Patrick Forward

Patrick was most recently Chief Operating Officer for Euromax Resources. Prior to Euromax, Patrick was VP, Projects & Exploration at European Goldfields, where he was responsible for operations at the StratoniMine in Greece and the development of the Skouries and Olympias projects in Greece, and the Certej project in Romania through feasibility work, basic engineering, and financing. In addition, Patrick was responsible for European Goldfields’ exploration properties in Romania, Greece and Turkey, and the growth and compliance of its resource and reserve base. In the early 1990s, he managed exploration projects in Europe, Ghana and Venezuela before spending five years in Burkina Faso managing exploration programmes including the discovery of Semafo Inc’s 2.8 Moz Mana deposit. Patrick is also specialised in geological due diligence, resource estimation, the application of GIS systems to exploration projects and deposit evaluation, and is a Qualified Person with respect to NI 43-101 reporting.