Board of Directors

Mr. Richard Meli is a director of Lion One, having been a director of its predecessor company since 2004. He is an independent businessman and a former senior executive at Rio Tinto (1996-1999) where he managed the company’s global mergers and acquisitions, and President of Rio Tinto subsidiary Luzenac America (1999-2001). From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Meli was an independent consultant to the mining and oil and gas industries and was President of La Mancha Resources (2004-2006). Mr. Meli worked for Kennecott Corp., then one of the world’s largest copper producers, from 1980 until it was acquired by Rio Tinto in 1989. At Kennecott, Mr. Meli served in a number of planning, analysis and financial management positions, lastly as Senior Vice President. Mr. Meli began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly known as Price Waterhouse & Co.) in 1971, spending eight years in the firm’s New York office, becoming a CPA and reaching the level of Audit Manager. He earned a B.S. in Economics in 1969 and an M.S. in Accounting in 1971, both from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Spreeuw is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 35 years’ experience in business accounting and the securities industry. From 1989 to 2001 he was a Financial and Business Operations Compliance Examiner with the Vancouver Stock Exchange, becoming the Chief Examiner before transitioning to the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. From 2001 to 2006 he was based in Amsterdam as Manager of Accounting with Unsworth & Associates BV which provided corporate and directorship services to Canadian and international corporate clients. Returning to Canada he remained active in the securities industry as Chief Financial Officer of Sora Group Wealth Advisors Inc., Jordan Capital Markets Inc., GF Securities (Canada) Company, Limited, and most recently Vered Wealth Management (Canada) Company, Limited. He continues to work with the Red Lion Group of companies as its accountant.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting from the University of British Columbia, a Diploma of Technology in Computer Systems from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and earned his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation in 1989.