Mr. Melvin has served as our Chief Executive Officer, President and member of our Board of Directors since November 2022. Mr. Melvin has over twenty years of experience in the natural resources sector as a senior corporate development professional and investment banker. Prior to joining Ivanhoe Electric, Mr. Melvin was President and Chief Executive Officer of privately held Battery Metals Streaming Corp. from March 2022 to August 2022. Mr. Melvin served as Vice President, Corporate Development for Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX) from June 2018 to March 2022, after having served as the company’s Director – Finance & Business Development since 2008. Prior to joining Freeport-McMoRan in 2008, Mr. Melvin was an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s Natural Resources investment banking group in New York. Mr. Melvin received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Ball has served as a Director since June 30, 2022. He is the Chair and a member of the Audit Committee as well as a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee. Mr. Ball is an international mining executive with over thirty years of experience. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Calibre Mining Corp. (TSX: CXB) from October 2019 to February 2021 and Chair of the board from November 2018 to February 2021. From May 2013 to December 2017, Mr. Ball held various executive positions with Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and was Goldcorp’s Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer from March 2016 to November 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Ball held various positions with Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) from 1994 to 2013 and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2008 to May 2013. Mr. Ball is a Non-Executive Chair of the board of Faraday Copper Corp. (TSX:FDY) and is a Director of Southern Silver Exploration Corp (TSX.V: SSL). Mr. Ball qualified as a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and as a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. He holds a Masters in Accounting and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Natal (South Africa).

Ms. Bianchi has served as a Director since July 2023 and is a member of the Health, Safety and Environmental Committee. Ms. Bianchi has over thirty-seven years of finance experience and has held several executive and director positions internationally. She is currently the founding partner at Atlante Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on financial restructuring, since May 2016. She also serves as Chair of Canagold Resources Ltd. (CCM:CA) since July 2022, as a Non-Executive Director of Saudi Arabian Mining Company (“Ma’aden”) (Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul) since December 2022, and as a Non-Executive Director of Manara Minerals Investment Company of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a venture between Ma’aden and the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”) to invest in mining assets globally since June 2003. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Sitex SA and Spitex Perspecta AG (SOL SpA Group), companies specializing in home-based healthcare, since 2017 and 2019, respectively; and an Independent Non-Executive Director of Yellow Cake plc. (AIM:YCA), a uranium company, since 2018. Formerly Ms. Bianchi served as Head of Special Situations at the CDC Group and served on the boards of Feronia Inc. (TSX) from January 2019 to July 2020 and ARM Cement PLC (Nairobi Securities Exchange) from January 2018 to January 2019 during the companies’ financial and operational restructuring. Ms. Bianchi also served as a Director of Endeavour Mining Corporation (TSX & LSE) from November 2019 to May 2022 and as a Director of Kenmare Resources Plc (LSE & Dublin Stock Exchange) from April 2008 to May 2017. Ms. Bianchi holds a Master’s degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton Business School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from George Washington University.

Ms. de Margerie has served as a Director since June 30, 2022. Prof. de Margerie is the Executive Chairman/Reference Shareholder of Rondol Industrie SAS, a deep technology startup that develops extrusion machinery for drug formulations and other high tech applications since 2012. Since 2023, she also is a Director and Chair of the Technology & Growth Committee of Verkor (France - EV Batteries). Prof. de Margerie has spent thirty-five years in the Materials Industry in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, first as an executive and since 2006 as a Board Director. Prof. de Margerie was a Director of Eurazeo (Euronext Paris) from 2012 to 2024, a Director and Chair of the Innovation & Growth Committee of Arkema SA (Euronext Paris: AKE) from 2012 to 2023, a Director of Babcock International Group (LSE: BAB) from 2016 to 2021, a Director of Morgan Ceramics from 2012-2016, a Director of Norsk Hydro from 2012 to 2014, and a Director at Outokumpu from 2007-2011. She was previously a Director of European industrial companies such as Italcementi from 2006-2016. Prof. de Margerie is also Founder & Vice Chairman of World Materials Forum since 2014, she was elected an Academician at the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2019 and joined the board of Mines ParisTech in 2020. She graduated from HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD in Management Science from Université de Paris 2, Pantheon Assas. She was also a Professor of Strategy & Technology Management at Grenoble School of Management between 2003 and 2011.

Mr. Katase has served as a Director since January 2022. Mr. Katase has served as Executive Vice Chairman, Director General of Industrial Science and Technology, Executive Vice Chairman, a member of the Board of Directors of I-Pulse Inc and President of I-Pulse Japan Co., Ltd., I-Pulse’s operating subsidiary in Japan since December 2017. Mr. Katase has been the Chief Executive Officer of G-Pulse Inc., a subsidiary of I-Pulse developing a drilling technology based on high pulsed power, since February 2022 and has served as Chairman of Geo Dreams Inc. since January 2022. Mr. Katase served as a Director of VRB Energy since February 2022; a Director of Geo Power Innovations since September 2019; a Director of MinebeaMitsumi, a manufacturing company, since July 2021; and as Present Representative Director of Ibis Inc. since June 2021. Prior to these roles, he most recently served as Japan’s Vice Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry (“METI”) from June 2016 to July 2017. He held numerous management positions in trade, energy and industrial policy at METI since joining in 1982. During his time at METI, Mr. Katase served in multiple Director General positions, including for the Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau and Trade Policy Bureau, where he led efforts that contributed to the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, among other international agreements. He also was previously Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat of Strategic Headquarters for Space Policy at the Cabinet Office, where he helped establish the Office of National Space Policy, the headquarters responsible for Japan’s development of space policy and deployment of space infrastructure. He was also a Director of the Oil and Natural Gas division at METI, where he led Japan’s upstream hydrocarbon policy for four years. At METI, he also served as a Director of the Aerospace and Defense Industry division where he worked on launching the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program and cultivated international partnerships for the development of aircraft and aircraft engines. Mr. Katase earned a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo and a Master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan. 

Mr. Loftus-Hills has served as a Director since March 2023. He is a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee and a member of the Health, Safety and Environmental Committee. Mr. Loftus-Hills brings over thirty-five years of experience in the global mining industry and since 2001 has been a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company, a New York-based investment bank. He was a former Partner and Managing Director at Moelis & Company from 2011 to December 2021. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011, Mr. Loftus-Hills was the Joint Head of the Asian Industrials Group and Head of Natural Resources at UBS in Hong Kong and held leadership roles in the UBS global mining team in New York and Australia. He spent over twenty-five years in investment banking advising global mining companies on a range of transactions, including cross-border M&A and capital raises. Since May 2022, Mr. Loftus-Hills has been a Managing Member - Advisor of Sweetwater Royalties LLC, an Orion Resource Partners portfolio company, Chairman of the Monash University US Leadership Council, Co-Chairman of the US Friends of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Vice Chairman of the AUS USA Foundation. He holds Law and Science degrees from Monash University in Australia.

Ms. Patil has served as a Director since June 30, 2022. She is the Chair and a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee as well as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Patil is an experienced corporate director, former senior public company executive, and investment banker. In 2016, she began serving as an independent corporate director of public companies and as a volunteer board member of universities and other economy-focused organizations since 2003. She was Head, Business Development (Diversified Industries) of the TSX from 2014 to 2016. She was Managing Director, Partner, and Founding Partner (Eastern Operations) of PI Financial Corp. and a Managing Director, Partner and Head of Investment Banking of Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon. Ms. Patil was the global general corporate counsel of Breakwater Global Resources Ltd, a Canadian and U.S. listed mining company. She started her career as an attorney with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in Palo Alto, California. Ms. Patil was a Director of Rambler Metals & Mining PLC (AIM of LSE: RMM), Chair of its Compensation, Governance and Nominations Committee and a member of its Audit and Safety, Health, Environment and Community committees. She also served on the Board of Signature Resources Inc. (TSX-V: SIG). From 2016 to 2019, she was an Independent Corporate Director of Alexandria Minerals Corporation, Chair of its Audit Committee and a member of the Management & Special Committee. Ms. Patil holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa and a B.Sc. (Statistics and Computer Sciences), University of Bombay. Ms. Patil has completed the Directors Education Program at the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) and the Innovation Governance Program of the Council of Canadian Innovators. She is a member of the State Bar of California, the Ontario Bar (Law Society of Ontario) and Charter of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D). From 2019 to 2022, she served as a Board Member of the Council of Great Lakes Region. From 2016 to 2019 she was an Advisory Board Member of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She served as an Advisory Board Member of the Metropolitan Toronto University, Digital Media Zone between 2016 to 2019 and as a Board Member of the Association of Corporate Growth between 2015 to 2019.

Mr. Vance has served as a Director since June 2023. He is the Chair and a member of the Health, Safety and Environmental Committee as well as a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Vance is a corporate director and retired senior executive with a distinguished track record in corporate development, corporate finance advisory and marketing management. He has over forty years of experience in mining and corporate development. Mr. Vance retired from Teck Resources Limited where he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development from 2006 to 2014. Prior to joining Teck Resources, Mr. Vance worked as a Managing Director of Rothschild (Denver) Inc. from 1991 to 2000 and as Managing Director/Senior Advisor of Rothschild Inc. from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Vance is currently an Independent Director of Royal Gold Inc. (NASDAQ: RGLD) and serves as a member of its Audit and Finance Committee. Mr. Vance served as Chairman of the Board of Southern Peaks Mining, L.P. in 2018.