Rui Feng

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Silvercorp Metals Inc., which he founded in 2003. Served as CEO Sep 2003-Oct 2013, transforming Silvercorp from a small Canadian junior exploration company into a successful, low-cost, mid-tier silver producer with multiple mines in China; re-appointed CEO Dec 2014. B.Sc./M.Sc. (Geology, China); Ph.D. (Geological Sciences), University of Saskatchewan (1992); NSERC Post-Doctoral fellowship. Publicly credited with being integral to the 2002 discovery of Jinshan Gold's CSH Gold Mine (Inner Mongolia, later part of China Gold International) prior to founding Silvercorp -- real per Silvercorp's own leadership materials, but the employer/dates/outcome chain was not confirmed to a primary-source standard this pass, so not separately scored. Also founder and Chairman/CEO of New Pacific Metals Corp. and Auro Metals Inc. (concurrent/ongoing roles, not scored).