Mr.Samson is a mining executive with more than 20 years of management and financial experience. He was most recently VP & Head of Corporate Development at FNI Mining for four years, including a period of six month as interim COO, responsible for safety, mine development and operations at a 250-person underground mine near Sudbury, Ontario. In 2012, he won the Canadian Young Mining Leader award from the CIM. Prior to FNI, he was VP Commercial Development at Kinross Gold Corporation for five years where he had diverse, multi-functional responsibilities including: supply chain, energy, merger integration, enterprise risk and capital approvals, leading a team of more than 300 people across eight countries. Before Kinross he was a management consultant at Bain & Company and traded for investment banks in New York and Europe. Sean received his A.B. from Harvard University, and MBA from Cambridge and has completed his Surface Miner Common Core in Ontario. He is a past elected PDAC board member and a Cleantech advisor at MaRS, a Toronto-based Innovation Centre.
Mr. Davis has over 30 years of executive, exploration and mine management experience for large multinational and junior companies. Most recently, Mr. Davis was VP Exploration at FNI Mining and over his career he has headed mining and exploration teams in the discovery, development and mining of projects in Canada, Finland, Australia and Peru. His responsibilities include scoping and feasibility studies; project and mine permitting, environmental compliance and reporting, off-take and acquisition agreement negotiation, implementation and monitoring, corporate development, asset evaluation, due diligence analysis and economic models. Mr. Davis also has direct experience in other corporate functions including budgeting, financing, investor relations and regulatory reporting and compliance. Mr. Davis graduated from the University of Western Ontario (BSc- Honours Geology) and the University of Alabama (MSc- Economic Geology).
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, welcome to EVNickel's live summit today. I'm pleased to introduce their president and CEO, Sean Samson, as well as their VP of exploration, Paul Davis. Sean and Paul are going to take us through our company presentation and after we're going to be accepting questions. As a reminder, you can submit your questions using the Q&A tab found on the right-hand side of your screen at any time during today's presentation. And as always, today's event is being recorded and will be available online on demand on Six.com in the coming days. Without further ado, Sean, I want to pass things over to you to get us kicked off for the day. Speaker 2: Thanks, Cam, Speaker 2: and thanks everybody for joining both live and on the recording. Speaker 2: So these slides will be taken from slides on our website and of course Speaker 2: on our website as well as the forward-looking statements Speaker 2: comment which everyone should take a look at. So today's big discussion topic is our new results for the CAR LANG, the large-scale deposit that we've identified in the north. Speaker 2: We'll quickly zip through some material to set the table for people who may be new to the story. Speaker 2: Our thing at EV Nickel is that we're going after Speaker 2: the increasing demand Speaker 2: for nickel coming from the electric vehicles. And they specifically need the cleanest metals. Speaker 2: And that's what we're trying to set up with our clean nickel, our trademarked term. Speaker 2: We have an enormous land package, which we'll talk about. Speaker 2: On that land package, we have a historical resource for our high grade at 1%. Speaker 2: And to sum it up, what we are is we are in Ontario, Speaker 2: we're critical metals, and we're funded to drill and do our work. Speake...
