Management

William H. Bird, PhD, PGeo

Chairman & CEO

Dr William H Bird holds a PhD in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines, is a registered professional geologist, and has over 40 years of mining and corporate experience. He possesses a strong combination of business credentials and mineral-industry expertise. His practical and theoretical understanding of geology (most notably rare-earth elements), mineralogy, and metallurgy is recognized as exceptional.

Since his early career as a mineralogy professor, Dr Bird has pursued his long-standing interest in rare-earth elements and their mineral occurrences around the world. In 2005, he became CEO of Rare Element Resources, which owns the prominent Bear Lodge REE and gold property, where he was given the mandate to reorganize and refocus the company. Dr Bird left Rare Element Resources at the end of 2007 to devote his energy and expertise to Medallion Resources.

Don M. Lay

President & Director

Donald (Don) Lay works closely with Medallion’s CEO Dr Bill Bird with a focus on corporate strategy and finance.  Don has over 25 years of experience in public and private venture capital, corporate communications and international business. He has served as a senior officer and director for a number of public companies including mineral-exploration companies International Taurus Resources Inc, American Bonanza and Medallion Resources Ltd.  Don was a principal at China MobileSoft, a seed-funded, embedded-software supplier that delivered solutions to Chinese telephone handset makers that provided an exceptional return to shareholders.  Before entering the venture-capital world in 1994, Mr. Lay invested 13 years in enterprise software arena in development, sales and support.  Don holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

Tom Arnould, CA

CFO & Corporate Secretary

Mr Arnould is a graduate from Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, receiving his Chartered Accountant’s designation after articling with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in 1982. Since then, he has worked with various private companies in the food processing and distribution and group-benefits areas where he assisted with the sale of these companies to public entities. More recently, he has worked as a CFO of a private strategic-marketing firm, as a principal with Adler Business Solutions Inc and as the CFO of Securefact Inc. In addition, he consults with other companies on finance and accounting matters.