience in corporate, operations, and project management and consulting within the international base and precious metals industries.  He has a broad range of underground and open pit operating experience.  He managed a 250tpd shrinkage/resuing silver/gold mine in Sonora, Mexico and consulted on numerous underground high grade silver/gold mines within the Mexican precious metals belt.  He held senior operating positions at the 90,000 tpd Bougainville Copper and 72,000tpd La Caridad startups in Papua New Guinea and Mexico respectively, and as President and CEO engineered and constructed a 2,500 tpd (70,000 opy) CIL gold project in Uruguay.  As President & CEO of bcMetals Corp. he engineered the 30,000tpd Red Chris copper/gold porphyry project for development in northwest BC prior to being acquired by Imperial Metals Corp.  As President  & CEO of Yellowhead Mining Inc. he took the Harper Creek Project from exploration to development stage with the completion of a Pre-Feasibility and a Feasibility Study for a 70,000tpd open pit in a period of 18 months.  Mr. Smith was President and founding partner of one of North America's most successful mining industry consulting companies until purchased by Canadian interests in 1995.  

Anthony Dutton

Non-executive Director

Mr. Dutton is a seasoned business executive and entrepreneur with a successful track record as an early stage investor and business founder. He was most recently co-founder, CEO and director of Cannex Capital, a pioneering US cannabis company, before its acquisition of 4Front Holdings Ltd. to create 4Front Ventures (CSE:FFNT), a large multi-state cannabis operator. Prior to Cannex, he was co-founder, CEO and director of IBC Advanced Alloys (TSX.V:IB), a manufacturer of high-performance alloys serving advanced manufacturing and aerospace contractors globally. He currently serves on the board of Value Capital Trust (TSX.V:VLU.P). Mr. Dutton has a BA (Econ) from UBC, a M. Architecture from Dalhousie and a joint MBA from the Cranfield School of Management, UK and the École Supérieure de Commerce in Lyon, France.

Rose Zanic

Director

Ms. Zanic has over 25 years’ of capital markets and corporate finance expertise. She is a self-employed corporate finance professional with significant experience advising Canadian public companies with financing and M&A transactions and providing public company administration. She previously spent 19 years with Wolverton Securities Ltd. where she was Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance in charge of that firm’s corporate finance and syndication departments.

Ms. Zanic holds a CPA, CA designation and received a bachelor of commerce degree in finance from the University of British Columbia. She currently is a director of several Canadian publicly listed companies, including serving as audit committee chair. Ms. Zanic is also a member of the TSX Venture Exchange BC Local Advisory Committee.

Advisory Board

Mr. Jonathan Hill

Mr. Hill is a successful geologist and accomplished mining industry professional with over 30 years of global exploration, mining operational and project development experience. He has served in senior exploration and operational roles with major mining companies Anglo American Corporation and AngloGold Ashanti Ltd and has been directly involved with the discovery and development of several world class greenfields and brownfields projects in Africa and the Americas. Mr. Hill is the founder and president of Exploration Outcomes Ltd., a geological exploration advisory firm headquartered in Brazil, is a director of Royal Road Minerals (TSX-V:RYR) and Stratabound Minerals Corporation (CVE: SB), and is a senior advisor to the management committee of Jaguar Mining Inc. (TSE:JAG).

Mr. Hill’s experience in mining and exploration geology, project development and management, and his broad range of contacts in the mining industry has resulted in a unique skill set and an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the global mining business. Mr. Hill holds a BSc (Hons) Economic Geology and a BAppSc in Applied Geology. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.