About Rush Gold Corp.
Rush Gold is an American focused mining exploration company intent on advancing its Skylight gold property, located in the Republic Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, in the United States of America.
The Company will utilize economic geology and methodology, employ a capital disciplined and staged approach to minimize risk while also assessing and monitoring for accretive growth opportunities in this district.
Management
Anthony Zelen
CEO, Director
Mr. Anthony Zelen is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the public markets, bringing extensive expertise in finance, investor relations, sales, and corporate development. He is the co-founder of Mindshare Communications Inc. and Senergy Communications Capital Inc., both of which specialized in investor and public relations, social media, and strategic marketing for publicly traded companies across a wide range of sectors, including technology, crypto, cannabis, pharmaceuticals, mining, and oil & gas.
Throughout his career, Mr. Zelen has served as an officer and director for more than 18 publicly listed companies. His deep involvement in the venture capital space has allowed him to build a strong international network of market supporters, accredited investors, family offices, and investment banking professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Mr. Zelen has also co-founded and advised over a dozen startup ventures, most notably BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (TSX: BIGG), which achieved a peak market capitalization of over $900 million. His proven track record of leadership, innovation, and capital markets insight continues to add significant value to the companies he is involved with.
Inez Ho
CFO, Corporate Secretary
Mr. Ho brings over 12 years of experience in finance and accounting, primarily within publicly listed companies. She began her career in the mining industry and has since advanced through senior finance roles across a range of sectors. Her areas of expertise include corporate compliance, financial reporting and management, as well as advisory services for initial public offerings (IPOs) and reverse takeovers (RTOs). Ms. Ho currently serves as Senior Manager at Zeus Capital, where she also holds Controller and Chief Financial Officer roles for several companies. Prior to this, she was Finance Manager at Zepp Health. She is a CPA, CGA, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, where she majored in Mathematics and minored in Economics
Board of Directors
Rob Birmingham
Director
Mr. Birmingham has over 15 years of capital markets experience in the mining and technology sectors, with a focus on corporate development, M&A, go-public transactions and capital raising. Mr. Birmingham is currently the President & CEO of Pace Metals Inc., Director of BIGG Digital Assets, and holds multiple other board seats. Mr. Birmingham is the President of investor relations company Benaterra Communications Inc. and has been on the board of numerous TSX.V, CSE and CBOE Canada listed Companies. Mr. Birmingham holds a BBA from Capilano University.
Simon Tso
Director
Simon is the Principal of Athena Chartered Professional Accountant Ltd., a full-cycle accounting firm that assists both private and public companies with their financial reporting, regulatory filing, and taxation requirements, commonly as their Controller or Chief Financial Officer. Simon is also a co-founder of Zeus Capital Ltd., a boutique corporate finance firm that specializes in providing financial advisory, valuation and consulting services. Prior to his current roles, Simon spent a number of years as an Associate at a local corporate finance firm and as a Senior Accountant at a firm of Chartered Accountants. Simon graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) degree with honours from the UBC Sauder School of Business, and is both a CFA Charterholder and a Chartered Professional Accountant.
Kristopher J. Raffle
B.Sc., PGeo. // NI43-101 Qualified Person + Director
Mr. Raffle brings 25 years Canadian and international base and precious metals mineral exploration experience. He is a Partner, Principal Geologist and Vice President Field Operations with the leading Edmonton-based geologic consulting firm, APEX Geoscience Ltd. In addition, Mr. Raffle is a current director of Monumental Energy Corp. and Rex Resources Corp. and has held past director roles at Defense Metals Corp., and New Placer Dome Gold Corp. He has extensive experience conducting project evaluations, exploration program design, data analysis, and geological modelling, with respect to Archean and Carlin-type-gold, copper-gold-porphyry, gold-silver-epithermal, volcanic-hosted-massive-sulphide, and rare-earth-element deposits throughout Canada, USA, and Mexico.
Advisors
Steven Pearce
Diverse Capital
Established in 2014, Diverse Capital was founded by Steven Pearce who has more than 25 years experience in the Stock Broking, Fund Management and Capital Markets Industry. Steven has worked in multiple jurisdictions across the globe including Australia, UK, Cayman Islands and Singapore. Having worked over the years for both small and large stockbroking firms and a number of global investment banks, Steven saw a gap in the market to assist growth companies to reach their full potential. Steven has been involved in numerous capital raisings and public listings of growth companies on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), Singapore Stock Exchange (Catalist), Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX-v), Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) and SIX Swiss Exchange (Switzerland). Steven currently serves as a director for a number of private and public companies on both the TSXV and CSE in Canada. Steven is currently based in Singapore.