President and Chief Executive Officer
TomaGold Corp.
With more than twenty five years of leadership experience in the mining and financial sectors, David Grondin has built a diversified career spanning junior mining development, institutional capital structuring, and commodity-backed financial instruments. Since 2011, he has served as President and CEO of the Company, and he is also a director of AM Resources. Previously, he was President and CEO of NQ Exploration Inc. from 2007 to 2018, where he oversaw exploration programs, corporate development initiatives, and multiple strategic transactions.
Mr. Grondin began his career as a financial analyst at CTI Capital Inc. from 1997 to 2000 and has since accumulated extensive experience in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and reverse takeovers. He has successfully led cross-border financing initiatives, designed capital-guaranteed investment platforms, and overseen mining transactions across Canada, Latin America, and Africa.
Recognized for his ability to bridge technical project development with sophisticated financial architecture tailored to sovereign and institutional investors, Mr. Grondin also serves as an associate expert for an INGO in consultation with the United Nations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (finance) from HEC Montréal.
Managing Partner
Cavendish Investment Corp.
Jean-Sébastien Jacquetin has over 20 years of corporate finance and merchant banking experience for small and medium-sized enterprises. He is currently Managing Partner at Cavendish Investment Corp., a multi-family office in Hong Kong. Mr. Jacquetin began his career as a Project Officer for UNESCO in Paris and then worked as an Investment Manager for Natixis Banque both in Paris and New York, where he coordinated fund sponsors and capital markets contacts. After Natixis Banque, Mr. Jacquetin was with both Meredith Financial Group and Du Pasquier in New York, where he was involved in corporate finance, advisory, and institutional brokerage. Since 2016, Mr. Jacquetin has spent his time in Asia, where he worked for Citic Hyperion, helping his corporate clients with investor diversification, corporate finance advisory, and strategic partnerships. Mr. Jacquetin has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in political science from the University of Montreal and an MBA from Institut d’études politiques – Sciences Po Paris.
Founding Partner and Owner
Fladgate Exploration Consulting
Caitlin Jeffs received her Honours B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia in 2002. Caitlin has worked for several junior and major companies since 2002 in both gold and base metal exploration. Most of her experience has been with Placer Dome CLA Inc. and Goldcorp Inc. managing all aspects of deep exploration projects and specializing in GIS technology and 3D modeling of ore bodies. She is a founding partner and 33% owner of Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corporation of Thunder Bay, ON, a full service mineral exploration consulting firm.
Senior Adviser
StormHarbour Securities Hong Kong
For the past twenty years, Michel Labrousse has developed various businesses in investment banking and financial markets in Europe and Asia. Currently a Senior Advisor for StormHarbour Securities Hong Kong, a small debt capital markets securities firm focusing on China-related businesses and having some areas of expertise in infrastructure, natural resources and real estate. Until July 2009, he was in charge of the financial markets businesses and subsidiaries in Asia of Natixis, the French banking group where he focused his efforts to build the public markets franchise with an emphasis on the equity, commodities and fixed income derivatives businesses. He was also involved in developing a Strategic Solutions business for both corporate and institutional to cover their funding and risk hedging needs. Previously he ran the same business in Japan for ten years. His teams have developed various financing solutions to liabilities management optimization. While based in London he also developed a global macro internal hedge fund when he served as Deputy Head of the markets and investment banking activities covering all asset classes.