Management
Management
Guy Bourassa
CEO
Mr. Guy Bourassa graduated from the Université Laval, Québec, law school in 1983. He was a member of the Quebec Bar from 1983 to October 2011. During his career as an attorney, he has mainly worked with Quebec mining exploration businesses. He was President and Director of Radisson Mining Resources inc. from November 1988 to June 1991. He was also President and director of Dufresnoy Industrial minerals inc. from May 1994 to November 1996, and corporate secretary of Mazarin Mining Corporation inc. from September 1991 to June 1994. He was President and CEO of Monarques Resources inc., from March 2011 to October 2012 and director until April 2020. He has acted as director of Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. from February 2017 to June 2019. He was the founder, director and has acted as President and CEO of Nemaska Lithium Inc. from January 2008 to February 2020.
Pierre Neatby
President & COO
Mr. Neatby has over 30 years of experience in the base and critical metals business. He spent 20 years with Noranda in various commercial roles including aluminum sales on behalf of Noranda and on behalf of Albecour. He spent 9 years at Avalon Advanced Materials focusing on rare earths and critical metals fostering relationships with end users. He has lived and worked in Toronto, London and Madagascar. Mr. Neatby is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, is a trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and is fully bilingual.
Dr. Luc Duchesne
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Duchesne bridges the gap between science and business with over 35 years of experience operating at senior levels in multiple sectors, including pharmaceutical, agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and mining. He has authored and co-authored 85 peer-reviewed scientific articles, literature reviews and books and over 300 non-peer-reviewed and investment articles and op-eds, including one fiction novel. He is passionate about sustainability and the impact of humankind on the environment. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in 1988, an MSc from the University of Toronto in 1985 and a BSc in Forestry Sciences from Laval University in 1983. As a former senior scientist with Natural Resources Canada from 1991 to 2003, he received a 5NR Science Award to Leaders in Sustainable Development for advancing and communicating science for sustainable development.
Isabelle Gauthier, CPA
CFO, Corporate Secretary
Ms. Gauthier has over 20 years of accounting, transactional and reporting experience. She holds a B.A. in Administration from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and has been a member of the Ordre des Comptables professionnels agréés du Québec since 1998. She held the position of Senior Manager within the firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton for which she worked as an Auditor from 1996 to 2006. She has developed an expertise in public companies, primarily in the mining sector. Through her involvement in various assignments, she acquired a solid experience in consolidation of foreign entities, reverse takeover, spin-out and financial reporting.
