management

Grant Ewing

CEO

Mr. Ewing is an accomplished mining executive with a strong technical foundation and solid business acumen. He is a professional geologist by background and has over 25 years of experience in the mineral industry and the last 10+ years in senior executive roles. His extensive knowledge base covers the entire mine development cycle, from early-stage exploration through to production, in several different commodities. He has experience building value by managing the development of exploration assets from the discovery phase through to economic evaluation. Strong corporate development and investor relations, merger and acquisitions, and capital markets knowledge complement Mr. Ewing's mineral industry experience. Mr. Ewing has experience with several successful mineral exploration and development companies at the executive level throughout his career, including Rockridge Resources, Kiska Metals/AuRico Metals, and Acadian Mining, among others.

Andrea Yuan

CFO

Ms. Yuan is a Chartered Professional Accountant in British Columbia and a Certified Public Accountant in New Hampshire. Ms. Yuan obtained her Bachelor of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 1994 and started her career as an internal auditor and then as team head of the internal audit department at the Bank of China's Shanghai Pudong branch in China. From 2004 to 2011 she worked at Davidson and Company LLP, Chartered Accountants. In November 2011, Ms. Yuan started her own financial and management consulting company, Black Dragon Financial Consulting Services Inc. Ms. Yuan has acted as CFO for several public companies listed on the TSXV.

Darren Lindsay

Vice President Exploration

Darren Lindsay is a registered professional geoscientist in BC, NU and NT with over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration across four continents with a focus on orogenic gold systems. He holds a B.Sc. Honours degree in geology (UBC) and previous to that earned a B.Sc. Honours degree in biochemistry (Carleton University). In addition to over fifteen years working in the Slave Structural Province with BHP Minerals, Inmet Mining, Miramar Hope Bay, Newmont and NxGold, Darren has also worked on orogenic gold deposits in Ontario, Guyana, Ghana and western Australia. He was directly involved with and led teams for belt-scale exploration, resource expansions, and feasibility level studies of gold deposits in the Hope Bay Belt, Nunavut. In addition, Darren was a key member of the team that defined prospective stratigraphy hosting the northern deposits of the Hope Bay Belt that led to the targeting and substantial expansion of the mineral resources leading to the purchase of Miramar Hope Bay by Newmont.

Eugene Flood

Technical Advisor

Eugene is a professional geologist with more than 35 years experience in Canada and internationally, most of this in orogenic gold terranes. He graduated from Lakehead University with a B.Sc. degree in geology in 1985. Eugene discovered what is now called the Flood Zone on the Ulu property in June 1989 while working for BHP Minerals as a Project Geologist. Between 1989 and 1993 he also discovered several additional mineralized zones and was involved in mapping, drilling, and calculating the first resource on the Flood Zone. In 1994 to 1996, Eugene completed the first mapping and drilling programs at the Doris Lake area in North Hope Bay, Nunavut resulting in this high-grade discovery which achieved commercial production in 2017. As the owner of Flood Consulting, he specializes in project and target generation and has experience from reconnaissance to resource development with junior and major mining companies in over 20 countries. He has provided GIS-based spatial prospectivity analysis for such clients as Goldfields, B2 Gold, and Goldcorp, and currently acts as technical advisor to Aurion Resources.