Denis Laviolette

Executive Chairman, CEO and Director of Pirate Gold Corp. 20-year mining/capital-markets veteran; founded EarthLabs Inc. (AI in mineral exploration); founded New Found Gold Corp. and led the Queensway Project high-grade discovery. (Also currently an independent, non-executive director of Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. per that company's own board page -- a dual-directorship confirmed on both companies' own sites.)