Michael J. Sparks

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SSR Mining Inc. since Mar 2024 -- an internal transition from Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer & Corporate Secretary (Sep 2020-Mar 2024), and before that Chief Legal Officer of Alacer Gold Corp. since 2012 (Alacer Gold's Sep 2020 merger with the former Silver Standard Resources formed today's SSR Mining Inc. -- continuous internal history of the same company, not written as an external role). Before Alacer Gold, practiced law at King & Spalding LLP (Houston) and Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP (Denver), primarily in natural resources industry legal work. Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management, Utah State University; JD, Vanderbilt University Law School; MBA, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.