Board of Directors

Dr. Alan Mackworth is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He was educated at Toronto (B.A.Sc.), Harvard (A.M.) and Sussex (D.Phil.). He works on constraint-based artificial intelligence with applications in vision, robotics, situated agents, assistive technology and sustainability. He has authored over 130 papers and co-authored two books: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach (1998); and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (2010; 2nd Ed. 2017).

Mr. Smyth, PGeo, has an MSc Geochemistry, MSc Computer Science (AI). He is a geologist and software developer with 40 years of experience and worked for 25 years with Anglo American, including as VP Exploration. He was sent by Anglo to Imperial College, London to study AI applications in geology. He and his team discovered the Buzwagi Gold deposit in Tanzania in 1996; the Boyongan Cu-Au porphyry deposit in the Philippines in 1999, and GT Gold Corp’s Saddle Gold Project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle in 2014.

Mr. Thomas is a principal of Vaughn Holdings, LLC and Firogo Opportunities, LLC, private investment and advisory companies. Throughout his extensive career, Mr. Thomas has advised companies on corporate, finance and M&A matters and held roles including management of legal, compliance, risk management, human resources, information technology and real estate. Mr. Thomas is board member of CMD, a diversified advertising and marketing agency. Mr. Thomas has a JD from Vanderbilt University, an MBA University of Oregon, and a AB Wabash College.

Mr. Tillman is the principal of Pi Consulting, LLC, a private investment and consulting company.  He started his career on Wall Street in 2001.  In 2003 he  joined Harbinger Capital Partners, an NYC based hedge fund where he helped direct the future of many companies, overseeing ownership stakes and bankruptcies involving billions of dollars. He went on to provide myriad consulting services to investment companies and family offices as well as sponsoring or participating in business deals ranging from data centers to being the sole independent board member during Gawker Media’s bankruptcy.  Mr. Tillman holds dual BSM’s from Tulane University.

Craig Tuckman is the Head of Marketing, Metals Americas for Mitsui Busan Commodities (USA) Inc., where, since his joining in 2016, his responsibilities include business development for Americas Metals clients, marketing team management, new product development and desk support. Mr. Tuckman start ed his career in 1985 at a metals trade house.  In 1994, he began working in commodity derivatives and futures sales in New York before becoming a founding member of the BNP Paribas Commodities desk in 2001. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2004 with responsibilities for global metal products. Beyond traditional commodity trading products, he worked with project and trade finance teams in developing and executing large and highly profitable hedged structured finance products. His work in the sector continued to evolve with numerous risk management advisory and M&A projects for institutional mining and corporate clients as well as supporting hedge fund product requirements integrating and executing syndicated leverage finance hedged facilities for metals sector clients in the sector. In 2008 he became Managing Director and Global Head of Metals Sales and Structuring for Citigroup. From 2012 through 2016, he worked on commodity projects for a Canadian bank, a large physical bullion trader and an aluminum alloy producer to assist in evaluating and evolving their business models which has also included borrowing base, non-recourse inventory finance, transactional and e-commerce facilities. Mr. Tuckman also serves on the board of directors of Gaia Real Estate Corp, a multi-family private REIT.