James was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2008 and is a member of the Canadian Securities Administrators’ Mining Technical Advisory and Monitoring Committee, which provides guidance to the provincial securities commissions on technical mining matters. James holds a joint law degree and M.B.A. from Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business and an Honours B.A. in Political Science and Business from the University of Waterloo. James and his wife, Tanya, have one daughter in the Middle School at SMLS.