Blacksands Petroleum Corporate Information
Overview
Blacksands Petroleum, Inc. is a public company (OTCBB:BSPE) engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of unconventional oil in Western Canada, particularly Saskatchewan.
Blacksands has a 75% interest in Access Energy Inc., which in turn entered into an exclusive and binding Impact Benefit Agreement and Joint Venture Agreement with the Buffalo River Dene Nation (BRDN) in May 2007 which gives Access Energy exclusive access to approximately 3,000,000 acres of the BRDN's traditional lands.
Access Energy's agreements with the BRDN run until at least May 2027. Blacksands plans to explore the Project Land seeking to discover and develop heavy oil (unconventional) and bitumen deposits.
Management & Directors
Mark Holcombe, President and CEO, CFO and Director, founded Stirling Partners Limited in 2006, was the former Head of Corporate Development and Private Equity and Chief Compliance Officer at GEM Global Equities Management, S.A., an emerging market hedge fund, and was also an investment banker at DLJ and ING Capital in New York. Mr. Holcombe has over 18 years of natural resource industry and corporate finance experience. Since 2007, he serves on the board of Sandfield Ventures Corporation, PNG LNG Ltd. and Pacific LNG Operations LTD.Mr. Holcombe holds a B.A. from Colgate University.
Paul A. Parisotto, Director is an executive with significant investment banking experience. From December 2004 until September 2008, Mr. Parisotto served as a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona Star Resource Corp., a publicly traded company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the American Stock Exchange until its take-over by Barrick Gold Corporation. Mr. Parisotto is also the sole director, stockholder and president of Coniston Investment Corp. ("Coniston") a firm which provides investment banking services such as raising equity and debt and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to small public and private market capitalization companies.
Mr. Parisotto is a director of Noront Resources Ltd. (since June 2008) and was their co-interim President and CEO from October, 2008 to June, 2009. He is a former director of Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., a company taken over by US Gold Corp., the former Vice President and Director of HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. from March 1998 to June 1999 and a former Senior Vice President (Corporate Finance) of Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc. from January 1995 to January 1998. Prior to Mr. Parisotto's investment banking experience, he served as the Manager, Original Listings of the Toronto Stock Exchange from November 1985 to December 1994.
Rick Wilson, Director has been in the mining and natural resource industry for over twenty years. Since 2006, Mr. Wilson has been the President of Regent Ventures Ltd., a company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties. Regent Ventures currently has mining exploration projects in Nevada and the Yukon Territories and holds the licenses to sell environmentally safe clean up products to the oil and gas industry in Canada.
Prior to serving as its President, Mr. Wilson was a director of Regent Ventures from 1993 to 2006. Mr. Wilson also served as the President of Emerson Explorations/GBS Gold International Inc. from 1998 to 2006, during which time that company raised over $62 million dollars to acquire and develop two publicly trading Australian gold mines.
Bruno Mosimann, Director, is a financial consultant, resident in Switzerland. Since July 1985, he has been the President and Managing Director of Romofin AG, a firm that supplies investment management services to its customers. Mr. Mosimann has also served as an officer of various listed companies.
Corporate Governance Policies
In October 2008, the Board of Directors adopted a set of Corporate Governance Policies including: a mandate for the Board of Directors, Board Committees' Terms of Reference, and policies on insider trading, corporate disclosure, Whistleblower and Business Conduct.
Please click here to view the Corporate Governance document in .pdf format.
Corporate Directory
CORPORATE OFFICE:
Blacksands Petroleum, Inc.
401 Bay Street,
Suite 2700, P.O. Box 152,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2Y4
Telephone: 416.359.7805
Fax: 416.359.7801
Email: info@blacksandspetroleum.com
ADVISORS AND AGENTS AUDITOR:
Ernst & Young LLP
Ernst & Young Tower,
222 Bay Street, P.O. Box 251,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5K 1J7
LEGAL COUNSEL:
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Canada Trust Tower, Brookfield Place,
161 Bay Street, Suite 4310, P.O. Box 512,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2S1
TRANSFER AGENT:
Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company
17 Battery Place,
New York, New York 10004
Telephone: 212.509.4000
Fax: 212.509.5150