Ken Stead, President and CEO

Mr. Stead is a co-founder of KAT Gold Holdings Corp., and has been president since the company's incorporation. Mr. Stead worked directly in the mining industry from the early to late 70's, where he first started with the Iron Ore Company of Canada and worked for Noranda at their Nanasivik mine in Stratacona Sound, northern Baffin Island. In the early 80's, Mr. Stead worked in the oil fields of Alberta, afterwards returning to Newfoundland where he set up his own construction company from 1985 to 1995.

In 1997, Mr Stead became a co-founder of Cornerstone Resources Inc., a junior mining company now trading on the TSX-V (CGP) until he resigned in 2004. Over the past fifteen years Mr. Stead has been actively working with Gold, Copper and massive sulfide deposits.in Newfoundland Canada and have recently expanded operations in Ghana West Africa. 

Timothy R. Stead, VP of Field Operations

Timothy R. Stead is a co-founder of Kat Exploration Inc., and has been VP of Field Operations. since the company's incorporation in December of 2005. Mr. Stead completed a prospector's training course in 2000, where he was then working in the field for Cornerstone Resources Inc. He has many years of experience and knowledge working with Sediment-Hosted Copper on the eastern portion of the province of Newfoundland. Mr. Stead has acquired much experience and knowledge of massive sulphide deposits as well as gold, and at present is overseeing a work program on one of the companies most exciting gold properties.

W. Les Thistle, Chairman / Corporate Attorney

W. Les Thistle was appointed legal counsel and a director of KAT Exploration Inc. on February 19th 2010.

Mr. Thistle graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (concentration in finance), from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in 1994 with a Bachelor of Laws degree (concentration in corporate and tax law) and was admitted to the Bar of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1995.

After finishing law school, Mr. Thistle practiced at 2 law firms in the St. John's area of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, before starting his own firm. In 1996 Mr. Thistle founded W. Les Thistle Law Office, a general practice law firm located in the City of Mount Pearl, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The law firm serves corporate and individual clients throughout Canada. Mr. Thistle is the senior lawyer at the firm. His primary areas of practice are corporate law, contract law, real estate and personal injury. Mr. Thistle has litigated matters in all levels of court in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador including the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court.

Mr. Thistle is committed to using his ethical approach to business and the law and his experience in the legal and business communities to serve the needs of KAT Exploration Inc.