Walter A. Marting, Jr.

Mr. Marting also serves on the Nominating, Executive, & Strategic Planning Committee and joined the Company’s board of directors on April 6, 2018. He is the founder and Managing Member of CereCare, LLC (dba Brain Health Restoration), which provides breakthrough rehabilitation treatment for individuals and veterans suffering from brain disease, traumatic brain injury, and related substance use disorders, most commonly alcoholism and opioid addictions. Mr. Marting is also an experienced mining executive having started his mining career with Amax Inc. from 1975 to 1984 and held positions of increasing responsibility at Amax starting as a shift boss at Amax’s largest underground and open pit molybdenum mine, Climax Molybdenum, and later becoming head of worldwide strategic planning for all of Amax’s new properties. He was appointed VP of Finance and Administration for Amax Europe in 1982 and led Amax’s treasury and financial operations at their European headquarters in Paris, France. He also consolidated and oversaw all of Amax’s metal trading for molybdenum, tungsten, copper, coal and iron ore in Paris. Mr. Marting has served as Chairman and CEO of Lucky Chance Mining Co. since 1984, a Nevada-based junior gold mining firm that successfully reopened and restarted production at the famed 16-1 Mine in Allegheny, California. More recently, he served as a merchant banker with JFP Holdings, Inc., a US firm based in Beijing, China which has overseen a wide portfolio of cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Marting graduated from Yale University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He is a Navy veteran, including distinguished service as a member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Two.