Jason Banducci

Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations of Hemlo Mining Corp., appointed effective 2 March 2026. Mining executive with nearly 15 years of experience spanning corporate strategy, capital markets, M&A and investor relations. Prior to Hemlo, held a senior executive role at a U.S.-focused gold producer, leading the acquisition of a Nevada-based gold mining operation that repositioned the company from developer to producer status and drove market capitalization growth from approximately $200 million to over $1 billion; earlier, a founding executive at a gold exploration company, leading its go-public transaction on the TSX Venture Exchange including asset acquisition and equity financing. [Task #513 batch10: the specific company names for these two prior roles were not disclosed in any source found this pass -- an honest gap, no company names fabricated to fill it. HMMC's Management-score gap still closes via Kosec/Awde/Tremblay, all covered this same batch.]