Management Team

Management Team

Rod Husband, P.Geo

President, CEO, & Director

Mr. Husband is a Professional Geologist with over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration and project evaluation. He is a founder of Cipher Research, providing independent geological and management consulting to mining companies and investors. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Dr. Natalie Pietrzak-Renaud, P.Geo, PhD

Technical Consultant

Natalie Pietrzak-Renaud is a professional geologist with more than 25 years of experience in gold exploration and resource development across Canada. She has held senior technical and management roles including VP Exploration with junior exploration companies, specializing in orogenic gold systems and structurally controlled deposits. She is a Qualified Person for gold and Rare Earth Element deposits.

Natalie is recognized as an expert on the Hawkins Gold Project, where she has led geological interpretation, targeting, and resource evaluation. Her work has been instrumental in advancing the McKinnon Zone and identifying new opportunities along strike and at depth. Natalie is also a founding Director and Senior Geologist with Renaud Geological Consulting Ltd. and founding director of Critical Minerals Innovation Group Inc. where Natalie has led and advanced exploration projects through early-stage development. Several projects she has been involved with include Fruta del Norte, Equador, Matilde, Cerrito and Butia of Lavras Gold, Brazil, as well as Hawkins Gold Project, Nechalacho and Strange Lake of Canada.

She holds an PhD in Geology and is a registered Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) in Ontario

Mark Richardson, M.Sc., P.Geo.

Technical Consultant

Mark Richardson is a professional geologist with more than a decade of exploration experience across Canada, with a focus on structural geology and gold deposits. He has held senior roles with several exploration companies, including Exploits Discovery, Labrador Gold, Gold Terra Resource, and GeoVector. Mark is also the President and Principal Geologist of Axis Geoscience Ltd., where he specializes in transforming early-stage ideas into successful exploration opportunities.

At Exploits Discovery, Mark has previously served as Senior Geologist and Consulting Geologist, contributing to target generation, drill program design, and field leadership. His prior work includes advancing discoveries at Labrador Gold’s “Big Vein,” Golden Glove, HTC Zone, and Doyle Zone, as well as gold exploration in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt with Gold Terra.

Mark holds both B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees in Geology from the University of New Brunswick, with a specialization in structural geology and ore deposits. He is a registered Professional Geoscientist in Ontario (PGO) and New Brunswick (APEGNB).

Fiona Fitzmaurice

CFO

Ms. Fitzmaurice, is a chartered accountant with over 15 years of experience in accounting and financial control for both private and publicly listed companies. She has significant experience as CFO for exploration companies and has been involved in numerous private placements, prospectus filings, flow-through financings and corporate audits. Ms. Fitzmaurice holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland.