Mr. Radvak received a Mining and Mineral Process Engineering Degree (1986) from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Radvak is a co-founder, and past Chief Executive Officer of Response Biomedical Corporation, a publicly listed medical device company that develops and commercializes rapid immunoassay diagnostic tests for use with their proprietary RAMP System for a broad array of clinical and non-clinical applications. Mr. Radvak led the Response Biomedical from its evolution to a 90-employee company and raised in excess of $50 million in public offerings.
Mrs. Meyer is well experienced in the mining industry and is a Member of the Association of the Certified General Accountants of British Columbia and Canada. She brings to the Company her experience as Vice President, Finance of Queenstake Resources Ltd., a Canadian gold mining company, from 1985 to 2003 and a Director until May 18, 2007. While at Queenstake she took part in or led negotiations of joint venture and purchase agreements, equity financings, debt financings and capital acquisitions. In 1996 Mrs. Meyer formed Golden Oak Corporate Services Ltd. and she acts as Chief Financial Officer and/or Corporate Secretary of several publicly traded mining companies and her company provides those clients with administrative, accounting and compliance services.
Mr. Pilz is a co-founder of, and assisted in the development of, three private start-up companies. From November 2004 to December 2008, Mr. Pilz served as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Response Biomedical Corporation, a TSX listed and U.S. OTC BB quoted technology company that was one of British Columbia's fastest growing technology companies during the period, as published by Deloitte & Touche and Business in Vancouver. From January 2003 through October 2004, he served as Vice-President of Finance of Class Software Solutions Ltd., a private software company in the North American parks and recreation market. Mr. Pilz earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree (finance) from the University of British Columbia in 1989 and received his designation as a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) in 1996.
Dr. Punnett served as a director on the board of Midway Gold Corp. from June 2000 to June 2004, and was also involved in the private, and subsequent public, financing of Oragenics, a U.S. biotechnical start-up company in Florida. He is actively involved in several early stage companies as an investor. Dr. Punnett graduated from the University of British Columbia's dental school in 1984. He is a current member of the Canadian Dental Association, the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C. and the B.C. Dental Association.