7 Questions with Oxygen Capital’s Mark O’Dea
Mark O’Dea. Credit: Oxygen Capital
Canadian Mining Journal’s new “Seven Questions” series features informal interviews with accomplished leaders in the mining industry.
CMJ’s first instalment highlights Mark O’Dea, chair and founder of Oxygen Capital, who received the PDAC’s Viola R. MacMillan Award at the virtual convention earlier this week. The award, for demonstrating leadership in management and financing for the exploration and development of mineral resources, recognizes O’Dea’s success as a serial company builder.
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The Oxygen group has created 10 companies since 2001, five of which have been acquired, including Fronteer Gold, which was sold to Newmont for $2.3 billion in 2011. Among other honours he has received, O’Dea was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014 in the Pacific mining and metals category, and was the 2011 recipient of the Association for Miner
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