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.
Mr. Cacos has over 20 years of investor relations experience working with public mining companies, ranging from early-stage exploration and development to production. Most recently, Mr. Cacos served as Vice President, Investor Relations for First Mining Gold, a Canadian gold development company listed on the TSX and OTCQX, focused on the development and permitting of the Springpole Gold Project, one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada.
Bianca Pisciola is a co-founder and CRO of 6ix, a capital markets technology platform. Through 6ix, she has deployed data-driven investor relations technology for more than 100 public mining companies, including Endeavour Mining and McEwen Mining.
Bianca is on the founding team of Save Canadian Mining, an advocacy group dedicated to reinstating the tick test within Canadian capital markets. Other members of the founding team include Eric Sprott, Rob McEwen, Keith Neumeyer, Sean Roosen, and other leaders of the industry.
She also sits on the board of One Silver Lining, a Canadian non-profit organization she founded, supporting youth through conferences, benefit concerts, TEDx talks, and scholarships.
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Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Bianca Bichola. I'm the COO of 6 and welcome to FirstMine and Gold's Live Investor Summit. Speaker 1: I'd like to start today by introducing our presenters, Dan Rogan, CEO of FirstMiningGold, Speaker 1: and Spiros Kakos, Vice President, Investor Relations. Speaker 1: To kick things off, Dan will be telling the company story and then we'll be accepting investor questions. You can submit your questions in a Q&A panel on the right-hand bottom of your screen. Speaker 1: Take it away, Dan. Speaker 2: Thanks, Bianca. And thanks to everyone for joining us for our 1st Speaker 2: presentation Speaker 2: on this platform. Speaker 2: And I think so far from what we've seen, we've been delighted with the response and the number of people we've been able to reach with this. And that's in large part due to Bianca and her team's work. So thank you very much for all this. Speaker 2: And thanks everyone Speaker 2: for joining us here for an update on 1st Mining Gold. Speaker 2: It's a really interesting time in the gold sector right now. Speaker 2: As Speaker 2: I'm sure all of us know who are watching it, Speaker 2: we're in an environment here where I think we're going to see some unprecedented Speaker 2: levels of gold price appreciation. Speaker 2: We're in a macroeconomic Speaker 2: environment that's really, really supportive of higher gold prices. Speaker 2: And I think we at 1st Mining have a collection of projects that we are moving forward Speaker 2: and de-risking Speaker 2: and I think we're Speaker 2: making great progress in surfacing the value of our projects in the portfolio here. Speaker 2: So Speaker 2: without much further ado, I will walk through a brief presentation and then look forward to taking questions on Speaker 2: this webinar pla...
