Join Dan Wilton, CEO of First Mining Gold, for a town hall event. He gives an update on the company and its projects, inviting questions from the live audience afterward. Feel free to submit questions in advance to be on the top of the queue.
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.
Replay transcript excerpt
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from. I'm joined today by FirstMiningGold CEO, Dan Wilton. How are you today, Dan? I'm good, thanks. Romeo, how are you? Good, good. I Just got a couple of things to run through before we open it up to some prepared questions. But I just want to say that today's event is being recorded and that recording will be available today in the afternoon, likely in the mid-afternoon. It's also an interactive chat. In fact, we really encourage you to be interactive during this event. So there's a chat box in the bottom right of your screen. That's where you can ask questions at any time during today's hour. We'll try to get to as many as we can following the event. I will say there is a chance if we don't get to your question, I will make sure that Paul Morris gets your question. You can always e-mail him directly. I'll give you his e-mail at the end of the event. But I'll make sure that any questions you ask in the chat today, get to the First Mining team to be able to get back to you soon. We're going to do today, Stan's going to start with a little update on first mining, and then we'll ask a number of the questions that you guys entered in advance of the event, and then we'll get into some live audience questions. Without further ado, I'll throw it to Stan. Perfect. Thanks, Romeo, and thanks everyone for joining us today. I'm coming to you from beautiful Winnipeg, Manitoba on my way back from a trip up to our Springpole project yesterday. So very excited and things moving forward well there. I just thought we'd kick off here with just a little discussion about the gold environment and where we are, just to take 5 minutes, kind of set everyone's understanding of kind of what we're s...
