Leadership Team

Paddy currently serves as President, CEO and Director of Orogen Royalties Inc. Paddy joined Orogen Royalties in 2020 as part of a merger between Renaissance Gold and Evrim Resources, where he served as co-founder and CEO since 2011. Paddy is an experienced public company executive, having spent over two decades in the management of mineral exploration companies. In his career, Paddy has a track record of creating shareholder value through exploration partnerships generated from early-stage base and precious metal opportunities in western Canada, United States, and Mexico.  Under Paddy's leadership, the Orogen team generates royalties and recuperates its investment through transactions with industry or joint venture partners on high‐quality exploration projects including the producing Ermitaño gold mine in Sonora, Mexico - (2.0% NSR) and the Silicon gold project in Nevada, U.S.A ‐ (1.0% NSR). Paddy holds an MBA in Executive Management, Consulting from Royal Roads University and a B.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University.

Marc Tran is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA) with over 20 years of finance leadership experience with public organizations. He has successfully completed over $100M of financing for mining projects and is an experienced strategic executive in transforming and scaling growth staged companies. He also has a strong background in project financing, M&A, compliance, regulatory management, corporate governance and marketing. Mr. Tran also holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Calgary.

Marco joined Orogen in 2021 and brings nearly 20 years' experience as an analyst, fund manager, and executive in the metals and mining industry. He spent 11 years as an analyst and portfolio manager with Equinox Partners LP in New York, managing the firm’s investments in metals and mining, and evaluating exploration, development, production and royalty companies. He has also been a director and member of the audit committee for Orezone Gold Corporation and CEO of Adia Resources, a private diamond exploration company. Marco holds a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.

Laurence is an exploration geologist with a decade of experience in base and precious metal exploration including grassroots to pre-feasibility projects in a variety of mineral systems. He joined Evrim (Orogen’s predecessor) after completing a PhD in Economic Geology from the University of Alberta. He also holds a masters in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge UK.  Laurence is a professional geologist registered with EGBC and Orogen’s QP.

Ignacio has 19 years experience in mineral exploration, project generation, mapping sampling and both diamond and RC drilling, mainly in porphyry, skarn and epithermal projects. He graduated from the University of Sonora with a Bachelor’s Degree in Geology. He has worked for Orogen since 2013.

Krizna brings over 15 years of experience in financial operations, reporting and planning. Prior to joining Orogen, she held a Controller role at a public company, leading external reporting and compliance, alongside the financial and operational aspects of its multi-jurisdictional business and M&A work. Krizna is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Accountancy and Business Administration from Miriam College.

Bob has worked as an exploration geologist and in senior management for major and junior mining companies for the past 35 years. This experience has been largely in Nevada, where he has been directly involved in the discovery or resource development of five gold deposits, notably the Long Canyon deposit with Pittston Nevada Gold, New West Gold and Fronteer, and the Twin Creeks, Lone Tree, Trenton Canyon and Valmy deposits with Santa Fe Pacific Gold. For the past 20 years, Bob has served in corporate management and executive positions, where in addition to his technical and leadership roles in exploration, he has been involved in corporate financing activities, investor relations, and presenting technical and corporate information to the markets. Most recently Bob was the President and CEO of Renaissance Gold.