Company: Directors

Damien Reynolds

chairman

Mr. Reynolds has been involved in the junior resource sector for over twenty years. He has gained industry knowledge through founding, investing in and serving on the Boards of a number of public exploration companies. Mr. Reynolds has an impressive track record with projects of merit around the world and also for his ability to raise capital for junior companies. Mr. Reynolds is also the founder of Kyoto Capital Partners and Kyoto Funds Limited, two private Irish companies set up to advance environmentally effective technologies while creating a financial organization to provide capital for developing and growing businesses that will positively affect the environment.

Jason Bak

CEO and Founder

In 2003 Jason was the co-founder and CEO of Finavera Ltd. which was subsequently split into Finavera Renewables and Finavera Gas. During the first two years under Jason's leadership, he led these companies from conception through an intensive period of acquisition and growth resulting in a combined capitalization in excess of €35 million. Jason achieved this success by acquiring undervalued natural gas, wind and wave power assets and developing them to where their market value was recognized. He has led the negotiation of equity interests in a number of leading renewable energy assets, negotiated exclusive project development rights and is rapidly developing near-term commercial projects. Jason is a highly focused individual with a successful track record in developing public and private natural resource companies over the last decade. He is the former VP, Corporate Development for Tournigan Gold Corporation and head of Corporate Affairs for Strongbow Resources Inc. (now Strongbow Exploration Inc.). Jason has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.  

Hein Poulus, QC

Director

Mr. Poulus is a businessman and a partner in the Vancouver office of the Stikeman Elliott law firm. His background includes: membership in McAlpine, Poulus and Hordo, a Vancouver law firm (1973 to 1979); senior management positions with Kaiser Resources (1979 to 1980), a publicly traded producer of metallurgical and thermal coal and oil and gas; and with private Kaiser companies (1980 to 1984) whose activities included coal trading, oil and gas, real estate, and professional football. He then served as a senior officer of Southeastern Capital Corporation, a Denver-based leveraged buyout group (1984 to 1990) with interests in broadcasting, petroleum product distribution, and environmental laboratories. Mr. Poulus was born in Djakarta, Indonesia and schooled there and in the Netherlands. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. 

 

John Icke

Director

John Icke is a senior executive with in excess of 25 years management experience, 14 in the role of President, General Manager or Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Icke has global management experience in both the private and public sector.  Mr. Icke’s career commenced in the United Kingdom with assignments at Marks & Spencer plc, Gillette UK Limited, Adams Foods and Fort Howard Paper (UK) Limited as General Manager for their UK Service products division. In 1988 Mr. Icke was promoted to the position of President & CEO of Lily Cups Inc in Canada a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fort Howard Paper Inc. Subsequently, Mr. Icke was promoted to Executive Vice President Operations for Sweetheart Cup Company another Fort Howard subsidiary located in the USA. In 1995 Mr. Icke was recruited by Indigo NV a leading supplier of digital print technologies as Worldwide General Manager for Packaging and Decorative Printing. From 1997 Mr. Icke served as President & CEO of ShopLink.com and in 1999 assumed the additional title of Chairman. In 2002 Mr. Icke joined Accenture Inc one of the world's largest consultant practices where he was President of Accenture Business Services for Utilities, the largest business process outsourcing practice of its kind worldwide. Since 2005 Mr. Icke has been the Principal of JRI Strategic Consultants Inc providing strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions and business reengineering. Mr. Icke joined Kyoto Planet Group Inc. in October 2007 as President & Chief Operating Officer.  

 

David Lamont

Director

David has been in the financial services industry for over 25 years.   As a founding partner of Capital Trust, a UK based investment management and financial services boutique he has been involved in numerous financial projects.   He is also a director and significant shareholder of a number of commercial property companies. David has had a long career in arranging finance and equity funding for numerous enterprises, providing advice and mentoring to those companies with the ambition to go through large scale expansion.