Fireside Chat with Mark Jarvis and Incoming CEO Scott Lendrum

Mr. Jarvis has more than 40 years of experience in exploration and development of mineral resources, both in oil and gas and metals. After a career in financing exploration projects as a stockbroker, Mr. Jarvis moved to the corporate side of the business in 1996. He joined the Board of Ultra Petroleum, which at the time was a small oil and gas exploration and development company with a large, unconventional gas deposit. As Director responsible for Corporate Finance, he raised the equity capital necessary to prove the concept and to establish enough production to finance further growth with debt. Ultra Petroleum grew from an exploration play to 3 TCF of proven gas reserves. Mr. Jarvis became CEO of Giga Metals Corporation's predecessor company in January 2004. During his tenure, the company has drilled off a giant nickel/cobalt deposit, worked out a reliable metallurgical circuit, and published a Pre-Feasibility Study.

Mr. Lendrum joined Giga Metals in 2025 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Giga, he spent 20 years in investment banking, focused almost exclusively on the global mining and metals industry. Most recently, Mr. Lendrum was a senior investment banker with Paradigm Capital in Toronto, managing client relationships and executing transactions both in mergers and acquisitions as well as equity capital markets. Before joining Paradigm, he worked at Red Cloud Securities in a similar capacity. Mr. Lendrum provides Giga with a broad global network across the mining industry having spent 3 years with the Mining M&A team in the Americas for Standard Chartered Bank as well as 8 years at BNP Paribas in Toronto and New York covering the North American mining industry with a focus on capital markets and M&A transactions for some of the world’s largest mining groups. Mr. Lendrum holds an H.B.A in Economics from the University of Toronto and obtained his CFA charter in 2011.