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.
A former COO of Barrick Gold Corporation from 2015-2018, Mr. Williams is a global executive with an established track-record of value creation, pioneering and transformational leadership within the Mining Industry and other demanding assignments. Amongst other notable achievements, this helped Barrick deliver an 80% improvement in the company’s operating profit over his three years, and the total overhaul of the Company’s relationship with the Tanzanian Government following a breakdown of relations between a Barrick subsidiary and that government.
Formerly, the CEO of an African and Central Asian focused exploration business, and Non-Executive Director of Gem Diamonds PLC, he was also the Commanding Officer of the British Special Forces Regiment – the SAS. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Trevali Mining Corporation, Chair of Trevali’s HSEC Committee and an advisor to mining companies facing complex operational, political or ESG challenges.
BSc Economics, University College London; MA Security Studies, Kings College London; MBA Cranfield University.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome to today's event. What does it take? Getting a mind built in the Americas part 1. Please feel free to submit questions in the chat feature on the right hand side of your screen at any point during the conversation. Speaker 1: I'll try my best to incorporate them into the conversation at hand. As a reminder, this event will be recorded and will be available at six.com in the coming days, so look out for that. Speaker 1: Gentlemen, Why don't we start with your name and title, Speaker 1: where you're from, Speaker 1: and any previous mine building experience if applicable, and then we can get further into Speaker 1: the details as the conversation progresses. Speaker 1: Why don't we start with you, Dan? Speaker 2: Sure. I am Dan Rolton. I'm the CEO of 1st Mining Gold. Speaker 2: 1st Mining is advancing Speaker 2: a couple of major gold projects, Speaker 2: 1 our Springpool Gold Project in Ontario Speaker 2: and our DuParquet Gold Project in Quebec. Speaker 2: In terms of mine building experience, Speaker 2: I've been parts of teams that have helped finance mines. Speaker 2: I've sold a lot of projects at that period where they're just about ready to get built. Speaker 2: So lots of experience in kind of going through the Speaker 2: whole development cycle. Speaker 1: Thank you. Richard? Speaker 3: Thanks, Carl. And thanks, everybody, for dialing in. Richard Williams, the Executive Chairman of Speaker 3: Bunker Hill Speaker 3: Mining. Speaker 3: We're bringing Speaker 3: an old Speaker 3: zinc-silver-lead Speaker 3: mine back into production in November of next year, all being well, Speaker 3: in the Silver Valley, Idaho. Speaker 3: A mine that ran for 90 years and was shut down Speaker 3: in 1981. So it's remained fallow for a while...
