Tyler Ruks

President and a Director of ArcWest Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AWX). Involved with mineral exploration and related research since 2000, most recently as President of Seven Devils Exploration Ltd. and as Chief Geologist and co-founder of West Cirque Resources, which was acquired by Robert Friedland's Kaizen Discovery in 2014. Work in the junior mining sector has focused on porphyry copper-gold exploration and has resulted in multi-million dollar funding partnerships with major mining companies and trading houses including Freeport-McMoRan, ITOCHU and Antofagasta. Experience spans porphyry, epithermal, and sediment- and volcanic-hosted deposit types. BSc (Hon.) University of Victoria 2002; MSc (Geology) Laurentian University 2004; PhD (Geology) University of British Columbia 2015. Source: arcwestexploration.com executive-team and board-of-directors pages.