Our Company

Board of Directors

 
Guy Morissette
Position: CEO and Chairman of the Board
As owner of a mining contracting company Mr. Morissette has been involved in Canadian mining for over 30 years. He has founded and developed several mining exploration companies. From 1993 to 1996, he held the position of President at Silver Star Resources Inc., which later became Perlite Canada Inc. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Morissette was President of Golden Gram Resources Inc., which became Golden Gram Capital Inc. He was President of Cristobal Resources with would be become Netgraphe and bought out by Quebecor. He also founded Essor Resources, Canaco Resources and Eider Resources; Eider would become Noveko International. Mr. Morissette is also President of Vantex's sister company Vanstar Mining Resources Inc. He has been President of Vantex Resources Ltd since November 2004.

 
Jean-Pierre Colin, DCS, LL.L., MBA
Position: Mining Executive
Mr. Colin is a Mining Executive and provides corporate strategy consulting services to boards and shareholders of public companies. He is President and Director of Vantex Resources Ltd. (TSXV: VAX), Director of Premier Gold Mines Limited (TSX: PG), Director of Southern Silver Exploration Corporation (TSXV: SSV) and Director of Global Cobalt Corporation (TSXV: PVS). Mr. Colin was an investment banker responsible for corporate finance and M&A from 1980 to 2010, formerly Director and Head of Corporate Finance at Octagon Capital Corporation, an investment banker with Desjardins Securities Inc., Executive Vice-President of Deacon Capital Corporation, and Senior Vice President of Richardson Greenshields of Canada Limited. Mr. Colin was also the founder of JP Colin Securities Inc., a securities dealer focused on corporate finance services to public mining companies. He is a Member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario, a Civil Law Degree from the University of Ottawa and a Certificate in Comparative Law from the University of Manitoba. He is the former Faculty of Arts Co-Chair of the Waterloo Advisory Council of the University of Waterloo, former founder and President of Caratax Management Ltd., the manager of public flow-through share limited partnerships, and a former director of numerous other successful public mining companies in Canada including Wolfden Resources Inc., Pelangio Mines Inc., Virginia Gold Mines Inc., and NIM Management, the manager of over $730 million of flow through funds.

 
Andre Brosseau
Position: Director and Head of Audit and Compensation Committees
Mr. Brosseau is CEO and COO of Avenue Capital Markets Inc., an exempt market dealer founded in 2010 with offices in Montreal and New-York. Mr. Brosseau was President of Blackmont Capital in Toronto until June 2009 and Chairman Quebec Capital Markets until May 2010. For 12 years Mr. Brosseau was with CIBC in different capacities mostly based in Toronto, most recently as Managing Director, Head of Cash Equities and Co-Head of Global Cash Equities at CIBC World Markets where he was involved in some of the most important capital market transactions in Canada. He is also a Director of Midas Medici Inc., a holding company specializing in acquiring and merging IT related companies with operations in New York, North Carolina, Europe and Brazil. He's on the Board of CIMCORP, wholly owned by Midas Medici, an IT company based in Sao Paulo Brazil. Mr. Brosseau is a Director of Aptilon Inc., a web based business solution company specializing in the US healthcare sector and he is also a director of Odesia Inc.

 
Denis Bélisle
Position: Secretary and Director
The Québec Bar Association recognized Mr. Bélisle in 1984. From 1989 to 1993, he was a city councilor for the town of Candiac. Since 1996, he was the General Manager of Legal Affairs and Human Resources for Tele-Quebec. He is been a director of Vantax Resources Ltd the since 2001.

 
Robert Bouvier
Position: Director
Mr. Bouvier is President of Teamsters Canada. A position he has held since January 2000. Mr. Bouvier was one of founding members of the executive committee council of Montreal Teamsters Local 1999. He has been a Director of Vantex Resources Ltd since 2001.

 
Nil Leblanc
Position: Director
Mr. Leblanc was a top performing financial advisor with Scotia McLeod and Desjardins Securities, in Rouyn-Noranda, for more than 25 years. He has always been the advisor with the largest assets under management for these branches. From 1974 to 1986, he was an accountant, assistant manager and manager of a CIBC branch.