Darren Hall
President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Darren Hall has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry with a track record of increasing production, reducing costs, improving capital effectiveness, and promoting health, safety and business excellence. Since August 2017, he has been Principal at Hall Mining Services, a provider of operating and technical assessments, among other things, to the international mining industry. Mr Hall previously he served as Chief Operating Officer of Kirkland Lake Gold, which acquired Newmarket Gold, where Mr. Hall served as the Chief Operating Officer throughout 2016. Prior to Newmarket Gold, Mr. Hall worked for Newmont Mining Corporation where he held roles of increasing responsibility throughout the organization for almost 30 years. Mr. Hall graduated with a Bachelor of Mining Engineering (Hons) from the Western Australia School of Mines in Kalgoorlie
David Splett
Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer
David Splett is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 30 years of senior level experience in the resource industry working in Canada, Mexico and Latin America. Prior to joining Calibre Mining, Mr. Splett was the CFO of Elevation Gold. He has also held the position of CFO Latin America for Goldcorp Inc., where he was responsible for strategy, policy implementation and optimization within the Latin American region. Preceding Goldcorp, David was Vice President of Finance at Mosaic Corporation, and has also worked at Minera Panama SA, Teck Resources, and Potash Corporation. Mr. Splett holds degrees in Economics and Administration from the University of Regina, a Master of Arts, Management Systems, from the University of Hull in the UK, as well as an MBA from Queens University in Ontario.
Ryan King
Senior VP Corporate Development and Investor Relations
Ryan King brings an established approach to business in the natural resource sector, with specific and targeted applications for delivering shareholder value in the mining industry. Ryan has over 15 years of experience in increasingly senior capacities in capital markets in the resource sector and was responsible for leading the investor relations activities for Newmarket Gold, as the company completed a $2 billion transformational merger with Kirkland Lake Gold. Before joining Newmarket Gold, Ryan was involved in starting Terrane Metals which owned the Mount Milligan Copper-Gold Project in British Columbia, Canada. From 2006 through to 2010, Mr. King was involved in financing, corporate development, and investor relations for Terrane Metals as well as providing assistance with the acquisition of Terrane Metals in 2010 by Thompson Creek for $800 million. During his career, Ryan has assisted in raising $250 million for previous companies. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada. Mr King currently sits on the Board of Newcore Gold and Edgewater Exploration Ltd.
Jason Gregg
VP, Human Capital
Jason Gregg has more than 20 years of experience as a human resources professional and joined the Calibre Mining team on November 1, 2019. Mr. Gregg was most recently Executive Vice President, Human Resources for Alio Gold. He holds a BBA (1995) and a MBA (2000) from Simon Fraser University. Before Alio Gold, he was the Vice President of HR, Safety and Environment for Newmarket Gold. Before joining Newmarket, he provided HR consulting services to various mining organizations as well as other industries including forestry and technology. Prior to developing his consulting practice, he worked as a Human Resources executive in the mining industry with Farallon Mining and Nyrstar. Mr. Gregg has also held senior level human resource roles with HDI, International Forest Products, Canadian Forest Products, and Teck.
Petri Salopera
VP, Sustainability
Petri has held senior executive positions at Goldcorp, Rio Tinto, BHP and most recently as Country Manager - Ecuador and Chile for Newcrest Mining. He brings extensive field experience in Latin America on community relations, environment, sustainability, government relations and media. His wide range of expertise also includes other private sector entities, academia, and non-governmental organizations. Petri obtained a Masters in Anthropology, Development and Latin American Studies from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and other postgraduate studies from the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Australia.
Tom Gallo
Senior VP, Growth
Mr. Gallo recently joined the Calibre team from Canaccord Genuity where he was Vice President Equity Research covering a variety of small cap mining companies in the precious metal sector. In 2020 Mr. Gallo was ranked in the top five Canadian equity analysts by TipRanks Market Research. Prior to becoming a top ranked mining analyst, Tom worked with St. Andrews Goldfields, now Kirkland Lake Gold, where he held various roles in the geology group focused primarily at the Holt/Holloway mines. Mr. Gallo and his team were responsible for the delineation of over 1Moz of gold resources in all categories. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.
Andy Britton
VP & General Manager, Nevada Operations
Andy Britton has worked in the mining industry for over thirty years with twenty years of management experience in mine operations, maintenance, environmental, and administration. He also has extensive knowledge of site environmental compliance, reclamation, auditing, and mine closure. From 2011 until May 2016, Mr. Britton worked in a variety of positions for Midway Gold that were key to advancing the permitting, project development, technology implementation and operations of the Pan Mine. Prior to working with Midway Gold, he worked for Quadra-FNX, BHP Nevada Mining, and RTZ with the Denton-Rawhide mine. In addition to his Nevada experience, his international experience includes the early planning and implementation of the business technology infrastructure for Quadra Minings Franke property in Chile.
Mr. Britton is responsible for the operations and management of our Nevada properties. He has strong ties to the local community in White Pine County, Nevada , where he and his wife have lived nearly their entire lives and have raised six children. He has numerous years of volunteer work within the community including youth sports, Ely Volunteer Fire Department, and the White Pine County Search & Rescue.
Mr. Britton has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Western Governors University as well as a degree in Management of Information Systems from Great Basin College.