David is first and foremost an investor, and founded Kuya Silver in 2017 after being introduced to the Bethania silver mining project and striking a deal to buy a controlling stake in the mine. Leading Kuya Silver in its early phases, David has used all the skills he has developed from more than 20 years in the mining capital markets.
Until 2016, David had leading roles with mining-specialist merchant bank, Aberdeen International. He spearheaded a number of important investment initiatives, generating strong returns during the last mining bull market, and capitalizing on opportunistic transactions during the subsequent downturn for natural resources. Prior to that, David was a Director and Equities Analyst focused on the Precious Metals sector at Cormark Securities. David has a technical background, receiving an M.Sc. (Geology) and B.AppSci (Geological Engineering) from Queen’s University in Canada before joining the capital markets.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Speaker 1: let's Speaker 1: get started. Speaker 1: 1st of all, thank you everyone Speaker 1: who's on the webcast today. Speaker 1: And before I start, I'll just acknowledge Speaker 1: 6, Speaker 1: who are organizing the web call. Speaker 1: I've been working with them for quite a while and they do a great job and I really, Speaker 1: really appreciate Speaker 1: the setup for this. And I know they've done these webcasts Speaker 1: many times now and so it should be pretty smooth. Speaker 1: So Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Kuya Silver today. We're a new silver mining company that's Speaker 1: about to be listed in the next few weeks. Speaker 1: And Speaker 1: so our RTO is in progress right now. We're at the very later stages of that. So Speaker 1: we're basically, Speaker 1: you know, as management, we're just, we're getting ready to get the word that we'll start trading. Speaker 1: And, Speaker 1: you know, that again should happen in the next few weeks next you know 1 to 2 weeks I would hope but we'll see Speaker 1: our ticker symbol will be KUYA Speaker 1: KUYA Speaker 1: and Speaker 1: that is that's that's Speaker 1: what you need to know for now. So Speaker 1: before I go on to the main part of the presentation, I do have a couple of Speaker 1: kind of disclosure announcements I want to make. 1st of all, Speaker 1: I know that Speaker 1: a number of our management and directors are on the call today. So 1st of all, thank you. Speaker 1: And Speaker 1: what Speaker 1: you know, This is the 1st time I've done a call like this for KUYA. Speaker 1: And so I was a little bit nervous about, you know, the technology and everything Speaker 1: and broadcasting this out of my home office. So just to keep everything simple, it's gonna be only m...
