Mr. Gemmell has more than 15 years of mining industry experience across capital markets, exploration, project development and operations. This experience includes senior management roles focused on corporate strategy, acquisition and divestitures, investor relations, capital raising, feasibility studies and project optimization. Mr. Gemmell was most recently VP of Corporate Development at Guyana Goldfields Inc., a mid-tier gold producer with operations in Guyana. Mr. Gemmell oversaw the merger and acquisitions strategy for the company, managed and supervised the completion of multiple feasibility studies, and played a key role in overseeing several construction and development projects. Prior to this role, Mr. Gemmell was the CEO of Lago Dourado Minerals Ltd., a gold exploration company focused on Brazil. Mr. Gemmell also worked in the capital markets earlier in his career, both on the sell-side, as an equity research analyst covering the precious metals sector with Raymond James Ltd., and on the buy-side, as an equity analyst with Colonial First State in Sydney, Australia. Mr. Gemmell holds a Bachelor of Economics (Actuarial Studies) and is a CFA charterholder.
Tony Makuch, an independent director of the Company has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Makuch is a professional engineer with over 35 years of significant industry and leadership experience and is well positioned to advance the Company’s strategy through this period of transition with the support of the Board of Directors and the Company’s management team. Mr. Makuch was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd., a leading senior global gold company with operations in Ontario and Australia.
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Speaker 1: Hi everyone and welcome to Discovery Silver's live summit today hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce their CEO and director Tony McCooch as well as Forbes Gemel, their Vice President of Corporate Development. Tony and Forbes are going to be walking us through a company presentation and after we're going to be taking questions live, so remember you can submit your questions using the Q&A panel found on the right hand side of your screen at any point during today's presentation. And if you'd like to get in touch with the team or leave some feedback, be sure to complete the survey linked at the top of the chat. As always, this event is being recorded and it's going to be available on six.com in the coming days so look out for that if you want to refresh. Without further ado, Tony, I want to pass things over to you so that we can get started. Okay, well, thanks, thanks, Cameron. Thanks, 6, for hosting this and thanks everybody for being online, and as I say, myself and Forbes Gemmel Speaker 2: here. Speaker 2: We went through a presentation and we don't have to be very formal. We're happy to, as I say, get this done and then get to questions because sometimes that's a little bit easier. Anyway, with Discovery Silver, I think Speaker 2: maybe just coming in is a very exciting Speaker 2: and I think this is a tier 1 asset. Speaker 2: 1 of the best undeveloped Silver projects, Speaker 2: even the best undeveloped mining Speaker 2: project globally. And we really get to get a chance to go through some of these things with you. We did pass through that 1 slide very quickly on the forward-looking statements. And I guess I think we should qualify that 1st and foremost that both myself and Forrest probably will be making a lot of forward-looking statements here, so y...
