Scott Close, M.Sc  P.Geo

CoFounder, Geologist & Software Engineer

Following a structural geology degree from Vancouver in the early 2000’s, Scott led field exploration and project generation for NovaGold in BC through partnership with Teck.  Having developed high natural ability for understanding complex geology and executing remote exploration programs, Scott managed $20M, over 50 employees and press cycles to grow Romios Gold for a 5X value increase in three years, meanwhile founding Ethos Geological and training a consulting team to manage exploration, drilling, and resource modelling for more than 40 other junior and mid tier clients worldwide.  The author of over 20 technical reports, NI 43-101 resources, precious & base metal specialization, with extensive QP & VPX experience, Scott bridges his mastery of logistics, big data, geochemical, geological and geospatial AI with academic tutelage from greats like Sillitoe and Goldfarb to advance discovery and spin off technologies including onXmaps, Map.Life and MineAR.