Highly experienced 25 year manager of mining operations with extensive experience in development and growth of companies. A skilled leader and recruiter of talented personnel. Substantial experience in finance, budgeting, environmental, permitting, strategic and business planning. Directly involved in the raising of over $250 million of financing for mining, resource companies.

Energy industry executive with 30 years of international experience managing billion-dollar enterprises. Vice President Operations for Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Chief Operating Officer for Nabors Drilling, Vice President Operations for British Petroleum, Chief Operating Officer for Tervita (Canada's largest Environmental Service Company) and Managing Director for Kazmunaigas, National O&G company of Kazakhstan. Received the Highest Order from the President of Kazakhstan for contributions made to the O&G industry.

Mining finance professional and a Member of SME with over 30 years of international experience. Success in the developing high-performance teams in administration and finance helped to create extraordinary achievement in operations in base metals and precious metals operations in the US, Perú and Venezuela. Mark is fluent in Spanish and proficient in spanish based business contracts and law.

35 years of experience acquiring, financing, and developing mines in North & South America as a metallurgical engineer at Kennecott (Rio Tinto) and in management of leaching projects, and later as a lawyer. Founding President of MAG Silver Corp. and co-founder of International Royalty Corp. Former General Counsel of Bond International Gold involved in the El Indio project in Chile and Former General Counsel and Acting GM of Intermountain Power Agency. Instrumental in over US$600 million in financings for major and junior mining companies in North America, and in over US$9 billion in financings for the utilities industry.

Mining and industrial asset portfolio CFO, Board Member and Industry Leader with extensive hands-on experience leading public and private companies across a broad range of commodities in both OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions with companies such as Rio Tinto and Trafigura’s mining division. Operating and development stage asset experience. Successful stable and distressed mining asset track-record. Extensive experience leading and partnering within executive teams to effectively drive business transformations; accountability, cultural change, cost control and reinvestment. Mining M&A and valuations experience with extensive results-proven >$500m senior secured and unsecured capital market experience including capital raising, credit agreement negotiation and facility management and compliance across North America, South East Asia and Europe. Professional designations and qualifications include Chartered Accountant, Master of Finance and Corporate Governance.

Board Observer, Advisor
Mr. Richards is the president and managing member of Empire Capital Management a boutique investment fund that invests primarily in natural resources and MedTech/Biotech. ECAP provided seed capital to JEX and several follow on investment rounds to support the growth of the company.

Board Observer
Sumitomo Corporation is involved in heap leaching globally. Sumitomo is an investor in JEX Technologies.

Executive Management

PricewaterhouseCoopers alum, with 20 years of experience in the energy sector from small private to multi-billion-dollar market-cap public companies; to include Ultra Petroleum, Earthstone Energy, and Antero Resources. Significant experience in various stages of business growth, development, and day-to-day execution including going public and listings to major stock exchanges.

International Natural Resources lawyer and investment banker with 35 years of mining experience, specialized in Latin America, a graduate of the School of Law of Universidad de Chile, graduate level at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile and at Georgetown University Law Center and the School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.Law, Economics and International Relations. He has worked for Placer Dome Inc), MIM Holdings Pty. Ltd, CODELCO, Franco-Nevada. Familiar with cross-cultural issues affecting cross-border transactions, in the natural resources field in Latin America.

Clent D. Trammell is a seasoned IT leader with 30 years of experience in architecting enterprise networks, systems, security, and operations. He has spent a dozen of those years leading teams in the extractive industries, while the rest of his career has been dedicated to leading projects for Fortune-level companies, Western governments, and NGOs.

Technical Advisors

CTO - JEX Technologies
Inventor | Hydro-JEX
Dr. Thom Seal has a passion for making mining better though innovation. He currently works as a Barrick Professor for Mackay School of Mine at University Nevada-Reno, soon to be Meritus, and has decades of metallurgical and process experience with major mining companies.

Technical Advisor
Former Executive Vice-President of Western States Engineering, VP/Gen Manager of Cyprus/El Abra, General Manager of First Quantum/Kansanshi, Country Manager for QuadraFNX/Chile, CEO of Konkola Copper Mines (Zambia), CEO of CS Mining, and VP/Operations of Southern Peru Copper.

Metallurgical Engineer
Mr. Dittrich has more than forty years of experience in gold and silver process operations and development. He has conducted laboratory development projects for extraction of oxide and refractory gold ores, gold ore flotation process and pilot plant demonstrations. He has ascended through milling and heap leach operations from the foreman level to general manager at operations in the US and overseas. For the past seven years he has been a dedicated force in the development of the Hydro-Jex technology and the construction of the 4G machines, and the deployment and operation of the technology at North American mines. He has also worked in iron ore pelletizing, phosphate rock extraction and production of phosphate, nitrogen, and potassium granulated products for agriculture.

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