VP, Investor Relations and Corporate Development at BeMetals Corp.
Mr. Iwanaka is a founding member of the BeMetals executive management team. He has over 18 years of investor relations and corporate development experience in the mining industry. Over the course of his career, he has been involved with over 20 mergers, acquisitions and property divestures, and he has played key roles in raising over US$100 million through various equity financings, including one of the first at-the-market (“ATMâ€) financings by a Canadian brokerage firm. Prior to joining BeMetals, Mr. Iwanaka oversaw the marketing programs for a number of mining companies traded in Canada, USA, Germany and the UK.
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: All right, well, welcome everyone to the last event in the series with B Metals meeting investors around the world. I'm very pleased to introduce Derek Iwanaka, the Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development at B Metals, who is joining us live from London. Speaker 1: Derek's going to provide us with a quick update on how the trip has been. And then, of course, we'll open the floor up to questions. So if anyone has any questions, feel free to submit them at any time. And we'll try to get to them after Speaker 1: Derek's update. So thanks so much for joining. And I'll pass it to you, Derek. Speaker 2: Thanks, Sasha. And hello to everybody who's there Speaker 2: live with us. Speaker 2: It's been a heck of a last 2 weeks. Speaker 2: We, John and I have gone from Cape Town Speaker 2: to Frankfurt Speaker 2: to Speaker 2: Zurich and now to London. We've met literally investors around the world. So it's kind of funny that we, I mean, we, well, we knew we were going to be meeting investors all over, but we literally have been meeting investors Speaker 2: around the world the last 2 weeks. This is kind of, I feel like it's like the opening of the world. Speaker 2: People are starting to get back to meeting in person and Speaker 2: meeting down at the Indaba was terrific. Speaker 2: In Cape Town last week, Speaker 2: we met all kinds of new people that I would never have met if I had just stayed in Vancouver. Speaker 2: So I do really feel like things are opening up. Speaker 2: Investors are starting to look around it and get more active. Speaker 2: The junior markets have been crummy, Speaker 2: to say the least. Speaker 2: We've watched a number of Speaker 2: small, a small, Well, not even just smaller, but larger companies also tumbling Speaker...
