A balanced and diverse team with extensive experience in M&A and operations.
CEO, President and Director
Mr. Zorbas is an entrepreneur with a proven track record in the metals exploration and development industry and the investment banking. He has held senior advisory positions in various facets of business including operations, marketing, sales, strategic planning and structured finance.
Mr. Zorbas has been with the Company since June 2008. He also serves as URU Metals Ltd. (Captor Capital investment) Chief Executive Officer since June 2014. He was appointed a director of Zeb Nickel Corp a PGE mining and exploration company in November 2021 and director of Powertap Hydrogen Capital Corp in February 2023. He also served as the President of MGM Productions Group Inc. a company focused in media and retail investments, Chairman of Management Resource Solutions PLC, as well as Director of both ZorCorp Capital Holdings and Starline Capital Holdings Infrastructure Fund. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Monchhichi PLC (former: Mercom Capital PLC) until December 2016. Mr. Zorbas also served as a Director of Stratton Capital Corp. until October 2016. He is a founding shareholder of Asian Coast Development Ltd. Mr. Zorbas holds an Honors Bachelors in Economics from the University of Toronto.
COO of wholly owned subsidiary
for California operations
Mr. Lipschitz founded a professional firm that provides outsourced back office accounting and CFO services to the restaurant and retail industries since January 2012. Mr. Lipschitz also served as the outsourced President and/or CFO for several restaurant concepts. Prior to this Mr. Lipschitz held various CFO and controller positions with private, public and private equity backed companies such as Spectrum Clubs, Inc. (Spectrum Athletic Clubs), Grill Concepts. Inc. (Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill), San Manual Band of Mission Indians (San Manual Casino and other economic developments), International Coffee & Tea, LLC (Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf), The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (The Cheesecake Factory), and Wolfgang Puck Food Company, L.P. (Wolfgang Puck Cafes and frozen foods).
In addition, Mr. Lipschitz is a CPA and has worked for a national CPA firm, Laventhol & Horwath. Mr. Lipschitz holds a BS degree in Accounting from California State University, Northridge.
US Legal Counsel
Mr. Berkowitz has practiced corporate, business and tax law for more than 35 years. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of transactions in many industries, with particular emphasis on structuring complex transactions, including entity organization, financing, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and US-Canada cross-border transactions.
Since 2013, Mr Berkowitz has been actively involved with the rapidly-growing cannabis industry, assisting clients in obtaining financing, securing licenses and acquiring cultivation facilities and established dispensaries. Earlier in his career, Mr. Berkowitz practiced as a Certified Public Accountant.
Director
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