Kenneth E. MacNeill
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Ken has been with the Company since 1993. As a second generation Saskatchewan mine developer, Ken has an extensive background in all aspects of natural resource exploration and development. Ken is also President, CEO and a Director of Star Diamond Corporation (formerly Shore Gold Inc). Ken has guided Star Diamond through the acquisition and exploration of the Star - Orion South Diamond Project.
Mark Shimell
V.P. of Exploration
Mark, a Professional Geoscientist with a Bachelor of Science degree. Mark graduated from the Royal School of Mines in London, England in 1995 with a Mining Geology Degree and returned in 1999 to complete a Masters program in Petroleum Geosciences and Geophysics. After completing his first degree he joined the geological consulting firm A.C.A Howe International (“Howe”) working out of the U.K. During his time with Howe he worked on a wide variety of international projects providing technical and geographic information system support to a number of senior consultants. Mark spent two years as a geologist in West Africa working on a gold exploration project and a year in Scotland working on a coal bed methane project as a consultant of Howe. Mark is also the Project Manager for Star Diamond Corporation. Mark joined Star Diamond in 2008, after having worked as a Howe consultant on Shore's Star Diamond project for eight years.
Harvey Bay
Director
Harvey's career in the mining industry spans 23 years and includes senior financial positions with several well known mining companies, including Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd., Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corporation, the predecessor company to Cameco Corp as well as Star Diamond Corporation.
Gary Billingsley
Director
A professional engineer and geoscientist with over thirty years of experience in the mineral industry, with a majority of these years in Saskatchewan, Mr. Billingsley has been an officer and director of several public mining and mineral exploration companies during the past twenty years. In addition to uranium and base metal exploration experience, he was directly involved in putting Saskatchewan's largest gold mine into production and played a major role in the discovery of diamond-bearing kimberlite in Saskatchewan on three separate occasions.
Val Michasiw
Director
Executive Assistant to Kenneth MacNeill
Ms. Michasiw has been on the Board of Wescan Goldfields Inc. since April of 2005. She currently is the Administrative Coordinator and Corporate Secretary of Star Diamond Corporation. Previously Ms. Michasiw was the Corporate Secretary-Treasurer of Claude Resources Inc. (now SSR Mining), a publicly traded gold and oil and gas corporation Ms. Michasiw has also worked in the areas of Investor Relations and Corporate Development.