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Time | Presentation |
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8:30 - 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast |
9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome and Introductions |
9:05 - 9:35 | Don Lindsay, Former CEO, Teck Resources Ltd. |
9:35 - 9:50 | Metal Energy Corp. |
9:50 - 10:05 | Los Andes Copper Ltd. |
10:05 -10:20 | NextGen Energy Ltd. |
10:20 - 11:15 | The Future Of Mining - Unlocking Opportunities for the Next Generation |
11:15 - 11:30 | Panoro Minerals Ltd. |
11:30 - 11:45 | Fireweed Metals Corp. |
11:45 - 12:00 | Archer Exploration Corp. |
12:00 - 12:45 | Lunch Break |
12:55 - 1:10 | Horizon Copper Corp. |
1:10 - 1:25 | ORECAP Invest Corp. |
2:10 - 2:25 | O3 Mining |
2:25 - 3:10 | How an effective ESG strategy can help ensure the next Super Cycle leaves no one behind |
3:10 - 3:25 | Sanu Gold Corporation |
3:25 - 3:40 | American Eagle Gold Corp. |
3:40 - 4:20 | Frank Giustra, Strategic Advisor, Aris Mining |
4:20 | Closing remarks |
Time | Presentation |
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8:30 - 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast |
9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome and Introductions |
9:05 - 9:20 | Power Nickel Inc. |
9:20 - 9:50 | Catherine McLeod-Seltzer, Independent Chair, Kinross Gold |
9:50 - 10:05 | Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. |
10:05 - 10:20 | Century Lithium Corp. |
10:20 - 10:50 | John McCluskey, President, CEO and Director, Alamos Gold |
10:50 - 11:05 | Lithium Chile Inc. |
11:05 - 11:50 | Quebec’s novel approach to project de-risking |
12:00 - 12:45 | Featured Speaker Lunch: Robert Friedland, Founder and Executive Co-chair, Ivanhoe Mines |
12:55 - 1:10 | Li-Ft Power Ltd. |
1:10 - 1:25 | TRX Gold Corporation |
1:25 - 1:40 | Quebec Precious Metals Corp. |
1:45 - 2:15 | Randy Smallwood, President and CEO, Wheaton Precious Metals |
2:15 - 2:30 | Tudor Gold Corp. |
2:30 - 2:45 | Altiplano Metals Inc. |
2:45 - 3:00 | West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. |
3:00 - 3:45 | The Road Ahead: Unlocking the innovation gateway |
3:45 - 4:00 | Dolly Varden Silver Corp. |
4:00 - 4:15 | Empress Royalty |
4:15 - 4:45 | David Garofalo, CEO, President, Chairman and Director, Gold Royalty |
5:00 - 6:00 | Closing remarks |
Discover compelling junior and mid-tier companies and their plans for future growth and gain a broader understanding of some of the macro issues affecting the mining and metals markets.
We’ve assembled an incredible line-up of mining industry leaders and innovators to tackle subjects like ESG, energy trends, digital transformation, de-carbonization and much more.
Ana Cristina Cabral has over 20 years of experience as a senior banker at global investment banks in New York, London and São Paulo. Ms. Cabral is a former Head of Lat. Am. Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs in New York and a former Managing Director at the firm. Ms. Cabral has been involved in a large number of transactions over her career, totaling more than US$100 billion, five of which won the prestigious IFR “Deal of the Year” award, including the privatization of Vale in 1996 and the acquisition of Inco by Vale in 2006. Ms. Cabral has an MBA degree from Columbia Business School and a Master in Finance degree from London Business School. Ms. Cabral serves on the Advisory Board of Columbia University Global Centers and is a CCEC board member of The American School of São Paulo.
For more than 25 years, Robert M. Friedland has been recognized by leaders of the international financial sector as an entrepreneurial explorer, technology innovator and company builder. He has played key leadership roles in several world-scale mineral discoveries and mine development projects including the Voisey’s Bay nickel discovery in Canada and the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold discoveries in Mongolia.
Today, Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, focused on advancing its three principal projects: the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mining Complex and the historic Kipushi zinccopper-germanium-silver mine in the DRC, and the Platreef palladium-platinum-nickel-coppergold discovery in South Africa. He is the Chairman and co-founder of I-Pulse, a private company that is commercializing proprietary, pulsed-power technologies aiming to achieve disruptive outcomes across numerous industries, as well as the Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Electric that develops mines from mineral deposits principally located in the USA to support American supply chain independence. Ivanhoe Electric's two main projects are the Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona and the Tintic copper-gold project in Utah.
Mr. Friedland was the Director, Chairman and President of Ivanhoe Pictures, Inc. from May 2013 to December 2021, and a Director since December 2016, and Chairman, since June 2018, of VRB Energy. As one of the most recognized mining personalities and achievers in the world, Mr. Friedland is dedicated to serving on numerous boards in the natural resources sector. These positions include serving as a Co- Chairman and Director of Sunrise Energy Metals Limited (formerly Clean TeQ Holdings Limited) since September 2016, a Director of I-Pulse since April 2008, and a Director of Kietta SAS since November 2009. From June 2020 to June 2021, Mr. Friedland served as Chairman of Gold X Mining Corp., which was acquired by Gran Colombia in June 2021, at which time Mr. Friedland left the board of directors. Mr. Friedland founded Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed special purpose acquisition corporation that completed its merger with SES AI Corporation (“SES”), a lithium-metal battery developer, in February 2022. He continues to serve as a director of SES.
Robert was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2016, cited as “a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian and international mining industries. Mr. Friedland graduated with a degree in political science from Reed College and currently resides in Singapore.
David Garofalo is Chairman & CEO of Gold Royalty Corp., Co-Chair of Gold Mining Inc. and serves on the Board of Aris Mining. David was President & CEO and Director of Goldcorp (2016-2019), President & CEO and Director of Hudbay from 2010, Senior Vice President and CFO and Director of Agnico-Eagle from 1998 and Treasurer of Inmet Mining from 1990.
David was recognized as The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2012.
He was also awarded as Canada’s CFO of the Year by Financial Executives International Canada (2009) and Top Gun CFO by Brendan Wood International (2009 and 2010) and was recognized by IR Magazine with awards for Best Investor Relations by a CFO (2009 and 2010) and Best Investor Relations by a CEO (2011).
David earned designations as a Canadian Fellow of the Chartered Public Accountants and a Certified Director of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Vice Chair) and Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. He and his wife Christie live in Vancouver and have eight children.
Frank Giustra is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist who has made significant contributions in various industries. As President and CEO of the Fiore Group, he manages a diverse portfolio of assets and investments in natural resources, entertainment, and lifestyle companies. Giustra is known for his ability to build natural resource companies by accessing capital and engaging in creative deal-making.
One of his more recent projects is West Red Lake Gold (TSX.V: WRLG), a company focused on gold exploration and development in the Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. He also served as the Chairman of Leagold Mining from 2016 to 2019, which was successfully merged to Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX), forming a significant gold-producing company operating in the Americas. Additionally, Giustra was the Chairman of Endeavour Financial from 2001 to 2007, where he acquired, grew, and divested numerous resource companies. Notably, he was founder Endeavour Mining, Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. (which later became Goldcorp), and Wheaton Precious Metals.
Earlier in his career, Giustra held executive positions at Yorkton Securities from 1980-1996. As CEO and Chairman, he played a key role in growing Yorkton Securities into a leading natural resource investment bank. He started his career Merrill Lynch.
Giustra's entrepreneurial success extends beyond the natural resource sector. In 1997, he founded Lionsgate Entertainment, which has become one of the world's largest independent film companies.
Beyond his business endeavors, Giustra is recognized for his philanthropic activities. He established The Giustra Foundation, a Canadian charity that supports initiatives focused on women and children, education, refugee resettlement. The foundation is a founding partner in the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative. Outside of Canada, his Giustra International Foundation seeds and supports organizations leading the way in conflict resolution and foreign policy.
In 2007, Giustra launched Acceso, a social business builder that addresses global poverty through entrepreneurial solutions, particularly in agribusinesses in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
In 2020, Giustra was appointed Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group, an independent, non-partisan organization that provides analysis and advice to policymakers on preventing and resolving deadly conflicts.
Due to his contributions and achievements, Frank Giustra has received several honors and awards, including the Order of Canada, the Order of British Columbia, and other distinguished accolades.
Don Lindsay retired last year as President and CEO of Teck Resources, a position he had held since 2005. He is currently Chair of the Board of Manulife Financial Corporation, as well as Chair of the Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025. He will complete his “gardening leave” from Teck Resources on December 1 and will rejoin the mining industry thereafter. Don’s first employment in mining was working underground in a uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan in the summer and later started full time work as a shift foreman at the Iron Ore Company of Canada in Labrador City. He was most excited when he was named General Foreman – Blasting. When the industry took a downturn in 1983 he went back to school and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. Before joining Teck, Don was President of CIBC World Markets, leading the bank’s investment and corporate banking division as well as the Asia Pacific region. In 1988 he founded CIBC’s Global Mining Group and built it into a leading financing and advisory team for the mining industry with representatives in Toronto, Vancouver, London, Chicago, Sydney, Perth and Kalgoorlie. From 2007 to 2011, Don was Chair of the International Zinc Association when it developed and launched the Zinc Saves Kids campaign. He has been Chair of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the Governors Forum on Mining and Metals at the World Economic Forum and the Business Council of Canada. Under his leadership, Teck launched its Zinc & Health program, which to date has reached more than 140 million people worldwide, including 60 million children. He also took an active role in advocating for community public safety through creating the Teck Copper & Health program, which promoted the use of antimicrobial copper to reduce the spread of infection and hospital acquired infections in healthcare and other public spaces. Under this program, Teck developed partnerships across Canada’s healthcare, transportation, education and cultural sectors to pilot the use of these cutting-edge technologies to drive research and build awareness of copper’s life-saving properties. Don has received a number of accolades and awards, the most recent of which is the Copper Club’s Ankh Award (2023).
Ms. McLeod-Seltzer was first appointed as Director in October 2005 and was appointed as the Independent Chair in January 2019.
Ms. McLeod-Seltzer has been the Non-Executive Chair and a director of Bear Creek Mining since 2003 and was the Non-Executive/Independent Chair and a director of Pacific Rim Mining Corp until November 2013. She had been an officer and director of Pacific Rim Mining Corp. since 1997. From 1994 to 1996, she was the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Arequipa Resources Ltd., a publicly traded company which she co-founded in 1992. From 1985 to 1993, she was employed by Yorkton Securities Inc. as an institutional trader and broker, and also as Operations Manager in Santiago, Chile (1991-92). She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Trinity Western University.
John McCluskey has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Alamos Gold Inc. since he co-founded the Company in 2003. As a Canadian-based gold producer with nearly 2,000 employees, Alamos has a long-term track record of creating value for stakeholders with three operating mines – two in Canada and one in Mexico – as well as development stage projects. In addition to its solid financial performance and low-cost production growth, Alamos has maintained a company-wide commitment to social responsibility and environmental stewardship under Mr. McCluskey’s leadership. Mr. McCluskey is the recipient of the 2023 Viola R. MacMillan Award, given by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada for showing leadership and a willingness to take risks in the acquisition and development of the Island Gold mine in Northern Ontario. In 2018, he received the Murray Pezim Award for Perseverance and Success in Financing Mineral Exploration by the British Columbia Association for Mineral Exploration, in recognition of his role in the acquisition, financing, and encouragement of successive discoveries at Mulatos. In 2012, he was named Ontario’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year. He was formerly a Director of the World Gold Council and is currently an Alternative Director.
John McConnell's +40 years of mining experience is mostly in Canada's northern territories. John has been President & CEO of Victoria Gold since 2010 and has led the exploration, development, and financing of the Eagle Gold Mine in Canada's Yukon Territory. Eagle has been in production since 2019 and at full production will produce +200,000 ounces per year of gold.
Previously, he was President & CEO of Western Keltic Mines until it was acquired by Sherwood Copper; VP, NWT Projects for De Beers Canada primarily responsible for permitting and development of the Snap Lake Diamond Mine; Breakwater Resources Ltd in operations at the Nanisivik Zinc & Lead Mine on Baffin Island; and Strathcona Mineral Services Ltd.
Mr. McConnell is the 2021 Winner of AME BC's prestigious EA Scholtz Award for Excellence in Mine Development for his role in building the Eagle Gold mine. A graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, with a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering Mr. McConnell is also a Director of Lahontan Gold Corp.
Mr. Sean Roosen is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Mr. Roosen was a founding member of Osisko Mining Corporation (2003) and of EurAsia Holding AG, a European venture capital fund.
Mr. Roosen has over 30 years of progressive experience in the mining industry. As founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Osisko Mining Corporation, he was responsible for developing the strategic plan for the discovery, financing and development of the Canadian Malartic Mine. He also led the efforts for the maximization of shareholders’ value in the sale of Osisko Mining Corporation, which resulted in the creation of Osisko. Mr. Roosen is an active participant in the resource sector and in the formation of new companies to explore for mineral deposits both in Canada and internationally.
In 2017, Mr. Roosen received an award from Mines and Money Americas for best Chief Executive Officer in North America and was, in addition, named in the “Top 20 Most Influential Individuals in Global Mining”. In prior years, he has been recognized by several organizations for his entrepreneurial successes and his leadership in innovative sustainability practices. Mr. Roosen is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines.
Randy Smallwood holds a geological engineering degree from the University of British Columbia and is one of the founding members of Wheaton Precious Metals. In 2007, he joined Wheaton full time as EVP of Corporate Development, primarily focusing on growing the company through the evaluation and acquisition of streaming opportunities. In January 2010, he was appointed President, and in April 2011, he was appointed Wheaton's CEO. Mr. Smallwood originally started as an exploration geologist with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd., and in 2001, was promoted to Director of Project Development, a role he held through the 2005 merger with Goldcorp (which has since merged with Newmont). Mr. Smallwood was an instrumental part of the team that built Wheaton River/Goldcorp into one of the largest and, more importantly, most profitable gold companies in the world. He is now focused on continuing to add to the impressive growth profile of Wheaton and leading the World Gold Council as its current chair.
Kevin is a recognized professional and thought leader, with over 30 years of direct experience in over fifty countries, in ESG-related issues in the mining sector. He is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer with Resource Capital Funds where he leads the full integration of ESG throughout the company’s investment processes. Kevin has a proven and successful track record focused on creating ESG value through informed strategic planning, governance, and tactical operational implementation for numerous top, mid-tier, and junior mining companies. He has worked directly for or consulted to, numerous mining companies including many of the industry’s majors such as Barrick Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Kinross, and De Beers and was recently the VP of Security, Sustainability & Environment for Centerra Gold. Kevin has also worked extensively on mining-related developmental programs with International Funding Institutions (IFIs) supporting emerging market Governments on mining policy reform and investment programs (including the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, ILO, USAID and the UK’s DFID).
Jocelyn Douhéret joined the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests as Director of the Mining Policies Office in February 2023. Previously, he worked more than 6 years as Director of the Marketing Office at Société du Plan Nord. Mr Douhéret also held different positions during 10 years in the mining sector as General Manager of an environmental services company, then as Director and Vice President of Business Development for a company offering services and equipment.
From 1998 to 2006, he worked for Québec companies on industrial development projects in Eastern Europe, Latin America as well as Canada, particularly in the fields of natural resources, energy, and environment. Mr. Douhéret began his career in 1996 as a scientific attaché at the French Embassy in Slovakia. He is a graduate of ENESAD (Dijon, France, 1994) and holds a master’s degree in science from Université Laval (Québec, Canada,1996).
Courtney is a leader in the Consulting practice of EY. She currently leads the Enterprise Risk Practice and is the Consulting Risk Leader for Energy and Resources. She has 21 years of experience with EY and rimarily serves the firms largest mining and natural resources clients. The majority of Courtney’s experience has been serving some of EY’s largest and most complex accounts and focusing on assisting clients with solving their largest issues. She has extensive experience in transformation programme leadership, regulatory compliance design and implementation, risk management, governance, compliance automation and technology, operational and financial process assessment, control design and implementation, information security, Information Technology (IT) controls, third party and supplier risk management, compliance assessments, finance and risk transformations, and both internal and external audits. She has worked in several EY Global offices including London, Atlanta, NYC, and Santiago, Chile.
Courtney is a successful integrator and team leader and knows how to effectively drive the use of Global resources. She has served as the Client Executive on a significant number of large public national, multi-national, and global companies. Courtney is a leader in people and inclusiveness initiatives and has a passion for developing under represented talent. She is pleased to be moderating the panel for Driving the Green Energy Transition and Unlocking Opportunities for the Next Generation.
Graham Dallas covers the Europe, Middle East & Africa region for Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange, where he’s responsible for both listings and investor business development.
Graham has extensive experience in the debt and equity capital markets of Asia, Europe and North America with a particular emphasis on both the challenges and opportunities presented by cross-border listing. He joined TSX in 2013 and has previously worked for both the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
On his retirement from S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly McGraw-Hill Financial) in September 2018, Chris formed the UK-based consultancy Pick and Pen Ltd, which specialises in reporting on trends and recent developments in the international mining industry, and on providing training seminars on the sector; 'Inside Mining'.
As a director at S&P Global, Chris was responsible for the New York-based group's metals and mining reports, which centred upon the quarterly State of the Market publication.
Before S&P Global, Chris had worked for IntierraRMG (subsequently SNL Metals & Mining, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill Financial in 2015). Chris was previously Editorial Director of Aspermont UK, whose publications include the weekly Mining Journal and monthly Mining Magazine. He was instrumental in launching the Mines and Money series of conferences, and was recently again involved with these events as Chief Commentator for the organiser, Mining Beacon. Chris currently writes a regular column for Northern Miner.
Chris is a qualified Mining Engineer (with a BSc and PhD from Cardiff University in 1972-78) and has extensive mining experience. The latter includes underground work with Anglo American Corp in South Africa, consultancy with both SRK in Johannesburg and Golder Associates in the UK, and stockbroking with Schroder Securities in London. In addition to South Africa, his mining experience includes work in Botswana, Malaysia and Turkey.
Martino De Ciccio has over 15 years’ experience in corporate finance, strategy, and capital markets, with a strong track record of value creation. He joined Endeavour Mining in 2015 as Vice President, Strategy and Investor relations and was promoted to Deputy CFO and Head of Investor Relations in January 2023. He played a pivotal role in Endeavour’s transformation from a $250 million market cap to a FTSE100, $8 billion-plus market cap company and one of the largest gold producers in the world, garnering over 25 investor relations achievement nominations, including repeatedly winning best across all sectors.
Prior to joining Endeavour, Martino played a key role in growing La Mancha Resources from a $20 million market cap which culminated into a $500 million take-private offer. As Strategy and Business Development Manager, he then helped lead the private company’s transformation from an emerging gold producer into one of the largest gold investment funds with cornerstone holdings in Evolution Mining and Endeavour, which was recognised with an Emerging Leader Award.
Martino earned a B.Com in Finance from McGill University and is a CFA charterholder
Antti is a Managing Director (Private Equity) at Appian Capital Advisory and is responsible for originating, evaluating, structuring, executing, and monitoring private equity investments at the firm as week as overseeing the Finance Team.
Previously Antti headed the Energy & Resources team at Triton Partners, a private equity investor. He has also held private equity investment roles at First Reserve and Quadrangle Capital with focus on investing and developing industrial and infrastructure businesses. Antti started his career at JPMorgan working in London and New York across its investment banking division.
Antti earned his MSc Degree from Helsinki School of Economics (‘HSE’) and a joint CEMS Management master’s degree from HSE/London School of Economics.
Jonathan D. Cordero has more than 10 years senior level experience in General Management, Strategy and M&A, Operational Improvements & Turnaround, Valuation & Business Modeling as well as Due Diligence. As Head of Corporate Development at Eurasian Resources Group, He is responsible for Global Ventures Development, Strategy and M&A for its international business.
Prior to joining ERG, Mr Cordero worked for Bryanston Resources in Zug, Switzerland, a specialised advisory and investment firm in the commodities space. He has also served as a board member at various companies, including TSX listed Africo Resources. Mr Cordero holds a Master of Science degree in Management from HHL- Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
Mr. Mai holds a degree in Geology from the University of Quebec in Montréal and over 15 years’ experience in the mining and metal industry as an executive, senior project manager and geologist in coal, base metals and gold projects in Canada, Australia and South America. Mr. Mai has been with Dundee Sustainable Technologies since 2013, and with strong business oriented, geochemistry, gold metallurgy and processing skills, he has been a key player in the development and commercialization of the Corporation’s Proprietary Processes and current implementation projects.
Alisha Hiyate is the Editor-in-Chief of The Northern Miner, and was previously Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Mining Journal, one of Canada’s longest-running mining publications. Alisha has more than 15 years of experience as a mining journalist covering projects and mines, exploration, new technology, and environmental and social issues related to mining.
Adrian Pocobelli is a broadcaster and artist based in Berlin, Germany. He was online editor of The Northern Miner website from 2012-2019 and since 2019 has been host of The Northern Miner Podcast. His interest in natural resources derives both from his love of financial markets as well as his interest in the role they've played both politically and economically throughout history.
Mr. Mullowney is a former Partner and Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and PWC Canada’s mining deal leader. Stephen has an extensive mining background, working with miners, Governments, and institutional investors across the world and supporting them in making key strategic business, financing, and policy decisions. Mr. Mullowney is a CA, CPA, CFA and holds a BBA from Acadia University.
Alisha Hiyate is the Editor-in-Chief of The Northern Miner, and was previously Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Mining Journal, one of Canada’s longest-running mining publications. Alisha has more than 15 years of experience as a mining journalist covering projects and mines, exploration, new technology, and environmental and social issues related to mining.
Jonathan D. Cordero has more than 10 years senior level experience in General Management, Strategy and M&A, Operational Improvements & Turnaround, Valuation & Business Modeling as well as Due Diligence. As Head of Corporate Development at Eurasian Resources Group, He is responsible for Global Ventures Development, Strategy and M&A for its international business.
Prior to joining ERG, Mr Cordero worked for Bryanston Resources in Zug, Switzerland, a specialised advisory and investment firm in the commodities space. He has also served as a board member at various companies, including TSX listed Africo Resources. Mr Cordero holds a Master of Science degree in Management from HHL- Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
Randy Smallwood holds a geological engineering degree from the University of British Columbia and is one of the founding members of Wheaton Precious Metals. In 2007, he joined Wheaton full time as EVP of Corporate Development, primarily focusing on growing the company through the evaluation and acquisition of streaming opportunities. In January 2010, he was appointed President, and in April 2011, he was appointed Wheaton's CEO. Mr. Smallwood originally started as an exploration geologist with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd., and in 2001, was promoted to Director of Project Development, a role he held through the 2005 merger with Goldcorp (which has since merged with Newmont). Mr. Smallwood was an instrumental part of the team that built Wheaton River/Goldcorp into one of the largest and, more importantly, most profitable gold companies in the world. He is now focused on continuing to add to the impressive growth profile of Wheaton and leading the World Gold Council as its current chair.
Mr. Macdonald is a professional geologist with a diverse experience base including exploration geology worldwide and investment banking.
In recent years he has focused his efforts in exploration and development as a principal of and consultant to various junior mining companies. In the past he was in the City of London where he worked in structuring financings and risk management at Macquarie Bank. In 2007 Mr. Macdonald graduated with an MBA (with Distinction) from Oxford.
He completed his B.Sc. in Geology from UBC in 2000. Mr. Macdonald has a long history of mining exploration work in Yukon, including zinc projects, and originally hails from Ross River, near the Macmillan Pass Project site.
Mr. Champigny is a geological engineer with extensive experience with both public and private companies, both domestically and internationally and is currently a director of Bonterra Resources. He has been involved in many facets of the mining industry, including engineering, project evaluation, and project management. Mr. Champigny is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec and Director of Mining Matters. Until recently, Mr. Champigny was an Executive Committee Member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada. He was Chair of the Board of Directors of Minalliance, an organization raising awareness about the mining industry in Quebec and highlighting its positive contribution to Quebec’s social, economic, and environmental development. Mr. Champigny is a graduate from École Polytechnique in Montreal (B.A.Sc), University of British Columbia (M.A.Sc), and Paris School of Mines (Specialized Diploma in Geostatistics).
Mr. Luquman Shaheen, President & Chief Executive Officer of Panoro Minerals Ltd., is an accomplished Mining Industry professional with over 30 years of extensive global experience. Almost two decades of experience in senior management and board roles with publicly listed mining and exploration companies. A strategic thinking President and CEO with a career of demonstrated success in the capital markets, having negotiated over $600 million in financings through private placements, prospectus offerings, joint ventures and precious metal streaming transactions.
Mr. Lynch is currently CEO of Power Nickel Inc. a publicly held mining company with the advanced stage Nisk Nickel project south of James Bay Quebec. It also has projects in BC’s Golden Triangle and Chile. Mr. Lynch is also the Founder and Managing Director of Save Canadian Mining.
Save Canadian Mining was launched in November2019 to unify Canada’s junior mining sector in requesting regulatory changes in Canada’s capital markets. The organization is supported by the TSX Venture Exchange, the Ontario Mining Association, the Ontario Prospectors Association, as well as mining industry leaders like Eric Sprott (Sprott Mining) Sean Roosen (Osisko Mining), Keith Neumeyer (First Majestic Silver Corp), and Rod McEwan (McEwan Mining Inc) and over 25 junior mining companies and over 3,000 members.
Mr. Lynch graduated in 1981 from St. Francis Xavier University with a joint honours degree in Economics and BBA. Prior to becoming a director with International PBX Ventures in 2012, Mr. Lynch had been CEO of privately held Nevada-focused Relief Gold. He also had been a director and later CEO of TSX- listed Firstgold Corp. He assumed the CEO position after the company had run into financial difficulty bringing its Relief Canyon mine into production. He arranged a sale of 51% of the company for a total capital injection of $26.5 million from Northwest Non-Ferrous Metals, one of China’s largest mining engineering and consulting groups.
From 2005 to 2008 Mr. Lynch was a partner with Kingsmill Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm specializing in advising public and private early stage growth companies. Prior to joining Kingsmill Capital he spent 15 years operating start-up companies in industrial products, oil and gas and media. Mr. Lynch was also the Cofounder of TSX and NASDAQ listed Cardiol Therapeutics. A leader in producing Pharmaceutical CBD and developer of ground breaking therapies for heart disease.
Mr. Covarrubias has been overseeing the mining interests of Turnbrook Corporation prior to the recent consolidation of ownership of the Vizcachitas project.
Mr. Covarrubias was a banker with the Chase Manhattan Bank for almost a decade, covering the mining sector in Chile. He was based in New York and Santiago and his responsibilities included project financing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions.
He is a Chemical and Industrial Engineer from The Catholic University of Chile and holds a MSc in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mr. Cacos has over 20 years of investor relations experience working with public mining companies, ranging from early-stage exploration and development to production. Most recently, Mr. Cacos served as Vice President, Investor Relations for First Mining Gold, a Canadian gold development company listed on the TSX and OTCQX, focused on the development and permitting of the Springpole Gold Project, one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada. His prior roles include serving as Vice President, Investor Relations for Group Eleven Resources Corp., a mineral exploration company focused on advanced stage zinc exploration in Ireland, and as Director of Investor Relations for Great Panther Mining Limited (formerly Great Panther Silver Limited), a primary silver mining company listed on the TSX and the NYSE with two mining operations in Mexico. Mr. Cacos holds a Master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy, from the Schiller International University in Paris, France, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Mr. Pawlitschek, CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Sanu Gold Corp., is a seasoned mining professional with more than 25 years’ experience in the industry. He has extensive experience in the exploration and development of mining assets throughout Africa, Australia and South America and was instrumental in the exploration and delineation of the Sabodala Gold Mine (currently owned and operated by Endeavour Mining) in Senegal with Mineral Deposits Limited and subsequently Teranga Gold Corporation.
In 2018, Mr. Pawlitschek co-founded Sanu Gold Corp. and in mid-2022 led the company through a successful IPO on the CSE. Prior to listing, he held a senior technical role with a private equity firm based in London.
Mr. Pawlitschek is a graduate from the University of New South Wales (Masters Engineering) and the University of Technology, Sydney (B.Sc.,(Hons), Applied Geology) and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG).
Mr. Meyer is a professional engineer with over 23 years in the mining industry, including 16 years in Canadian and international capital markets as a highly ranked and respected mining equity research and commodity analyst. The early part of Mr. Meyer's technical training and experience was spent with Falconbridge Limited, Inco Limited, Hemlo Gold Mines and Minnovex Technologies.
Mr. Meyer holds B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc degrees from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from McMaster University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
Rob van Egmond is a professional geologist with over 25 years of experience in
the international mining industry. His career encompasses a wide spectrum of
experiences ranging from grass roots project generation to pre-feasibility level
resource development and mine geology. He has worked with major mining
companies (Cominco, BHP, Kennecott) and junior explorers (Orex Minerals,
Platinum Group Metals, Candente, Northern Dynasty, Keewatin) gaining
experience in a wide variety of commodities and deposit types spanning
locations North and South America as well as Africa. Included in his experience
are several years of exploration and pre-development work in the Iskut
River/Golden Triangle area with Cominco. Mr. van Egmond holds a Bachelor of
Science in Geology from the University of British Columbia and is a registered
professional geoscientist in good standing with Engineers and Geoscientists
British Columbia (EGBC).
Mr. Amandip Singh is a geologist and mining professional with over 15 years of progressively senior experience in the mining industry, finance, and academia. Prior to joining West Red Lake Gold, Mr. Singh was the Vice President of Corporate Development for Magna Gold Corp, a Mexico based gold producer. Mr. Singh was part of the management team that saw the Saddle North Cu-Au porphyry project advance from discovery to eventual acquisition by Newmont Mining in a transaction valued at USD $311M. As a finance professional, Mr. Singh was a sell-side mining analyst at a boutique mining focused brokerage, his coverage ranged from developers all the way up to senior producers. He has also worked as an exploration geologist, most notably with Noront Resources (acquired by Wyloo Metals) and was part of the team responsible for completing the initial bankable feasibility study on the Eagles Nest Ni-Cu-PGE deposit in Northern Ontario. Mr. Singh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Toronto
Erfan Kazemi brings years of experience to Horizon Copper. Since 2011, Erfan has held the role of Chief Financial Officer at Sandstorm Gold Royalties where he has helped raise over a billion dollars in equity and debt financing. He has also played a critical role in the success of Sandstorm’s royalty investments through his responsibilities on the corporate development front and the company’s investment committee.
Erfan is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CA), a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder, and a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.
In addition to his role with Horizon Copper and Sandstorm, Erfan also serves in the community. He is the former Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Public Library board of directors and former member of the Library’s Foundation board. He is also a former member of the University of British Columbia board of directors.
Erfan is not without his share of accolades and has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40, named by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s 50 best executives, awarded Business in Vancouver’s CFO of the Year, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia’s Early Achievement Award and Community Service Award, and the University of British Columbia Alumni Association’s Outstanding Student of the Year Award.
Alexandra has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry. Alexandra started at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Endeavour Financial, a global mining finance advisory firm. During her investment banking career in London, she was Director Structured Financing and involved in the successful completion of over US$1.5 billion in financings for clients including Bema Gold (Kupol Mine), European Minerals (Varvarinskoye Mine), Nevsun Resources (Bisha Mine), Uranium One and Wheaton River Minerals.
Mr. MacDonald has many years of experience in the mining industry and is an exploration geologist. He co-founded Kenorland Minerals, a North America-focused company generating greenfield exploration opportunities across different commodities. Prior to 2016, Mr. MacDonald worked with Newmont Mining doing greenfield exploration in Nunavut, West Africa, and East Africa.
Mr. Konkin has over 35 years of geological experience throughout the Americas and Russia. He worked for Silver Standard for 19 years and managed advanced exploration programs at Manantial Espejo (Argentina), San Luis and Berenguela (Peru) as well as Snowfields (Canada) in the Golden Triangle, BC. Mr. Konkin was appointed the Project Manager for Pretium Resources after it purchased the Snowfields-Brucejack Project from Silver Standard in 2010. Subsequently, he was instrumental in the discovery of The Valley of Kings deposit at the Brucejack Lake Mine, an 8-million-ounce gold deposit currently in production. During his tenure with Pretium, the company received the Bill Dennis Award in 2013 for a Canadian discovery (presented by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada); Mr. Konkin was also the co-recipient of the prestigious H.H. ‘Spud’ Huestis Award for ‘excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration in B.C. and/or Yukon’ in 2017.
Company: Tudor Gold Corp. is a precious and base metals exploration and development company with claims in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle (Canada), an area that hosts producing and past-producing mines and several large deposits that are approaching potential development. The company’s Treaty Creek Project (in which TUDOR GOLD has a 60% interest) borders Seabridge Gold Inc.’s KSM property to the southwest and borders Newmont Corporation’s Brucejack Mine property to the southeast and host the Goldstorm Deposit, a large gold-copper porphyry system, as well as several other mineralized zones. The Goldstorm Deposit is comprised of an NI 43-101 Indicated Mineral Resource of 23.37 Moz of AuEQ grading 1.13 g/t AuEQ (18.75 Moz gold grading 0.91 g/t, 2.18 Blbs copper grading 0.15 %, 112.4 Moz silver grading 5.45 g/t) and an Inferred Mineral Resource (as defined in NI 43-101) of 7.35 Moz of AuEQ grading 0.98 g/t AuEQ (5.54 Moz gold grading 0.74 g/t, 0.85 Blb copper grading 0.16 %, 45.08 Moz silver grading 5.99 g/t), with a pit constrained cut-off of 0.5 g/t AuEQ and an underground cut-off of 0.7 g/t AuEQ.
Mr. Mullowney is a former Partner and Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and PWC Canada’s mining deal leader. Stephen has an extensive mining background, working with miners, Governments, and institutional investors across the world and supporting them in making key strategic business, financing, and policy decisions. Mr. Mullowney is a CA, CPA, CFA and holds a BBA from Acadia University.
Stuart Harshaw is a seasoned mining executive with a successful international career with Vale SA and Inco Limited, prior to joining Nickel Creek Platinum. His last role with Vale, as Vice President of Ontario Operations for Vale, Mr. Harshaw was responsible for the Base Metal operations of Vale in Ontario, which includes six underground mines, mill, smelter, nickel refinery, cobalt refinery, precious metal refinery and Hydro Electric production facilities. Previously, he held various senior roles with Vale including the marketing and sales of a broad range of metal concentrates and finished metals worldwide. Prior to joining Nickel Creek Platinum, he has been consulting in the global mining business and is a member of the Board of Directors of several mining companies. Mr. Harshaw earned a BSc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from Laurentian University.
James brings more than 15 years of mineral exploration and discovery experience to the team, most notably from prominent roles in high-grade uranium and rare earth element successes. Over the past decade, he has been directly and indirectly involved with the discovery of over 500 M lbs. of U3O8 in the Athabasca Basin, having helped generate billions of dollars in shareholder appreciation. James is also the CEO of Baselode Energy Corp., where they made a new uranium discovery with the company’s first drill program.
Stephen is the CEO and Chairman of Orecap Invest Corp. He is also the Chairman of QC Copper & Gold, American Eagle Gold, Mistango River Resources, Metal Energy, and Baselode Energy Corp., and a director of Awale Resources. Stephen also founded the Ore Group, an organization focused on natural resource discovery and development.
Stephen is the founder of Young Mining Professionals Global Group and Chairman of the Young Mining Professionals Scholarship Fund, the largest mining-focused charitable organization and fund supporting mining engineering and geology education in Canada.
Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and a Master of Science from the University of Florida.
Anthony Moreau is the CEO and Director of American Eagle Gold. He is also a Director of QC Copper & Gold and Orecap Invest Corp, both TSXV listed companies. He previously worked with IAMGOLD comprising different roles within the organization, most recently Business Development and Innovation. He gained valuable experience working in a continuous improvement function at the Rosebel Gold Mine in Suriname. Tony has spearheaded many industry initiatives, one of them being an international co-op peer benchmarking program owned and run by the participating mining companies. He leads the Young Mining Professionals Toronto Chapter and is the Co-Chair of the YMP Scholarship Fund. A graduate of the Queen’s School of Business, Anthony is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Mr. Vizquerra is President and Chief Executive Officer, and a director of O3 Mining Inc. (“O3 Mining”). Prior to his appointment at O3 Mining, Mr. Vizquerra was Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for Osisko Mining Inc. (“Osisko”). Mr. Vizquerra joined Osisko from Oban Mining Corporation (“Oban”), where, as President and Chief Executive Officer, he played a leading role in the combination of Oban, Corona Gold Corporation, Eagle Hill Exploration Corporation, and Ryan Gold Corporation to form Osisko. Through ambitious drilling and prudent capital raising, Osisko has become the highly valued proponent of the world-class Windfall gold project. Before that, Mr. Vizquerra was Head of Business Development for Compañia de Minas Buenaventura. Previously, he was a production and exploration geologist at the Red Lake gold mine in Ontario.
Mr. Vizquerra currently serves as a director of Osisko and Silver Mountain Resources, and as an advisor to the boards of Discovery Metals Corporation and Palamina Resources. The Young Mining Professionals recognized Mr. Vizquerra as one of their Young Mining Professionals of the year with the 2019 Peter Munk Award.
Mr. Vizquerra is an alumnus of the General Management Program at the Wharton School of Business. He holds an MSc in Mineral Exploration from Queens University and a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from UPC Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Mr. Vizquerra is a “qualified person” for purposes of NI 43-101.
Mr. Cochrane has 36 years of investment industry experience during which he has participated in raising in excess of $500,000,000 for a variety of “small cap” public companies in various businesses and industry sectors including mining.
In addition to having been associated with numerous domestic transactions, Mr. Cochrane has also been involved with many international opportunities – primarily in China and most recently with a series of mining projects and concessions in Cambodia owned by a Canadian public company. Mr. Cochrane’s extensive capital market experience will be an invaluable asset as Lithium Chile continues with the roll-out and expansion of its lithium strategy.
Alastair McIntyre is an accomplished executive with senior management expertise in mining and metals through leadership roles with mining companies and metals resources banks in Toronto, New York, Sydney, and Hong Kong. Mr. McIntyre has executed hundreds of structured deals in multiple currencies, metals, and products for metal producers and consumers in North and South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Alastair led the inaugural import and export of gold in China as one of the first banks to gain access to this market in addition to being responsible for purchasing as much as 75% of China’s total annual refined physical silver for export which was further lent into India.
Mr. McIntyre has also held numerous capital market and technical advisory roles including providing support for numerous M&A transactions and IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange including the Commercial Advisor role for the HKSE acquisition of the London Metal Exchange valued at US$2.1B. Prior to finance, Alastair held senior roles in gold refining at the Royal Canadian Mint and worked as an exploration and underground mine geologist in Atlantic Canada.
Alastair currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Altiplano Metals Inc., focused on copper, gold and iron production and processing in Chile, and as Director of Vox Royalty Limited and Mogul Mountain Inc. In addition, Alastair has served as expert witness in numerous precious metals litigation cases most importantly where his work in a landmark case helped define precious metals as a Financial Instrument and its application of GST.
Mr. McIntyre holds MAusIMM CP (Man) and P. Geo (Limited) professional accreditations and has completed numerous supporting courses and licenses including asset management, derivatives trading, and securities and futures regulation with the Hong Kong Securities and the Canadian Securities Institutes and has earned a BSc (Geology) and a B. Comm. (Bus Admin and Economics) from Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Monica Kras has over 10 years of Capital Markets experience. She has been involved in thousands of transactions across various sectors assisting in raisings of over $150 billion in aggregate value for publicly listed and private companies.
Prior to NexGen, Monica served as Director of Institutional Equity Sales at Canaccord Genuity, where she headed up Canadian equity distribution into the United Kingdom and Europe. Monica began her career in financial services as a sales associate with ScotiaMcLeod, before transitioning to Institutional Equity Sales at Beacon Securities, and eventually joining Canaccord in 2014.
Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario specialising in Economics.
Mr. Vizquerra is President and Chief Executive Officer, and a director of O3 Mining Inc. (“O3 Mining”). Prior to his appointment at O3 Mining, Mr. Vizquerra was Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for Osisko Mining Inc. (“Osisko”). Mr. Vizquerra joined Osisko from Oban Mining Corporation (“Oban”), where, as President and Chief Executive Officer, he played a leading role in the combination of Oban, Corona Gold Corporation, Eagle Hill Exploration Corporation, and Ryan Gold Corporation to form Osisko. Through ambitious drilling and prudent capital raising, Osisko has become the highly valued proponent of the world-class Windfall gold project. Before that, Mr. Vizquerra was Head of Business Development for Compañia de Minas Buenaventura. Previously, he was a production and exploration geologist at the Red Lake gold mine in Ontario.
Mr. Vizquerra currently serves as a director of Osisko and Silver Mountain Resources, and as an advisor to the boards of Discovery Metals Corporation and Palamina Resources. The Young Mining Professionals recognized Mr. Vizquerra as one of their Young Mining Professionals of the year with the 2019 Peter Munk Award.
Mr. Vizquerra is an alumnus of the General Management Program at the Wharton School of Business. He holds an MSc in Mineral Exploration from Queens University and a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from UPC Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Mr. Vizquerra is a “qualified person” for purposes of NI 43-101.
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