Company Leadership
Decades of collective resource and public company experience
Specializing in Latin America
Company Leadership
Brian Thurston (P.Geo)
President & CEO
Mr. Brian Thurston holds an Honors BSc in Geology from Western University and has been involved in the Mining Exploration and Investment industries for over 30 years throughout Canada, US, Central and South America, India, and Africa.
Mr. Thurston has significant knowledge with regard to exploration of porphyry deposits, having worked 5 years as an exploration geologist for the Hunter-Dickenson Group and American Bullion Ltd. from 1992 to 1996. He worked almost exclusively throughout BC and the Yukon at this time on porphyry deposits such as Kemess, Fish Lake, Casino and Red Chris.
Mr. Thurston has vast experience working in Central and South America including forming part of the initial grass roots exploration, land acquisition, and development team of Aurelian Resources Ecuador, later promoted to Country Manager in Ecuador. Kinross acquired Aurelian Ecuador in 2008 in a $1.2B friendly deal.
From 2011-2013, Mr. Thurston founded and operated a Peruvian full-service geological exploration company that catered to Canadian junior explores, offering a one stop shop for geological exploration, camp infrastructure, community relations and corporate services.
Carlos Agreda (MBA)
Mr. Carlos Agreda Minaya is the General Manager for IMM’s Peruvian subsidiary, Empresa Querco SAC, with over 20 years experience managing Canadian junior subsidiaries in Peru.
Mr. Agreda holds an degree in Geological Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, and an MBA from Peru’s highly reputable ESAN Graduate School of Business program in Lima.
Mr. Agreda has extensive experience in all aspects related to mining and exploration in Peru, including permitting, accounting, and community relations.
Mr. Agreda was involved in the grassroots generation of the Panteria Project and currently also serves as the General Manager of Peruvian Metals Corp., a Canadian Junior explorer in Peru with a processing plant located in northern Peru.
Bill Thomas
Director
Mr. Thomas has had an extensive career in the resource and mining sectors over four decades including mining in Canada, Africa and South America, and the petroleum sector in Asia, the US and the UK. Over the past 16 years, he has acted more closely as analyst, advisor, and consultant to several investment bankers with a focus on IPOs of new businesses, mainly on the Canadian Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Borse Exchange.
Mr. Thomas has been a director and/or a senior management member of Kerr McGee Canada, Kerr McGee UK, and Kerr McGee China (now part of Anadarko Petroleum). He was also CFO of the successful mining interest Hana Mining Ltd. in Botswana, Africa during its exploration phase.
In each instance, Mr. Thomas has focused on providing guidance on general business operations, accounting, financial, tax, regulatory reporting and contract administration services to the public, junior mining, and oil & gas exploration companies that he has served at the senior level.
Mr. Thomas graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto, Canada and gained his Chartered Accountants (CA) designation in 1977. He remains a member in good standing with the Association.
Michael Hopkinson
Director
Mr. Hopkinson is a US licensed CPA in the state of New Hampshire. He has over 23 years of US tax and public company experience. Having spent over 11 years working primarily for the accounting industry’s “Big Four”, his experience has been extensive in the mining, pharmaceutical and real estate business sectors. Mr. Hopkinson has served as Chief Financial Officer and director for numerous public companies and has comprehensive experience in US-Canada Cross-Border tax and repatriation planning, financial statement reporting, and capital financing activities. Mr. Hopkinson is currently a Principal with Goldsmith Kwok Accounting Group of Vancouver.
Nancy La Couvée
Corporate Secretary
Ms. La Couvée brings over 25 years of experience as a Corporate Secretary, providing governance and compliance services for international public companies in the resource sector. She facilitates effective board and shareholder communications, ensures regulatory compliance in numerous international jurisdictions, and provides corporate governance guidance, as well as corporate finance administration. Ms. La Couvée is a member of the Governance Professionals of Canada
Jeffrey Reeder (P.Geo)
Peru Exploration Team
Mr. Jeffrey Reeder is the Senior Technical Advisor to IMM with over 34 years exploration experience in British Columbia, Canada and throughout Latin America.
Mr. Reeder holds a BSc in Geology from the University of Alberta and has been involved in the Mining Exploration and Investment industries since 1988.
Mr. Reeder worked 5 years as an exploration geologist for the Hunter-Dickenson Group from 1989 to 1993. He worked almost exclusively throughout BC and the Yukon on copper-gold porphyry deposits such as Mt. Milligan, South Kemess, Fish Lake and Casino.
Since 1993, Mr. Reeder worked almost exclusively in South America. The vast experience working on porphyry copper deposits in Canada aided Mr. Reeder in the discovery of two porphyry deposits in Peru that resulted in NI43-101 resources, the Aguila copper-molybdenite porphyry deposit and the Pinaya copper-gold porphyry deposit. The Aguila copper-molybdenite porphyry was sold to Peñoles de Mexico in 2014.
Mr. Reeder is currently President and CEO of Peruvian Metals Corporation, a public company that is the single largest shareholder of International Metals Mining Corp with just under 10% ownership.
Carlos Agreda (MBA)
Peru Exploration Team
Mr. Carlos Agreda Minaya is the General Manager for IMM’s Peruvian subsidiary, Empresa Querco SAC, with over 20 years experience managing Canadian junior subsidiaries in Peru.
Mr. Agreda holds an degree in Geological Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, and an MBA from Peru’s highly reputable ESAN Graduate School of Business program in Lima.
Mr. Agreda has extensive experience in all aspects related to mining and exploration in Peru, including permitting, accounting, and community relations.
Mr. Agreda was involved in the grassroots generation of the Panteria Project and currently also serves as the General Manager of Peruvian Metals Corp., a Canadian Junior explorer in Peru with a processing plant located in northern Peru.
Technical Leadership
Carlos Agreda (MBA)
Peru Exploration Team
Mr. Carlos Agreda Minaya is the General Manager for IMM’s Peruvian subsidiary, Empresa Querco SAC, with over 20 years experience managing Canadian junior subsidiaries in Peru.
Mr. Agreda holds an degree in Geological Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, and an MBA from Peru’s highly reputable ESAN Graduate School of Business program in Lima.
Mr. Agreda has extensive experience in all aspects related to mining and exploration in Peru, including permitting, accounting, and community relations.
Mr. Agreda was involved in the grassroots generation of the Panteria Project and currently also serves as the General Manager of Peruvian Metals Corp., a Canadian Junior explorer in Peru with a processing plant located in northern Peru.
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