Management Team

Daniel W. Hollis
CEO and Chairman

Mr. Hollis brings thirty years of corporate finance and management experience to the Company. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in venture capital, private and public company funding. His experience includes turn around situations, and development of fast growth management teams for special situations. He has served as an officer and adviser to numerous private and public growth companies. Mr. Hollis has been the CEO of Dutch Gold Resources, Inc. since January 2007.

Rauno Perttu
COO and Vice Chairman

Mr. Rauno Perttu, age 64, is the President and Chairman of the Company. Mr. Perttu is an Oregon-registered Engineering Geologist with almost 40 years of experience in the mining industry.
He has held senior positions with some of North America's leading resource companies. At Kennecott Corporation, he initially worked as a senior geologist, was later promoted to Coal Manager, and then to Director of Business Development. Before Kennecott, Mr. Perttu held senior geologist and management positions at Gulf Minerals, Resources International, and Pacific Power and Light Company.
For the last 20 years, he has worked as a consultant, initiating and managing exploration and development programs in North America, Chile, Columbia, and Venezuela. He has been involved in the discovery of gold and silver deposits in Montana, Utah, and Nevada. He has diverse experience in economic geology. He has evaluated companies for acquisition and commodities for diversification. He has worked internationally in all phases of mineral and metals exploration, evaluation, and development.
Mr. Perttu has managed modest-sized to major projects and programs from the initial conceptual stage through all the subsequent steps, including discovery, acquisition, and determination of economic feasibility, development and production. This background has given him experience both the technical and business aspects of the mineral industry.

Tom Leahey
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Leahey has been at the center of the capital markets for the past 25 years. Prior to his service as Chief Financial Officer and from 2007 to 2009, Mr. Leahey served in a business development and investor role for New York City based Galtere International Fund. Prior thereto and from 2004, Mr. Leahey served as the Chief Financial Officer of NetworkD Corporation of Newport Beach, California a leading provider of infrastructure management software offices in France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany. Mr. Leahey was added to NetworkD’s board in 2005 and helped build the company platform by completing the acquisition of ADMS. During Mr. Leahey tenure as CFO, sales grew by 300% to where NetworkD became one of the world’s largest independent providers of infrastructure management software and related services. Leahey led the full equity sale of the company in 2008 to a large venture funded entity. Leahey continues to serve as an advisor to NetworkD’s parent company. Mr. Leahey began his career as a corporate banker working for large money center banks including Fleet Financial Group in Providence, Rhode Island and Wachovia Bank in Atlanta, Georgia where he served as Vice President of Corporate Banking. In 1993, Leahey was hired by The Maxim Group as Chief Financial Officer leading the company through its initial public offering of stock (IPO). Mr. Leahey joined Atlanta based STI Knowledge in 2000 as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Leahey received his BS Degree in Economics from Florida State University.