Mr Giacovazzi is the Chief Executive Officer of Wyloo Metals. Wyloo Metals manages a diverse portfolio of wholly owned mining projects, including Ring of Fire Metals in Canada, as well as exploration opportunities and cornerstone investments in public and private companies in Australia and Canada.
Mr Giacovazzi was previously at Credit Suisse, where he successfully completed numerous metals and mining transactions in Australia and internationally.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Chartered Accounting) from the University of Johannesburg, a Master of Management from the University of Sydney and a Masters in International Management from the London School of Economics (CEMS).
Mr. Smallwood holds a geological engineering degree from the University of British Columbia and a mine engineering diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Mr. Smallwood was involved in the founding of Wheaton and in 2007, he joined Wheaton full time as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, primarily focusing on growing the Company through the evaluation and acquisition of silver stream opportunities. In January 2010 he was appointed President, and in April 2011 he was appointed Wheaton’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Smallwood originally started as an exploration geologist with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd., and in 2001 was promoted to Director of Project Development, his role through its 2005 merger with Goldcorp. Mr. Smallwood was an instrumental part of the team that built Wheaton River / Goldcorp into one of the largest, and more importantly, one of the most profitable gold companies in the world, and he is now focused on continuing to add to the impressive growth profile of Wheaton. Mr. Smallwood formerly served on the boards of Defiance Silver Corp. (formerly ValOro Resources Inc. and Geologix Explorations Inc.) from 2005 to 2019, Ventana Gold from 2008 to 2011, Castle Peak Resources from 2010 to 2012, and Tigray Resources Inc. from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Smallwood is also a board member of Special Olympics BC and Mining4Life, is co-chairman of MineralsEd BC, and previously served on the board of the BC Cancer Foundation. In 2015, Mr. Smallwood received the British Columbia Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2019, he received Business in Vancouver’s BC CEO of the Year Award in the enterprise category. On September 3, 2020, Mr. Smallwood was appointed as the chair of the World Gold Council.
Dr. Erin R. Bobicki is an Associate Professor of mineral processing in the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. Professor Bobicki’s research interests include microwave applications in mineral processing, comminution, bioreagent development, the rheology of complex mineral slurries, and value recovery from waste materials. She has worked as a researcher and plant metallurgist for Vale, as a Process Technology Development Engineer for Intel Corporation, and most recently was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is currently commercializing microwave technology for the mining industry with Sepro Mineral Systems, and is a Founding Director of Aurora Hydrogen, a start-up developing technology for emission-free hydrogen production.
George Hemingway is Managing Partner and leads the Innovation Practice at Stratalis where he advises the leaders of companies, organizations and countries on the future and how to succeed in uncertain times. Considered one of the leading futurists in the mining industry, he regularly keynotes at venues ranging from the World Mining Congress to NASA and the Pentagon.
He has advised many of the world’s leading natural resource and industrial companies, ranging from Vale, Anglo American and BHP to BASF and the Air Force on how their operations and organizations can best pivot and transform to succeed.
In addition to corporate boards, he is passionate about supporting the next generation of leaders as a board member to the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Moon Mark Aerospace and the Lassonde Institute of Mining at the University of Toronto. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from the Stern School of Business at NYU.
Dr. Theo is a seasoned mining executive who built his experience and reputation in mining operations and professional services. He is a trusted advisor in mining business, mining engineering and geology. He currently focuses on enabling and fostering business transformation and technology adoption across the industry to support core business excellence and enterprise growth.
He is the sector leader for EY Americas & EY Canada Mining & Metals practice. Prior to his consulting experience, Theo spent many years in mining operations, engineering consulting and mining contracting services. Theo has been involved with many mining and metals companies for various transformation initiatives in Canada, the Americas, Africa and Australia.
Dr. Theo is a registered Professional Mining Engineer in Ontario; he holds an MBA with Distinction from the University of Oxford, a Ph.D. and B.Eng. in mining engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. In addition, he has a B.Sc. (with honors) in Applied Geophysics from the Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech
Darrin Campbell, President, Namibia Critical Metals Inc.
11:00am ESTRobert MacDonald, Vice President of Exploration, Equity Metals Corporation
11:15am ESTPeter Espig, President, CEO & Director, Nicola Mining
11:30am ESTKendra Johnston, President & CEO, Association for Mineral Exploration BC
12:40pm ESTKatalin Kilofliski, CEO, Canagold Resources Ltd.
1:00pm ESTPaul Pint, Investor Relations Consultant, White Gold Corp.
1:15pm ESTRandy Smallwood, President & CEO, Wheaton Precious Metals / Chairman of the Board, World Gold Council
1:30pm ESTChairman Pan American Silver
Vice-Chairman and CEO Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
President and CEO Franco-Nevada Corp.
President and CEO Barrick
Executive co-Chairman and Founder Ivanhoe Mines
Independent Non-Executive Director Glencore plc
Executive Chairman Yamana Gold
Chairman Franco-Nevada Corp.
CEO Franco-Nevada Corp.
President and CEO Teck Resources Limited
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer IAMGOLD Corporation
Chairman Lundin Group of Companies
President and CEO Lucara Diamond Corp
President, CEO and Director B2Gold Corp.
Director Cameco Corporation
CEO and Director Pelangio Exploration Inc.
Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager Sprott Asset Management
Portfolio Manager and Gold Strategist VanEck
Vice President Marret Asset Management Inc.
Vice-President and Director Haywood Securities
Global Managing Partner, Mining ERM
President, Chief Economist and Strategist Rosenberg Research & Associates Inc.
Welcome back to all of our loyal subscribers and investor audience…and for those of you that are discovering TNM’s Global Mining Symposium for the first time, we hope that you will tune in to see what has made this a unique event over the last three years.
As the tensions over the Ukraine mount, geopolitical risk is taking center stage and when that is combined with robust demand forecasts for critical metals and the uncertain supply projections, it is without hyperbole that I can say now more than ever is a crucial time to ensure you are getting the best inputs into your investment decisions. The Northern Miner team has assembled a World Class group of leaders to bring you just that so that you can better understand what a changing world order can mean to the mining and metals space.
We offer a heartfelt thanks the industry leaders that support this endeavour by continuing to dedicate their time to join us and share their outlooks. The Q1 edition is bringing you a roster headlined by industry leaders including Mark Cutifani, Ian Telfer, Martin Lokanc from the World Bank & Britt Bluemel, just to name a few as well as, an incredible ESG focused panel, sponsored by Onyen.
Guiding the conversation will be our cast of leading journalists, whose expertise lets them ask all the right questions, but if they don’t cover something you need to know, no worries, you the delegate can ask because as always the Global Mining Symposium is fully live, unlike most other virtual events.
And of course, as always, we are bringing you a suite of exciting juniors that are poised to accomplish some big things in the year ahead as they are advancing some of the industry’s best projects, and can share their innovative technologies that will help them drive value in the coming year.
We look forward to our hosting our engaged audience and responding to your excellent questions and comments for our team and for our guests.
We look forward to hosting you on February 23 & 24, 2022 as well as, our Q2 Symposium taking place May 25 & 26th, 2022, with the the Q3 Symposiums coming in September. Perhaps most exciting of all we will be back to hosting the Symposium in London, UK at Canada House for Q4, which will be a hybrid format of in-person as well as, virtually, so we can continue to keep the global engagement.
Register for the Global Mining Symposium by completing the form below. You will receive a confirmation email with instructions for accessing the event. The Global Mining Symposium takes place May 25th and 26th, 2022.