TORONTO, Oct. 27 2020 /CNW/ - Canada Nickel Company Inc.
("Canada Nickel" or "The Company") (TSXV:CNC)
(OTCQB: CNIKF) announces the appointment of Pierre-Philippe
Dupont as Vice-President of Sustainability, Wendy Kaufman as Chief Financial Officer, and
the nomination of three Independent, Non-Executive Directors to the
Board: Mr. Kulvir Gill, Ms.
Jen Morais and Ms. Francisca Quinn. The Board nominations are
subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and
shareholders at a meeting expected to be held in December 2020. The nominees will serve as Board
observers until such meeting.
"With our Crawford Project progressing rapidly towards
development, we are taking the necessary steps to build a highly
skilled management team with extensive experience in project
financing and permitting," said Mark
Selby, Chair and CEO of Canada Nickel. "Wendy and
Pierre-Philippe both have broad experience in Canadian mining
developments, which will be critical as we advance Crawford to be
shovel-ready in the next 24 months."
Vice President, Sustainability
Pierre-Philippe Dupont has been appointed Vice President of
Sustainability effective November 1,
2020. He brings over fifteen years of experience with
particular expertise in base metal mining projects. For nearly ten
years, he held the role of Director of Sustainability for RNC
Minerals, where he led the effort to fully permit the large scale
Dumont Nickel project. Most
importantly, this was accomplished with the full support of the
local community and First Nation stakeholders through the
implementation of an extensive consultation process that is now
regarded as a benchmark today. He was actively involved in
the negotiation of an Impacts and Benefits Agreement (IBA) signed
with the Pikogan First Nation, believed to be the first IBA signed
by the Quebec Algonquins. Prior to RNC Minerals, he was also
involved in the permitting process of major resource projects such
as the Canadian Malartic Gold Mine
and the Canadian Royalties Nickel Mine. He was also recognized in
2015 by the leading economic journal Les Affaires, as one of the 25
most promising young leaders in Quebec. Prior to joining Canada Nickel,
he was employed at Glencore's Horne Copper smelter as Director of
Sustainability, where he managed the environment, health and
safety, governance, communications and community relations
departments. A biologist by training, his first passion has always
been the protection and conservation of aquatic biodiversity,
leading him to a Masters Degree in Science in conservation genetics
from Laval University.
Chief Financial Officer
Wendy Kaufman has been appointed
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Canada Nickel effective
November 1, 2020. She brings
significant expertise and more than twenty-five years experience
leading with junior and mid-tier publicly-listed mining companies
in project financing, capital structuring, capital markets,
accounting, internal controls, tax, financial reporting and public
disclosure. Her skills and experience, including the completion of
a $4 billion finance package for
Cobre Panama during her time at Inmet Mining, one of the largest
finance packages assembled by a mid-tier mining company, will be
directly relevant to her role overseeing the financing strategy for
Canada Nickel's 100% owned Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide
Project.
She was previously the CFO at Khiron Life Sciences Corporation
and has also held CFO and senior finance positions at Pasinex
Resources Limited, Primero Mining Corporation and Inmet Mining
Corporation. Wendy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from
Wilfrid Laurier University and is a
Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA).
Canada Nickel has also made three new appointments to its Board
of Directors.
"These appointments to the Canada Nickel Board demonstrates
our continued commitment to building a world class, sustainable
mining company. Each Director brings a unique set of skills
and expertise that will allow us to continue to rapidly advance
Crawford," said Selby. "All three directors bring a wealth
of executive experience, technical expertise and have a track
record of success in working with or advising mining companies and
their investors within the global landscape. We are pleased to
welcome Mr. Gill, Ms. Morais and Ms. Quinn, and are eager to
benefit from their knowledge, network, and capability as we
continue to advance the Crawford Nickel Cobalt Sulphide
Project."
Kulvir Singh
Gill
Independent, Non-executive
Director
Mr. Kulvir Singh
Gill has twenty years of experience working with innovation
and sustainability within the global mining industry. He works
with the strategy firm Clareo to lead innovation and growth
projects for international Fortune 500 clients across multiple
industries in the mining, oil and gas and heavy industrial
sectors. He was the Founding Executive Director of the
Development Partner Institute (DPI) which advanced sustainability
in the mining industry. In his current role as Associate Director
with the DPI, he has convened global working groups, spoken at
major mining conferences and led their regional catalyst programs
in South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. He has also recently served as the
Innovation Ecosystem Manager for the Canadian Mining Innovation
Council (CMIC).
He began his career as a management consultant with Oliver Wyman before holding several positions
with Barrick Gold involving supply
chain management, post-merger integrations, strategic planning,
innovation and sustainability. He is also passionate about
community service, being the co-founder of the Seva Food Bank in
Mississauga. He serves on the
boards of the William Osler Health System, the Empire Club of
Canada and the Sikh Research
Institute. Mr. Gill is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal and a 2010 Action Canada Fellow. He holds a
B.Sc. and a B. Comm. from the University of
Calgary and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of
Corporate Directors.
Jennifer Morais, BA, MBA
CFA
Independent, Non-executive Director
Ms.
Jennifer Morais has over twenty
years of experience as a senior executive in the global private
equity and alternatives industry, complemented by a further decade
of work experience in the global mining finance and management
consulting fields. She is currently Co-Founder and Managing Partner
of Acuity Partners Inc., an advisory practice serving the strategic
needs of private equity, private credit and other alternative
investment firms.
Prior to founding Acuity Partners, she spent 17 years as both a
GP (as a senior member of TPG Capital's investor relations team)
and an institutional investor (or LP) at each of CPPIB and OMERS
Capital Partners. While at TPG, she raised $2 billion of capital from Canadian and US
sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, and insurance companies for
TPG's private equity, real estate and hedge fund products.
Highlights of her career at CPPIB include: over $9 billion of capital commitments to managers in
North America, Europe, Asia
and Latin America; applying her
passion for research and strategic partner identification to
formulate the private equity group's first Asian strategy and
CPPIB's entry into Latin America;
and playing an instrumental role on over 50 external advisory
boards (or limited partner advisory committees) and the investment
committees of several investment platforms within CPPIB. While at
OMERS Capital Partners, she participated in both fund investing,
and in direct co-investments, which initiated and honed her private
equity investment judgement skills.
Ms. Morais also spent several years at Hatch Associates as a
management consultant to global natural resources companies
(mining, pulp and paper, steel) on the adoption of leading industry
key manufacturing and cost performance metrics. She also previously
worked with the Global Mining Group at CIBC World Markets where she
participated in the analyzing and underwriting of several
greenfield mine development project financings in South America, Asia and Africa. She is a Chartered Financial Advisor
(CFA) charter holder and a member of the Toronto CFA society. She
holds a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA from the University of Toronto.
Francisca Quinn,
MSc
Independent, Non-executive Director
Ms. Quinn
is the Co-founder and President of Quinn & Partners Inc., a
recognized advisory firm whose mission is to advance sustainability
in business and capital markets. It supports organizations to
design and execute sustainability / ESG leadership strategies to
enhance organizational reputation, manage risks, create value,
identify business opportunities and ultimately create more
resilient, future-oriented businesses. Clients include significant
institutional investors, public and private companies, many of
which are continually supported over multi-year mandates. Ms. Quinn
leads advisory mandates with the top ten North American pension
plans and alternative fund managers. Quinn & Partners became a
B Corp in 2014 to reinforce its commitment to positive
environmental and social impacts and company values.
Ms. Quinn has 25 years of corporate strategy experience. She
started her consulting career in 1995 with Oliver Wyman, a leading international management
consultancy, where she specialized in growth strategies and
organisational design for Fortune 500 companies. Her personal
engagement on climate change brought her to the Carbon Trust in
London in 2002, where she worked
with FTSE companies on carbon emissions reduction and global
investors on identifying risks and opportunities from climate
change. At WSP, which she joined in 2008, she built a
corporate sustainability advisory practice, serving sustainability
leaders across a wide range of industries.
Ms. Quinn has spoken on ESG, sustainability and climate
change-related topics to business and investor audiences and is a
sought after moderator on ESG integration in alternative asset
classes. She has a deep personal engagement in environmental issues
and champions a low carbon lifestyle. She is a board member of No.
9 Contemporary Art & the Environment; an arts organization that
uses art and design to bring awareness to environmental
concerns.
Ms. Quinn holds a Masters Degree of Science in Economics and
Masters of Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2014 and 2018,
Francisca was recognized as a Clean50 honouree for her
contributions to clean capitalism in Canada.
About Canada Nickel Company
Canada Nickel Company Inc. is advancing the next generation of
nickel-cobalt sulphide projects to deliver nickel and cobalt
required to feed the high growth electric vehicle and stainless
steel markets. Canada Nickel Company has applied in multiple
jurisdictions to trademark the terms NetZero NickelTM,
NetZero CobaltTM, NetZero IronTM and is
pursuing the development of processes to allow the production of
net zero carbon nickel, cobalt, and iron products. Canada Nickel
provides investors with leverage to nickel and cobalt in low
political risk jurisdictions. Canada Nickel is currently
anchored by its 100% owned flagship Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide
Project in the heart of the prolific Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. For more information
please visit www.canadanickel.com
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