Below please find more information on Stans Energy’s Management and Directors. For more information, please contact us.
Rodney Irwin, MA
Chairman of the Board
Honorary Consul of the Kyrgyz Republic for Canada.
- 1972-74: joined Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
- 1978-1980: served abroad in New-Delhi, Moscow & Port of Spain
- 1988-1990: High Commissioner
- 1992: named Ambassador to Yugoslavia; due to the war with Croatia,
served as Ambassador to Albania, Bulgaria, Slovenia & Croatia - 1993-96: Ambassador to Hungary while retaining his Balkan country
accreditations - 1999-2003: Ambassador to the Russian Federation with concurrent
accreditation to the Republics of Armenia & Uzbekistan - 2003: retired to Ottawa after 32 years in the foreign service
Gordon R Baker, QC
Vice Chairman and Director
- 1972: called to the Bar of Ontario
- 1983: appointed Queens Counsel
- Extensive experience in business law
(mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financing & structuring) - Acted as counsel (including as a registered lobbyist) advising on
government relations (strategic planning, negotiation, compliance issues)
Robert Mackay, B Sc Mining
President, CEO & Director
20 years experience in the capital markets
- Worked in various facets of mineral exploration (diamond drilling,
geophysics, geological mapping & prospecting) - 1975: graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines
- Gained extensive experience in mining, mine planning, surveying,
grade control, industrial engineering, open pit & underground production - 1980: graduated & obtained a mining engineering degree from The South
Dakota School of Mines Technology - Was Vice President of two national brokerage firms over his successful 20
year career in investment business - 2000: started private consulting business
- Consulted as Project Engineer in Canada, the US, China and Africa
Boris Aryev, M Sc, P. Eng
COO & Director
Founding director of the Canadian-Eurasia-Russia Association as well as founder
& chairman of its Mining & Northern Development Committees
- 1972: graduated USSR State Institute Civil Aviation in Riga Latvia
- 1972–1982: worked in regal branch of Central Research Institute of
Communication Science of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR - 1983: immigrated to Canada
- 1983-1986 software development consultant with
NCR Canada Limited & OPTIMOD Inc. - 1986-1996: Consultant with Verifact Inc.
- 1990 on: President of Marhope Systems Inc., provides management/consulting
services to public & private sectors - 1991: founding Director of Canada-Eurasia-Russia Business Association as well
as founder and chairman of its Mining & Northern Development Committees - Co-founder of IEC Minerals Working Group
Elena Masters, CGA, BBA
Chief Financial Officer
- Ms. Masters has over 13 years of financial and operational experience in the
investment industry, overseeing financial functions of public companies in
Canada and private companies with capitalization of over EUR 100 million
internationally (US, Jersey, Cyprus, Eastern Europe). - Presently serving as the CFO JJR Capital Corp., a private equity merchant
bank based in Toronto. - Ms. Masters also acted as the CFO of Sino Vanadium Inc. TSX: SVX, 2009-2010,
and corporate controller for CD Capital Partners, 2008-2009, JJR II Acquisition
Inc. TSX: JJR. P (also served as Director) 2007-2009; JJR IV Acquisition Inc.
TSX: JJV.P 2007-2010, SSQ Acquisition Inc. (TSX: CWG) 2006-2007
Ms. Masters is a CGA, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, June 2001, Kemerovo State
University, Russia and a B.A. degree in Financial Management, June 1997.
Dr. Gennady Savchenko QP and FGS
Managing Director, Stans Energy KG
- 1971: graduated from Frunze Polytechnical Institute with a
Mining Engineer-Geologist Diploma, Ph. D Geology & Mineralogy - 1971-1981: worked in exploration & mining enterprises for Uranium in
Kazakhstan, East Germany & China - 1981-1989: was Deputy Chief Geologist of Kara-Balty Uranium mining
enterprise in Kyrgyzstan - 1989-1996: Chief Geologist of Kara-Balty
- 1996: moved into gold sector as Chief Geologist for state owned gold
company, Kyrgyzaltyn - 2000-2002: Deputy Chief, Department of Geology & Investment, Kyrgyz
State Geology & Mineral Resources Agency; member of Kyrgyz State
Mineral Reserves Committee
Dr. Douglas H. Underhill, Ph D, M Sc, BA (Geology), MBA
Director
Retired Uranium Specialist with the IAEA
- 1993-2002: Uranium Resource & Production Specialist for International
Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna - Represented IAEA in Joint IAEA-NEA Uranium Group
- has 40+ years minerals industry experience, nearly 30 dedicated to Uranium
(includes experience in Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan) - Senior Consultant with Nuclear Assurance Corporation (USA); responsible for
consulting on Uranium supply strategy & maintaining worldwide uranium
production projects database - MBA in strategic planning & finance
