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.
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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to 1st Mining Gold's live investment summit today, hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce the CEO and Director of 1st Mining Gold, Dan Wilton. With us today as well is our guest, President, CEO and Director of Big Ridge Gold, Mike Bandrowski. Speaker 1: Mike is going to walk us through a presentation of his and after we'll be taking questions live. Remember that 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. Speaker 1: And as always, this event is being recorded and it'll be available to watch on six.com in the coming days. Without further ado, Dan, I'm going to hand things over to you to get us started. Cam, thanks very much. And thanks to everyone for joining us. It's been a while since we've been able to connect here. Speaker 2: And I think, you know, Speaker 2: I'm looking up here Speaker 2: at the title of this, the Hidden Value Series. And I think it's 1 of the things that kind of struck us a few months ago Speaker 2: is, and it was actually just after a conversation I had with Mike Speaker 2: in the spring, Speaker 2: that there is so much going on inside the companies in our partnership portfolio Speaker 2: that Speaker 2: we really kind of need to find a forum to be able to let our shareholders, Speaker 2: you know, Speaker 2: sort of engage directly Speaker 2: and hear about a lot of the great work that's going on that, you know, we think goes to support that $100 million of value that's not our main project sitting Speaker 2: in 1st mining. So I'm delighted to have Mike Vandroski joining us today. Speaker 2: You know, Speaker 2: the deal where Big Ridge Speaker 2: optioned into Speaker 2: Hope Brook was, you know, Speaker 2: large...
