Mr. Ryan has twenty-five years of experience in founding and operating natural resource companies. He has founded or co-founded and served in executive or board positions with Cadence Resources Corporation, Metalline Mining Company (now Silver Bull Resources), High Plains Uranium, Western Goldfields, Inc. (which became part of NewGold), U.S. Silver Corporation (now America’s Gold & Silver), Southern Legacy Minerals, Bunker Hill Mining, White Mountain Titanium and others. He has been a senior executive and director of a number of public companies and serves or has served with listed resource companies in the USA, Canada, UK, and Australia. Mr. Ryan holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering from the University of Idaho and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.