- An entrepreneur and mineral-exploration executive with 30 years of experience as a professional pilot. Founder of Prospectair Geosurveys, which has provided airborne geophysical surveying services to the mineral-exploration industry for more than 20 years. He was closely involved in the early-stage exploration work associated with Nouveau Monde Graphite, where an airborne TDEM survey conducted by Prospectair Geosurveys played an important role in identifying the geophysical targets that contributed to the early discovery at Matawinie.