Management & Board
Stephen de Jong, BComm
,CEO, President, Director
Prior to joining Rogue, Mr. de Jong worked as a consultant advising management of TSXV exploration companies on their business and corporate development strategies. He is also an independent director of Integra Gold Corp. Mr. de Jong holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University.
Freeman Smith, BSc, P.Geo
,Executive VP, Director
Freeman has held various senior officer and director roles in TSX-V trading companies for the past seven years. Freeman is a professional geologist who has consulted to mineral exploration companies and geotechnical engineering firms throughout North America for the past 20 years. Mr. Smith holds a degree in geology from the University of British Columbia, 1991.
Roger Walsh
,Corporate Development
Prior to joining Rogue Iron Ore on February 1, 2012, Mr. Walsh was most recently Vice President Corporate Development for Aurizon Mines and prior to that held a similar Corporate Development role at Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. Prior to joining Jinshan Mr. Walsh spent two years as VP Corporate Development for Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
Prior to joining Ivanhoe, Mr. Walsh was a founding partner of a corporate advisory firm providing acquisition, divestment and strategic advisory services to the international mining sector.
Ronald Mariani
,Vice President, Operations
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Ron was assistant General Manager of Cliffs Michigan Mining which included the combined Tilden and Empire mining operation, two processing plants, two pelletizing facilities and a railroad and dock facility with a total operating budget in excess of $500 million. His efforts were primarily focused on management of the processing and pelletizing plant operations with a total annual pellet production of over 13 million tons.
Prior to assuming the role of assistant General Manager of Cliffs Michigan Operations, Ron was a Senior Staff Engineer for Cliffs Research group during which time he participated in a number of due diligence studies of prospective iron ore investments for the company in North and South America and Australia. Previous assignments included: Plant Manager for Cliffs Empire mine and assistant General Manager of the Tilden operation. The Empire Mine is a magnetite (taconite) operation which possesses similar mineralization to that at Radio Hill. The Tilden operation has annual production capacity of 7.8 million long tons of pellets and a workforce of 750-800 employees with an annual budget in excess of 250 million dollars. While at the Empire operation he was the General Manager; Empire at that time had 660 employees with an annual production capacity of 5.3 million LT of pellets and an annual budget in excess of 200 million dollars.
Mr. Mariani received a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering (Mineral Processing) from Michigan Technological University, 1975.
Trygve Hoy, PhD, P.Eng.
,Director
Dr. Hoy is a Professional Engineer a member of the Society of Economic Geologists. He received his BSc in Geology from the University of British Columbia, his MSc (Geology) from Carleton University, Ottawa, and his Doctorate of Geology from Queens University, Ontario.
Kevin Montgomery, MSc, P.Geo
,Project Coordinator - Exploration
Mr. Montgomery has a Bachelor of Science Geological degree from Queen's University and a Master's of Science, Applied Mineral Exploration degree from McGill University.
Larry Johnson, BSc
,CFO
Frank Durant
,Director
Mr. Durant has 32 years of experience building successful companies. While his focus has been building his own private companies in real estate development, he has been an active investor and student of the junior mineral exploration sector for many years. His experience, common sense approach and successful marketing expertise provide a unique perspective.
John de Jong
,Director
Prior to working with public companies he had a twenty-five year career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in senior management. Mr. de Jong has also managed political campaigns for candidates of the British Columbia Legislature, owned his own business, and acted as the Canadian director for the FIRS, an American youth outreach camping organization with facilities in Canada and the US. He remains active on a number of non-profit boards and committees and is the former secretary for Cerebral Palsy Sports BC.
George Hudak, Ph.D., PGeo
,Advisor
Dr. Hudak has extensive experience as a field mapper, and has logged over one million feet of diamond drill core associated with Precambrian volcanic hosted mineral deposits in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. Dr. Hudak is an internationally recognized expert on the relationships between volcanic processes and the genesis of volcanic-associated hydrothermal mineral deposits, in particular, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits.
Dr. Hudak currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Institute on Lake Superior Geology, the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Center for Mineral Resource Education, and is a Mentor for the Society of Economic Geologists. He is a Registered Professional Geologist in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and holds a Prospector's License in Ontario.