Join us for an interactive town hall featuring Dan Wilton, CEO & Director, and Keith Neumeyer, Chairman, as they reflect on 2025 and share insights on what’s in store for 2026. Both Dan and Keith will be available to answer questions.
Dan Wilton has more than 25 years of experience in M&A, corporate finance and principal investing in the mining sector, having executed as principal or advised on more than $10 billion of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and more than $1 billion of financings. Dan was previously a Partner at Pacific Road Capital Management, a mining-focused private equity investment firm with approximately $800 million under management. Prior to joining Pacific Road, Dan's previous roles included Managing Director and Head of the Global Mining and Metals Group at National Bank Financial Inc., Managing Director in Business Development at General Electric based in London, England, and other corporate finance and M&A roles at global financial institutions based in Toronto and New York. Dan is a Director of Providence Living, a residential care and assisted living provider based in Vancouver, BC, and serves on the Audit and Finance and Quality Committees. Dan served on the Board of Providence Health Care for 11 years, including acting as Vice Chair for 6 years and Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee during the financing and approval process for the New St. Paul's development. Dan holds a B.Comm (First Class Honours) from Queen's University and an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD in France.
Mr. Neumeyer has worked in the investment community since 1984. He began his career at a number of Canadian national brokerage firms. Mr. Neumeyer moved on to work with several publicly traded companies in the resource and high technology sectors. His roles have included senior management positions and directorships responsible in areas of finance, business development, strategic planning and corporate restructuring. Mr. Keith Neumeyer who has an unparalleled track record which includes creating two world-class mining companies: First Quantum Minerals Ltd. which has now grown into one of the world's largest copper producers, and First Majestic Silver Corp. which is one of the largest silver producers in the world. Mr. Neumeyer has also listed a number of companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange and as such has extensive experience dealing with the financial, regulatory, legal and accounting issues that are relevant in the investment community.
Paul Morris entered the Investor Relations arena in 2021 after having spent over 20 years as an investment advisor in Toronto. That experience gave him great insight into what is important to investors, prospective investors, and investment advisors. Paul believes building solid relationships and trust is of paramount importance, and regular communication in both good times and bad is absolutely crucial.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from. This is 1 of those events where we have representatives from 6 out of 7 continents. So I appreciate everybody making time in the middle of your morning, day or night to join us and chat with us. I've got with me today Dan Wilton, CEO and Director of FirstMine and Gold, Paul Morris, Speaker 1: Director of Investor Relations. And we're hoping in just a few minutes, we'll have at least for a couple of minutes, Chairman of the company, Keith Neumeyer, also the CEO of 1st Majestic. But gentlemen, how are you today? Well, thanks, Mario. Great to see you. Speaker 1: Awesome. Speaker 1: So here's how today's gonna work. I got a couple of quick questions that are gonna come from me But today is largely a town hall. I do want to hear from investors in the company So, please do jump on the chat at any point in the event be in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Speaker 1: You can message any question you'd like. We'll try to get to as many as we can today. Because there's so many of you in the room, it's very possible we won't get to every question. But if that's the case, I'll make sure that the 1st Mining team gets them afterwards and they'll be able to respond to you via email up to your, Speaker 1: or phone, according to the information that you gave on registration. Speaker 1: But let me Speaker 1: finish housekeeping, get into the good stuff. I'll get a quick synopsis, actually, Speaker 1: 1st Mining, just because I know about a 3rd of the audience today are not part of 1st Mining's community. So new to the story, I'd love to get a quick synopsis for that crowd before we get into the news from this year. Speaker 2: Sure. Speaker 2: Well, Paul, do you w...
