- Dedicated to shareholder value.
Tara’s management has proven its ability to recognize value early, gain access and acquire projects on terms that give Tara the ability to assess various options to advance each project. The management team is positioned to leverage its relationships and experience to focus on continuing to build a portfolio production and exploration projects - precious metals within Tara Gold Resources Corp. and non-precious metals and mineral under Tara Minerals Corp.
Tara is also structured to leverage the knowledge of its partners and considers this expertise as an extension of its own.
Mr. Francis R. Biscan Jr. - President, CEO and Director
For the last eight years, Mr. Biscan has worked with various public companies in the areas of business consulting, structuring, mergers and acquisitions and finance. He is currently the President and CEO of Tara Gold Resources Corp. He has also served as a Director for Latitude Minerals, a public mining company, and in numerous outside advisory roles. He has also served on the Board of Timothy Christian Schools.
Mr. David Bizzaro, CMA, MIBS – CFO
David has 20 years of hands on operational finance experience helping start-up and Fortune 500 companies drive profitable growth across international markets. A highly skilled international finance professional, David has led finance organizations in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America at world-class multinational companies including NCR, Sprint/Global One, CIENA, AVAYA and ICT Group. As Founder and Managing Partner of The IFC Group, David and his team provide outsourced international controllership services to middle market companies expanding overseas. Previously, he served as Vice President of International Operations at High Street Partners, a global professional services firm where he headed up the firm’s Advisory Service Practice and expanded HSP’s footprint across Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining High Street Partners, David served as the Sr. Vice President of International Finance at ICT Group, a $500 million publicly traded leader in the outsourced call center and BPO space. Before that, David was based in Hong Kong as the Asia Pac CFO for CIENA Corporation. Earlier in his career he spent five years in Europe with NCR Corporation where he held key operational finance roles in Spain and the Netherlands. David also gained valuable Latin America experience with Sprint/Global One, where he served as Regional Controller for the Americas Division. Having lived and traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America, David is fluent in Spanish and French and has a working knowledge of Mandarin and Portuguese. A Certified Management Accountant (CMA), he holds a Masters of International Business Studies (MIBS) from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Beloit College. David currently resides in the New York metropolitan area.
Mr. Clifford A. Brown, CPA – Director, Controller for US Operations
Mr. Brown graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1980 with a B.S. in Accountancy and passed the Illinois Certified Public Accounts' exam in 1981. He worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago until 1983 when he left public accounting and became the Controller for two successive private businesses. In 1989, Mr. Brown started his own accounting software sales and consulting company, Clifford A. Brown and Co., a Certified Microsoft Partner, in which he continues as President. Mr. Brown has served as the Treasurer and Board Member of Restoration Ministries, Inc. for the past 10 years, where he has played a role in increasing revenues from $150,000 in 1993 to $1,380,000 in 2003. Mr. Brown also serves as the Winfield Township Clerk and the Vice-Chairman of his local political party.
Ramiro Trevizo Ledezma - Director
Since 2005, Ramiro Trevizo has been the President and Sole Administrator of Corporacion Amermin, Tara Gold's 100% owned Mexican subsidiary. From 2003 to 2005, he was the President and Sole Administrator for Grupo Constructor del Desierto, S.A. de C.V., an engineering company. He was responsible for all state and national level bid proposals and project supervision. From 2002 to 2004, Ramiro was the Regional Manager for D&B Engineering, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ. Prior to this, he was a Project Manager with OSP Consultants in California. Ramiro is fluent in English and Spanish.
John Lehmann - Consulting Geologist
John Lehmann has over 27 years of experience in mineral exploration, evaluation and development for both major and junior mining companies throughout the Americas. Mr. Lehmann’s experience includes working for Minera Andes Inc., Cyprus-Amax, Echo Bay, Meridian Minerals, and Conoco Minerals. Mr. Lehmann has a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Washington State University (1982) and is fluent in Spanish. He is a Licensed Professional Geologist from the State of Washington and a Certified Environmental Geologist in the State of California and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. Mr. Lehmann recently completed an NI 43-101 compliant report on Tara Gold’s projects in Mexico.