Matthew Mickleborough, the founder, writer, and analyst of Junior Resource Investing, is praised for his technical yet engaging interview style that extracts nuanced insights from company executives, providing his audience with a thorough understanding of mining and exploration projects beyond traditional sources. As an outsider to the industry, he places a great amount of weight on executive transparency and honesty and works to foster that in his work, ensuring his audience gains genuine and reliable perspectives on investment opportunities.
David has over a decade of experience in corporate finance and capital markets with a focus on the natural resource sector. As an executive with the PowerOne Group he has developed a depth of knowledge in representing, advising, and assisting emerging companies in accessing capital, advising on mergers and acquisitions and managing their businesses. David is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has also served in a variety of executive roles and director positions to a wide array of private and public enterprises.
Mr. Williams attended the University of Western Ontario for his B.A. in political science and then the University of Ottawa to obtain his L.L.B. degree. He is the President of Blackwell Investor Relations Corp. and he is a senior level executive with broad in-depth experience in international and corporate and commercial affairs and securities law. He has experience being a director and officer of several public companies as well as serving as a member of audit and compensation committees.
Rita Adiani has over 18 years of experience in the mining industry and has been involved in operating companies and development projects in North and South America, Australia, Europe and Africa. She has held senior executive positions in listed companies, private investment vehicles and has been an investment banker, private equity professional and lawyer. She has experience in global capital markets, public and private M&A transactions and has been involved in raising over US$10 billion in public equities.
Ms. Adiani is a law graduate from the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield. She has a Chartered Financial Analyst qualification (Level 4) in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute and also has a Certificate in Mining Studies — Mining & Minerals Engineering from the University of British Columbia (Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering).
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Speaker 1: Welcome to another 6th panel. This 1 is titled Securing Tomorrow the Race for Critical Minerals. I'm your host, Matthew McElborough of Junior Resource Investing. Speaker 1: Just a quick reminder that this is being recorded and additionally also note if you're listening in that there will be time for investor questions at the end. So please, yes, feel free to type your questions into the chat. If they're particularly relevant, I'll sneak them in, but otherwise I'll make sure there's time at the end for this. The topic of today's panel is especially relevant considering the huge wave of support the resource sector is receiving recently, but I won't waste too much more time here before handing this over to the panelists who we've all gathered here to listen to. So individuals that they're here with me, thanks for coming, but why don't we just start off by classic elevator pitch, just introduce yourself and your company. Who are you and how has your company engaged with critical metals? And Rick, I'll let you start 1st. All right. Thank you Matthew I'm a lawyer by training. Speaker 3: My interest is international corporate Speaker 3: affairs and Speaker 3: commercial affairs Speaker 3: I was recruited some 35 years ago to manage the Speaker 3: highest yielding dividend mining company in North America. Speaker 3: And as part of that, I was managing a sister company that we sold to a major for over 1000000000 dollars. Speaker 3: Fast forward 30 years, Speaker 3: I'm now Speaker 3: the Speaker 3: president of a junior and I sit on a number of boards. Speaker 3: In this particular case, I replaced a Speaker 3: CEO who had some health issues Speaker 3: and we did a strategic review Speaker 3: and Speaker 3: took on a project Speaker 3: involving tantalum, Speaker 3...
