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Upcoming Events
Phoenix Investment Conference & Silver Summit February 4 - 5, 2010 Booth #210 Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa 9495 W. Coyotes Boulevard Glendale, AZ
Calgary Resource Investment Conference April 10 - 11, 2010 Telus Convention Centre 120 9th Avenue Calgary, AB
Saskatchewan Investment Conference May 7, 2010 Saskatoon Inn Hotel and Conference Centre Saskatoon, SK
World Resource Investment Conference June 6 - 7, 2010 Vancouver Convention Centre West 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC
PDAC March 7 - 10, 2010 Booth #3116 Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building Toronto, ON
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Tom MacNeill CFA, CGA, BA(economics): President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the 49 North Resource Funds and managing director of the Funds' portfolio manager, TMM Portfolio Management Inc.
Since 1994 Tom has been the General Manager of BEC International Corporation, a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan based private company that manages pools of private capital dedicated to resource exploration and development with emphasis on Canadian junior resource exploration opportunities but with involvement in projects worldwide.
Tom is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (Economics) with a minor in geology and a Certified General Accountant (CGA). He also completed the Canadian Securities Course (with Honours) in 1987 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). With over 20 years experience in resource investment and corporate finance, Mr. MacNeill's work history includes positions as an investment advisor with a major Canadian brokerage firm, management accountant within the mining industry, Chief Financial Officer of a Canadian trust corporation, as well as extensive resource portfolio management.
Since the early 1990's, Mr. MacNeill's focus has been exclusively toward Canadian junior mining exploration/development opportunities with particular emphasis on Saskatchewan's resource sector.
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Sandip Rana BBA, CA: Chief Financial Officer, and Director. Mr. Rana is currently the Vice President of Corporate Finance for a leading luxury hotel management company based in Canada. He is the former International Controller for Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada. Mr. Rana also worked for Franco-Nevada Mining Limited as Treasurer/Controller and was involved in the three way merger between Franco-Nevada, Newmont, and Normandy Mining.
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Bradley R. Munro B.Comm: Director Mr. Munro has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bittercreek Capital Corporation since May 2006, a private investment and advisory firm, and has been a contractor through Bittercreek Capital Corporation in the role of Vice-President, Investments of Growthwork Capital WV Ltd. and its affiliates since May 2006. Prior to this, Brad was employed as Vice President, Investments of Growthworks Capital Ltd. and its affiliates since September 1991.
Mr. Munro, who holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Saskatchewan and has extensive experience in corporate finance and investment in the oil and gas and other industries, has been actively involved as a director of twenty-one private and public companies. As of January 2008 he was on the boards of five private companies and four public companies, including Bonnett's Energy Services Trust and Galleon Energy Inc., both of which are listed on the TSX, and Fairmount Energy Inc. and Flagship Energy Inc. which are listed on the TSXV. Mr. Munro was also the lead director and chair of the independent committee on the 2007 privatization of CCS Income Trust.
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Stephen P. Halabura : Director, Mr. Halabura is the president and CEO of North Rim Exploration Ltd., a Saskatchewan-based geoscience and mining engineering consulting company. The company's specialty is the geology of potash, coal, hydrocarbons and industrial minerals deposits, mine engineering as applied to potash deposits, and drill program design and supervision.
Mr. Halabura and his firm have provided research and advisement to oil and mining companies, investors, and First Nations since 1984. Mr. Halabura's other business interests include founder of Prairie Hunter Energy Corporation, a Regina based oil exploration and production company, and NuCoal Energy Corporation, a Saskatoon-based coal exploration and development company.
Mr. Halabura obtained his B.Sc. in Geology (Honors) degree in 1980 and his M.Sc. in Geology in 1983 from the University of Saskatchewan. He is past-President of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan and was recently appointed an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Canada. With extensive knowledge of Saskatchewan's economic geology his expertise, is an excellent complement to 49 North's long term strategic vision.
Jeffrey N. Green : Director, Managing Partner of Jovian Asset Management Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corporation. Jovian Asset Management is a holding company which owns Jovian Capital's asset management entities, such as BetaPro Management Inc., Jove Investment Management Inc., Leon Frazer & Associates, Pescara Partners Inc. and TE Investment Counsel Inc. Chairman of Mission Hills Capital Partners, a privately held merchant bank that provides investors with access to private equity and other high growth investment opportunities in China. Mr. Green is also a Director of both Gilead Power Corporation and Niskibi Power Corporation.
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The Portfolio Manager
TMM Portfolio Management Inc. (TMM) is the portfolio manager for 49 North Resource Fund Inc. and each of the 49 North Flow-Through Funds. TMM was organized by Tom MacNeill in 2005 and is registered as a portfolio manager and investment counsel under applicable securities legislation.
As portfolio manager for the Listed Fund, TMM provides advice to 49 North and, subject to the overall power of the board of directors to supervise and manage the company's business, Mr. MacNeill, acting through TMM, manages the 49 North's investment portfolio. The duties and authority of the TMM include identifying, analyzing and selecting investment opportunities in the resource sector; monitoring the performance of resource issuers and, more generally, determining if and when to dispose of securities in the company's portfolio and identifying, analyzing and selecting resource issuers in which the proceeds of any such dispositions may be reinvested.
TMM is paid a quarterly management fee equal to 0.5% of the net asset value of the Listed Fund calculated as of the last business day of the relevant fiscal quarter and is eligible to receive a performance bonus, calculated as of the last business day of each fiscal year, in an amount in respect of each common share that is outstanding as of such day, equal to 20% of the amount, if any, by which the sum of the net asset value per common share as of that date, plus all dividends or other distributions per common share made during that fiscal year, exceeds the net asset value per share as of the last business day of the preceding fiscal year. TMM receives similar compensation from the 49 North Flow-Through Funds.
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