The Bedford Consulting Group Tapped by LaFleur Minerals to Fill Several Positions

May 11, 2026 – LaFleur Minerals Inc. has engaged executive search and talent advisory firm The Bedford Consulting Group Inc. to support the recruitment of a senior mining executive. This strategic appointment comes at a pivotal stage as the company advances toward the restart of gold production at its 100 percent-owned Beacon Gold Mill in Québec.

The recruitment initiative reflects LaFleur’s transitions from an exploration-stage company toward a production-focused gold company, and underscores the company’s commitment to strengthening leadership capacity to execute on its growth strategy, optimize operations, and deliver shareholder value.

Over the past 12 months, LaFleur has achieved a series of significant milestones that have strategically positioned the company for near-term production and long-term scalable growth, creating an ideal opportunity for a seasoned mining company “builder” executive to join the team.

The mandate provided to Bedford Consulting Group is to identify and engage with mining industry executive candidates who have a demonstrated history of:

• Building early-stage mining companies from brownfield stage towards production or PFS stage with sale or merger exits in excess of $750 million.
• Excellent industry reputation, capital markets expertise and mining industry contacts.
• Excellent ability to build teams across various sectors required for a gold production company.
• Entrepreneurial skillset and ability to undertake transactions that are accretive to the company.

The Bedford Consulting Group is a specialized executive search and compensation advisory firm with over four decades of experience and a dedicated practice serving the global mining, metals and resource sector. The firm partners with public and private companies, investors, and boards to recruit C-suite leaders, operational executives, and directors who can drive performance across the full mining lifecycle, from exploration through to production.

“With a strong presence in Canada and international reach through offices in Australia and the United States, Bedford combines deep industry networks with rigorous search execution and proprietary compensation insights, including its widely recognized mining compensation study,” LaFleur said. “The firm is particularly well positioned to identify CEOs capable of delivering strategic growth, capital markets credibility, and operational excellence in complex, global mining environments. The firm’s global reach and sector-specific expertise position it well to identify leadership capable of executing LaFleur’s next phase of growth.”

The Bedford Consulting Group, led by co-founders and brothers Steven and Howard Pezim, is a privately held executive search and talent advisory firm. Its services span the spectrum of talent management, including leadership assessment, coaching and development, and compensation advisory, as well as executive, managerial and senior technical recruitment. Established in 1979, the Bedford Group has three offices in Canada: Toronto, Oakville (Ontario), and Vancouver, all of which consult with clients throughout North America and globally.

For the past 25 years, Steven Pezim has managed executive search assignments for a broad range of Canadian and international clients from early stage companies to Global Fortune 1000s. His sectors of specialization include technology/media/telecommunications, retail, consumer hard goods/soft goods, financial services, and real estate. In addition to his role with Bedford, Mr. Pezim serves as chairman of the Americas (13 offices) for Transearch International, a top ten global executive search organization operating worldwide. Steven is currently serving his third term on the Transearch board.

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For over 30 years, Howard Pezim has inspired leaders to choose his clients’ corporations for their careers. His particular areas of specialization include retail, consumer products, financial services and life sciences. His current customer base includes a composite of multinational and privately held organizations and he has completed a broad range of C-Level assignments for those clients.

Recent Alliance

A new strategic partnership between Bedford Group | TRANSEARCH and System-3, a provider of simulation-based leadership assessment grounded in observed performance, was recently formed. “By combining Bedford’s four-decades of expertise in executive search with System-3’s highly predictive, performance-based leadership assessment, we are enhancing our ability to support boards and CEOs in making well-informed, evidence-based decisions,” said the partners. “The partnership reflects a shared commitment to improving the quality, rigor and confidence of leadership decisions at the most senior levels. By bringing behavioral evidence into the executive search process, Bedford is strengthening the evaluation of leadership effectiveness and elevating the selection of talent in complex, high-stakes contexts.”

System-3’s platform measures how leaders make complex decisions in realistic, high-pressure scenarios, providing objective, data-driven insight into judgment, problem-solving and leadership effectiveness. Beyond executive search, this capability expands Bedford’s advisory offering across team effectiveness, post-acquisition integration, succession planning, and team and leadership development.

“This partnership integrates our executive search expertise with System-3’s simulation-based leadership assessment, giving boards and executive teams a more predictive, evidence-based way to pressure-test, select and develop leaders,” Bedford Group said in a LinkedIn post. “For our clients, this means deeper insight into how leaders actually perform in complex, high-stakes situations, the ability to validate and re-test leadership behavior over time and greater confidence that leadership capability will translate into sustained results.”

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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor  – Hunt Scanlon Media