Management
Ken Lapierre, P.Geo.
President & CEO, Director
Mr. Lapierre is a professional geologist with over 40 years in the precious and base metals business including exploration, mining and finance across the Americas. He previously was the founder and spent seventeen years with Rockcliff Metals Inc., holding various senior roles, including President, CEO and VP of Exploration. He was involved with all aspects of the company including finance, exploration, discovery, growth of resources and the eventual sale of Rockcliff to Hudbay Minerals.
Fraser Laschinger
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Laschinger graduated with an Honours in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in 2006. Mr. Laschinger joined Hemlo Explorers in 2011 and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in 2013. Mr. Laschinger was a co-founder of Mineral Streams Inc., a private mineral royalty company that was sold to AuRico Metals Inc. in 2015. Before joining Hemlo Explorers, Mr. Laschinger worked in equity research for a Canadian investment dealer. Mr. Laschinger also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Voyageur Mineral Explorers Corp.
Dr. Lesley Rose, M.Sc., Ph.D., P.Geo.
Senior Geologist
Dr. Rose has spent over 10 years working on a variety of projects focused on gold exploration in northwestern Ontario. Most recently she was a Mine Geologist at Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo Gold Mine in Marathon, Ontario. Before that she was Chief Geoscientist at Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corporation and ICP-MS Supervisor at Activation Laboratories in Thunder Bay. She has been involved in academic endeavors, first as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, as well as teaching university geology courses and publishing peer-reviewed journal articles on her research.