Drawing on many years' experience in mining, the iron and steel industry, exploration, finance, law and corporate communications, Northland's Board provides senior management with essential guidance and counsel.
Arden (Buck) Morrow B.Sc. President and DirectorMr. Morrow is a graduate Mining Engineer from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has over 30 years' experience in mineral exploration, mine development, and mine operations, in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. From 1980 to 2001, he was the President of Western States Minerals Corporation which, under his direction, discovered and brought into production some of Nevada's most significant gold deposits including Barrick's Goldstrike mine. Since 2001, Mr. Morrow has worked as a consultant in gold exploration, mine development, and mine financing.
Simon T. Ridgway
Chairman and Director Mr. Ridgway is the President of Radius Gold Inc. A well known financier, he is also a skilled explorationist and is widely respected for his impressive record of success. He was formerly the President of Mar-West Resources Ltd., where he directed exploration activities that resulted in the discovery of the 1.5 million ounce San Martin and 2.2 million ounce Cerro Blanco gold deposits in Honduras and Guatemala.
Stuart Pettifor Mr Pettifor is a past Director and CEO of Corus Steel, and has operated steel mills in the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and USA. In 1994 he became Managing Director Section Plates and Commercial steels, which was British Steel's largest business with a turnover of £5.0-billion. In 2001, Mr Pettifor was appointed to the Board of Corus Steel with responsibility to restore both the Dutch and UK operations to profitability. In 2002 he was appointed acting CEO of Corus Steel. He is now retired retired and serves as a director of two other companies.
Birger Solberg Mr. Solberg is the Managing Director and CEO of North Cape Minerals, a Norwegian-based leading supplier of industrial minerals for the steel, glass and ceramic industries. He has an MSc from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and completed the Advanced Management Program at Insead in France. He sits on the Board of a number of European industrial minerals companies and has broad international experience in the extraction, sales and marketing of industrial minerals, particularly some of the key minerals used in the iron and steel industry.
Tuomo Mäkelä Mr. Mäkelä is president of Outokumpu Mining Oy, a Finland-based unit of the Outokumpu Group, an international stainless steel organization with annual sales of six billion euros. He has over 20 years' experience directing exploration and development operations on base and precious metal properties located in Latin America, Canada, Spain and Finland, and also acts as adviser to a Finnish investment company involved in venture capital financing and private equity finance.
Ralph Rushton Mr. Rushton has 17 years' experience in mining and exploration, having worked as a geologist for the Anglo American group in Southern Africa, the Middle East and Europe. More recently he managed corporate development for several public companies. He is also a director of Radius Gold Inc.
