Board of Directors 
C. Fraser Elliott, B.A., B. Comm., Executive Chairman
Since 1987, Mr. Elliott has been the President of CFE Financial Inc., a private investment banking company. From January 1, 2005, Mr. Elliott was Chief Financial Officer of Tangarine Payment Solutions Corp. a public company, which he listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. He arranged the successful sale of the business in March 2009. He was Chief Financial Officer of Ritchies Inc., a private company in the business of auctioning art and other artifacts. From 1998 to 1999, he was VP - Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Vital Retirement Living Inc., a public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. He has been a director of VRL since 1998. He is presently a director of one other public company, Sylogist Inc., listed on the TSX Venture exchange.
Mr. Elliott holds a degree in B.A. (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario and B. Comm. (Accounting) from the University of Windsor.
Ewan Mason, MBA, Director & Chair of the Audit Committee
Mr. Mason was formerly head of mining investment banking at a large Canadian securities firm and has worked in the financial sector for 17 years. Prior to that, he was employed as a geologist with a number of Canadian and international mining companies. Mr. Mason also serves as a director of Scorpion Mining Corporation.
Mr. Mason holds a BSc Honours degree in Geology from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Jeremy Niemi, BSc, Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee
Mr. Niemi is a consulting geologist with more than 15 years experience in the mining/resource industry, both at corporate and operational levels. Mr. Niemi is currently the Director of Exploration for GBU Capital Pty Ltd prior to which he served as Vice President, Geology with Noront Resources. Before joining Noront he was Manager, Technical Services, for Kinross Gold Corporation. He started his career with Inco Technical Services Ltd. in 1996, working on the Victor Deep project in the Sudbury basin.
Mr. Niemi is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and holds a BSc Honours degree in Earth Sciences from Laurentian University.
Larry Phillips, Director and Chair of the Governance Committee
Mr. Phillips was most recently the Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs with IAMGOLD Corporation. Mr. Phillips was one of the original founders of IAMGOLD and served as an officer and Director of the company from 1990 until the company became a public listed company in March 1996 when he held the title of Vice President, Corporate Development. He was primarily responsible for negotiating mining rights acquisitions, government mining Conventions and major joint venture arrangements with other major mining companies. He has worked directly with the CEO and Chairman on all aspects of corporate development and been involved in a number of equity financings for the Company.
Gregory James Romain, President & CEO, Executive Director
Mr. Romain has been involved in the mining and mineral processing industry for over 20 years and will guide Gowest from being involved purely in exploration towards becoming a development and mining firm with producing assets. He has been the President and CEO since 2008 and has overseen the early stages of consolidation and transition.
Most recently, Mr. Romain was President and CEO of a Canadian manufacturing company that sold products exclusively to the global mining industry. Mr. Romain took the company public as an income trust in 2005 and, with the regulation changes to the income trust sector, the company was sold to a private equity group in 2007. Mr. Romain is a native of Timmins, Ontario.