Sprott Inc. Announces Appointment of Graham Birch to its Board of Directors
November 25 2019 - 06:00AM
Sprott Inc. (“
Sprott” or the
“
Company”) (TSX: SII) is pleased to announce the
appointment of Dr. Graham Birch to the Company’s board of
directors, effective immediately.
“We are pleased to welcome Graham to the Sprott
board of directors,” said Ron Dewhurst, Chairman of Sprott. “Graham
is a highly talented executive with extensive experience in both
the asset management and precious metal sectors. He will be a
tremendous addition to the board.”
Dr. Birch started his career in 1984 as a mining
equity analyst working with Panmure Gordon, Kleinwort Benson
Securities and Ord Minnett. In 1993, he joined Mercury Asset
Management as a portfolio manager in the mining and gold sectors.
Mercury Asset Management was subsequently taken over by Merrill
Lynch Investment Managers and then BlackRock. In 1999, Dr. Birch
was promoted to Managing Director and Head of the Natural Resources
Investment Team at BlackRock in London, a position he held until
2010. He is currently a non-executive director of Hochschild
Mining, a mid-tier silver and gold mining company. Until 2018, Dr.
Birch was a non-executive director of ETF Securities. Dr. Birch has
a PhD in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial
College London.
About Sprott Sprott is an
alternative asset manager and a global leader in precious metal and
real asset investments. Through its subsidiaries in Canada, the US
and Asia, Sprott is dedicated to providing investors with
best-in-class investment strategies that include Exchange Listed
Products, Lending, Managed Equities and Brokerage. Sprott is based
in Toronto with offices in New York, Carlsbad and Vancouver and its
common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the
symbol (TSX:SII). For more information, please visit
www.sprott.com.
Investor contact
information:
Glen WilliamsManaging Director, Investor
Relations(416) 943-4394gwilliams@sprott.com
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