Simon Dyakowski, CFA, MBA
President & CEO, Director

Mr. Dyakowski brings to Aztec over 12 years of corporate development and capital markets experience, with an expertise in strategic planning and execution, financing, and marketing of exploration companies.

Mr. Dyakowski most recently acted as an adviser to TSX Venture Exchange listed mineral exploration companies on their corporate development strategies. Mr. Dyakowski holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia, is a CFA charter holder and holds an undergraduate finance degree from the University of Western Ontario. He previously worked at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Royal Bank of Canada dealing with investment-grade and mid-market Canadian corporate clients. Mr. Dyakowski has also worked in the equity research and equity sales departments at Salman Partners and Leede Financial.

Patricio Varas, B.Sc., P. Geo.
Director

Mr. Varas has worked and collaborated with major and junior mining companies in exploration projects that span North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He was involved in the discovery of the Diavik Diamond mine as a project manager while at Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., a division of Rio Tinto plc, and was instrumental in the project management that led to the discovery of the Santo Domingo Sur deposit in Chile with Far West Mining Ltd. More recently, founder and former CEO of Western Potash Corp.

Jim Schilling
Director

Mr. James (Jim) Schilling is currently an independent investor who brings over 30 years of experience in the Canadian and U.S. financial markets. Mr. Schilling held a Series 7 Securities License at a U.S. based brokerage firm for over 19 years (from 1985 to 2004), as well as founder of West Coast Consulting (from 1992 to 2015), which was primarily focused in the natural resource industry.

Stewart Lockwood, LLB, MBA
Director and Corporate Secretary

Stewart Lockwood is a senior associate securities lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in corporate and securities law, currently with McCullough O’Connor Irwin LLP. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Lockwood practised general, corporate and securities law with Weiler, Maloney, Nelson and Sobolewski, Anfield, following which he acted as listings officer with the Vancouver Stock Exchange where he reviewed public company listings and filings, prospectus offerings, financings, mergers and take-overs, share splits and consolidations and re-organizations. From 1992 to 2000, he was in-house legal counsel for Canarc Resource Corp. Mr. Lockwood was also Past Chairman of the B.C. Securities Commission Security Policy Advisory Committee. From 2001 to 2016, he was a partner with Vector Corporate Finance Lawyers where he specialized in corporate and securities law for resource-based companies.