Join CEO Brian Penny and Senior Exploration Consultant Mark Peterson of Wallbridge Mining for an update on exploration activities at its projects. After a brief presentation, Brian and Mark are available for live Q&A from the audience.
Mr. Penny is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 30 years of experience in financial management, strategic planning and financial reporting. Formerly, Mr. Penny was the Executive Vice President and CFO of New Gold Inc., a multi-national mining company, from 2009 until 2017; the Vice President of Finance and CFO of Kinross Gold Corporation, one of the world's largest gold producers from 1993 until 2004; the CFO of Western Goldfields Inc. from 2006 to 2009; and the CFO of Silver Bear Resources Plc from 2005 to 2009. Mr. Penny also formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors of Equinox Minerals Limited from 2004 to 2011 when it was acquired by Barrick Gold Corporation; Alamos Gold Inc. from 2005 to 2008; and Baffinland Iron Mines Limited from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Penny obtained his Diploma in Business-Accounting and Finance from Cambrian College and is a CPA, CMA.
Mr. Petersen is an economic geologist with over 35 years of experience in precious and base metals exploration and development. His background includes a variety of successful assignments ranging from early stage exploration and discovery, resource delineation and development, mine site reserves growth and replacement, and providing technical expertise to corporate development initiatives. Mr. Petersen was Vice President of Exploration for Calibre Mining from 2020 through 2021 where he helped lead the company’s transition from junior explorer to mid-tier gold producer. From 2008 through 2018 Mr. Petersen was Vice President of Exploration for New Gold Inc. where he was responsible for shaping and executing the company’s exploration and growth strategy across its diverse portfolio of mining operations and assets in the Americas and Australia. Formerly, Mr. Petersen was Vice President of Exploration for Metallica Resources where he had worked since 1995, and for the 11 years prior, he worked as an exploration geologist with Lac Minerals Inc. and its predecessor companies Bond Gold Inc. and St. Joe Gold Inc. Mark is a Certified Professional Geologist (P. Geo.) and holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science Degrees in Geology and a Master's Degree in Business Administration.
Replay transcript excerpt
Speaker 1: Good morning or good afternoon, depending on where you're signing in from today. Really appreciate everybody joining us. And I'm more than pleased to introduce Brian Penny, Walbridge's CEO, and Mark Peterson, Walbridge's Senior Geological Consultant for a digital town hall today. Gentlemen, how are you doing? Speaker 2: Excellent, and thank you for inviting us, Romeo. Speaker 1: Awesome. Speaker 1: So the format for today is we're gonna go through a number of questions from me, and then we'll be taking questions from the live audience. So folks, this is an interactive event today. There's a chat button in the bottom right hand of your screen. Once we get through my questions, more than happy to hear from you guys. So please enter your questions at any time during the event and we'll try to get to them at the end. If for whatever reason we don't get to your question today, I'm going to be sending them through to the Wallbridge team to make sure they get back to you over email, but we'll try to tackle as many of them as we can during the event today. Speaker 1: The other thing to note is this event is being recorded, and the replay will be available because we're getting it done pretty early in the day today, probably by this afternoon. So you'll automatically get that sent to your inbox. Speaker 1: Please feel free to share it, because at that point the event is entirely public. Speaker 1: So let's get right into questions. I've got a list of questions for both of you. My 1st 1 is actually to Mark. Speaker 1: My question really with almost 30 years experience in the industry, what drew you specifically to Wallbridge? Speaker 3: Well, a few things. Speaker 3: I'd say Speaker 3: kind Speaker 3: of starting from the outside, Speaker 3: working in mainly it was...
