Alfred Lenarciak
Position: Chairman & Director
Mr. Lenarciak has an engineering background and possesses more than 20 years experience in the financing and strategic development of natural resource companies. He is the former chairman of Minorca Resources Inc., and is a former director of Unigold Inc.
David Tafel
Position: President, CEO & Director
Mr. Tafel contributes over 20 years of corporate structuring, strategic planning, financing and management experience to the Centurion Minerals team. He is the former CEO of Garson Gold Corp. and has been an officer and director of several TSX Venture Exchange listed companies. Prior to his public company experience, Mr. Tafel managed private investment funds at a major Canadian investment firm.
Ken Cawkell
Position: Director
Mr. Cawkell is member of the Alberta and British Columbia Bar Associations and has over 25 years of experience in both public and private venture capital markets. He co-founded Cawkell Brodie Glaister LLP Business Lawyers in 1987, where he acts as a managing partner and has been extensively involved in all aspects of corporate structuring, finance and securities law. He is an investor and founder of a number of private companies where he has held executive management positions, and currently sits on the board of a number of private and public companies. He is a member of the Securities Law Advisory Committee to the BC Securities Commission.
Joseph Del Campo
Position: Director
Mr. Del Campo is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and is the Chief Financial Officer of First Nickel Inc. Mr. Del Campo began his career with Falconbridge Limited and spent over 19 years working within the Falconbridge group of companies at progressive financial positions, including Controller and Treasurer of Falconbridge Dominicana and Falconbridge Gold Corporation. Over the past 15 years Mr. Del Campo has been a director and Vice-President Finance and CFO of a number of junior exploration companies listed on the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange.
Fred Tumbuan
Position: Director
Mr. Tumbuan resides in Indonesia and is the Senior Managing Partner of Jakarta-based legal firm Tumbuan Pane, and specializes in banking, corporate restructuring, and capital market transactions. He has written and lectured on various aspects of contract, commercial and securities law, and was instrumental in the development of the Indonesian natural resource laws. In addition to being an arbitrator of BANI (Indonesian National Board of Arbitration), he is also an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Center and the International Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Tumbuan studied philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum, India: theology at the Jesuit Theological College, Australia: and law at Universitas, Jakarta
Thomas Mulja, Ph. D., P.Geo*
Position: Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Mulja's professional career covers approximately 20 years of both technical and high-level administrative responsibilities. He is responsible for overseeing the Company's exploration programs as well as contributing to the Company's project acquisition plans, permitting and strategic planning.
Previous experience includes work with East Asia Minerals Corporation, where he was responsible for the acquisition and renewal of the exploration permits of all projects in Indonesia (including the project that hosts the Miwah gold deposit in Aceh), liaising with the local stakeholders and Indonesian authorities, and managing the general operations for EAS in Indonesia. Mr. Mulja also worked in various capacities as a geologist exploring for epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold prospects for several international mining and exploration companies including Minorca Resources Inc. and Barrick Gold Corporation in Indonesia.
Mr. Mulja was born in Indonesia and earned a Ph.D. degree in economic geology from McGill University in Montreal. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of British Columbia.
Adrian Rothwell
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Rothwell has been providing financial consulting, management and controllership services to the mining industry since 1995. He has previously acted as a financial consultant to a number of other publicly-traded companies. As a Chartered Accountant he offers many years of professional accounting, public practice, and industry specific expertise. Mr. Rothwell is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, Canada and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia. He is also the CFO for Kiska Metals Corporation.
Thomas Dott, B.Sc.
Position: Project Manager
Mr. Dott has recently been appointed to oversee all exploration and drilling work on the Banda Raya project. Mr. Dott's career, which spans 16 years, has been primarily spent on porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold deposits including those at Frieda, Porgera, and Tolukoma in Papua New Guinea. Most recently he designed and managed the drilling program of porphyry copper-gold prospects in Aceh Province, Indonesia for East Asia Minerals Corp. Mr. Dott received a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Papua New Guinea.
Koiti Mel, B.Sc.
Position: Chief Geologist
Mr. Mel is responsible for leading field exploration activities. His 17 years of experience covers early exploration prospects to feasibility stage activities on epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold projects, including the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea. Mr. Mel holds a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Geology from the University of Papua New Guinea.
* Is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101
