Dan Wilton has 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 most recently 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 currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee for Providence Health Care in Vancouver, Canada. Dan holds a B.Comm (First Class Honours) from Queens University and an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD in France.
Speaker 1: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us here today on our webinar. I can see Speaker 1: A very significant number of people having joined us again. Speaker 1: We always love these formats to be able to interact with our shareholders. So thank you all very much for joining us. Speaker 1: The topic of discussion today Speaker 1: with 1st Mining gold is sustainable development together. And that's, Speaker 1: I think, an approach that is particularly topical Speaker 1: today, as Speaker 1: you will have seen, we announced this morning, Speaker 1: achieving a very significant milestone Speaker 1: on Speaker 1: our environmental assessment process. Speaker 1: So we're very happy to Speaker 1: have Speaker 1: that Speaker 1: now having been achieved. Speaker 1: I'm Dan Boulton, I'm the CEO of FirstMine and Gold and I'm joined by Steve Lines who's our VP environment and community relations. Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. Speaker 1: So Speaker 1: we're going to make a few Speaker 1: forward looking statements as we go through this presentation. Speaker 1: And as we see here, Speaker 1: we've got the Springpole project, just to ground everyone with the location of the project, sitting about halfway between Red Lake and Pickle Lake in Northwestern Ontario. Speaker 1: I would say 1 of the reasons we're so excited about Springpole is that this is 1 of the largest undeveloped open-pit Gold projects in Canada with a really Speaker 1: globally significant Speaker 1: development Speaker 1: project. Speaker 1: And I think as we've talked about for Speaker 1: years, Speaker 1: moving through this environmental assessment process Speaker 1: is 1 of the most Speaker 1: significant Speaker 1: de-riskers of this project. Speaker 1: And I think Speaker 1: We Sp...
