Jonathan Plimpton
Managing Director
Mr. Plimpton is a senior/seasoned executive with experience in numerous businesses. Mr. Plimpton is currently a Managing Director at Plimpton & Company, Plimpton & Company a family office based in Tucson Arizona.
In addition to his role as Managing Director at Plimpton & Company, Mr. Plimpton was the Principal and Founder of IBMI, a global business development company, where he has supported the strategic direction and business development of numerous client companies. Mr. Plimpton was also affiliated with CDI Global, which is a collaboration of over 50 M&A firms in major global markets.
Based in Arizona since 2018, Jon was instrumental in creating Sustainable Botanical International, sourcing rare botanical oils for the cosmetic and personal care sector. He has also been active in Desert Angels and Tucson Rotary and is on the board of two Tucson based companies in which he has investment.
Jon established the CDI offices in Princeton, New Jersey to provide support, in particular, to the global network with the Consumer Product and Life Science sectors. Working with his brother Conrad, who founded of Plimpton & Co in the 1970s, the firm is particularly invested in several life science companies and actively works with various angel groups supporting investment in both the life science, consumer product and other varied industries.
Mr. Plimpton served as Director-International for Church & Dwight (owner of Arm & Hammer brands), where he was responsible for globalizing the company product lines. He also served as Vice President of International at Prince Manufacturing, Inc., a tennis and leisure products company where he was responsible for the company’s sport marketing operations. In 1985, Mr. Plimpton was one of five participants in a management led buyout of Prince from Unilever. He continued to oversee international operations until the company’s successful sale to Edizione of Italy (Benetton) in December of 1990. During that time the international business grew 2.5 times to represent over 65% of the company’s operating profit and 55% of its sales.
Prior to his arrival at Prince, Mr. Plimpton worked as Director of Export Marketing for a division of GenCorp (General Tire) in Pittsburgh. Mr. Plimpton also spent 15 years in the travel industry, working with Pan American, Trans World Airlines, Braniff International and Mexicana Airlines, where he ultimately served as Senior Manager for the United States, Canada and the Pacific.
Mr. Plimpton pursued his MBA at the University of Chicago and his BA in anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.
Pamela Laudenslager
PAM LAUDENSLAGER Managing Partner, for Hemisphere Two Group, LLC is a consulting/advisory group focusing on business planning and strategy, alternative project funding, and cultivating strategic partnerships globally.
Her career spans senior positions as an executive in marketing, sales and communications for Fortune 500 companies, in the fields of entertainment, Broadway, publishing, media, and cosmetics. Pam served as a White House Advance under President Gerald Ford, a Director for Avon Products and a Senior Vice President with Estee Lauder and publisher “The American Benefactor,” a magazine dedicated to philanthropy. As an entrepreneur Pam Co-founded Three Roads Media Partners, LLC, and CEO of Center Stage Capital, Inc. a Broadway production company, which garnered her two Tony Awards.
Pam is deeply committed to nonprofit and civic leadership. She serves as President of her New York City co‑op and serves on the Board of Directors of the Neurology Trauma Research Foundation. Her philanthropic and leadership roles include board and trustee positions at Bideawee NYC, Green Mountain College, New York Blood Center, Sheltering Arms Children’s Services (NY), and The Senior Debate Society.
She holds an Associate of Arts degree from Green Mountain College and a Bachelor of Arts from Cedar Crest College.
Harvey McKenzie, CPA
Harvey McKenzie is a (life Member) Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA-CA), granted by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, Canada. Mr. McKenzie's current principal occupation is the provision of consulting services primarily in financial reporting areas. From June 2011 to August 13, 2021, he has been the (part-time) CFO and Corporate Secretary of Omai Gold Mines Corp. (TSXV: OMG.V), from November 2015 to April 30, 2017, he has been the part time) CFO and Corporate Secretary of Ellipsiz Communications Ltd. a technology company (TSXV: ECL). From June 2011 to November 2015, he was a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Li3 Energy (listed on the OTC); Chair of the Audit Committee of Latin American Minerals Inc. from September 2006 to June 2010 as well as directorships of some small shells listed (or pending listing) on the TSX.
Prior thereto, Mr. McKenzie served as the CFO of several Canadian publicly listed exploration, development and producing mining companies, including Red Crescent Resources limited from January 1, 2013 to March 2014, Martina Minerals Corp. from February 2005 to December 31 2012, Eurotin Inc. from May 2011 to September 2011, Sino Vanadium Inc. from May 2010 to March 2011, Iberian Minerals Corp. from July 2007 to June 2009, Carlisle Goldfields Limited from July 2006 to July 2007, and Asian Mineral Resources Limited from July 2006 to January 2008. From August 2005 to July 2007, he was the CFO and a director of Card One Plus, Ltd., an electronic payment solutions company. Prior thereto he was the CFO of Thistle Mining Inc. from March 1999 to August 2005 (TSXV: TMG.V).
Luis A. Vega, P.Geo
Luis Vega is a senior geologist with over 40 years of experience in working for publicly traded mining companies involved in exploration for precious and base metals His work has focused on investigation of polymetallic and porphyry copper deposits, as well as porphyry gold and sedimented hosted gold deposits throughout North America and South America. Mr. Vega is bilingual speaker in Spanish and English, and has extensive experience in business negotiations in Latin America with both private and governmental entities. He has directed exploration programs in the US, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Argentina and conducted submittal evaluations in Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile.
He has worked for or contracted with companies such as Utah International, Duval Corporation, and Battle Mountain Gold Company, (BMGC),. While at BMGC, he established an exploration office in Chile and discovered the Angelina Porphyry copper/gold occurrence, which was sold to Gold Fields Corporation. He also participated in the discovery and definition of El Higo epithermal gold deposit in the Dominican Republic and, the Casposo Epithermal gold deposit, Argentina. In Bolivia, he supervised and conducted the early geologic work at the Kori Kollo Mine resulting in the definition of over 8 million ounces of gold resource.
While with Utah International he assisted with the definition drilling of several poly-metallic exploration projects in Utah.
During his time with Duval Corporation as head of exploration at the Mineral Park Mine near Kingman, Arizona, Mr. Vega directed the exploration programs that resulted in identification of additional copper and molybdenum reserves. He also co-established and managed the exploration operation for Duval in Argentina. Duval is a division of Pennzoil Corporation.
Mr. Vega is a co-author of several technical papers including:
Geology and Ore Deposits at Mineral Park: Mohave County, Arizona by William H. Wilkinson, Jr., Luis Alfonso Vega and Spencer R. Titley, in Advances in Geology of the Porphvrv Copper Deposits. Southwestern North America, 1980.
Exploration in Lessor Explored Countries: A Geologist's Perspective by Kirk P. Kinart and Luis Alfonso Vega; in Mining Engineering, February 1993, Vol. 45 No. 2, pp 145147.
Cuerpo Subvolcanico en la Quebrada del Chorrillo, Nueva evidencia de mineralizacion en Cordillera Frontal; San Juan, Argentina by Gustavo Sotarello, Irma Belvideri, Ivan Grassi and Luis Vega, in XVI Geological Conference Abstracts, 1997.
Mr. Vega is a member/fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) (Ret) He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and a Master of Science in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona, Tucson.