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.