Mr. Wilton is founding CEO of BeMetals and has over 30 years of experience in the minerals industry including roles ranging from target generation to feasibility studies and business development for base and precious metals. From 2010-2017, he was the Regional Exploration Manager of Africa at Antofagasta PLC. He was also a principal member of both the discovery and resource development teams of the Otjikoto Gold Mine in Namibia with Anglovaal Mining. Co-recipient of the Henno Martin Medal from the Namibian Geological Society for his role in the discovery.
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.
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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the 5th episode of B Metals Monthly Series hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce our speaker for today, Derek Iwanaka, their Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at B Metals. Derek's going to be walking us through our company presentation and after we're going to be taking questions live. So remember that you can submit your questions on the Q&A panel on the right hand side of your screen at any point during today's presentation. And if you'd like to get in contact with B Metals team, feel free to fill the survey linked in the chat at any time. As this is a part of the B-Metals monthly series with your registration and attendance of today's event, you're going to be automatically notified of the next upcoming episode. Speaker 1: As always, this event is going to be recorded and it's going to be available on Six.com in the coming days, So take a look for that when you want to get a refresher. Without further ado, Derek, I want to pass things over to you so you can get started. Speaker 2: Thanks Cam, and thanks to everybody for joining today. It's just a Monday morning Speaker 2: here in Vancouver. Speaker 2: So thanks for getting your week started off with us and Speaker 2: I'll go through a pretty quick Speaker 2: overview today Speaker 2: of kind of some of the marketing activities that we've been up to in the last month and a bit and Speaker 2: also going to go through what we're going to be doing in the upcoming months. And then just a very quick recap Speaker 2: on Speaker 2: our latest drilling results in Japan and what that all means. Speaker 2: So without further ado, I'll get started. This is just some forward looking statements. Speaker 2: I may make some forward looking statements. So just in ...