Is This Genuinely a Metals Bull Market?

With a career spanning four decades in the investment markets, Brien Lundin serves as President & CEO of Jefferson Financial. He is also the publisher and editor of Gold Newsletter and host of the annual New Orleans Investment Conference.

Thom Calandra of thomcalandra.com and subscriber service The Calandra Report is co-founder and was chief commentator and editor-in-chief of CBS MarketWatch.com. Thom is a writer, an investor and the founder of Thom Calandra’s StockWatch, The Calandra Report, thomcalandra.com and Ticker Trax. Thom has been writing and broadcasting about money topics since 1983. Those include natural resources, biomedicals and special situations. Thom was the San Francisco Examiner‘s investing columnist. He also has appeared on the CBS Evening News, CBS Radio Network and the CBS MarketWatch Weekend television show. He was a London-based columnist for Bloomberg News and was the first online financial editor of USAToday.com.

Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse was appointed to serve as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the Company effective January 6, 2020. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals Inc. from January 2012 until December 2019. Between May 1999 and January of 2012, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NOVAGOLD, Inc, a company that he founded. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse holds a Candidature degree in Science from Université de Louvain, Belgium and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse currently serves on the board of directors of Alexco Resource Corp. He served on the board of directors of Sandfire Resources America, Inc. (formerly, Tintina Resources Inc.) from 2008 until 2016. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse has over forty years of experience in the minerals mining industry and brings significant industry and technical knowledge to the Company.

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.