An experienced team

Mr. Cohen is President of the Company since May 8, 2013. Mr. Georges Cohen began his career in the Cap Gemini Group where he held several positions including Commercial Engineer, Sales Director, Managing Director and President and Chief Executive Officer of a major subsidiary of the Cap Gemini Group. In 1990, Mr. Cohen left Cap Gemini and founded Transiciel (SSII) where he became the President and Chief Executive Officer founder. In 2000, Transiciel became public and, in 2001, Transiciel was granted the “Trophy of the decade for the best company” by the firm Bain. The selection was made over a total of 278,916 companies based on growth, profitability and sales revenue criteria. In 2003, Transiciel merged with Sogeti in Cap Gemini. Member of the executive committee of the Cap Gemini (110,000 engineers) and President and Chief Executive Officer of the new Sogeti-Transiciel set, (over 25,000 employees), Mr. Cohen supervised this merger during 2 and a half years and eventually left the group to engage in personal activities of private equity for which he has become very diversified in his business. For example, he founded Altergaz, which in a very short time rose to number 2 in natural gas distribution throughout France and he owned the Panhard Company, which is the European leader in small tanks under 15 tons. Mr. Cohen has been President of the Company since May 8, 2013.

Mr. Benjamin Cohen began his career as captain of a yacht and sailing team in international competitions at Olympic level, this gave him a great team spirit and sense of competition. He has solid experience of high technology in many areas. General Manager for 6 years in a construction Company in Grenada in the Caribbean comprising an average of 200 employees, he developed a private island to the highest European standards. This gave him experience in the management and construction fields, as well as in the use of many related technologies (electricity, telecommunications, and transportation). He then continued to manage many assets and investments made under the Cohen Group. Mr. Cohen has been Chief Executive Officer of the Company since February 7, 2019.

Mr. Augustin Rousselet is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for Robex Gold since 2013. He is also Chief Financial Officer of the Fairchild Investment Fund, held by Groupe Cohen, since 2010. He has been the Founder Chief Executive Officer of ARCIM, MLB Conseil, MLB Immobilier, Paseosoft, ABAQUE, Fidelio, Armature Diffusion and iEurop. During his years as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer for iEurop, he became a financial and scientific advisor, as well as a consultant, for a group of 20 companies, as a researcher accredited by the French ministry of research. He is a Mechanical Engineer and has a diploma in Electronics Engineering from ENSEM.

Mr. Nicolas Ros de Lochounoff is the Legal Director of Robex Resources since 2013. He has also been the Legal Director of Fairchild Participations, an investment fund, for the last 12 years. He worked as a Legal Director for Panhard General Défense, provider of armoured military vehicles, for 3 years. He was the Legal Director and Human Resources Director for Alten, an engineering services company, for 1 year. He occupied the role of Legal Director at Transiciel and then at Sogeti, two high technology services companies, for 10 years. He was a Member of the Board of Directors for Altergaz, a gas distributor, before its merger with ENI. He was the Deputy Legal Director of Sligos and then Atos, two companies providing IT services, engineering sciences, and industrial production of processor cards, for 8 years. He is also technical assistant to statutory auditors. He graduated as a Lawyer from the Paris Panthéon Sorbonne University. He has a postgraduate degree in Business and Economic Law; he is therefore Master of Law, Business Law and Legal Professions.

Mr. Julien Cohen is a graduate of the Institute of superior management in Paris and worked for two years for Danone International as a management controller. It was therefore since the year 2000 that he played an important role as Chief Financial Officer of the Cohen Group.

Mr. Robert Godbout has been the General Manager of the Nampala mine and the Vice Chief Operating Officer Robex Gold since 2017. In the early 1980s, he began his career in the mining industry working in a metallurgy-polymetallic-process plant. He experienced more than 10 commissioning of greenfield mines in Canada, Africa, and South America. He was selected as Barrick Gold’s operating system element for the continuous improvement of the production and recovery engineering program. He was the Corporate Director, Health and Safety Executive and business system administrator for HRG Management. He was Health and Safety auditor for number of mines around Europe, in Africa and in the Oceanic region. He was the founder of the first northern mining training program at James Bay in Canada, and he was Director of the mining training development and social program. He is certified from the Courageous Leadership organization. He has a mineral treatment diploma, he is ISO 45001 certified as Mining Operation Manager, he is OIT certified (SSE world organization work), he has a mobile equipment competencies diploma, a university health and safety diploma, he has certified health and safety competencies in construction, and he is certified as a TapRooT and ICAM investigator.

Mr. Richard R. Faucher has over 40 years of experience in the mining and metallurgical fields and he has occupied various executive positions for the Noranda-Falconbridge group, as General Manager of Gaspe Copper Mines, Vice-President of Brunswick Mining & Smelting and President of Falconbridge Dominicana in the Dominican Republic. After leaving Noranda, Mr. Faucher acted as President & COO of Princeton Mining Corp. and was instrumental in raising funds for the development and construction of the Huckleberry mine project, a 20,000 tonnes per day operation completed in 1997. In 2008, Mr. Faucher left his position as President & CEO of Canadian Royalties. He is now involved in activities of M&A (Merger & Acquisition) and sits on the boards of public companies. Mr. Faucher has graduated in Metallurgical engineering from Laval University (cum laude 1971) and a certified member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).

Mr. Claude Goulet holds a certificate in sales and a certificate in organizational management from University Laval. He has been a member of the Order of Chartered Administrators since 1985. In 2003, he was promoted to Regional Director for Eastern Quebec at Manulife Bank and has been retired since May 2014.

Mr. Michel Doyon has over 20 years of senior management experience in the food processing industry. He served as Chief Executive Officer for Pom Bakery and Executive Vice-President of Maison Cousin. During that period, he also sat on the boards of Multi-Marques Inc. and Ben’s Bakery in Nova Scotia. From 2004 to 2012, he was President of Alaska Beverages Inc., a spring water bottler, and from 2008 to 2016, General manager of Fondation Godefroy-Laviolette, a non-profit organization for social insertion in enterprise. Since 2012, he has been President of RPL Group, a company specialized in complete after disaster recovery.

Mr. Christian Marti has over 40 years of experience as a senior executive in developing and managing mining projects in North America, Africa, Central America and Asia for a wide range of minerals. He was project manager and consultant for SNC Lavalin for a feasibility study for Canadian Royalties Inc.’s Nunavick nickel mine project (2005-2006), General Director of Nuiphaovica Mining Joint venture (a 70% owned subsidiary of Tiberon Minerals Ltd.) in Vietnam (2006-2007). He was from 2008 to 2015, director of Business Development-Mining Industry for WSP Group. From 2015 to 2017, he was Technical advisor for Mining and Metal activities for Tetra Tech consulting firm. Mr. Marti is a mining geologist, member of the Quebec Order of Engineers.