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Leadership

Black Diamond leadership has substantial investment, entrepreneurial, and operational experience in many industries. Team members provide funded ventures with strategic counsel, planning and budgeting, and administrative and accounting support, to help portfolio companies achieve their full potential.

Patrick Imeson
Managing Director

Maryna Fitzgerald
Advisor

Bobby Cooper
Board of Directors – Mining Projects

Jeffrey Kinsey
Advisor

Liliana Lobato
Executive Assistant

Patrick Imeson

Managing Director

Pat draws upon a diverse career in finance and company operations. As a senior vice president of a mid-sized asset management firm, he led initiatives in sales and marketing of alternative investments as well as building international relationships. He has also held senior executive and entrepreneurial responsibilities in sectors including engineering, regional airlines, insurance, food & beverage, and mining. Imeson was educated at New Mexico Military Institute and spent two years at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.

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Maryna Fitzgerald

Advisor

Maryna has over a decade of experience in the energy and mining businesses having worked for a variety of oil & gas, coal, and other energy companies. Particular expertise in analyzing resource potential and optimizing current production. Maryna has a BS from the Colorado School of Mines as well as additional coursework in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Belarusian State University in her home city of Minsk, Belarus.

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Bobby Cooper

Board of Directors – Mining Projects

40+ years of multi-site, multi-product experience in the mining industry. Global focus including US, Europe, Asia and South America. Former President of Kennecott Corporation, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group, and Group Mining Executive, Rio Tinto. Recent executive/director roles with successful junior companies such as US Silver and High Plains Uranium.

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Jeffrey Kinsey
Advisor

Mr. Kinsey is a top-performing portfolio advisor with a proven ability to develop and lead the implementation of strategic initiatives.

With 25 years of operational, relationship management, and sales experience, Mr. Kinsey brings a measured and balanced approach to guiding a wide variety of firms through particularly challenging organizational hurdles. Examples include: implementing a client-centric relationship management process to increase revenues 300%; building a national sales team; rebranding two firms in different verticals; designing a comprehensive operating model to quadruple the valuation of a financial services startup.

Mr. Kinsey holds an MBA in Strategic Leadership from the Dominican University of California as well as an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California.

Liliana Lobato

Executive Assistant

Lilly has been an executive assistant to C-suite executives for over 10 years. Along the way, she has expertly performed duties in office management, HR, and accounting, handling budgets of $50M+.

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