MineCore Officers Jerry G. Mikolajczyk, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Interim President
As COO, Jerry is responsible for the
planning, directing, and coordinating of the operations of
MineCore. Focus will be on a strategic, tactical, and
short-term financing for the development, design and
operation of the sapphire mining operations in Madagascar.
As Interim President, Jerry will be responsible for
developing and building the MineCore organization to
accomplish its goals and objectives
Jerry has more than 27 years
experience in Executive and Senior Management positions with
large international mining, exploration, construction and oil &
gas companies. Jerry is recognized for being creative and
thinking outside the box.
Jerry has worked for Fortune 500
companies such as BP Resources (British Petroleum), SCI Group of
Companies, Syncrude, Bechtel, Guy F. Atkinson and INCO. Most
recently, Jerry was seconded from MineCore/PWC for the Interim
CFO role for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
(VTA), where Jerry was the turnaround CFO for the $3.3 billion
asset transportation authority for the Santa Clara County in
California with a cash portfolio exceeding $1 billion.
Jerry's accomplishments at VTA earned him the San Jose/Silicon
Valley 2008 CFO of the Year Award.
Jerry is a proven leader
coupled with people skills, high standards, integrity and
ethics. Jerry is an internal control specialist and has
presented seminars, lectures and papers on internal control.
Jerry has strong technical
skills ranging from financial and strategic planning; preparing
complicated domestic and foreign consolidations; foreign
currency translations; debt and equity issues, Mergers and
Acquisitions; US regulatory filings; and the use of various
software programs.
Jerry has a diploma in Business
Administration and obtained his Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
and Certified General Accountant (CGA) designations. In 1990, he
presented a paper to the Western Regional Conference of the
Institute of Internal Auditors entitled: "Is Your Project
Control Out of Control?" and in 1991, a paper to the Institute
of Internal Auditors, Calgary Chapter, entitled: "Operational
Audit of the Procurement Function".