He is a professor at the Lakehead who is studing the Albany deposit and I believe is the recipient of the NSERC award together with Zenyatta. He is essentially and independent academic scientist. He does not hold any positions with Zenyatta and likely is not paid directly, but just derives benefit by having some of his research paid by Zenyatta.

In short he is a graphite nerd, althought he would likely qualify himself a bit more broadly as he self describes on his web page as follows:

I am an emerging expert in the fields of applied mineralogy, trace element geochemistry and isotope geochemistry, with application of these methods to understanding the origin(s) of metals and fluids responsible for the formation of magmatic-hydrothermal metal deposits and to mine site remediation. My research encompasses a wide variety of analytical instrumentation and methodologies including light microscopy, XRD, SEM-EDX, EMPA, FTIR, XRF, ICP-AES/MS, INAA, Leco infra-red, wet chemistry, stable isotopes, radiogenic isotopes and K-Ar geochronology. My research has also resulted in several collaborative projects (throughout Canada, USA, Mexico and France) with university researchers, government, and mining and exploration companies.