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, Director
Extensive experience in commercial negotiations, business operations and asset management.
CEO & joint major shareholder of the Fitch Group, major shareholder in QEM Limited and Director of DBRB Property Group.
Mathew Gilberton
Non-Executive Director
Over 25 years of management experience within the mining and technology sector currently engaged as a turnkey consultant, specialising in operational efficiency and economic optimisation
David Crevier
Non-Executive Director
Partner of the law firm Colby Monet LLP, in Montreal Quebec, he has practiced as a lawyer since 1975, primarily in the area of commercial law, assisting public and private companies the natural resource and technology sectors

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Benjamin Cooper
Corporate Development
27 years' experience as a mining executive and corporate advisor. Senior administration and management of nickel, copper-gold and iron ore resource projects. Founder of Class 1 Nickel Limited.
Alex Beloborodov
Exploration Manager
Professional Geologist with 11 years of experience in nickel, copper, gold exploration in Quebec and Nunavut.

He 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 Geologist
Scott has nearly 30 years in the mineral exploration business that has included field work, management and administrative duties, research, report writing, presentations and project finance. Dr. Jobin-Bevans has more than a decade of direct experience with public and private companies as an officer, director and technical advisor and has been involved with taking several private companies public. He is a registered geoscientist with the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO), an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geology, Lakehead University and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Scott 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 Geologist
Simon Mortimer has over 25 years in the mineral exploration and mining industry and is a qualified resource geologist and competent person following the Canadian NI 43101 and JORC codes.

He 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 Geophysicist
Professional Geologist/Geophysicist with 38 years in mining exploration geophysics, Marc has developed a considerable expertise in applied exploration geophysics with various commodities and mining companies in Canada, South America and Africa.

From 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 Advisor
Professional Geologist with 37 years in mineral exploration and project development experience with a significant proportion focused on magmatic nickel-copper-PGE projects in Canada with Falconbridge Ltd.

He worked directly on the Somanike Project from 2014-2018.

Mr. Adair holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc from the University of Alberta.