Our Team - Kenorland Minerals

Zach Flood
President, CEO and Director

Mr. Flood is an economic-exploration geologist with global experience focused on various commodities over the past 15 years. Mr. Flood co-founded Kenorland Minerals in 2016. Prior to Kenorland, Mr. Flood spent numerous years within the Ivanhoe Group, undertaking project generation and business development, including evaluation of early to advanced stage M&A opportunities in the mining sector.

Yu Yamato
Director

Yu Yamato has worked with Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. as a geologist for over 23 years and holds a Master of Science from the Geological Institute of the University of Tokyo. He is currently a manager and senior geologist within the mineral resources division of SMM in Japan. Prior to this role, he was the president of Sumiko Resources Exploration & Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SMM and was the geology manager for SMM at the Côté Gold Project in Ontario which is joint ventured with IAMGOLD Corporation.

Zach Flood
President, CEO and Director

David Broughton
Advisor (PhD, Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada)

Dr. Broughton is recognized as an expert in sediment-hosted copper deposits and has been a key participant in several discoveries and successful development projects. After completing BSc and MSc degrees at University of Waterloo, he worked 10 years in gold exploration and mining in Canada, primarily in the Abitibi, for companies including Hemlo Gold, Agnico-Eagle, Canamax and Cyprus Amax. Dr. Broughton joined Ivanhoe Mines in January 2008 as VP Exploration, he was co-leader of the Kamoa discovery team that was the 2015 recipient of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) prestigious Thayer Lindsley Award for International mineral discovery of the year. He also led the Ivanhoe team that discovered the world-class Flatreef PGE-Ni-Cu deposit in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, which is currently being developed.

Francis MacDonald
Advisor

Francis is an exploration geologist who has spent the majority of his career with Newmont Mining Corporation managing grassroots exploration projects in North America, West Africa, and East Africa. He has extensive knowledge of exploration and targeting techniques related to orogenic gold and VMS deposits in Precambrian terranes.

David I. Groves
Advisor (PhD, Honorary DSc, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences (FAAS)

David I. Groves is currently an internationally known geological consultant who has consulted to both global major gold mining companies, including Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti, and Australian and Canadian junior gold and lithium exploration companies. David joined the Geology Department at the University of Western Australia as a Lecturer and progressed to Professor (Personal Chair) as he became Director of the Key Centre for Strategic Mineral Deposits and Centre for Global Metallogeny.

Jessica Van Den Akker
Director

Jessica van Den Akker holds the position of Chief Financial Officer at Kore Mining. Ms. Van Den Akker is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CA) with 15 years’ experience in the resource sector. She gained extensive experience through a Canadian audit firm providing reporting and accounting assurance services to publicly traded companies, primarily in natural resources. Ms. Van Den Akker is a graduate of Simon Fraser University where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Enoch Kong
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Kong serves as Chief Financial Officer of Kenorland and brings more than 10 years of extensive experience in controllership and financial reporting for public companies in the oil and gas and junior exploration sectors listed in Canada and United States. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and he is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA, CA).

Jay Sujir
Director

Mr. Sujir is a securities and natural resources lawyer who has 23 years of experience in advising and assisting public companies. He is a senior partner with Farris LLP. Mr. Sujir is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association.

Rick Trotman
Director

Mr. Trotman is a professional geologist with a broad range of experience within the mining industry, having worked in both buy-side and sell-side positions as well as technically focused responsibilities with major mining companies. Mr. Trotman is currently the President and CEO of Barksdale Resources. Rick was previously with Resource Capital Funds, a leading mining-focused private equity firm, where he was involved in executing a broad range of investments spanning the precious, base and minor metal spaces and was also responsible for establishing and managing the firm’s portfolio of exploration investments. He holds a Master of Science in Economic Geology from the University of Nevada Reno and a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Washington State University.

Scott Smits
Vice President of Exploration

Scott has been involved in a broad range of positions and responsibilities, including mineral exploration and project evaluations since 2007. He honed his technically driven skillset during his time as a leading geologist on the Madrid deposit, at the Hope Bay Project for Newmont Mining Corporation. Scott’s ability to develop comprehensive three dimensional geologic models integrating wide ranges of datasets has been an integral part of his success from grassroots exploration to resource development. His most recent role was Senior Geologist within Newmont Mining Corporation’s Exploration Development Group conducting project generation and evaluations.

Jamie Levy
Director

Mr. Levy has 25 years experience in financing and management of Canadian mining companies. Mr. Levy is currently the President, CEO and Director of Generation Mining. Mr. Levy was previously CEO of Pine Point Mining which was acquired by Osisko Metals.

Janek Wozniewski, P.Geo
Vice President of Operations

Janek is an exploration geologist and geoscientist with experience in early to late stage mineral exploration projects as well as mid-stream oil and gas projects in Canada, US, Australia and Peru. Since 2009, Janek has consulted with several junior to major energy and resource companies and has gained a broad multidisciplinary skillset with a focus on program planning and project management.

Dave Stevenson
Chief Geoscientist

Dave is a mineral exploration geoscientist with over 10 years combined experience in mineral exploration and geoscientific research throughout Canada, Australia and South America. He has worked with a number of junior and mid-tier companies focusing on regional scale targeting to deposit scale resource definition. His current PhD research (being concluded at The Centre for Exploration Targeting; The University of Western Australia) involves developing and implementing an integrated structural geology and potential field geophysical approach to identifying crustal-scale architectural controls on mineralized systems. With combined experience in mineral exploration and exploration focused academic research Dave is positioned to be a leader among the next generation of mineral exploration geoscientists through applying sound scientific reasoning to develop exploration strategies capable of unlocking the mineral potential in previously overlooked terranes.

Peter Meredith
Advisor

Peter is a current Director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (formerly Ivanplats Limited) and Capstone Mining Corp., and was formerly a Director and Deputy Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (now Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.), where he was involved in overseeing Ivanhoe’s business development and corporate relations. He was also Chairman of SouthGobi Resources Ltd. as well as the President and CEO of Global Mining Management Corp. Peter previously spent 31 years with Deloitte LLP, chartered accountants, and retired as a partner in 1996. Peter is a Chartered Professional Accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia, the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario. He was also certified as a Chartered Accountant (now Chartered Professional Accountant) by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1968.

Andy Orr
Chief Geologist

Mr. Orr has been involved in exploration industry since 2005. He has undertaken roles from prospecting, staking, and soil sampling through to targeting, drilling and
modelling. He has worked primarily in precious and base metal systems in North America, South America and East Africa for mid-tier and major companies.

Rachael Kramer
Senior Geologist

Ms. Kramer has been involved in advancing precious and base metal exploration projects in North America for the past decade. Prior to joining Kenorland, she led several early to advanced-stage projects, managing technical objectives, program design and execution. She has championed the collection of high-quality data through the management of project teams and implementation of real-time data acquisition systems.

Mikhail Minin
Data Scientist

Mikhail is a programmer with a background in geosciences. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Earth Sciences and M.Sc. degree in Planetary Geoscience from Brock University. He wrote his M.Sc. thesis on the structural geology of Valles Marineris, Mars, based on morphometric analysis of LiDAR topography. His current PhD research (conducted at Jacobs University Bremen) involves developing and implementing geospatial interoperability standards so that data from different sources can be used together to constrain distribution of extraterrestrial mineral deposits.

Alex Gallardo
Exploration Manager

Alex is an exploration geologist with extensive planning and management experience in global gold and base metal systems. His Masters project (Laurentian University) focused on the application of spectral imagery of glacial clasts for grassroots exploration. Prior to joining the company, Alex worked closely with the team through the discovery and growth of the Regnault gold system and additional project advancements of the company’s Quebec projects.

Vytautas Banys
Exploration Manager

Vytautas is an exploration geologist who has been responsible for planning and managing multi-faceted grassroots exploration projects since 2016. Prior to joining the company, Vytautas worked with DeBeers and Groundtruth Exploration, across northern Canada and United States, advancing projects through large-scale reconnaissance to drill-stage exploration.

Mathieu Charette
Exploration Manager

Mathieu is an exploration geologist with over 15 years of experience in the mineral industry with a focus on gold exploration. He has implemented multiple drill programs from grassroots to late-stage exploration projects across Canada, Latin America and West Africa. Mathieu was first involved with Kenorland in 2019 supporting the Chicobi and Frotet projects before joining the team in 2022.