First Mining Gold: 2020 - A Year of Transformation
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Tue, December 15, 2020 at 10:00 AMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting was a live investment summit for FirstMining Gold, featuring CEO Dan Wilton and VP of Investor Relations Spiros Kakos. The discussion focused on the company's significant changes and achievements in 2020, upcoming plans for 2021, and the progress of various projects, particularly the Springpole project. Key Discussion Points - Introduction of new team members, including Steve Lines (VP Environment and Community Relations) and Richard Wong (VP Corporate Development). - Updates on the Springpole project, including the anticipated pre-feasibility study (PFS) release in January 2021. - Overview of financial stability and funding strategies, including successful capital raises in 2020. - Discussion of the company's involvement with Treasury Metals and the upcoming distribution of shares. - Strategic moves made during 2020, including partnerships and project consolidations, particularly with the Pickle Crow and Cameron projects. - Emphasis on narrowing the tra...
Dan Wilton has 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 most recently 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 currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee for Providence Health Care in Vancouver, Canada. Dan holds a B.Comm (First Class Honours) from Queens University and an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD in France.
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Welcome to FirstMine and Gold's live investment summit today, hosted by 6. Speaker 1: 2020, Speaker 1: a year of transformation. Speaker 1: We're joined today by CEO Dan Wilton, and we also have on the line Spiros Kakos, Vice President of Investor Relations, who's going to be leading our live Q&A segment today. Speaker 1: Dan's going to kick things off by walking us through a complete presentation. Speaker 1: As I mentioned, we will be opening up the floor for questions. Speaker 1: Remember, you can always submit your questions in the Q&A panel on the right-hand side of the screen. Today's presentation is also downloadable Speaker 1: in the handouts tab, so make sure you check that out. And as always, this event is being recorded and will be available on SIX.com afterwards. Speaker 1: Now, without further ado, I'm gonna hand it over to Dan. Speaker 2: Thanks, Jane, and thanks to all of our partners at 6 for hosting us yet again Speaker 2: and another 1 of these webinars. Speaker 2: You know, we've had a few of these this year talking about, you know, some pretty significant changes in our business. And as we were reflecting as we're coming in toward the year end here, we just wanted to take some time to. Have an opportunity in this format to connect with our- Speaker 2: wonderful group of investors again- Speaker 2: and we really are blessed with the with the shareholder base is so active and engaged so thanks for thanks for joining us again today- Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a few forward looking statements as we go through this presentation. Speaker 2: It's really important as we were taking a step back looking at Speaker 2: what we've accomplished as a team in Speaker 2: 2020, Speaker 2: I wanted to highlight a couple of important things and...
