Leadership

Blair Naughty

President, CEO & Director

Mr. Naughty has over 30 years of experience as a Securities Broker, a Capital Market Professional, as a Venture Capitalist, a Founder of several companies, and has gained experience in all facets of the private and public markets.

He started his career in increasing roles within a mid-sized Canadian investment brokerage firm named Midland Walwyn before it was acquired by Merril Lynch. He then spent over 5 years at Sprott Securities followed by a position as a market maker/trader at Yorkton Securities, an independent mining-focused brokerage house in Toronto.

Richard Macey

Director

Richard Macey is a businessman who has owned and operated successful private companies for over twelve years. Since 2006, he has worked with several publicly trading companies focusing on corporate governance, public filings, and internal control systems. Mr. Macey has served as a director or officer of Petro One Energy Corp., Alchemist Mining Inc., Touchdown Resource Inc. and Windfire Capital Corp.

Glen Wallace is President of Compliance Solutions Inc., a company focussing on securities compliance for Canadian and U.S. public companies for more than 20 years. He is a Chartered, Professional Accountant and was a partner in the Victoria public practice firm of Austin Chan & Wallace. He earned an MBA degree from Laurentian University and holds advanced specialty certificates in securities fraud analysis and forensic and investigative accounting from UBC.

Glen Wallace, MBA, CPA, CGA

Chief Financial Officer

John Moraal, P.Eng.

Director

Mr. Moraal – one of Great Thunder’s largest shareholders – is the former owner and manager of Cope Construction, a heavy civil engineering construction firm established in the 1890s in Sarnia, Ontario. Cope Construction focuses on the construction of cogeneration plants, refineries, automotive parts facilities, and large government and commercial infrastructure projects.

Under Mr. Moraal’s leadership, Cope has become a vertically-integrated company with its own aggregate, asphalt, concrete and transportation divisions. Mr. Moraal holds a B.Sc. degree in Geology from the University of Windsor and a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from the University
of Guelph.

Mr. Anderson has 30 years experience as owner operator with heavy civil construction and surface mining operations in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. His engineering companies have completed projects with the Bureau of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, FEMA and Federal Aviation Administration for Airport Construction, including Stat and USA Federal Highway Asphalt Paving and Bridge Projects.

Mr. Anderson served as Consultant to the Mei Hua Association of Taiwan for mining, engineering and project procurement. Mr. Andersen holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and Master’s Degree in Business Management and Fine Arts.

Dale Anderson

Independent Director

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