Frederick Earnest

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of Vista Gold Corp. -- missing from this DB entirely before this batch (only CFO Douglas Tobler was tracked). At Vista Gold since 2006 (Senior VP Project Development 2006-2007, President & COO 2007-2012), appointed CEO effective 1 Jan 2012. B.S. in Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines (1987). Earlier career: General Manager and Legal Representative of Compania Minera Dayton, S.A. de C.V. (1998-2004), then President of Pacific Rim El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. (2004-2006) -- the El Salvador subsidiary Pacific Rim Mining Corporation gained via its 2002 merger with Dayton Mining Corporation. Pacific Rim's mining-license application was refused by El Salvador in 2008 (after Earnest's 2006 departure), leading to a real, notorious ICSID arbitration dispute Pacific Rim ultimately lost in 2016 -- not attributable to Earnest's own 2004-2006 tenure, and no decisive personal outcome specific to his own tenure period was established this pass.