Ross Beaty is a geologist and resource company entrepreneur with over 41 years of experience in the international minerals and renewable energy industries. He founded and is Executive Chairman of Alterra Power Corp., a clean energy company with geothermal, solar, hydro and wind power operations in B.C., Iceland and Ontario. Beaty also founded and currently serves as Chairman of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world’s leading silver producers, and since 1985 has successfully founded and divested a number of other public mineral resource companies. He is a Director of The Nature Trust of B.C., Director of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and President of the Sitka Foundation.