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James Cooper is a senior manager with PwC Canada in downtown Toronto, where he specializes in taxation issues related to mining and multi-nationals. He is a Canadian Chartered Accountant / CPA who has been with PwC in the tax group since October 2006. He also has a Master of Taxation from the University of Waterloo. James has a broad range of experience providing tax advice to clients in the mining industry, including both producers and junior exploration companies and involving clients mining and exploring for various base and precious metals and industrial minerals.

James’ tax experience includes tax issues related to accounting for income taxes, cross-border tax planning, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, provincial mining taxes and levies, and dealing with taxation authorities.
 

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Behram Faroogh is managing director in the Consulting and Deals practice of PwC Canada working in the Toronto office. He is part of the Risk & Controls group. With over 20 years of professional experience that spans from the board room to the shop floor, Behram has conducted assignments that consider the interplay, optimization and oversight of strategy, people, systems and processes.

A financial accountant by qualification, Behram has acquired highly developed skills in information technology and extended his experience by conducting projects in IT strategy development, project management consulting, outsourcing and service level management, corporate governance and control environment reviews, information security reviews, software vendor and integrator analyses, application development, data management, data analysis and computer assisted audit techniques, systems selection and software implementations.

His unique blend of business and technology skill set allows Behram to approach any IT advisory engagement from a balanced scorecard perspective that aligns both the business and technology needs and objectives of an organization.
 

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Evan Kelly is a Toronto-based partner within the Consulting & Deals practice at PwC Canada with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of transactions including strategy, valuation, business due diligence, acquisitions, divestitures, financings, wind-ups, carve outs and integration. Evan leads the Canadian arm of our Delivering Deal Value practice which encompasses operational due diligence, acquisition integration and carve outs.

Evan has recently been involved in the following transactions: the acquisition and integration of a large mining company; the carve out and divestiture of the retail operations of an international company; the carve out and divestiture of a group of media publications from a large public company;  the  business due diligence (both financial and operational) on a technology and communications services company with multiple locations and revenue greater than $100 million; the integration three successive acquisitions completed in a space of four months by a large multi-national purchaser in the services business.

Evan brings a unique combination of expertise across every aspect of transactions from early stage strategy through execution, integration and harvest.  Evan is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
 

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James is an experienced senior manager in the Audit and Assurance Group in our Toronto office of PwC Canada. James' work is focused on the mining industry and includes the audits of Canadian and US public companies, as well as SOX 404 compliance.

James is an IFRS champion for the Mining team and has assisted in the IFRS conversion projects of a number of multi-national mining companies. He co-authored and presented at our IFRS for the Mining Industry conference as well as wrote and presented IFRS mining training for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

James is a Chartered Accountant in Ontario (ICAO) and England (ICAEW). He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Economics) from the University of Birmingham, England.
 

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Nelson Switzer is a director with the Consulting and Deals practice within the Toronto office of PwC Canada. He is the leader of the Sustainable Business Solutions group for the Greater Toronto Area and eastern Canada.

Nelson oversees sustainability and corporate responsibility, which includes strategy and implementation, reporting and assurance, governance, risk management, responsible investing, stakeholder engagement and policy.

Nelson has led the environmental, corporate responsibility and sustainability functions for some of the world’s leading corporations and has advised businesses in the finance, energy, real estate, asset management, consumer goods and natural resource sectors, among others. He is credited for helping these organizations identify, manage and mitigate their environmental, social and economic challenges, enabling financial performance while preserving and protecting the natural and social capital on which our economy and communities depend.

Nelson holds a BSc (Biology) from the University of New Brunswick. He also obtained his MEng at the University of Toronto and was one of the first graduates to complete the Environmental Studies program at the same time.
 

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Rob is a senior executive with over 40 years of management experience. His career includes over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. Rob has uniquely combined 15 years as a mining corporate operating executive with 20 years as a management consultant, providing assistance to mining companies worldwide, identifying and implementing business solutions, and supporting their transformations into more productive and sustainable organizations.

Rob has consulted internationally providing productivity and cost reduction solutions to mining companies in the areas of: organizational effectiveness; operations effectiveness; maintenance management; materials management and supply chain.

Rob is currently working with the PWC Excellence in Mining consulting team in Toronto, Canada.