Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse was appointed to serve as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the Company effective January 6, 2020. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals Inc. from January 2012 until December 2019. Between May 1999 and January of 2012, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NOVAGOLD, Inc, a company that he founded. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse holds a Candidature degree in Science from Université de Louvain, Belgium and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse currently serves on the board of directors of Alexco Resource Corp. He served on the board of directors of Sandfire Resources America, Inc. (formerly, Tintina Resources Inc.) from 2008 until 2016. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse has over forty years of experience in the minerals mining industry and brings significant industry and technical knowledge to the Company.
Mr. Clark was appointed to serve as Executive Vice President - Finance of the Company, effective July 11, 2023. He was then appointed as Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary, effective January 1, 2024. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary for Alexco Resource Corp. from December 2014 to September 2022 at which time Alexco Resource Corp was acquired by Hecla Mining Company. Between 2010 and 2014, Mr. Clark served as Chief Financial Officer of Goldgroup Mining Inc. and from 2007 to 2010 Mr. Clark served as Chief Financial Officer for the Grosso Group and its member companies. Mr. Clark received an undergraduate degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is a Canadian Qualified Chartered Professional Accountant. Between 2016 and 2020, Mr. Clark also served on the Board of Trustees for the Burnaby Hospital Foundation as Chair of the Finance Committee.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from today. I've got with me today Contango Ores CEO Rick Van Duyneiza and CFO Mike Clark to discuss the company's recently closed financing. Mike, Rick, how are you today? Speaker 3: Good. Good to see you again, Romeo. Speaker 1: Awesome. Speaker 1: So here's how today's going to work, just for the folks in the room. I've got some questions just based on the recent release, just to give a bit of clarity for everybody that's here. This is an interactive event, so there's that chat button in the bottom of the screen. Like always, We welcome your questions throughout the event. Probably going to be about a half hour today, so if you'd like to get your question in earlier, it's probably more likely to get covered. If for whatever reason I don't get to your question, we just run out of time, it's totally off topic, it's a bit of a repeat, I'll still make sure the transcript gets to the team, and they can get back to any of the ones that were missed following the event. Speaker 1: Last piece of housekeeping, this event is being recorded and will be available for replay Speaker 1: before the end of the day today, so probably close to 5 p.m. Eastern. It'll pop right in your inbox, but we'll also be on Six's YouTube channel. Okay, Boring stuff done. Rick, you just announced a USD$50M raise. The bulk of the proceeds going towards buying back Gold hedge contracts. I'd love if you could walk us through the thinking here. What made now the right time to start knocking off those hedges? Speaker 3: Obviously, Gold has been very volatile in the last Speaker 3: year. Speaker 3: We have been talking about this for quite a while and Speaker 3: we didn't want to look like idiots a...
