Leadership Team

Mr. Tincher is a seasoned capital markets executive and board leader with over 30 years of experience spanning the natural resources, energy, and technology sectors. He has held senior executive and director roles across multiple public and private companies, with a track record of guiding organizations through financings, strategic transactions, and public market development.

Mr. Tincher brings deep expertise in capital structure strategy, corporate finance, investor relations, and governance. He is recognized for his governance-driven approach, providing disciplined oversight while working closely with management to align corporate strategy with capital markets execution.

In addition to his role at Auric, Mr. Tincher serves as Lead Director and Audit Committee Chair of Buffalo Potash Corp. (TSX-V: BUFF) and a founding director and ongoing advisor to Atha Energy Corp. (TSX-V: SASK), where he contributed to the company’s early growth and capital markets development . He is also the founder of Smorgasbord Holdings Ltd., a private investment and advisory firm. His experience includes involvement in multiple public listings, financings, and value creation initiatives across early-stage and growth-oriented companies.

Mr. Tincher’s leadership at Auric is focused on advancing the Company’s exploration portfolio while maintaining a disciplined, capital markets-driven approach to growth and shareholder value creation.

Mr. Patel has worked in the investment industry for over 10 years with junior companies from inception and incorporation to final listing. He has acted as CEO and director of several public companies and as the head of his own accounting firm. Mr. Patel specializes in the assistance of initial public offerings and regulatory filings, as well as corporate tax filings. Mr. Patel has received a Business Degree and a Bachelors in Accounting from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a major in accounting and taxation. He brings public and private experience having worked at several Chartered Accounting firms and conducted audits for the public sector. He has also been an active board member and contributed to the start-up of Makena Resources Inc (CAJ), MX Gold Corp (MXL), WestKam Gold Corp. (WKG), Cameo Industries (CRU) and Cresval Capital Corp (CRV).

Mr. Nathwani has held a number of senior positions with public companies where he has played pivotal roles in business and corporate development. His role at TELUS Communications (TSX:T) included driving early-stage portfolios through to multi-million dollar commercialization and revenues. While at Nutanix (Nasdaq:NTNX), Mr. Nathwani was one of the earliest employees pre-IPO within the company, helping drive business development efforts for 7+ years, during which the company raised in excess of $300M at a $1B+ valuation. Mr. Nathwani continues to hold senior level roles with early stage companies, and helps in areas of capital raising, M&A transactions and corporate governance.

Mr. Obradovich has more than 35 years experience in mining exploration, development and financing. He was president and chief executive officer of Barkerville Gold Mines from January 2015, to July 2016. During his tenure, Barkerville Gold went from having $30-million in debt with a market capitalization of $30-million to cash position of $40-million, no debt and a market cap of $200-million. Mr. Obradovich was one of the key individuals behind Aurelian Resources (acquired by Kinross Gold Mines for $1.2 billion in 2008), which discovered the Fruta Del Norte gold deposit in Ecuador. He was also the co-founder of Canadian Royalties Inc., which discovered and developed the Raglan south nickel belt. Mr. Obradovich acquired most of the Matachewan gold camp and, through a reverse takeover of Young-Davidson Mines Ltd., upgraded and doubled the resource which was subsequently acquired by Northgate Minerals in 2005. Mr. Obradovich is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines in mining technology and advanced field geophysics.