Our Team | Oxygen Capital Corporation

Well done is better than well said. We have assembled a group of proven technical and management professionals to create an unparalleled skill-set in our industry space. Our expertise covers the entire continuum of resource discovery and development, mine-building, mine operations and production, capital markets and business development.

Our multidisciplinary team has a successful track record in converting modest capital investments into exceptional shareholder returns. Since 2001, we have created 10 companies. In doing so, we seek out the best management; we cultivate the industry’s next leaders; and attract high-quality people for governance.

Chair & Founder

Dr. O’Dea has built and financed international mining companies from Canada to Africa, taking them from exploration and discovery to development and operations. His companies are built on a common foundation: high-quality, long-life projects with lasting economic opportunities, community benefits, and environmental protection. Most recently, Dr. O’Dea co-founded and served as Executive Chairman of True Gold Mining. After building the Karma Heap Leach Gold Mine in Burkina Faso, West Africa, True Gold was sold to Endeavour Mining in 2016. As Co-Founder and CEO of Fronteer Gold, Dr. O’Dea grew the company from start up to its 2011 sale to Newmont Mining Corp., a deal that included the spin-out of Liberty Gold. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Aurora Energy, sold to Paladin Energy in 2011. Founder of Oxygen Capital Corp., Dr. O’Dea is currently Chairman of Liberty Gold, Director of PureGold Mining, and Director of Discovery Metals. He led the successful merger of Sun Metals and Serengeti Resources, launching NorthWest Copper in 2021. His many honours include EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year™ for 2014 in the Pacific mining and metals category, the Globe and Mail’s Top 40 Under 40, the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia’s Murray Pezim Award for perseverance and success in financing mineral exploration. Most recently, Dr. O’Dea was awarded the PDAC’s 2021 Viola MacMillan Award for building and financing several international mining companies, taking them from exploration and discovery to development and operations.

Co-Founder & Partner

Twenty-five years’ experience building companies from the ground up

Since 1993, Mr. McInnes has been the founder, president and a director of a number of publicly traded mineral exploration companies. Mr. McInnes was a former Director of Fronteer Gold (2001 to 2011) and is currently Chairman of Sun Metals Corp., a mineral exploration company focused on the high-grade polymetallic Stardust project. He was also the Founder of Kutcho Copper Corp. (formerly Western Keltic Mines Inc.) and Founder, Vice Chair and CEO of Plutonic Power Corporation, that invested $1 billion on clean energy projects in British Columbia. He was a cofounder of True Gold Mining and True North Nickel and serves on the Boards of RNC Minerals, North Coal Limited and Aurelius Minerals Inc. Mr. McInnes is a past Chair and Director of the Independent Power Producers Association of British Columbia, a Governor of the Business Council of British Columbia, past President and Director of the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia, and past Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.

He is a recipient of AME BC’s Gold Pan Award, a lifetime Achievement Award from CEBC, an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the John Ferguson Award from Prostate Cancer Canada and holds an Honorary Doctor of Technology Degree from BCIT.

Co-Founder & Partner

Oversight and execution on all business matters

Mr. Tetzlaff is a seasoned financial professional with over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, tax, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financial reporting in the mining industry.

He currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Pure Gold Mining Inc. which is developing the high grade Madsen Mine in Red Lake Ontario and is a director and Audit Committee Chair of Liberty Gold and Sun Metals. Mr. Tetzlaff also serves on the Advisory Board of Discovery Metals. He previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary for Blue Gold Mining, which merged with Riverstone Resources in 2012 to become True Gold Mining and served as Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance and Corporate Secretary of Fronteer Gold from 2005 to 2011, until it was sold to Newmont for $2.3 billion. Mr. Tetzlaff was also Chief Financial Officer of Aurora Energy Resources from 2006 to 2008, helping the company grow from initial public offering through to the advancement of one of the world's largest undeveloped uranium deposits.