Mr. Croft is a seasoned business executive with more than 25 years of global leadership experience and expertise in corporate strategy, business development, project management, stakeholder engagement, and environmental and community sustainability. He has spent more than 15 years in the exploration, mining and energy sectors with Ivanhoe Mines, Rio Tinto, Peabody Energy and Duke Energy, including six years as Executive Vice President for the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Layton has contributed to business results on significant gold, copper, iron ore and coal projects and operations in Asia, North America and Africa.
Layton is a Director of Erdene Resource Development (TSX:ERD), which has discovered and is developing a high-grade gold district in southwestern Mongolia. Layton holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA from the School for International Training, and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.