Dr. Hooshang Asadi Haroni is the founder and managing director of the Tethyan Gold Exploration company. He has 25 years of experience in spectral mineral remote sensing, geospatial data integration modeling, and several activities in various gold and copper exploration stages. These experiences, combined with his earlier experience working in Rio Tinto as an exploration geologist and remote sensing and GIS analyst, led him to discover several gold and copper deposits, mainly using spectral remote sensing in the first exploration stage.
Dr. Marc Goossens is the non-executive director and spectral remote sensing expert at the Tethyan Gold company. He has about 30 years of experience in spectral remote sensing, mainly managing the Geosense company. His primary expertise is spectral mapping of alteration patterns, mineral target generation, and field spectroscopy, where he carried out several projects for international companies such as Rio Tinto, BHP, Anglo-American, Newmont, Stratex, etc. He worked at Anglo-American and Newmont for several years. In early 2000, Marc found an opportunity in the growing UAV market when he founded URSUS Airborne and pioneered using drones for geoscience applications.