About Us: Our Team

Meet the people behind our company

Founders, Executive Management and Board of Directors

Our team built JEX Technologies to effectuate the transformative advancements in heap leaching that are now possible with use of the JEX technology and its associated intellectual property.

  • Highly experienced 25 year manager of mining operations with extensive experience in development and growth of companies. A skilled leader and recruiter of talented personnel. Substantial experience in finance, budgeting, environmental, permitting, strategic and business planning. Directly involved in the raising of over $250 million of financing for mining, resource companies.

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers alum, with 20 years of experience in the energy sector from small private to multi-billion-dollar market-cap public companies; to include Ultra Petroleum, Earthstone Energy, and Antero Resources. Significant experience in various stages of business growth, development, and day-to-day execution including going public and listings to major stock exchanges.

  • CTO - JEX Technologies
    Inventor | Hydro-JEX

    Dr. Thom Seal has a passion for making mining better though innovation. He currently works as a Barrick Professor for Mackay School of Mine at University Nevada-Reno, soon to be Meritus,  and has decades of metallurgical and process experience with major mining companies.

  • Energy industry executive with 30 years of international experience managing billion-dollar enterprises. Vice President Operations for Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Chief Operating Officer for Nabors Drilling, Vice President Operations for British Petroleum, Chief Operating Officer for Tervita (Canada's largest Environmental Service Company) and Managing Director for Kazmunaigas, National O&G company of Kazakhstan. Received the Highest Order from the President of Kazakhstan for contributions made to the O&G industry. 

  • International Natural Resources lawyer and investment banker with 35 years of mining experience, specialized in Latin America, a graduate of the School of Law of Universidad de Chile, graduate level at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile and at Georgetown University Law Center and the School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.Law, Economics and International Relations. He has worked for Placer Dome Inc), MIM Holdings Pty. Ltd, CODELCO, Franco-Nevada. Familiar with cross-cultural issues affecting cross-border transactions, in the natural resources field in Latin America.

  • Board Observer

    Freeport McMoran is one of the world‘s leading companies in the heap leach industry. Freeport is an investor in JEX Technologies.

Board Observers and Advisors

  • Board Observer, Advisor

    Mr. Richards is the president and managing member of Empire Capital Management a boutique investment fund that invests primarily in natural resources and MedTech/Biotech.  ECAP provided seed capital to JEX and several follow on investment rounds to support the growth of the company.

Technical Advisors

  • Technical Advisor

    Former Executive Vice-President of Western States Engineering, VP/Gen Manager of Cyprus/El Abra, General Manager of First Quantum/Kansanshi, Country Manager for QuadraFNX/Chile, CEO of Konkola Copper Mines (Zambia), CEO of CS Mining, and VP/Operations of Southern Peru Copper.

  • 35 years of experience acquiring, financing, and developing mines in North & South America as a metallurgical engineer at Kennecott (Rio Tinto) and in management of leaching projects, and later as a lawyer. Founding President of MAG Silver Corp. and co-founder of International Royalty Corp. Former General Counsel of Bond International Gold involved in the El Indio project in Chile and Former General Counsel and Acting GM of Intermountain Power Agency. Instrumental in over US$600 million in financings for major and junior mining companies in North America, and in over US$9 billion in financings for the utilities industry.

  • Clent D. Trammell is a seasoned IT leader with 30 years of experience in architecting enterprise networks, systems, security, and operations. He has spent a dozen of those years leading teams in the extractive industries, while the rest of his career has been dedicated to leading projects for Fortune-level companies, Western governments, and NGOs.

  • Mining and industrial asset portfolio CFO, Board Member and Industry Leader with extensive hands-on experience leading public and private companies across a broad range of commodities in both OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions with companies such as Rio Tinto and Trafigura’s mining division. Operating and development stage asset experience. Successful stable and distressed mining asset track-record. Extensive experience leading and partnering within executive teams to effectively drive business transformations; accountability, cultural change, cost control and reinvestment. Mining M&A and valuations experience with extensive results-proven >$500m senior secured and unsecured capital market experience including capital raising, credit agreement negotiation and facility management and compliance across North America, South East Asia and Europe. Professional designations and qualifications include Chartered Accountant, Master of Finance and Corporate Governance.

  • Board Observer

    Sumitomo Corporation is involved in heap leaching globally. Sumitomo is an investor in JEX  Technologies.

  • Metallurgical Engineer

    Mr. Dittrich has more than forty years of experience in gold and silver process operations and development.  He has conducted laboratory development projects for extraction of oxide and refractory gold ores, gold ore flotation process and pilot plant demonstrations.  He has ascended through milling and heap leach operations from the foreman level to general manager at operations in the US and overseas.  For the past seven years he has been a dedicated force in the development of the Hydro-Jex technology and the construction of the 4G machines, and the deployment and operation of the technology at North American mines. He has also worked in iron ore pelletizing, phosphate rock extraction and production of phosphate, nitrogen, and potassium granulated products for agriculture.

  • Mining finance professional and a Member of SME with over 30 years of international experience. Success in the developing high-performance teams in administration and finance helped to create extraordinary achievement in operations in base metals and precious metals operations in the US, Perú and Venezuela. Mark is fluent in Spanish and proficient in spanish based business contracts and law.

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