David Whittle

Chief Operating Officer - West Africa at Fortuna Mining Corp. More than 30 years of mining-operations experience across the UK, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Saudi Arabia and Russia, including Kinross Gold, Ma'aden Gold & Base Metals, Vatukoula Gold Mines, Aditya Birla, Highlands Pacific, Downer EDI Mining, HWE Mining and Brandrill. VP Operations at Roxgold Inc. from 2019 (responsible for the Yaramoko Mine, Burkina Faso), transferring to Fortuna via its Jul 2021 acquisition of Roxgold; VP Operations - West Africa at Fortuna Jul 2021-Sep 2022, since COO - West Africa. BSc (Mining), University of Staffordshire; Master of Enterprise, Melbourne University.