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New Pacific Metals Announces CEO Transition and New Appointment to the Board
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n New Pacific Metals Announces CEO Transition and New Appointment to the Board\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n Sept. 11, 2023\n \n \n /CNW/ - New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSX: NUAG) (NYSE American: NEWP) (\"New Pacific\" or the \"Company\") announces today that Dr.\n \n Rui Feng\n \n , New Pacific's founder and Chief Executive Officer (\"CEO\"), has stepped down as CEO.\n \n Andrew Williams\n \n has been appointed as CEO, effective immediately.  Mr. Williams previously held the role of President of the Company.\n \n \n Dr. Feng will remain as a director of the Company until the AGM later in 2023, but will not stand for re-election as a director.\n \n \n The Company also welcomed\n \n Paul Simpson\n \n to its Board of Directors effective immediately.\n \n \n \"Having founded New Pacific and made discovery of the Silver Sand deposit, I left the Company as CEO in\n \n April 2020\n \n as a corporate governance initiative.  I returned as CEO again in early 2022, and since then New Pacific has delivered a robust Silver Sand PEA and made a discovery at Carangas, which yielded the mineral resource estimate of a globally-significant silver-gold polymetallic deposit.  Now, a new capable team is in place, the timing is right to step down,\" said Dr. Feng.  \"As part of the succession planning, Andrew joined the Company at the beginning of the year and has demonstrated leadership capabilities with integrity and initiative, features required to propel the Company to the next stage of permitting for development of its projects in\n \n Bolivia\n \n .\"\n \n \n Speaking on behalf of the Board of Directors,\n \n Terry Salman\n \n , Chairman, commented, \"The Board wants to express sincerest thanks to our founder, Dr. Feng, for his visionary leadership and exploration expertise that led to acquisition, funding and discovery of a portfolio of world class precious metal projects in Bolivia.  We would not be where we are without him. Rui has wor...