Canadian Goldfields Discovery Corp. announced the appointment of Mr. Chris Kinver to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Kinver is a Mining Engineer with over 20 years' experience in the mining industry, predominantly in senior management roles across underground operations and mine development.
He currently serves as Vice President, Projects and Engineering at K92 Mining Inc., where he previously held positions including Project Director for the Kora Expansion and Mine Manager. Prior to joining K92, Mr. Kinver was Project Manager for OceanaGold Corporation's Didipio Underground Mine in the Philippines for approximately three years, where he successfully led the transition of the operation from an open pit mine to a 1.6 Mtpa long-hole stoping underground operation, delivered safely, on time and on budget. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kinver held senior operational leadership roles including Underground Mine Manager with BHP Billiton at the Perseverance Nickel Mine and Underground Mine Manager with Barrick Gold Corporation at the Plutonic Gold Mine in Western Australia.
He also worked as a Principal Engineer with the mining consulting firm Wardell Armstrong LLP. Mr. Kinver holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining and Mineral Engineering) with Honours from the Camborne School of Mines and a First Class Western Australian Mine Manager's Certificate. He has held statutory mine management positions in Australia and holds professional registrations with the Institution of Engineers Australia, the Engineering Institution of Zambia, and the Engineers Registration Board of Tanzania.
Additional to the appointment of Mr. Kinver, the Company announced the appointments of James Burns, Mike Hofer and Mick Carew to a newly formed Advisory Board. Mr. Burns is an experienced business leader and has spent most of his career as a private equity investor, manager of investments and operator. Prior to a former position as CEO and Vice Chairman of a publicly traded Alberta-based company with more than 2,500 employees, he was a partner at the Gordon Investment Corporation whose major shareholders included GE Capital, Kuwait Investment Office, Yasuda Trust and Banking, CIBC and Hutchison Whampoa.
Mr. Burns was also previously Managing Director at Gordon Capital and Managing Director at CIBC Wood Gundy. Mr. Burns experience also includes a past role as Chief of Staff to Canada's Deputy Prime Minister as well as Chair of the Chief of Staffs Committee. He holds a graduate degree from the London School of Economics &Political Science and an undergraduate degree from The Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business.
Mr. Hofer is an environmental professional and the principal of Headlands Environmental, an environmental services company with a track record of success managing a variety of projects for all levels of industry, government and First Nations. While Mr. Hofer's experience is international, his primary focus has been in Canada on large scale environmental, land-use and infrastructure projects in collaboration with First Nations. Dr. Carew is a PhD geologist with over 25 years in the mining sector.
His extensive experience spans major companies like BHP and Ivanhoe Mines, where he focused on exploration across Australia, Canada, and Asia. Dr. Carew was also a mining equity analyst with Haywood Securities. He provides a combination of on-the-ground exploration success alongside extensive project/technical assessment experience and capital market/company analysis.
