Mission

We seek to acquire, develop, and exploit natural resource properties with extensive reserves of precious metals, including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, as well as base metals, including copper, zinc, lead, molybdenum, etc.

Strategy

Our business plan is based on the Generative Business Model, which is designed to leverage our properties into near-term revenue streams even during the earliest stages of exploration and development. This provides our shareholders with multiple opportunities to profit from discoveries while preserving our capital and minimizing the risk involved in exploration and development.

Management

Perry Leopold – President & CEO, Chairman

Perry Leopold, the Company’s President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, has led a number of successful enterprises over the past 25 years in a diverse number of fields, ranging from the arts and technology to finance and natural resources. In February 2006, Mr. Leopold was engaged as CEO to engineer the company's total corporate restructuring and lead its re-emergence as the natural resources company formerly known as Enterayon, Inc.   Mr. Leopold subsequently designed the company's generative business model and incorporated state-of-the-art technology to assist in cost-efficient acquisition targeting, which has resulted in over 50 acquisitions of high-quality mining properties throughout British Columbia. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Leopold is also the founder and President of Speebo Inc., a privately-owned exploration and development company. In addition, he is currently serving as President of Circular Logic, Inc, a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) firm specializing in commodity trading system development.

 

Fred Michini - Director

Mr. Michini is a tax, financial, management accounting and litigation support specialist, and has extensive previous experience serving as the Chief Financial Officer of a variety of public and private companies, including Speebo Inc., a private exploration and development company currently controlled by North Bay's CEO. Mr. Michini is also a Certified Public Accountant, has been Partner and Managing Partner of two regional accounting firms, has served as an auditor for the U.S. General Accounting Office, and is a former Board Member of the Central Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Michini earned his B.S. from LaSalle University and his MBA from Temple University.

 

Consultants

C. Gary Clifton, P.Geo

Mr. Clifton holds degrees in Geology and Geochemistry from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, with post-graduate studies in Geochemistry at UC Berkeley and Oregon State University. As a Registered Professional Geologist, Mr. Clifton has almost 40 years of experience with several major mining and petroleum companies, and as an independent consultant in mining exploration and exploration management, mineral property evaluation, and mining geology. He has conducted and managed exploration and evaluation programs for a wide variety of mineral commodities in the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. Mr. Clifton is currently President of Western Resource Group LLC, and is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

Theodore A. DeMatties, P.Geo

Mr. DeMatties holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Geology from the State University of New York in Oneonta, and has also done graduate work in Geology at Oregon State University. As a Registered Professional Geologist, Mr. DeMatties is a seasoned exploration geologist with over 34 years of experience in the US and Canada, and is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Recent projects include managing an advanced multimillion dollar copper-nickel-PGM project in northeastern Minnesota, consulting on several gold, iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) properties in Nevada, and on volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) properties in North America. Prior to these engagements, he was a consultant to WMC Exploration and Falconbridge U.S. on copper-nickel-PGM exploration programs in the upper Midwest, and INCO for an iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) project in the western U.S.

William S. Watters, P.Eng

Mr. Watters holds a B.S. degree in Mining Engineering from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada-Reno, and was the Senior Mine Engineer at the Ruby Mine when the Ruby was last in operation in 1998. More recently, Mr. Watters was the Chief Mining Engineer at the Idaho-Maryland Mine in Grass Valley, CA, and is presently the Chief Inspector/Engineer at the New Irvington Tunnel Project in San Francisco. In addition to being a Registered Professional Engineer (Civil, CA; Mining, WY), Mr. Watters is a Mine Rescue Team Trainer, has a California Safety Representative License, and is a Mine Safety and Health Administration ("MSHA") Trainer (blue card).

Thomas J. Knoch, P.Eng, P.Geo

Mr. Knoch is a California State Registered Professional Geologist, Certified Engineering Geologist, Certified Hydrogeologist, and Registered Environmental Assessor. Mr. Knoch holds B.S. degrees in Mining Engineering (1982) and Geological Engineering (1986) from the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to being the principal of GeoSolutions, Mr. Knoch has extensive experience in the underground mining of mesothermal/epithermal type gold vein deposits, mine plant design, supervision/scheduling of mining operations, and underground development work. Mr. Knoch is currently serving as the SMARA mine inspector for Nevada County, California, and is also registered as a professional geologist in the states of Arizona, Missouri, and Kansas.