Leadership

P. Eng., M.Sc.A., CFA – Mr. Gignac has more than 20 years of experience in the mining industry. His expertise includes managing project development studies, providing open-pit expertise, financial modeling, and economic evaluation of projects. He has coordinated many mandates with numerous major mining companies ranging from early exploration evaluations to operations optimization involving all fields of mining and geology. He is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (“OIQ”) and the Canadian Institute of Mining (“CIM”). He holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering from McGill University and a Master’s degree of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal and is a CFA Charterholder. Mr. Gignac also serves as a director of Major Drilling Group International.

Mr. Petković is a financial market professional with over 15 years of experience in resource-based capital markets, including private equity, credit, and investment banking. Mr. Petković co-founded GMIN in October 2020 and served as a founding Director of the Board until March 2021, when he joined the management team as the inaugural Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations. He is responsible for leading the corporation’s capital markets initiatives, which include capital raising, project financing, M&A, and investor relations. Before joining GMIN, he was a Principal of Private Debt at Sprott Resource Lending Corp. (“Sprott”). Over his ten years at Sprott, Mr. Petković was responsible for the origination, structuring, and investment management of bespoke financing transactions for companies in the mining sector. Before Sprott, he spent time in mining investment banking, advising on IPOs, equity issuance and M&A. Mr. Petković earned a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Western University and is a CFA® charterholder. Mr. Petković also serves as a Director of Greenheart Gold Inc. (TSXV:GHRT) and Alma Gold Inc. (CNSX:ALMA).

CPA, CA - Ms. Lafleur has been a Chartered Professional Accountant in Québec since 1998 and hold a Bachelor in Business Administration from l'École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Montreal ("HEC"). She has 20 years of experience in the mining industry. After four years with the accounting firm of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, Ms. Lafleur started with Cambior Inc. as Accounting Analyst and took on various positions of increasing responsibility with Niobec Inc. (2004 to 2008), Iamgold Essakane S.A. in Burkina Faso (2008 to 2014), Newmont Suriname, LLC (2014 to 2017) , and Aurelian Ecuador S.A. (2017 to 2020), a subsidiary of Lundin Gold Inc.

Mr. Dagenais is a Québec lawyer since April 1990 and has 30 years of experience in the mining industry, both in North America and internationally. He was Vice President, Legal Affairs & Corporate Secretary of Nemaska Lithium (2016 to 2020); prior to that, he held similar positions with Graymont Limited (2014 to 2016) and for the African region of Kinross Gold Corporation (2011 to 2014), based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Prior to that, Mr. Dagenais worked for 15 years with Cambior Inc., in positions of increasing responsibility. He also was a partner of Lavery, de Billy, LLP, a major Montréal law firm and a partner of MinQuest Capital Inc., a private equity fund specialized in mining investments.

P.Eng., MBA – Ms. Liu-Ernsting is an accomplished executive and professional engineer with over 20 years experience in the natural resources industry in technical, financial and strategic roles. Prior to joining G Mining Ventures, she led a junior mining company to achieve 14x share price accretion and raised $33M over the company’s first 12 months during the COVID-19 crisis, as the company’s inaugural VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Before that, she guided a public company to achieve settlement on a disputed proxy. Previously, Ms. Liu-Ernsting developed tailored financing solutions for resource companies, totaling over $4 B, spanning 23 commodities on 6 continents. Ms. Liu-Ernsting started her career with two of the preeminent Canadian engineering firms conducting backfill, mine, mill and mining innovation capital projects. She has ten years of non-profit board and committee experience, and three years of corporate board audit, compensation, technical and special committees experience, and is currently a director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and a director at Firefly Metals. Jessie is passionate about creating shared-value from resource wealth.

Ms. Julie-Anaïs Debreil has 15+ years of professional geology and research experience across continents working in greenfield and brownfields exploration, mine development, mine geology, and resource estimation. Julie-Anaïs held a senior technical role for Premier Gold Mines Ltd. where she managed exploration projects, mineral resource estimation and production reconciliation. She has been a key participant to operational turnaround and the discovery of high-grade deposits in different geological settings. Most recently, Julie-Anaïs has worked as a senior member of the Geology team with G Mining Services where her responsibilities included NI 43-101 compliant reporting, mineral resource estimation and geological modelling for client properties and due diligences. Julie-Anaïs holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences – Economic Geology from National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS-ETE, Quebec), a M.Sc. in Earth Sciences – Volcanology from University Paris XI (France) and a B.Sc. in Physics from University of Versailles (France). Julie-Anaïs is a member of L’Ordre des Géologues du Québec (OGQ) and the Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO).

Eduardo Leão has over 15 years of experience in mining, environmental management, strategic planning, risk and crisis analysis, environmental projects and local development. Mr. Leão has extensive experience in Brazil, in both the public and private sectors, having previously held the position as Director of the National Mining Agency (ANM), Executive Secretary of Economic Development, Mining and Energy of the State of Pará, and progressively senior positions at Vale and various consultancies. Mr. Leão holds a Master’s degree in Geology and Earth Sciences from Federal University of Para and an MBA from Dom Cabral Foundation (Brazil).