CEO since August 2009. 25+ years of experience designing and project management of mines and mining projects in Finland, Norway, Ireland and Australia. Markus has worked with base metals (zinc, copper and nickel) as well as gold and chromium. Previous positions: General Manager, Hitura nickel mine, Finland (2007-2009), Resident Manager, Pahtavaara Gold Mine, Finland (2004-2005), Project Manager, Tara Mines Limited, Ireland (2002-2004), Project Manager, Outokumpu Mining Australia (2000-2002), Mine Manager and Chief Mine Geologist, Nikkel og Olivin AS, Norway (1993-2000), Chief Geologist, Bidjovagge Gold Mine, Norway. Qualified Person, Australian JORC and Canadian NI-43-101 stock exchange codes. Eurogeologist,
M.Sc (Geology and Mineralogy), Turku University, Finland (1985).
Börje Lindén has been the Chief Financial Officer of Endomines since August 2008 and deputy CEO of Endomines AB since 2010. He has over 20 years of experience of senior leading administrative positions in international public companies both in Finland and in Sweden. During his first years after graduating, he was employed by an international auditing firm Price Waterhouse Coopers both in Finland (1981-1986) and Sweden (1986-1988). From 1990 he has worked in Sweden mainly as Group Controller in pharmaceutical distribution as well as Manufacturing pharmaceutical raw materials until his present position at Endomines.
M.Sc (Econ.), Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland (1980)
Shareholdings in Endomines: 10,000 shares; 550,000 options.
Jaakko Liikanen Chief Technical Officer
Born 1952
Jaakko Liikanen is Chief Technical Officer of both Endomines Oy and its industrial mineral subsidiary, Kalvinit Oy, and Deputy CEO of Endomines Oy. He was one of the founders of the company in 1996. He has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry, and started his career with LKAB Prospektering AB in 1978 as geologist. He was promoted to Project Leader and Geologist, and worked with the company 1981-1988. He was Chief Geologist and Head of Exploration at Terra Mining AB and its Finnish subsidiary, Terra Mining Oy, where he was, amongst other projects, responsible for the acquisition and development though to production, of the Pahtavaara gold mine.
M.Sc (Geology), Uppsala University, Sweden (1981), Qualified Person by SweMIn.
Shareholdings: 1,143,892 shares, 550,000 options.
Janne Muttonen Resident Manager
Born 1975
Resident Manager at the Pampalo Gold Mine since 2010. 10 years of experience in the construction industry. Prior experience includes Project Manager at Ahma Engineering Limited, (responsible for the Pampalo Gold Mine project). Before this, Lujatalo Oy, works manager. B.Sc (Engineering), North Karelia Polytechnic (1999)
Shareholdings in Endomines: 4,000 shares, 400,000 options