Management & Directors

Prospect Ridge Resources is supported by an experienced team of leaders, industry experts and visionaries that help pave the way

Michael Iverson

CEO & Director

Mr. Iverson brings over 30 years of executive experience in public markets, including corporate development, capital formation, acquisitions and mergers. In 1998, Mr. Iverson founded Niogold Mining Corp. (previously TSXV: NOX) and co-founded Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (TSE:FVI), and in both companies went on to serve in various executive roles including Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President until 2016. Since 2007, Mr. Iverson has also held various executive positions at Volcanic Gold Mines (CSE:VG). At Niogold, he led the acquisition and exploration of a large land package in Val D’Or, following which the company was acquired by Oban Mining Corp., now operating as Osisko Mining Inc. (TSE: OSK), at a significant premium to the company’s market capitalization. At Fortuna, he was an integral part of the company’s successful development into a silver producer with operating mines in Peru and Mexico. Mr. Iverson brings a wealth of experience in public and private equity markets and in important management disciplines of strategic planning and oversight, sales and marketing, having raised, invested and co-invested $100 million in the companies he has led and advised. Mr. Iverson has acted as CEO and/or director for companies that, while he was in that role, have achieved, in the aggregate, market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion.

30 Years in Mining Exploration

Global Experience & Leadership

$1 Billion+ Market Capitalizations

$100,000,000+ Raised

Yan Ducharme

President, Director

Yan Ducharme brings over 25 years of experience to the company in greenfield and brownfield exploration projects. He started his career with SEMAFO in Guinea, Western Africa, on the Jean-Gobele exploration project which later became the Kiniero mine. In Quebec, he joined Cambior at the Sleeping Giant mine, then to the exploration office where he took care of exploration projects in the four corners of the Abitibi and in the James Bay area. Mr. Ducharme was also part of the exploration team at the Rosebel Mine in Suriname, South America for Cambior/Iamgold. Yan spent several years working NioGold’s Marban project which reached 1.5M oz of measured and indicated resources (32Mt at 1.48 g/t Au) and 600k oz of inferred resources (16.5Mt at 1.13 g/t Au; NI 43-101 August 15, 2013). He was Vice-President of the company when it was bought by Oban mining, now operating as Osisko (TSE:OSK). He was regional exploration manager for Canadian Malartic until the Kirkland Lake project was acquired entirely by Agnico-Eagle (TSE:AEM), and then became exploration manager for SOQUEM. Most recently, Mr. Ducharme was exploration manager for Wesdome Gold Mine’s (TSE:WDO) Kiena site. Mr. Ducharme obtained a Master’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Jasmine Lau

CFO

Jasmine Lau is a senior finance and accounting professional with an extensive background serving as CFO in the mineral exploration and resource sector, with experience on projects throughout the world. She was also previously employed in Internal Audit at Teck Resources Ltd., and at Deloitte, where she focused on audits of public mining and resource companies. Ms. Lau is a CPA, CA and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.

Simon Ridgway

Chairman & Director

CEO of Rackla Metals Inc., a Vancouver-based junior gold exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange since September 2011 CEO, President, and Director of Volcanic Gold Mines Inc., a Vancouver-based company engaged in gold and silver property acquisition and exploration, listed on the TSXV since August 2017 Director and Chairman of the Board of Radius Gold Inc., a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company listed on the TSXV since July 2004.

Michael Michaud

Director

Mr. Michaud, P.Geo., M.Sc. is a Professional Geologist with over 30 years’ of experience developing and implementing regional and mine-site exploration strategies that includes a broad range of deposit types within North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Currently, Michael is the Vice-President, Exploration for Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. Previously, Michael served as Iamgold Corp’s Chief Geologist, Vice-President, Exploration for St Andrew Goldfields, Principal of SRK Consulting Inc. and Chief Geologist at north American Palladium. Mr. Michaud holds an honors B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, and a M.Sc. from Lakehead University.

Toby Lim

Director

Toby Lim has been a practicing solicitor since 1997, with a focus on corporate and securities law. He received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree with honours from the University of British Columbia in 1992, followed by a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Ontario in 1996. Following his call to the BC Bar in 1997, he was an associate lawyer at Anfield Sujir Kennedy & Durno, a corporate and securities law firm located in Vancouver, BC, for 18 years, and has served as a director of and adviser to a number of public and private companies. In 2015, he co-founded Vantage Law Corporation, where he currently practices.

Jacques Brunelle

Director

Jacques Brunelle is a Canadian businessman with over 30 years of experience in the North American mining industry. Mr. Brunelle has had roles at executive levels as both President and Director of publicly traded companies. These include; Niogold Mining Corporation (NOX) in 2003, which later completed a successful exit to Osisko Mining Inc. (OSK. TO) in 2016. The public and private companies Mr. Brunelle has been involved with have successfully raised tens of millions of dollars for exploration and equity financings.

Bradley Scharfe

Director

Bradley Scharfe is the President, Co-Chairman & CEO of Scharfe Group of Companies, and is an accomplished financier with over 25 years of expertise in North America’s capital markets. Mr. Scharfe has spearheaded financing efforts and assembled robust companies in the areas of resources and commodities, clean technology and renewable/alternative energy, oil and gas, and biotech and tech. Mr. Scharfe is an expert at raising, deploying, and managing venture capital for companies in the early growth phase of their development. His focus is on backing emerging companies that require early-stage financing, public market support and management structuring and collecting strategic experts who can appropriately contribute to the company’s ongoing and expansive growth. For 12 years, Mr. Scharfe was a successful venture capital stockbroker with Canaccord Capital Corporation, a premier Canadian investment firm. While at Canaccord, he was part of the Chairman’s Club, based on outstanding achievement. Mr. Scharfe holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Toronto, where he majored in Commerce and Economics.

Seema Sharma

Land Manager

Seema Sharma CPA serves as Director of Lands Management for the Company. She brings over 20 years of experience in accounting working in public practice and in private industries. She has completed her In-depth tax specialization in 2022 with Chartered Professional accountants of Canada. Her previous work experience includes working in private equity, mining manufacturing, and working at public practice firms. Presently, she is a principal of her own public practice company that serves to-profit and non-profit industries. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Northern British Columbia.

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