Bringing something new to the mining industry.
The Future.
There are likely few mining companies, if any, that have combined seasoned mining executives and engineers with experts in Ai and Open-Source technology into their executive team. Advance United has done just that.
The leadership team has significant industry and recognizable experience working with notable major mining companies including Newmont, VHP, and Agnico Eagle.
Added to this are industry experts in digital platform technology including open source and Ai.
With over one hundred years cumulative experience, our team has held positions as executives, directors, and advisors of publicly traded companies and are well versed in capital markets, investment banking, international mining projects, and financial and reporting requirements.
Management has a successful track record of bringing projects from start-up through to financing, and from exploration to production, and buy-outs from majors.
Board of directors
James R. Atkinson - M.Sc., P.Geo., CEO, Director
Since 2018, Mr. Atkinson has been the President and CEO of Talisker Gold, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advance United. An experienced exploration geologist and project manager with over 45 years of experience, Mr. Atkinson has spent his career in both mineral exploration and mining and in the environmental field as Vice President, Exploration Manager and Regional Manager with junior and major mining companies such as Newmont, Billiton and Agnico Eagle. He has reviewed, evaluated and acquired projects around the world and recently was part of the team responsible for mergers and acquisitions at American Silver. He has worked with investors to form and manage junior exploration companies.
In the area of mineral exploration, James has designed and managed multimillion dollar programs searching for and discovering various commodities including industrial minerals. These projects, comprised of up to 100 staff, involved geophysical, geochemical and drilling programs as well as prospecting and geological mapping. He has also negotiated option and purchase deals for mineral properties.
Walter Henry - BA, CFA, Director
Mr. Henry has been involved in various capacities within the global resource industries and the North American and European finance markets (both debt and equity) since 1991. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Frontline Gold since the fall of 2009. Prior to joining Frontline, Mr. Henry acted as VP, Finance and CFO with several public companies listed on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange, including Tiberon Minerals, Royal Nickel, Juno Special Situations, Satori Resources, and Alturas Minerals. Prior to 2003 He served with CIBC, BNP Paribas, and PWC where he managed portfolios and arranged project financings totaling over $1 billion.
Walter also serves as a Director of Riverside Resources, Alturas Minerals, and Gold Candle. Since 2003, he has since held executive positions with Tiberon Minerals, Royal Nickel Corporation, Alturas Minerals, and Satori Resources. He has held various Chairman, Audit Committee Chairman and Director roles, in the following companies: Alexandria Minerals, Alturas Minerals, Merrex Gold, and Platinex Inc. Mr. Henry has completed the requirements of the CFA program and Institute of Corporate Directors – Director Education Program.
Management team
David Beck - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Beck has over 30-years of financial, business operations, and capital markets experience, having worked in a C-level capacity with national financial institutions in various capacities as a financial analyst, institutional and proprietary trader, and in investment banking.
Initially, Mr. Beck leveraged his background in engineering to focus on a career in management consulting. After several years, he moved to the capital markets industry as a technology research analyst. He subsequently complemented this experience through work as an investment banker and proprietary trader.
David’s investment and technology background will aid Advance United’s next leg of growth with a focus on analytics and security. During his career, he established himself as a domain expert in analytics largely through his work as a top ranked technology research analyst in both New York and Toronto. David’s security expertise has been developed through work with, and investment in three security software start-up companies, which included Cloakware (acquired by Irdeto) and Assurent Secure Technologies (acquired by TELUS).
Mr. Beck has previously served as a director on four private and two public company boards. He holds an MBA from the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario and a B.Sc. (Engineering Physics) from Queens University.
Kevin Glendenning - Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Glendenning leads the technology operations for Advance United’s Marketplace. He brings over 20-years of experience driving technology transformation and overseeing global IT operations, predominantly in the open-source information technology sector. Prior to his role as the CTO at Advance United, he served as the company’s technology consultant, overseeing the launch of the AU Marketplace Beta platform.
Since 2008, Kevin has been the president of Starnix Inc., a leading enterprise Linux and open-source solutions provider in Canada. A proponent of open source, Kevin is passionate about free software, open standards, and open access to information. He has overseen the development and deployment of numerous technology applications for organizations such as BlackBerry, AMD/ATI, Konica Minolta, and The Department of National Defence.
In 2011 Kevin co-founded FOSSter, a mentored Linux training company which became the title sponsor of Girls Learning Code; an organization which helps get more women involved in STEM at an earlier age. He is closely involved with the exam and certification development at Linux Professional Institute, the world’s largest vendor-neutral open-source certification body. Kevin is LPIC-3 Enterprise-certified with LPI.