Corporate

Mr. Connelly was formerly the Managing Director of ASX listed Papillon Resource (previous owner of the world-class Fekola Deposit), which merged with B2Gold Corp. in 2014. As CEO and Managing Director, he also led the merger between Perth-based Adamus Resources and Endeavour Mining Corp. in 2011. Mr. Connelly was winner of the Mining Journal’s CEO of the Year Award in 2014 for his remarkable role with Papillon.

Mr. Johnson is a founding Director of BeMetals and is a founder of B2Gold Corp. Previously, Mr. Johnson was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Bema Gold Corporation (NYSE & TSX: BGO) from 1988 to 2006. He was a driving force in Bema’s transition from a junior exploration company to an international intermediate gold producer and in B2Gold’s evolution to becoming the world’s newest senior gold producer.

Mr. Garagan is a founding Director of BeMetals and recently retired after serving as Senior Vice President, Exploration of B2Gold Corp. (NYSE: BTG, TSX: BTO) since March 2007. Mr. Garagan is a geologist with over 30 years of experience. Mr. Garagan was with Bema Gold from 1991 to 2007 and was appointed Vice President of Exploration in 1996. He has worked in North and South America, East and West Africa and Russia. Mr. Garagan has served as a director and/or officer of several other public companies operating in the resource sector. Mr. Garagan has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in geology from the University of Ottawa.

Mr. Richer is a founding Director of BeMetals and retired in 2022 after serving as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel of B2Gold Corp. (NYSE: BTG, TSX: BTO) since March 2007. Mr. Richer managed the legal affairs, corporate records and corporate governance of B2Gold Corp. Mr. Richer has over 30 years of experience in mining law, corporate finance and international business transactions and practices. He has served as a director and/or officer of several other public companies operating in the resource sector. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Victoria.

Ms. Kristen Reinertson, a Director and Corporate Secretary of BeMetals, has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer while the Company's board solidifies a new permanent CEO to spearhead BeMetals' corporate strategy. Ms. Reinertson is a founding Director and has been an executive officer of BeMetals since 2016. She has 18 years of experience with publicly listed companies in the natural resources and emerging technologies sectors in roles ranging from CEO, CFO, Corporate Secretary, and Director. Her expertise spans corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial disclosure, governance, and regulatory compliance. She studied at Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Mr. Stansbury joined as a technical advisor to BeMetals in 2018 and has served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Project Evaluations of B2Gold Corp (and prior to that our Senior Vice President of Development and Production) since March 2007. Mr. Stansbury is a mining engineer with over 40 years of engineering, construction, production and management experience at surface and underground mines in fifteen different countries. After working for a number of gold mining companies in South America and the United States, he joined Bema Gold as Vice President South America in 1994 and was appointed Vice President of Development and Production in 1996. Mr. Stansbury has a Bachelor of Science degree in mining engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology.

Vernon Shein holds a B.Sc., Specialization Geology, from Concordia University and has 43 years of exploration industry experience. He has managed major gold exploration and development programs in twelve countries and has performed property evaluations in over twenty-five countries. He was the Exploration Manager for Bema Gold Corp. and its successor company B2Gold Corp. for 18 years. His specialty is in advancing exploration programs through Preliminary Economic Assessment, Feasibility Study and then into production. Projects that he has managed from exploration through to production include the world class Kupol Mine in Russia, the Jabali Mine in Nicaragua and the Montana open pit at the Masbate Mine in the Philippines.