Mr. Depatie has over 15 years' experience in the mining and material industry, including 10 years at the National Bank of Canada overseeing mining and technology investments with assets growing from $10 billion to $32 billion during the period. Mr. Depatie has been involved in resource-based commodities most of his career; his family having discovered and founded the largest operating graphite mine in Canada, the Lac des Isles mining operations, now Timcal.