Management
Mike Weeks
President and Director
Mike Weeks is the President and founder of Angkor Gold Corp. He has 25 years of experience in project management of petroleum-related industries. Mike spent over 14 years negotiating with foreign governments in developing and implementing natural resource concessions. During that time, Mike was instrumental in the implementation of training programs for local labour force development, and professional accreditation, and made significant strides in self-sustaining community growth and enhancement in developing countries.
He has an engineering background and holds a First Class Power Engineering Certificate. Mike has managed large projects in Canada, Africa, and Europe, constructing and managing several large production facilities in North Africa. Mike is also a founding director of a petroleum training company.
Lee Q. Shim
Director
Mr. Shim has 36 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and investor in Canada and globally. He started his first venture in Toronto in 1984, and has successfully expanded his business to the USA, China, and Southeastern Asia. He has founded and operated a number of companies including Lee Li Holding which has more than 500 employees with interests in a variety of industries.
In 2013, Mr. Shim began investing in mining projects in Canada, and is a chief owner of a private resource company. He is also a significant shareholder and has served as a Director for a number of notable funds and companies.
Lorne Rosenthal
Vice-President
Lorne Rosenthal has worked in oil and gas exploration in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin for over 40 years after graduating with a B.Sc. (Honors) in 1978 and starting in Calgary with the Foothills Exploration Group of Union Oil of California. Over the course of a 40 year career, he has worked in a number of different staff and consultant positions (Well Site Geologist, Exploration Geologist, Area Manager, Senior Research Scientist, VP Exploration, and finally President and CEO). He has been either employed or retained under contract by literally dozens of very successful oil companies in Calgary (Unocal, Sceptre, Murphy, Chevron, PanCanadian, and PetroCanada).
In 1984 he completed an MSc in Geology (McMaster University) and also completed a Ph.D. in Petroleum Geology at the University of Manitoba in 1989. He has managed his own consulting practice since 1989.
Since the beginning of his career, he has successfully drilled over 200 exploration and development wells (mainly in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in Western Canada) but has also worked the Canadian Arctic (Beaufort sea) and the Yukon, as well as the US (Montana and North Dakota). He is credited with an overall success rate of over 85% in wells drilled to date (exploration/development combined), mainly targeting light oil and natural gas at depths from 600m to 4000m+).
In 2017 he co-founded and manages a small Calgary-based exploration venture (Sundog Oil and Gas) which so far has participated in 8 wells with a 100% success rate. With a total seed capital of less than $3.0 MM, he has built the company into a rapidly growing light producer with a projected 2018 year-end production of over 250+ BOPD and cashflows of $400,000+ per month.