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Mr. Lynch graduated in 1981 from St. Francis Xavier University with a joint honours degree in Economics and BBA. Prior to becoming a director with International PBX Ventures in 2012, Mr. Lynch had been CEO of privately held Nevada-focused Relief Gold. He also had been a director and later CEO of TSX-listed Firstgold Corp. He assumed the CEO position after the company had run into financial difficulty bringing its Relief Canyon mine into production. He arranged a sale of 51% of the company for a total capital injection of $26.5 million from Northwest Non-Ferrous Metals, one of China’s largest mining engineering and consulting groups. From 2005 to 2008 Mr. Lynch was a partner with Kingsmill Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm specializing in advising public and private early stage growth companies. Prior to joining Kingsmill Capital he spent 15 years operating startup companies in industrial products, oil and gas and media. Mr. Lynch is also a co-founder of Cardiol Therapeutics, a NASDAQ and TSX listed clinical-stage life sciences company focused on the research and clinical development of cannabidiol as an anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory therapy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Joe has over 40 years of experience in major projects ranging from Chief Geologist (both open pit and underground) to Project Manager roles (Meliadine Gold, now operated by AEM). He is past President, Executive Chairman, and COO of Gold Terra (previously TerraX). He has had multiple senior roles in project management, resource/reserve estimation and economic assessment at the pre-feasibility, feasibility, and mine development and operations levels. He has extensive advanced exploration experience in mesothermal and epithermal Au, VMS, porphyry Cu-Au-Mo, and Ni sulphide and laterite deposits. Joe also has a wealth of experience in environmental review for stakeholders in mining projects.