Management

William Lamb has more than 30 years of mining industry leadership and mine development experience. Most recently, Mr. Lamb was the CEO for NewGen Resource Lending Inc. and serves on the Board of Directors of a number of Canadian listed copper and gold companies. He was formerly the CEO of Lucara Diamond Corp., responsible for developing and commissioning the Karowe mine in Botswana, before which he was involved in the development, and operation of two diamond mines in Northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories in Canada.

The primary focus of Mr. Lamb's career has been in mine development and sustainable operations across a wide sector of different commodities, in remote locations in Africa and Northern Canada. He has focused on innovative technologies for the enhancement of economic value, a key aspect in the success generated during his decade with the Lundin Group of Companies. Mr. Lamb has a NDH in Extractive Metallurgy from Technicon Witwatersrand and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School. He was EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2017, Pacific Mining and Metals, and received 2016 Hugo Dummett Award, alongside Lukas Lundin, for excellence in diamond exploration and development.

Mr. Kondo has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry. Most recently, Mr Kondo served as Chief Financial Officer of Montage Gold Corp and Orca Gold Corp. Orca Gold was sold to Perseus Mining in 2022. Prior to these roles, Mr. Kondo held senior executive roles with Anglo American where he was responsible for the finance function and leading mergers and acquisitions and raising capital finance. Mr. Kondo is a Chartered Accountant (CPA, CA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Freeman is a specialist in large Type II diamonds and has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry, with a strong background in mineral resource estimation, diamond value management, diamond pricing, geological modelling, and strategic mine planning. She has held senior roles at several diamond mining and resource consulting companies, where she led teams responsible for resource definition and underground expansion projects. Most recently she held the position of Group Mineral Resources Manager at Gem Diamonds, working on the Letšeng resource. Dr. Freeman has a PhD in Economic Geology and a GDE in Mining Engineering, both from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is a registered Professional Natural Scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions.

Dr. Freeman is a "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101.

Mr. Tong is a Chartered Accountant (CPA, CA) with over 20 years of finance experience in the mining industry. Most recently, he was the CFO for multiple publicly-listed junior mining companies. Prior to that, he held senior finance positions at mining companies, including Lucara Diamond Corp., NovaGold Resources Inc., and Energy Metals Corp. and was responsible for driving operational success, leading mergers and acquisitions, and managing financing and exit strategies. Mr. Tong started his career at Deloitte and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.

Ms. Louw is a seasoned Corporate Secretary and an admitted lawyer in Namibia with over 12 years’ experience in corporate governance and compliance, primarily in the mining and banking sectors. At Lucara Diamond, she is involved in all aspects of the administration of legal and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, board and committee matters, continuous disclosure requirements, corporate transactions, shareholder communications and corporate records. Her prior roles in the mining sector were with Teck Resources Limited, Trevali Mining Corporation and Vedanta Zinc International. Ms. Louw graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a B.A. (LLB) in 2010 and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Compliance Management from the University of Johannesburg in 2016. She is also a member of the Institute of Risk Management in London, UK (GradIRM) since 2022.