• Robert Friedland

    Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

    Mr. Friedland has served as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors since November 2022. Prior to that time, Mr. Friedland was Chief Executive Officer from July 2020 to November 2022, and Chairman of the Board from June 2021 to November 2022. Mr. Friedland has over thirty years of experience and has been recognized by leaders of the international financial sector and mineral resource industries as an entrepreneurial explorer, technology innovator and company builder. Since July 1988, Mr. Friedland has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, a family office and investment company. He is the founder of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. and has served as Executive Co-Chairman since September 2018 (previously Executive Chairman). He has also been Chairman of I-Pulse Inc. since February 2009 and Chief Executive Officer since June 2023. Since June 2018, he has served as Chairman of VRB Energy Inc. and was Co-Chair of SK Global Entertainment Inc. from February 2017 to December 2021. As one of the most recognized mining executives and achievers in the world, Mr. Friedland is dedicated to serving on numerous boards in the natural resources sector. These positions include: Co-Chairman of Sunrise Energy Metals Limited (formerly Clean TeQ Holdings Limited) since September 2016; Chief Executive Officer of High Power Exploration Inc. (now Ivanhoe Atlantic Inc.) from December 2015 to July 2022 and Chairman from January 2018 to July 2022; a Director of Blue Spark Energy Systems Inc. from May 2024 to August 2025 and Director of Pure Lithium Corporation from April 2022 to December 2025; and Chairman of Gold X Mining Corp. from June 2020 until its acquisition by Gran Colombia in June 2021. Mr. Friedland was the Chief Executive Officer from July 2020 to February 2022, and a founder of Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed special purpose acquisition corporation that completed its merger with SES AI Corporation (“SES”), a lithium-metal battery developer. He served as a Director of SES until March 2023. Mr. Friedland graduated with a degree in political science from Reed College.

  • Taylor Melvin

    President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

    Mr. Melvin has served as our Chief Executive Officer, President, and a 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 served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Battery Metals Streaming Corp. from March 2022 to August 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Melvin served as Vice President, Corporate Development of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX), a leading international mining company focused on copper, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, from June 2018 to March 2022, after having served as its Director Finance & Business Development since 2008. Before joining Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 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 Master of Business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • Russell Ball

    Director

    Mr. Ball has served as a Director since June 2022. He is Chair and a member of the Audit Committee and also serves 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 its board from November 2018 to October 2019. From May 2013 to December 2017, Mr. Ball held various executive positions with Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G; NYSE: GG), including Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer from March 2016 to December 2017. Prior to that, he held various positions with Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) from 1994 to 2013, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from June 2008 to May 2013. Mr. Ball currently serves as Non-Executive Chair of the board of Faraday Copper Corp. (TSX:FDY) and as a Director of Southern Silver Exploration Corp (TSX.V: SSL), Thesis Gold Corp, (TSX.V: TAU), and Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP). He is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. Mr. Ball holds a Master’s in Accounting and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Natal (South Africa).

  • Sofia Bianchi

    Director

    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 years of experience in finance and has held numerous executive and director roles internationally. She has been the founding partner at Atlante Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on financial restructuring, since May 2016. Ms. Bianchi also serves as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of Mineros S.A. (TSX: MSA, OTCQX: MNSAF, BVC: MINEROS) since March 2024 and as Chair of Canagold Resources Ltd. (CCM:CA) since July 2022. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director of Saudi Arabian Mining Company (“Maaden”) (Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul) since December 2022 and as a Non-Executive Director of Manara Minerals Investment Company of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a joint venture between Maaden and the Public Investment Fund to invest in mining assets globally since June 2023. In addition, Ms. Bianchi has served as a Non-Executive Director of Sitex SA since 2017 and Spitex Perspecta AG (SOL SpA Group) since 2019, both of which specialize in home-based healthcare services, and as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Yellow Cake plc. (AIM:YCA), a uranium company, since 2018. She previously served as a director of Feronia Inc. (TSX) from January 2019 to February 2020; Endeavour Mining Corporation (TSX & LSE) from November 2019 to May 2022; Kenmare Resources (LSE & Dublin Stock Exchange) from April 2008 to May 2017; and ARM Cement PLC (Nairobi Securities Exchange) from January 2018 to January 2019. Previously Ms. Bianchi was Head of Special Situations at the CDC Group from 2018 to 2020 and at BlueCrest Capital Management from 2007 to 2016. 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

  • Victoire de Margerie

    Director

    Ms. de Margerie has served as a Director since June 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 2014, Prof. de Margerie has served as Founder and Co Chairman of World Materials Forum, since 2019, an Academician at the National Academy of Technologies of France, since 2020 a Board Director of Paris School of Mines (France), and since 2025, a Board Director of Boliden (Sweden, Mining). Altogether 40 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 was also a Professor of Strategy & Technology Management at Grenoble School of Management between 2003 and 2011. Prof. de Margerie graduated initially from HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD in Management from Université de Paris 2.

  • Hirofumi Katase

    Director

    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.

  • Patrick Loftus-Hills

    Director

    Mr. Loftus-Hills has served as a Director since March 2023 and is a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee and the Health, Safety and Environmental Committee. He brings over forty years of experience in the global mining industry and has served as a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company, a New York-based investment bank, since 2011. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Moelis & Company from 2011 to December 2021. Since February 2025, Mr. Loftus-Hills has served as a Senior Advisor to Oryx Global Partners, an Abu Dhabi, UAE based mining private equity firm. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011, he 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’s global mining team in New York and Australia. Over his career, Mr. Loftus-Hills spent almost thirty years in investment banking advising global mining companies on a range of transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital raises as well as seven years as a lawyer advising major mining companies. Mr. Loftus-Hills served as a Managing Member - Advisor of Sweetwater Royalties LLC, an Orion Resource Partners portfolio company, from May 2022 to May 2025. He is Chair of the Monash University US Leadership Council, Chair of the US Friends of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Co-Chair of Global Australians and Chair of the AUS USA Foundation. He holds degrees in Law and Science and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University in Australia.

  • Priya Patil

    Director

    Ms. Patil has served as a Director of since June 2022. She is Chair and a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee ad also serves as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Patil is an experienced corporate director, former senior public company executive, and investment banker. She began serving as an independent corporate director of public companies in 2016 and has served as a volunteer board member of universities and other economic-focused organizations since 2003. From 2014 to 2026, Ms. Patil was Head, Business Development (Diversified Industries) of the Toronto Stock Exchange. She previously served as Managing Director, Partner and Founding Partner (Eastern Operations) of PI Financial Corp. and as Managing Director, Partner and Head of Investment Banking of Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon. Ms. Patil also served as 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. From February 2021 to August 2024, Ms. Patil was a director of Rambler Metals & Mining PLC (AIM of LSE: RMM), where she was Chair of the Compensation, Governance and Nominations Committee and a member of its Audit and Safety, Health, Environment and Community Committees. She also served as a director of Signature Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SIG) from September 2021 to May 2022 and as an advisory board member from May 2022 to September 2023. From October 2016 to August 2019, Ms. Patil was an Independent Corporate Director of Alexandria Minerals Inc., serving as Chair of its Audit Committee and as a member of its Management & Special Committee. Ms. Patil holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Computer Sciences from the University of Bombay. She 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. Ms. Patil is a member of the State Bar of California and the Law Society of Ontario and Charter of the Institute of Corporate Directors. She served as a Board Member of the Council of Great Lakes Region and as a Board Member of the Association of Corporate Growth from 2015 to 2019. She also served on the advisory boards of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law and Metropolitan Toronto University, Digital Media Zone from 2016 to 2019.

  • Ronald Vance

    Director

    Mr. Vance has served as a Director since June 2023 and is Chair of the Health, Safety and Environmental Committee and 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, he 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. Since 2013, Mr. Vance currently serves as 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.