Jubilee Minerals (affiliate of the Judson & Cie Group) , through access to private investment vehicles, funds and acquires mineral exploration and mining opportunities. The mandate is to acquire mineral claims or mining interests first as the private company investor, issue stock on highly favourable terms to its first investors, and then exchange its shares at a premium into a public company controlled by us.
Jubilee Minerals is the deal originator. It identifies the asset opportunity, negotiates its acquisition and arranges the vend-in with the public company. It does this in return for founder’s shares.
We have the deal network to help us identify compelling opportunities and the management team to execute and attract the financial backing of institutional investors.
African Opportunities Team
Michael C. Judson, ICD.D, Chairman & CEO
For more than thirty years Mr. Judson has been forming, financing and operating private and public companies. He has raised and overseen the investment of approximately $200 million in mineral exploration, lead-zinc mining, oil and gas exploration and production in North America, Europe and Africa. Mr. Judson graduated from Concordia University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts. He graduated from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University Directors Education Program in 2007 and became an Institute-certified Director (ICD.D) in 2011. Mr. Judson is currently Managing Director of Judson & Cie, a financial advisory based in Montreal, Canada, that he formed in 2013. He sits on the board of two public companies.
Alain Mizelle, President
Mr. Mizelle has over 20 years of experience as an inceptor and developer of natural resources companies spanning minerals, mining and oil and gas in Canada, the US and West Africa. He has an extensive background in all aspects of natural resource contracts and joint ventures negotiations, exploration and development from geological/geophysical exploration through to PEA/feasibility studies/FEED and Final Investment Decisions (FIDs). Mr. Mizelle was founder and chairman of Holle Potash Corp and Agricor Inc. both undertook potash and phosphate exploration projects in the Congo-basin. In addition, Alain was involved in gold and iron ore exploration projects in Mauritania’s Reguibat shield, Niger’s Liptako province and northern Burkina Faso’s Bouroum-Yalogo belt near the Inata and Essakane gold mines where a Prevail Gold predecessor company pursued gold prospects between 2010 and 2017. Prevail Investment reviewed extensive investment opportunities in the Lufilian copper belt of the DRC in Katanga and gold, diamonds, copper and nickel projects in the Kasai provinces of Southern DRC. Mr. Mizelle was recently instrumental in helping relaunch the diamond production activities of DRC Congo’s parastatal company, MIBA. In the oil and gas business, he formed GGPC (Gulfofguinea Petroleum Corp), FirstAfrica Oil Plc and was President of Prevail Energy Ltd. These companies were all active in oil and gas projects in West Africa. Mr. Mizelle holds a Ms (Geol), Msc (Eng) Mining from Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Edward Procyshyn, P.Geo Vice-President Exploration
Mr. Procyshyn undertook his Ph.D. metallogenic studies at Queen’s University in Economic Geology and was a professor of geology at Montreal’s Concordia University from 1979 to 1995. He taught field mapping, petrology, structural geology, tectonics and economic geology. Since graduating from the University of Manitoba, B.Sc. Geological Engineering, Edward has worked as a field exploration geologist for INCO, Canico and Amax Exploration and as a mine geologist at Mine Madeleine and Mines Gaspé, Québec. Edward, through his consulting company, Le Groupe GeoInfo Inc has managed exploration projects for private and listed companies exploring for gold and iron deposits in British Columbia, Quebec and Newfoundland, and has undertaken evaluation and due diligence studies leading to negotiated option and joint venture agreements for gold, silver, copper and molybdenum deposits in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ethiopia and Spain and for diamond deposits in Russia and the North West Territories.
David A. Johnson, Corporate Secretary & Legal Counsel
Mr. Johnson is an attorney and trade-mark agent specializing in corporate law, commercial transactions and intellectual property. Mr. Johnson has several years’ experience at the senior management and board level in a variety of companies and not for profit organizations. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Queen’s University, a Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University. He also completed the Directors’ Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and has been certified at the Institute of Corporate Directors, (ICD.D), the International Executive Program for Mining Leadership at the School of Business, Queen’s University and completed the Business Leadership Program for In-House Counsel at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and has been certified by the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association.
Robert Kramberger, Vice-President Investor Relations
Mr. Kramberger has over twenty years of experience in the capital markets and in business development and corporate marketing. Working with CEO, Michael Judson, during the last seventeen years, Mr. Kramberger helped to raise over $30 million for a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company and for a private company. Representing numerous public and private companies. Mr. Kramberger has successfully built strong relationships with a vast network of shareholders, advisors, and other stakeholders. Mr. Kramberger is also a Principal Consultant with Judson & Cie, a financial advisory based in Montreal.