CAMINO - Key Persons


Abraham Palomino

Abraham plays a very important role in establishing and maintaining relationships between Camino and the communities, as well as owners of the surface lands, where the company carries out its activities. Responsible for maintaining and promoting continuous communication and compliance with agreed-upon social programs. His extensive experience is crucial to developing trust and interacting with different social groups within the areas of Camino's projects.

Chris Adams

Job Titles:
  • Director
Chris has over 30 years of mining finance experience with Macquarie Group, where he was head of Mining Finance in the Americas, and prior to that CIBC Capital. His experience includes equities, M&A, principal investing, derivatives and lending. He holds a B.Com from McGill, an MBA from MIT and the CFA designation.

David Baker - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Finance leader with over 20 years of major operational and project experience. Proven ability to identify, analyze, and present projects to international investors, financiers, major companies, and governments. Diversity of experience, extensive knowledge, and talent for attracting billion-dollar investments through presentations and driving company value.

Ewan Webster

Exploration geologist with a comprehensive field, technical, and academic background.

Felix Cornelio

12+ years of experience as a brownfield and greenfield exploration geologist in Porphyry Cu-Mo, VMS, Epithermal, and IOCG systems. Focused on geochemical exploration techniques for regional and local scales with stream sediments, talus fine, lithogeochemistry and Resistant Indicator Minerals (RIM's). Developed project generation in epithermal and porphyry Cu-Mo systems in the Miocene trend of the Andean orogen.

Hu Long

Job Titles:
  • Technical & Metallurgical Advisor
+ 25 years of extensive experience in process development and optimization for lithium, precious and non-ferrous metals. Developed processes and managed the demo plant design, operation, and engineering studies for the Kings Valley lithium project. Hu Long also successfully managed CSH gold project from the scoping study, through PFS, FS, detail design and construction, to the commissioning as a project manager. He holds a Bachelor of mechanical engineering from Tianjin University, a Master of metallurgical engineering from the Montana Tech, and a Ph.D. of metallurgical engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Jay Chmelauskas - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Director
  • President
Former CEO of start-up to production companies Jinshan Goldmines Corp. (China), now China Gold International; Rheominerals (Nevada); and merged Western Lithium Corp. with Lithium Americas Corp. (Nevada and Argentina) + 25 years of experience as an executive and geological engineer in the mining and industrial sectors.

Jorge Arevalo

Job Titles:
  • Country Director, Peru
+ 15 years experience in developing mining exploration projects, as well as modelling environmental, social, and governance cultures with the stakeholders at the different stages of the projects to ensure positive results. Jorge is a UPC University graduate.

José Bassan

Job Titles:
  • Exploration and Reserves Consultant
22+ years experience in the mining industry worked for several exploration and production mining companies in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Australia, and Finland as an exploration geologist, grade control geologist and resource/reserve geologist developing projects of base and precious metals, lithium deposits and industrial minerals.

Justin Bourassa

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Advisor
+ 15 years of global experience in the management, development, governance and reporting of private and publicly-listed mineral exploration and mining companies

Justin Machin

Job Titles:
  • Director
+13 years of mining private equity, corporate finance and M&A experience with Denham Capital, Waterton Global, Standard Chartered and National Bank Financial.

Keith Peck - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Founder of Chilean copper producer Centenario Copper Corporation + 30 years in Investment Banking as VP and Director RBC Dominion Securities, Haywood Securities and Vice Chairman Yorkton Securities. Expert experience as Financier, M&A, Restructuring, Business Valuations and Testimonies

Kenneth C. McNaughton

Job Titles:
  • Director
One of the founders of silver and gold producers Silver Standard SSR Mining and Pretium Resources (currently SVP) + 38 years of global exploration experience.

Olga Krysak

+ 18 years of experience in communications and accounting roles with publicly traded resource companies. Recently served as a Compliance Analyst for an independent agency of the Provincial Government. Former Investor Relations Manager for Lithium Americas Corp., and Corporate Communications Director for a group of energy metals companies.

Paola Silva

Job Titles:
  • Legal and Human Resources Manager ( Peru )
+ 10 years of experience providing legal support for a non-profit civil association, an in-house lawyer and external advisor to mining companies. Currently providing internal legal support to Camino for the development of exploration programs and support in human resources matters. Paola obtained a law degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and a Master's degree in environmental and sustainability studies at Monash University (Australia). Member of the Lima Bar Association and WIM Peru.

Plata Dorada

Job Titles:
  • News