Mr. Mason has extensive experience in corporate financings, restructuring and advisory work. He has worked as a contract geologist for a number of mining companies. Following receipt of his MBA he was employed by Richardson Greenshields (which was acquired by RBC Dominion Securities), rising to the role of Managing Director with RBC. During his tenure at RBC, Mr. Mason spent two years in London England, initiating global coverage of mining conglomerates around the world. Following his time at RBC, Mr. Mason was recruited by TD Securities to start up and head the re-launch of a mining investment banking team. Clients which Mr. Mason brought to TD in lead relationships include amongst others Xstrata plc, BHP Billiton,Vale, Votorantim, Buena Ventura, IAMGOLD, Gammon Gold, Jaguar Mining, HudBay Minerals, Northgate Minerals, Equinox Minerals, Eurozinc and International Minerals. Since leaving TD, Mr. Mason has served as a director for mining and exploration companies. He is currently the owner, officer and director of private corporations that are engaged in retail, inventory management and personal training and wellness.
SVP, Corporate Development at Star Diamond Corporation
Mr. Read is a diamond exploration geologist with over 39 years of international experience. After
graduating in geology and geochemistry from the University of Cape Town (BSc. Hons., 1983), Mr. Read
joined De Beers in South Africa. During his 12 years with De Beers, he worked on a wide spectrum of
diamond exploration projects in Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, Mali and
Tanzania), in addition to Canada and Brazil. Mr. Read came to Canada as a Landed Immigrant in early
1997 and worked as a consultant for several companies in Alberta, NWT, Nunavut, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, in addition to projects in Greenland and Brazil. Mr. Read commenced
with Star Diamond Corporation in late 2003 and since that time has led the team responsible for the
exploration and evaluation of the Fort a la Corne kimberlites. During his career of almost four decades,
he has encountered and solved many of the diverse problems associated with diamond exploration and
evaluation programs. Mr. Read is a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada and a Professional
Geoscientist in the Provinces of Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Mr. Read became a citizen of
Canada in September 2005.
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. Speaker 1: Welcome Speaker 1: to the 2024 Speaker 1: Annual General and special meeting Speaker 1: of shareholders of Star Diamond Corporation. Speaker 1: My name is Ewan Mason. I'm the chair, president and CEO Speaker 1: of the corporation and in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation, I will assume the position of chair Speaker 1: for this meeting. Speaker 1: We have quite Speaker 1: a contingent Speaker 1: of people joining us virtually as well as you people in in in person, so appreciate you all coming out. I'd like to. Introduce a few people in the audience today, but I would like to say that most of our directors didn't make the journey today for cost savings reasons, Speaker 1: and they are online. Speaker 1: That would be Larry Phillips and Marilyn Spink. Lisa Riley's here in town on other business, so she's joining us in person today. But in terms of staff here, we have the lovable George Reed sitting right up front here. You probably all know him. Mark Schimel, VP Exploration, Speaker 1: right there. Speaker 1: And we have also with us today Rick Johnson, Chief Financial Officer. Rick, where are you? Okay. Nelson Caroon, Speaker 1: Diamond Specialist extraordinaire, Speaker 1: as well as Deb Bennett, I believe, who keeps track of everything for us. Thank you, Deb. And of course, without Val, we'd be nowhere. Wherever Val is, Speaker 1: thanks Val for putting this all together. Speaker 1: So in addition, we have John Pringle of Mercutire LLP, Speaker 1: who will be acting today Speaker 1: as a Speaker 1: legal counsel to us at the corporation, making sure everything's in hand. Speaker 1: I propose to deal with the formal aspects of the meeting now Speaker 1: following which management will speak on the activities an...
