Our Team

Our team
Brian C Savage

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Brian has more than 35 years of experience in all aspects of the mining industry. Brian is currently Chairman of Sage Management LLC, a privately held company he formed in 2017 to provide management and operational expertise, financial structuring and business acumen to grow companies involved in the exploration, development, mining, and processing of natural resources. He is Executive Chairman of Impact Metals Corporation, a non-executive director of Amur Minerals Corporation, an AIM listed mineral exploration and development company focused on base metal projects located in the far east of Russia. Brian has served on the board of public and private companies and has a wealth of experience operating in challenging jurisdictions. Brian earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering and his Master of Science degree in Minerals Economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

Andrii Smolin

Head of Representative Office in Ukraine

Andrii Smolin was appointed as a Head of Ukrainian representative office in 2017. Mr. Smolin is responsible for governmental relationship and new businesses in Ukraine, as well as implementation of strategy and investment relationship of Avellana Gold Ltd. Mr. Smolin began his career as a consultant for Ukrainian TAS Group being engaged in management consulting and risk management projects. Starting as investment banker in 2005, he worked as a head of Asset management business of ARTA Investment Management. As a co-founder of the Astrum Investment management and in cooperation with Vertex invest group, Investohills capital he got a track record of over USD 400 mio. closed deals, including fundraising, M&A, distressed debt/special situation projects. At the beginning of 2014, on a non-profit basis, he dedicated his efforts to advise Ukrainian State authority on transformation of mining sector regulation and promoting Ukrainian greenfield projects to international investors.

Tony Lund

Head of Mining projects

Mr. Lund has over 30 years of mining experience in managing projects through the full lifecycle from exploration through financing into production. Mr. Lund is a Mining Director at Lazarus Mining. LM’s team has over 55 years of experience between its core members, as part of that experience 20 years has been on the international mining stage working for over 60 clients and on 5 continents and in over 17 countries. As the Mining Partner LM’s will provide technical support and oversite to the restart process and operations. As part of this role will provide guidance and assistance in the implementation of modern international standard mining methodologies and processes. LM’s has a proven track record in this field having worked for many multi-national companies both in new project implementations, mine restarts, existing mine optimizations and turn arounds to become better financial assets.

Ivan Jagersky

Head of Metallurgy projects

Mr. Jagersky has more than forty years of experience with the gravity and flotation treatment of minerals of non-ferrous metals (Pb, Zn, Cu, Sb, Au, Ag) at various plants throughout Slovakia, which belonged to the portfolio of the state-owned company Rudné bane, headquartered in Banská Bystrica. The last twenty years he was engaged in the processing of gold-bearing ores in the private company Slovenská banska in Hodruša-Hámre, where he became a partner and held the position of technical investment manager, where he gained rich experience in the field of implementation of modern flotation technology for the treatment of polymetallic ores containing precious metals. During this period, he was also engaged in several development projects in Namibia and Ecuador.

Vladislav Trashliev

Head of Geology projects

Vladislav has 30 years of experience in geology, mining and economic evaluation living and working in Africa (Vantage Goldfields Ltd, Pan African Mining (Pvt) Ltd, Falcon Gold Zimbabwe Ltd), Australia (GEOVIA- Dassault Systèmes) , Asia and SE Europe (Minex GmbH, Geotechmin OOD), where he has held number of managerial and executive roles. His core expertise is in structural and economic geology, geostatistics, resource development and mine management across different range of commodities; gold, copper, base metals, iron, PMG, vanadium. He has been responsible for planning and managing large resource development projects and evaluation of new business or acquisition opportunities. He has had several major breakthroughs in his career where profitability have tremendously increased following his advice.

Mykola Gozhik

Chief Geologist

Nikolay Gozhik has more than 40 years of experience in the mining industry. Since 1975 he was involved in the geological exploration works in Carpathian region as a Chief geologist. From 2000 Mr. Gozhik held senior executive positions at a number of Ukrainian mining companies, serving as Deputy Director of Zakarpatpolimetaly LLC, Deputy Director and then Director of Saulyak LLC, Director of development at Carpathian Ore Company LLC. He also served as a Chief geologist at JSC Esan and was involved as a consultant by Gold Fields Limited. Mr. Gozhik personally counted reserves and got approval of State Commission on Mineral Resources on them for Muzhievo gold-polymetallic deposit, Tarasov deposit of ilmenite-zircon ore, Saulyak gold deposit and deposits of non-metals (kaolin, marble). Nikolay has earned his Master degree from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specialty - geological survey and prospecting of mineral deposits.

Charles Beaudry

Geology adviser

Charles Beaudry, M.Sc., P.Geo., géo., is a seasoned mining executive with over 35 years’ experience in project generation, business development, exploration geochemistry and international project management. He has been involved in a number of deposit discoveries during his career with Noranda/Falconbridge/Xstrata (now Glencore) from 1989 to 2006 and worked overseas in Brazil (1996-2001) and Papua New Guinea (2004-2005). In 2008-2009 he was General Manager for New Opportunities for Iamgold Inc. and from 2010 to mid-2013 he was founding President and later Chief Executive Officer of Xmet Inc., outlining a NI 43-101 compliant, 850,000 ounce gold deposit in the Abitibi greenstone belt of Quebec. He is currently vice-president exploration for International Explorers and Prospectors Inc., a private junior generator-discoverer exploration company with a diversified property portfolio in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Mr. Beaudry is also a director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the chair of PDAC Geoscience Committee and is the co-chair of the technical program committee of the upcoming Exploration’17 Symposium to be held in Toronto in 2017.