John Arnold, CPA, CA BA – Director

Mr. Arnold is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Chartered Accountant. He has been a founding member of a number of successful companies, primarily in the natural resource sector, over the past 40 years. He has been an officer and/or director of Queenston Mining Inc. (TSX) Thundermin Resources Ltd (TSX)and predecessor companies, X-Cal Resources Ltd. (TSX) Cullaton Lake Gold Mines Inc. (TSX) Cobra Emerald Mines Inc. (LSE) and Newport Gold Inc. (OTC). He is the past non-executive chairman of a well-known University of Toronto affiliated research-based advanced reproductive technology clinic in Toronto. He has served on a variety of not-for-profit boards including as Governor of St. Margaret's Girls School (Elora), Governor of St. John's Kilmarnock School, Director of the Windermere Golf & Country Club, Director of the Riverbrink Art Museum and currently is a director and treasurer of the Weir Foundation and Craft Ontario.

Anthony M. McCabe, CPA, CMA, Bcomm – Director

Mr. McCabe is a graduate of University of Toronto and a Chartered Accountant. He is a Finance Professional with 15+ years’ experience in the consumer-packaged goods, travel, logistics and financial services industries with a focus on information technology and finance. His background includes experience in both privately held multinational and publicly traded companies in North America

Dr. Eric J. Reardon, International Scientific Advisor

Eric Reardon is a recently retired professor of Geochemistry from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S. After receiving the Nova Scotia Mining Society Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in 1969, he began graduate studies in the college of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. A year later, he passed a candidacy exam to enter directly into a PhD program. He studied Low-Temperature Aqueous Geochemistry under Dr. Donald Langmuir in the Department of Geosciences. After receiving his PhD in 1974, Dr. Reardon was appointed Assistant Professor of Mineralogy in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He became an integral part of the newly-developed Hydrogeology program at the time, developing a research program, and undergraduate and graduate courses in Mineralogy, Aqueous Geochemistry and Applied Thermodynamics. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and Full Professor in 1987. During his years at Waterloo, he served two terms as Associate Department Chair and five years on the Board of Directors of the Waterloo Center for Groundwater Research. He also served as Associate Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta from 1987 to 2001. During his career, he took leaves of absence from University of Waterloo to work with researchers at the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, CA; the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA; the British Geological Survey in London England; the Department de Geologie at Université de Laval, Quebec; the Oregon Graduate Institute in Beaverton, OR; and the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA. He currently has 90 refereed journal publications, and 70 contract research reports, symposium proceedings or newsletter articles. His area of research and scope of publications have ranged from Ore Deposits and Exploration; Waste Management and Remediation; Aqueous Geochemistry and Thermodynamics; and Cement and Concrete Research.

Lazarus Saidakovsky, M.Sc., P. Eng., Science Advisor

• - Patent holder of two US Cavitation Patents
• - Scholarly Degrees cum-laude in Applied Moths and Computer Sciences from The St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
• - Professional Engineer (over 35 years), Ontario Association and Canadian Society for professional Engineers, long standing membership with IEEE;
• - Member of PDAC (Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada)
• - Engineering research & development, Design Laboratories of Bio-Med Cybernetics
• - Senior systems analysis and project management with the leading Soviet software powerhouse
• - Systems analysis and management with various software houses in GTA
• - Director, software development division of the major Canadian computer manufacturing entity
• - IT Executive with Canada’s largest Construction Technology, Property Management and Real Estate Development company
• - Director of and principal executive in the Ontario R&D company (the PDAC corporate member), engaged in development, promotion and implementation of new, eco-friendly processes and technologies in the fields of alternative energies, mining mineral and fuel refineries, waste management and maintaining intellectual property rights
• - Author of several patents in Cavitation and Turbulent flow dynamics

Sergey Rakhinskiy, M.Sc., Science Advisor

• - Science papers on methods of creating metal alloys with advanced high-tech characteristics, co-authored engineering patents in various technological fields in Moscow, Russia
• - Senior engineering and advisory positions with R&D Academic Institutions, Federal Industrial Ministries and multinational
• - Senior technical consultant for various federal international trade agencies
• - Corporate Chief Executive, manufacturing and (international) trading of rare metal ligatures, proprietary, state-of-art alloying compositions, and ferroalloys in Toronto, Ontario
• - Developer of Technologies for the recovery of Rare metal mining operations overseas – extractions, refinery and international trade
• - Vice-president and director of the Ontario R&D company (the PDAC corporate member), engaged in development, promotion and implementation of new, eco-friendly processes and technologies in the fields of alternative energies, mining mineral and fuel refineries, waste management and maintaining intellectual property rights
• - Author of several patents in Cavitation and Turbulent flow dynamics

Nikolai Novikov, Ph.D., Senior R&D Advisor

• - Over 25 years of scientific development and engineering. Engineering Diploma cum-laude in Aviation Engineering from the State Academy of Aviation Technologies
• - Post-graduate studies and doctorate degree in aerodynamics and aircraft engines.
• - Over 120 scientific publications
• - Author of 25 patents and Intellectual property certificates
• - Participating member of the multiple International Investment - Innovation Forums in Moscow
• - Winner of 9 international awards in science and technology
• - Professorial tenure at the Rybinsk State Academy of Aviation Technologies. Faculty of Aviation Engine Sciences. Teaching senior courses on hydro-aerodynamics; aviation engines; energy sources and technologies Conakry, Guinea
• - University of Conakry professorship
• - Teaching courses in aircraft technologies and energy
• - Rybinsk, Russia: Continued professorship at the Rybinsk State Academy of Aviation Technologies
• - Toronto leading a team of engineering scientists in R&D for environmentally sound technological applications (waste management systems, clean energy productions, renewable and sustainable sources of energy, et al)
• - Senior technical adviser and consultant for various Federal Industrial Ministries and agencies.