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Fjordland Appoints Mark Gibson to the Board of Directors
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 12, 2021) - FJORDLAND EXPLORATION INC....
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fjordland Appoints Mark Gibson to the Board of DirectorsVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 12, 2021) - FJORDLAND EXPLORATION INC. (TSXV: FEX) (\"Fjordland\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that Mr. Mark Gibson has agreed to join its board of directors as HPX's appointee. HPX currently owns 29% of Fjordland, and has the right to two board seats.Mr. Gibson serves as the Chief Operating Officer of High Power Exploration (HPX), a privately owned US corporation led by CEO, Robert Friedland. In 2011, Mark was the founding CEO of HPX tasked with the job of commercializing the Typhoon geophysical transmitter developed by parent company, I-Pulse. He concurrently serves as the COO of Kaizen Discovery Inc. (TSXV: KZD - appointed in 2016) and Cordoba Minerals Corp. (TSXV: CDB - appointed 2017). Mark previously worked with Anglo American and was the founder of a geophysical service company focused on managing seismic surveys for the mining industry. He has more than 29 years of wide-ranging experience as a geoscientist and manager in the natural resources sector. Mark graduated from the University of Southampton in 1990 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology and the University of Leeds in 1997 with a M.Sc. in Geophysics.James Tuer, Fjordland's President commented, \"I'm pleased to welcome Mark to the Company's board of directors. He brings with him a wealth of experience in mineral exploration based on leading edge geophysical systems and process modeling. At Fjordland, we believe that it is exactly this type of thinking that is a prerequisite to finding new world class nickel deposits within existing mining camps.\" In order to allow Mr. Gibson to join the board, long time board member Ross McDonald has agreed to retire from the board and continue to aid Fjordland in an advisory capacity. Richard Atkinson, Chairman, states, \"Ross joined the company in 2005. His career as a Chartered Accountant, active in the natural resource sphere has provided him with a skill set in financial management and corporate governance that has greatly benefited the Company and its shareholders. I am pleased he has agreed to continue his association with Fjordland as an advisor for the foreseeable future.\"Stock Option GrantsThe board of directors reports it has accepted the recommendations of the Compensation Committee and has granted a t...