Greg Neeld, President & CEO.,  Mr. Neeld, a businessman, brings twenty plus years of business expertise in both the private and public sectors to HAWKEYE’s management team. His business achievements include successful ventures in manufacturing, distribution, consumer electronics, food & beverage, invention and patent of an industry spawning; first-to-market protective head device for hockey players, and investment in the resource sector. This was concurrent to a 10-year professional hockey career. Mr. Neeld has raised significant capital for both private and public companies. He specializes in corporate structure, mergers and acquisitions, targeting and retaining industry management and marketing teams and liaison with the investment community. Mr. Neeld will apply the entrepreneurial skills and knowledge derived from his industry-diverse commerce’s to assist in transforming HAWKEYE from a junior exploration company to a revered mine-producing-concern at the forefront of the mining industry.

 

George W. Poling, Ph.D. P.Eng., Dr. George W. Poling, Senior Consulting Engineer, has joined the Company’s management team to act as a advisor to the Board of Directors in the capacity of Senior Consulting Engineer. Dr. Poling, a long time Board Member of Dia Met Minerals Ltd., served as a Director of Dia Met from 1987 until it was bought-out by BHPBilliton in 2001. He is Professor emeritus and former Head of the Department of Mining and Mineral Process Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 until he retired in 1997. He was also Research Coordinator for the B.C. Mining Association. Dr. Poling holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mineral Process Engineering, both from the University of Alberta. He is one of Canada’s leading experts in the mineral processing and environmental management of mining operations. Dr. Poling is a Senior Vice-President of Rescan Environmental Services Ltd.


Dr. Malcolm E. McCallum, Emeritus Professor of Geology and Research Geologist – Senior Technical Advisor

Mr. McCallum graduated from Middlebury College, The University of Tennessee, and the University of Wyoming with A.B., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology (1956, 1958 and 1964 respectively).  Mr. McCallum was professor of geology in minerals exploration at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, from 1962 through 1995.  He is co-founder of HDM Laboratories Inc. that specializes in diamond and gold exploration sample processing and evaluation.  He was employed as a part time (WAE) field research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1956 through 1984.  He has been a consulting geologist for mineral exploration companies since 1985, specializing primarily in diamonds and precious metals, and has practiced in the United States, Canada, South America, Africa and Europe.  He has been involved in kimberlite and diamond related research and exploration since 1964, and was a major participant in the discovery of a number of diamondiferous kimberlite occurrences in Colorado, Wyoming, Venezuela, and the NWT and BC, Canada.  He has also worked on kimberlite/diamond