Directors & Management
Meet our team
Robert Hinchcliffe
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Hinchcliffe has over 25 years working in the mining industry and has been directly involved in capital raises and transactions in excess of $600 million. Mr. Hinchcliffe founded Galway Resources in 2005 and went on to raise over $100 million and successfully negotiate the sale to AUX for $340 million and establish two new, well capitalized, spinout companies.
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Prior to that, he worked as Chief Financial Officer of Kirkland Lake Gold, wherein the company raised over $50 million in funds to re-commission the Kirkland Lake Gold Mine. Kirkland Lake currently has a market value of approximately CDN$500 million and produces approximately 150,000 ounces per year. He also worked for seven years on Wall Street as a Mining Analyst for Prudential Securities, SG Cowen, and Santander Investment, covering U.S., International, and Latin American mining companies, in addition to other sectors. Prior to that he spent 4 years working for Jordex Resources in Venezuela where he played a primary role in the identification and then development of a nickel deposit which was later sold for $65 million to Anglo American.
Mr. Hinchcliffe is an active supporter of the Nyack Hospital, Share Africa, the Piagora Social Project and a board memeber of the Dennis P. McHugh Foundation.
Mr. Hinchcliffe has a M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Arizona (with a concentration in Mining & Geology). Mr. Hinchcliffe is also fluent in Spanish.
Robert Suttie
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Suttie currently works with Marrelli Support Services as its senior manager of financial reporting and compliance, possessing more than sixteen years of experience, ten of which were in public accounting prior to his tenure with the company. Mr. Suttie specializes in management advisory services, accounting and the financial disclosure needs of…
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the group’s public client base. In addition to managing the group’s financial-statement and disclosure team, Mr. Suttie also serves as Chief Financial Officer for a number of junior mining companies listed on the TSX and TSX-V, leveraging his skills and experience to become integral to the reporting issuers.
Mr. Suttie graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a BA.
Andreas Curkovic
Director
Mr. Curkovic has spent twenty plus years in the capital markets in asset management, sales, and as a founder of Proconsul Capital, an investor relations and capital advisory firm where he has worked with more than two hundred public companies. Over the years, Mr. Curkovic has developed a unique network of investors across North America. He graduated from McMaster University and successfully completed all 3 levels of the CFA program.
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Before joining Galway, Mr. Gómez was Vice President of Operations for Prodeco and Vice President of Public Affairs of Carbones del Cerrejon, one of the world’s largest coal producers and owner of one of the largest coal mines in the world, producing approximately 35 million tons per year.
Mr. Gómez has a degree in Economics from El Rosario University in Bogota and a Masters in International Commerce from the Rome University in Rome, Italy. Mr. Gómez is also an honorary member of the board of the National Federation of Colombian Miners. In addition to speaking Spanish, Mr. Gómez is fluent in both English and Italian.
Jean-Charles Lemardeley
Director
Mr. Lemardeley has over 25 years of experience in financial markets, with a focus on equity and macro research both on the sell-side and buy-side. After starting his career as a market economist at Societe Generale in New York focusing on the US economy, he worked in equity sales focusing on the US energy and financial sectors before moving on to Latin American equity research.
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Mr. Lemardeley currently leads the global Telecom, Media and Technology sector research effort at Glovista Investments LLC (“Glovista”). Prior to Glovista, he spent 14 years in the Global Equity Research department of JP Morgan in New York and London. Mr. Lemardeley was the Senior Analyst in the Emerging Markets Telecom, Media and Technology sector, focusing on the Latin American and EMEA region. His work has been recognized by Institutional Investor, Extel and Greenwich Associates surveys. He also has extensive experience in commercial real estate and farming. and acting as lead analyst in many equity raises, including many IPOs, in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Lemardeley holds an MBA from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales HEC, Paris, France, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr Lemardeley is a French national and is also fluent in English and Spanish.
Peter Gula
Director
More than 35 years of mining industry experience, Mr. Gula’s career included a 30-year tenure with Placer Dome Inc. (later Goldcorp Inc.), where he held several senior roles, and later he joined North American Palladium Ltd. as the Director of Mining, until the company was acquired by Impala Platinum Holdings Limited, at which time he was appointed the Director of Strategy and Business Planning, and later served as the Vice President Technical Services and Projects.
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Michael Kazikas
Director
The vast majority of Mr. Michael Kazickas career was dedicated to building up a successful commodity trading business that he later successfully sold in 2013. This trading business was based out of New York and was focused on the trading of oil, precious and basic metals. Over the years, Mr. Kazickas built up an extensive network of institutional traders and bankers operating in different areas of the commodity trading arena. Mike initiated his career in the NYBOT futures and later switched the focus to oil and precious metals. Prior to starting his trading business, Mr. Kazickas started a truck rental business and a home decor manufacturing business as well. In recent years Mr. Kazickas business efforts have been focused on proprietary trading portfolio with a focus on value stocks and commodities.
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Mr. Kazickas matriculated at the University of Southern California and has a Bachelors of Arts Degree in English Literature from Wesleyan University in Middletow, CT, and a Masters in Business Policy from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Lastly, Mike is a board member of the Kazickas Family Foundation whose mission is to create a better world for current and future generations of Lithuanian Americans. Mike is also a board member of Academy of Holy, a Catholic High School located in New Jersey dedicated to the education of young women.