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Management

Sarah Armstrong-Montoya

President & Chief Executive Officer

Ms. Armstrong-Montoya has held various senior management positions within the Ivanhoe group of companies since she joined in 2010. She was appointed as Vice President, General Counsel of the Company in 2016 and in June 2018 also appointed as President of subsidiary Minerales Cordoba S.A.S., managing all in-country operations in Colombia. Ms. Armstrong-Montoya has a legal background and previously worked at Xstrata Copper, Linklaters and Corrs Chambers Westgarth. She has extensive experience in emerging markets having directed many transactions throughout Asia-Pacific and Latin America, furthermore, she is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.


David Garratt

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Garratt is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and has over 20 years of experience in financial roles and the mining sector. Mr. Garratt has extensive experience as a senior financial executive, including previously serving as CFO for Kaizen Discovery Inc. (TSXV:KZD) from 2015 to 2018 and Vice President and Corporate Controller of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. from 2013 to 2014. Mr. Garratt obtained his CPA, CA while working in Deloitte's audit practice, with a primary focus on public-listed companies in Canada and the United States.


Mark Gibson

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Gibson has more than 31 years' wide-ranging experience as a geoscientist and manager in the natural resources sector. In addition to his role with Cordoba, Mr. Gibson holds the position of Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Electric, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer of Kaizen Discovery, Inc. He previously worked with Anglo American and was the founder of a geophysical service company focused on managing seismic surveys for the mining industry. Mr. Gibson graduated from the University of Southampton in 1990 with a BSc (Hons) in Geology and the University of Leeds in 1997 with a MSc in Geophysics.


Peter Portka

Vice President of Corporate Development

Mr. Portka has extensive experience as a senior financial and corporate development executive, having worked for a variety of organizations in the mining sector, including most recently as Chief Financial Officer at NorZinc Ltd., and Vice President of Finance at Quintana Resources Capital, a streaming and royalty division of a U.S. based multi-billion private equity fund. Mr. Portka holds professional designations in both Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Professional Accountant.


Gustavo Zulliger

Vice President of Exploration

Mr. Zulliger, who is based in Argentina, specializes in exploration of porphyry copper and epithermal systems in South America's high-Andes region. As an exploration geologist, Mr. Zulliger has more than 22 years of experience in mineral exploration, project generation, and project evaluation in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Russia, and Mongolia. Mr. Zulliger was most recently Chief Geologist, Exploration, South America, for Antofagasta Minerals SA. He previously was Principal Geoscientist for BHP Billiton Minerals Exploration, and Chief Geologist for Resolution Copper. Mr. Zulliger also has worked with Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, and with Osisko Mining. He obtained a B.Sc. in Geology from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina.


Charles Forster

Qualified Person for Perseverance Project

Mr. Forster is a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) with more than 45 years of diversified mineral exploration experience in Canada, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Portugal, China, and Mongolia. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Exploration at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia for Ivanhoe Mines (now Turquoise Hill Resources) from early 2001 to June 2008. During this time, he led a team of multi-national and Mongolian geologists in the discovery and delineation of the world-class Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit. The discovery of the massive, high-grade Hugo Dummett underground deposit at Oyu Tolgoi was subsequently recognized by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, which in 2004 named Mr. Forster a co-recipient of the inaugural Thayer Lindsley Medal awarded for the International Discovery of the Year.

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