First Quantum Minerals Announces Changes to Senior Management Team
December 21 2020 - 6:30AM
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum” or “the
Company”) (TSX:FM) is pleased to announce the appointment
of Mr. Tristan Pascall as Chief Operating Officer, effective
January 1, 2021. In addition, Mr. Clive Newall, one of the founders
of the Company, has decided that, after nearly twenty-five years of
dedication and commitment to First Quantum, he will step back from
his executive position but will remain as a Director.
Tristan has been with First Quantum for over 13
years, having joined in July 2007. Since then he has worked in
metal trading and on project construction and operations
assignments in Zambia from the initial development of the Sentinel
mine. More recently he has been General Manager of the Cobre Panama
mine from the start of the project in October 2015 until January
2020, after which he has retained oversight responsibility and
served as Director of Strategy based in London.
Mr. Pascall graduated from the University of
Western Australia with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and
Bachelor of Commerce in 1997 and completed an MBA at INSEAD in
France in 2005. After approximately eight years in corporate
finance and investment banking largely to resources and industrials
industry clients in Australia, Eastern Europe and Asia, he joined
First Quantum.
Mr. Clive Newall co-founded the Company in 1996
and has been President and a Director of the Company since its
inception. He will continue to serve the Company in a non-executive
capacity through the transition.
"Clive, as President and a founder of First
Quantum, has been with our Company longer than anyone. His wisdom
and support through the many challenges and difficulties over the
past twenty five years, have been a crucial ingredient in our
development and success. I am very pleased that he will continue,
as a consultant and director, to provide us with his ideas and
counsel," Philip Pascall, CEO and Chairman said.
“The appointment of Tristan as Chief Operating
Officer reflects the next stage in the journey for First Quantum
and paves the way for the next generation of leaders. With the
extensive Company knowledge gained by Tristan over the past 13
years, he is well placed to serve in this role and I am confident
that he will provide the talent and leadership to take the Company
forward,” Clive Newall, Director said.
For further information visit our website at
www.first-quantum.com
Contact: Lisa Doddridge, Director,
Investor RelationsTel: (416) 361-3400 Toll free: 1 (888) 688-6577
E-Mail: info@fqml.comwww.first-quantum.com
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