Class 1 Nickel has a supportive shareholder base, including strong financial support from the founders in the business who will continue to retain large stake in the company
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
David Fitch
President & CEO, DirectorCEO & joint major shareholder of the Fitch Group, and Director of DBRB Property Group.
Mathew Gilberton
Non-Executive DirectorDavid Crevier
Non-Executive DirectorMANAGEMENT TEAM
Benjamin Cooper
Strategic AdvisorAlex Beloborodov
Exploration ManagerHe spent 6 years working in nickel sulphide exploration with various greenfield and brownfield projects as well as working on a producing nickel mine with Canadian Royalties.
Mr. Beloborodov has a B.Sc. in Geology from Université du Quebec à Montréal.
Scott Jobin-Bevans, Ph.D, PMP, P.Geo
Principal Consulting GeologistScott has a wide range of exploration experience in most commodities including expertise in magmatic sulphides (Ni-Cu-Co) and PGE (Pt-Pd) mineralization, gold, silver, copper (porphyry) and base metals (VMS).
He has an extensive industry and government network and served as President (2010-2012) and a Director (2002-2010) of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). In 2013, Scott was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his significant contribution and achievements as a volunteer in the Canadian minerals industry.
Simon Mortimer
Principal Consulting Resource GeologistHe was educated in the UK, with a degree in geoscience form the University of St Andrews and a master’s degree in mining geology from the Camborne School of Mines and is the principal geologist and founder of the Atticus Geoscience Consulting group, with established offices in Peru and Chile.
The bulk of his professional career has been spent in South America where he has gained extensive experience in leading geological modelling and resource evaluation projects, pushing the application of implicit modelling in the extractive industry, individually modelling and helping develop geological models for over 100 deposits. He has created course material, taught, and developed best practices in geological modelling in exploration and production, including writing technical papers and playing a lead role in the design of the geological aspects of the Leapfrog Geo software.
Marc Boivin
Consulting GeophysicistFrom 1990 to 1993, he worked for Western Mining Corporation (WMC) as exploration geophysicist and from 1993 to 2006, as chief geophysicist, he worked SOQUEM. Since 2006, he is working as consulting geophysicist for many companies around the world.
Over time, he acquired a significant experiences in gold, VMS and nickel-copper exploration. He is co-inventor the InfiniTEM® EM configuration and closely involved in the development of a drone magnetic system AimLow™.
Robin Adair
Independent Geological Technical AdvisorHe worked directly on the Somanike Project from 2014-2018.
Mr. Adair holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc from the University of Alberta.