DIRECTOR NOMINEES
ANDREW ELINESKY
Mr. Elinesky brings over 25 years of executive and financial leadership experience within the mining industry with public companies in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. He currently serves as CEO of LaFleur Minerals Inc. focused on starting production at the Swanson Gold project in Val D’Or, Quebec. Previously, he served as President, CEO and a director of Sabre Gold Mines, leading its reorganization and eventual acquisition by Minera Alamos. He spent 11 years at McEwen Mining and its predecessor companies, where he rose to Vice-President, Argentina, responsible for the administrative and financial oversight of the San José mine, in which McEwen held a 49% interest, and for the exploration and development of McEwen's other Argentine assets, including the Los Azules copper project. From December 2015 to May 2019 he was McEwen's Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, managing more than $150 million of equity and debt financings and multiple acquisitions and integrations and operational development. He currently serves as a director and audit committee chair of Canadian Copper Inc. and has served as a director on multiple boards. He is a CPA (Ontario).
NORMAN FINDLAY
Mr. Findlay brings more than 35 years as a securities and mining lawyer. He is a corporate director and previously a partner at Bennett Jones LLP (2012–2024) and Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (1996–2011), and at Fasken Campbell Godfrey before that — ranked for some two decades in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for mining, M&A and securities law. He has acted for special committees through several hostile takeover bids and dissident proxy contests, and for the independent directors of Katanga Mining in their review of its historical accounting. He is a director of Gold Hart Copper Corp. and Dye & Durham, where he was appointed in January 2026 as a shareholder nominee and chairs the Strategic Committee and the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. He is also a former director of various private and public companies including Cobre Mining Company Limited, Metallic Ventures Gold Inc. where he was Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Special Committee formed to pursue strategic alternatives and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Corporate Governance Nominating Committee. and Lakeside Steel Inc where he was non-executive Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Findlay holds a BA from the University of Toronto, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MA in Economics from the University of Miami. He also completed the Certificate in Law and Economics from the University of Miami Law and Economics Center and the Canadian Securities Course.
WAYNE PETERS
Mr. Peters is an investor and business owner with extensive experience in business, valuation, capital allocation and corporate governance. After owning and operating retail and industrial businesses, he established Peters MacGregor Capital Management, an Australian-based global equity fund manager where he was Chief Investment Officer from 1999 to 2019. Under his leadership, its global equity fund was Australia’s top-performing global equity fund over the 2008–2013 period. Mr. Peters has held several non-executive board positions at publicly listed companies. From 1999 to 2014, he served as a director of Michael Hill International Limited, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and New Zealand’s Exchange (NZX), where he chaired the remuneration committee. He also served as a director of Freedom Group (Freedom Furniture) from 2000 until it was taken private in 2003. He was Chairman of Peters MacGregor Investments Limited, an ASX-listed investment fund, from 2004 to 2013. He holds an MBA from Bond University and has studied Company Valuation at Harvard University. He continues to manage his family office, Peters MacGregor Capital.
