Jack Henris

Chief Executive Officer and Director of Dakota Gold Corp. effective 18 Aug 2026, an internal promotion from President and Chief Operating Officer (Jun 2025-Aug 2026). More than 35 years in the mining industry, graduate of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Geological Engineering). Career: Chief Operating Officer, Hycroft Mining Corporation (Jan 2021-Jun 2025), a real Nevada heap-leach gold-silver operation that carried recurring going-concern doubts for much of his tenure tied to underperforming recoveries, not attributable to him personally, and had begun a credible technical turnaround by the time he departed; permitting and operating experience gained earlier at Barrick and Newmont; began his career at the Homestake Mine in 1987.