Michael Willett, P.Eng
Chief Executive Officer

Michael Willett is a Professional Mine Engineer with over 25 years of experience in management, engineering, and operations in the mining industry. Mr. Willett has worked for several mining companies including Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd., Aurora Quarrying Ltd., and Dynatec Mining Ltd.  He has been involved in numerous mining projects, including several mine startups. During his career, Mr. Willett has held positions of progressively greater responsibility up to and including General Manager overseeing a  mine and concentrator complex and associated infrastructure.

Mr. Willett holds a B.Sc degree in Mine Engineering from Queen’s University and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from the Schulich School of Business, The University of Winnipeg.

Ross F. Burns, HBSc., P.Geo., L.G.
President

Ross Burns is a 40-year veteran of the mining industry who has served as a director and officer of numerous Canadian public mining companies including Royal Oak Mines and Century Mining.  Mr. Burns served for 18 years as Vice President of Exploration for gold companies where he held responsibilities for reserves and exploration for six producing mines and multiple exploration properties.  In that time, he was involved in the financing and development of the Kemess Copper Gold Mine.

Mr. Burns has extensive exploration and mine geology experience in Mississippi Valley Type, sediment-hosted, lead-zinc deposits, which was gained at Teck Cominco’s Polaris and Pine Point mines in Canada’s Northwest Territories.  Since 2004, Mr. Burns has been President and Director of Tamerlane Ventures, which owns the Pine Point lead-zinc property.  His unique vision and long-time knowledge of the property have equipped him to oversee the development of Pine Point from exploration through the feasibility stage.

Mr. Burns is an Honours Geology graduate from Queen’s University, a Professional Geologist in the Northwest Territories, and  a Licensed Geologist in Washington State.

Margaret M. Kent, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Chief Financial Officer

Margaret Kent has spent over 35 years in the mining industry, during which time she has become a leading figure in the industry in Canada. She has been Chairman, President and CEO of a number of gold and base metal mining companies, with full responsibility to the board of directors for operations, financings and growth.

She has extensive experience in the public and private debt and equity markets in Canada, the USA and Europe. Her experience includes arranging over $1.5 billion of major financing comprising equity with derivatives instruments, high-yield bonds, and convertible debentures to fund major capital projects, acquisitions, and for providing debtor-in-possession financing.

In addition to her resource experience, Margaret Kent has extensive experience in the field of insolvency and restructuring. She has structured purchases of assets out of insolvency both in the US and in Canada. She has restructured companies’ debt packages and worked as a chief restructuring officer filing companies in CCAA, Chapter 11, and Chapter 7. She has also raised significant capital for insolvent companies.

Margaret Kent has been a member of the board of directors of some of Canada's leading natural resource companies, including Talisman Energy, TransCanada Corporation, Royal Oak Mines, and Nova Chemicals, where she served on a number of board committees, including the audit committee.

In July, 2010, she retired from her post as Chief Executive Officer of Century Mining Corporation.  Her major responsibility at Tamerlane is to procure and arrange the financing package for the Pine Point lead-zinc project in the Northwest Territories.

Brent A. Jones
Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Tamerlane Ventures Inc.

As part of his responsibilities in public and investor relations, business development and corporate planning, Brent Jones has traveled to more than 30 countries over the past 15 years, representing Asian and North American companies in the natural resources, consumer electronics and automotive industries.

Mr. Jones has extensive experience as a corporate liaison to global capital markets, dealing with major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Bank, UBS Financial, Bank of New York, and numerous others.  He has also represented publicly listed companies at credit reviews by agencies such as Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s.

Mr. Jones spent 12 years of his career living in Japan and traveling regularly to global economic centers, including the Far East, North America, Europe and the Middle East.  His main areas of responsibilities have included: spokesman representing public companies to fund/portfolio managers, buy- and sell-side industry analysts, credit rating agencies, financial press and media, and the general public; financial reporting and disclosure to the SEC and various global stock exchange regulatory agencies; corporate planning and non-deal road shows; internal feasibility studies; labor and factory negotiations.  Mr. Jones holds a B.A., Economics, from Oakland University.

Patrick Lin, CA
Senior Accountant

Patrick Lin is a Chartered Accountant.  His experience includes 5 years in public accounting, four of which he served as an auditor with Ernst & Young LLP in Toronto, Ontario.  His auditing experience includes the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Patrick earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in 2006 and became a Chartered Accountant in 2009.

At Tamerlane Ventures Inc., Patrick is responsible for all aspects of financial reporting and analysis as well as budgeting and forecast.