Michael Meding Email & Phone Number

Canada

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Elected as Director to serve on the board of McEwen Copper Inc. to push forward the development of the copper business unit of McEwen Mining.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

A seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in mining and finance, blending strategic vision with technical expertise. Successfully spearheaded the raising of over $400 million in investment capital from 2022 to the present. Played a pivotal role in increasing the valuation of the Los Azules Project in San Juan from $225 million to nearly $1.

San Juan, San Juan, AR

Los Azules is a top 10 copper project measured by resource. 1.2 billion tons of indicated resource at 0.40% grade Cu, 4.5 billion tons of inferred resource at 0.31% Cu combined with Au and Ag in the mining friendly jurisdiction of San Juan. Preliminary Economic Assessment Headline Numbers:CAPEX $2.5BPayback 3.2 yearsLife of Mine 27 yearsAfter Tax NPV @8%.

San Juan, San Juan, AR

AR

Vicepresident of Minera Santa Cruz representing McEwen Mining in the Joint Venture with Hochschild Mining as a Director.

Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, AR

Elected to serve as a member of the executive commission of the National Chamber of Mining Companies in Argentina, representing McEwen Copper and the Los Azules project.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Chief Finance and Administration Officer | Ferroniquel Minera S.A. (FeNiMoa JV)Leadership Snapshot:
• Spearheaded the establishment of a greenfield nickel mining joint venture in Cuba, overseeing the full setup of Ferroniquel Minera S.A. (FeNiMoa JV) from inception.
• Key founding member of the project team, responsible for the successful launch of operations in Moa, including the recruitment and onboarding of a high-performing project administration team.
• Led the development and implementation of essential policies and procedures, ensuring seamless integration of systems across all departments.
• Directed the setup of critical infrastructure, including office spaces, logistics operations, IT systems, and communication platforms to support a smooth operational launch.
• Established the company’s financial framework, including the creation of an operational budget, and implemented robust accounting and reporting systems for efficient financial oversight and transparency.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Chief Finance and Administration Officer at Empresa Minera Del Caribe S.A. (Emincar) in Havana and Pinar del Río, overseeing an open-pit mining operation extracting from a polymetallic orebody. The operation includes a.
• Directed day-to-day commercial operations, optimizing cash flow management to ensure continued operations through challenging, low-price, high-cost periods, enabling the company’s financial recovery.
• Established a formal cost control environment, enhancing financial reporting to the executive team and board of directors.
• Developed and executed a human resources strategy that reduced employee turnover by 45%, implemented an improved monthly performance evaluation system, and initiated international staff rotations.
• Launched an integrated logistics management system that significantly improved operational safety, achieving over 900 days without a Lost Time Incident (LTI).
• Managed all COVID-19 mitigation efforts for the Havana office and coordinated FIFO (Fly In, Fly Out) of staff on humanitarian flights during the peak of the pandemic, ensuring the mine operated at full capacity despite.

• XPND Medical is an international consulting company helping healthcare companies achieving their strategic corporate objectives by providing best-in-class consulting services.Specialties: Market Access, Pharma.
• Developed business plan for the launch of ophthalmic products in Argentina, connected registry specialists with a Greek client for registration and future launch of medical device(s) products.
• Supported Swiss Abionic, a MedTech IVD company to link to KOL in Argentina, connected with potential distributors, developed business plan and presented the AbioSCOPE at the XLI Congress of Allergy and Immunology in.
• Secured registration with Argentine health authorities.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Leadership Snapshot: Led 100 direct staff, managed a $50MM USD CapEx budget, and $300MM USD OpEx budget.
• Led the mine’s largest transformation program, involving commercial and operational initiatives, reporting to Executive General Manager (EGM) and to Corporate. Led gap analysis to set initial objectives, then built a.
• Restructured support areas HR, SCM, IT: Developed profile and upgraded managers and leaders of support areas to further drive operational performance.
• Set-up and running of crisis management project office to cope with environmental incidents to recover license to operate. This included coordination of ambitious construction projects (done at 4,000 meters in the.
• Co-led integration management with a new strategic partner, Chinese Mining Company Shandong Gold.
• Set-up of Barrick`s first remote operations center (dispatch for mine, maintenance, process controls, analytics & business improvement and planning).

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Leadership Snapshot: Guided 36 direct staff, managed a $142MM USD CapEx budget, and $500MM USD OpEx budget, with $0.8B USD Sales, 65Mt mining 29Mt processing, 0.6M oz Au, 0.8M oz Ag.
• Led together with General Manager reformulation of a strategic plan for Veladero which resulted in significant increase of life of mine net present value (>100%) and extended life for 4 years.
• Played key role in preparation and execution of successful strategic agreement including preparation of business case, sales presentations and data room. Presented to BoD and Management of different Chinese investors.
• Led delivery of cost savings initiatives for >$40MM USD in OPEX and CAPEX to improve bottom-line for Veladero.
• Delivering options for advanced recovery of locked up VAT ($500MM USD) and building test case.
• Advanced and led several key studies on the improvement of power reliability, carbon footprint reduction and cost of the Veladero mine through energy diversification, including transitioning from diesel to wind, solar.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Leadership Snapshot: Directed 30 direct staff, managed a $4B USD CapEx budget, and $500MM USD OpEx budget, with >$1B USD Sales.
• Led successful implementation of Barrick’s new enterprise wide performance management system (BPR) in Argentina as key catalyst for performance turnaround.
• Blueprinted blue chip swap finance option of >$1.5B USD for construction activities of Pascua-Lama in Argentina & secured optionality for local financing for >$200MM USD.
• Managed FX crisis and built Treasury to successfully cope with new regulations for the mining sector. Implemented e-auctioning for FX via Bloomberg, one of the first companies in Argentina with yearly savings of.
• Set-up a strategic planning department delivering comprehensive Argentina strategy.
• Delivered tax optimization projects saving several million USD in Personal Asset Tax per year.

Schiphol, NL - Schiphol, NL

• +VISION OPTICAL Retail Chain consists of 4 legal entities, since 2009 is owned by international world leader in optical retail chains Grand Vision (part of Hal Investments). +VISION operates 57 own and franchise stores.
• Operationally managed transition & integration of +VISION into GrandVision as part of acquisition process.
• Closed M&A process & negotiated price adjustment with the former owner, obtaining after closing discount on the purchase price. Delivered legal & closing financial statements, set-up of corporate governance structure.
• Re-organized finance department to ensure appropriate business support (controlling, Financial Reporting & Accounting, Internal Audit, Treasury) hiring of function leaders, set-up of local financial systems and.
• Increased visibility of company and store performance by setting-up of individual store P&Ls, daily & monthly sales and cost reporting and yearly budgeting & planning process.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Leadership Snapshot: Steered 18 direct staff, managed a $2MM CapEx budget, and $68MM OpEx budget, with $80MM Sales.Responsible for Budgeting, Controlling, Accounting, Reporting, Treasury, Tax, Internal Controls.
• Developed talent bench allowing for international promotion and backfill locally, exported talent to CH. Increased performance and compliance of organization by establishing of professional internal control function.
• Founded the Vaccines Business unit in Chile reporting to Vaccines Latam CEO, generating 2009 sales of >$7MM USD.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

Responsible for the Business Franchise Finance Function, Arthritis, Bone, Gastro, Urinary. Member of cross functional Franchise Board.- Maintaining the global, long – range financial plans for the Business Franchise Sales >150MUSD.- Partnering with Brand Teams and Development Project Management to develop options and performance analysis to support.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

Leading a team of 2 direct reports and 5 indirect reports consisting of controllers and Senior Controllers covering controlling for General & Specialty Medicines (portfolio Budget 2005 > 520MCHF).- Prepare proposals for optimal resource allocation (FTE / $$) across brands & franchises and support Geneneral Medicines CFO in target setting process..

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Management consulting, led team to implement significant SAP R/3 solutions.Designed several controlling processes for Novartis including ChemOps & PharmOps SCM integration.

Zurich, CH, CH

Management consulting, led team to design controlling and finance solutions as part of worldwide SAP R/3 rollout.

Frankfurt Am Main, DE

Management consulting, development of production controlling and accounting solutions for multinational pharmaceutical client.

Certificate, Finance Excellence Program, : Attended The Hbs-Novartis Finance Excellence Program

Mba, Strategic Management, Marketing, Finance

Master Of Business Administration (Dipl. Kfm.), Finance, Strategic Management, Marketing

Master'S Degree (Tesis Pending), Mining

Master Of Finance (Tesis Pending), Finance

Bs, Business Administration, Economics