Highlander Silver

Daniel Earle has over 20 years of experience in the mining sector and capital markets, most recently serving as the President and CEO of Solaris Resources. At Solaris, Mr. Earle led an award-winning team credited with revitalizing a dormant copper discovery in Ecuador and launching it into a secular bull market for copper. Solaris delivered rapid socioeconomic development and returns for its shareholders by advancing its flagship project to the development stage and growing it to ten-times its original size. Prior to joining Solaris in 2019, Mr. Earle was a Vice President and Director at TD Securities, covering the mining sector for more than 12 years. Mr. Earle is a graduate and scholar of the Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program at the University of Toronto.

Sunny Lowe has over 25 years of capital markets, finance, and international accounting, tax and risk management experience, most recently serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Solaris Resources, where Ms. Lowe was a driving force in the advancement of its flagship project and corporate development strategy. Prior to joining Solaris in 2021, Ms. Lowe was Chief Financial Officer for a South American gold exploration and development company where she was instrumental in its acquisition by an intermediate gold producer. Ms. Lowe has also previously served as Vice President, Finance, and Vice President, Internal Audit & Enterprise Risk Management for Kinross Gold. Ms. Lowe is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Mr. Velasquez has over 20 years of experience in project and operational roles in the natural resources sector leading strategic, regulatory, environmental, government, indigenous, sustainability, community, and crisis management duties in Africa, North and Latin America, and Australia. Most recently Mr. Velasquez was President, Latin America at Solaris Resources where he led Solaris Resources´ Warintza Project in Ecuador, successfully implementing an unprecedented participatory mining model with Shaur communities.

Dr. Sergio Gelcich has over 25 years of experience leading the geological and technical aspects of exploration projects across the globe, most recently serving as the Vice President of Exploration for Cerrado Gold and Ascendant Resources. At Cerrado, Dr. Gelcich was responsible for overseeing the exploratory and Mineral Resource aspects of projects in South America. At Ascendant, Dr. Gelcich played a key role in updating economic studies and expanding the Lagoa Salgada polymetallic deposit in Portugal. Prior to this, Dr. Gelcich was the Director of Exploration for Hudbay Minerals, where he led the corporate geology and exploration team. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Geology and a Master of Science in Geology from the Universidad de Chile, as well as a PhD in Geology from the University of Toronto.

Arun Lamba has over 15 years of experience in financial services and capital markets covering the mining sector, most recently serving as Vice President Corporate Development for Solaris Resources. Prior to joining Solaris in 2024, Mr. Lamba was a Senior Mining Analyst at TD Cowen, a leading North American investment bank, where he gained a wide range of analytical experience covering mining projects from early-stage exploration through feasibility and construction to production in both base and precious metals. Mr. Lamba is a Chartered Financial Analyst and completed an MBA at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and degrees in engineering and economics at Queen’s University.

Purni Parikh – Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary, has more than 25 years of public company experience in the mining sector including corporate affairs and finance, legal and regulatory administration, and governance. She is President of the Augusta Group of Companies, and Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs of its member companies including Titan Mining Corporation. She is credited with seeing through the various M&A transactions in the Augusta Group from start to finish including the acquisitions of Arizona Mining Inc. for approximately $2.1 billion in 2011 to South 32, Augusta Resource Corporation for $667M in 2014 to Hudbay Minerals, Ventana Gold Corp. for approximately $1.6 billion in 2011 and the three-way merger of Newcastle Gold Ltd. in 2017 resulting in the creation of Equinox Gold where she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary. Ms. Parikh obtained a Certificate in Business from the University of Toronto and a Gemology degree. She holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, and has worked extensively with boards.

Tom Ladner has over 10 years of securities legal and regulatory experience, most recently serving as the Vice President Legal at Solaris Resources since 2020, and General Counsel for the Augusta Group of Companies. Prior to joining the Augusta Group, Mr. Ladner practiced law in the Securities and Capital Markets group of a major Canadian law firm. Mr. Ladner has advised on multiple M&A transactions valued in excess of $1B and more than 30 public market financing transactions with an aggregate value of more than $1B. In 2024, Mr. Ladner was a finalist for both the Western Canada General Counsel Awards and the Canadian General Counsel Awards “Tomorrow’s Leader Award.” Mr. Ladner has his Honors in Business Administration with distinction from the Richard Ivey School of Business and his Juris Doctor from Western University.

Richard Warke is a Vancouver-based Canadian business executive with more than 40 years of experience in the international resource sector. In 2005, Mr. Warke founded the Augusta Group of companies which has an exceptional track record of value creation in the mining sector.

From 2006 and until 2018 Augusta Group founded, managed, and funded three world class mineral discoveries. Ventana Gold, discovered the La Bodega gold deposit in Colombia, now reported to host over 10 Moz of gold, Augusta sold the company for $1.3B in 2011. Augusta Resource, advanced the Rosemont copper project in Arizona through drilling, feasibility and permitting to become one of the largest copper deposits in United States, it was sold for $667M in 2014. Arizona Mining, discovered the Taylor deposit and grew the Hermosa-Taylor deposit into one of the top five primary zinc deposits globally, largest in United States, prior to its sale for $2.1B in 2018.

Moreover, in 2017, Mr. Warke co-founded Equinox Gold which has now become a mid-tier gold producer and one of the fastest growing gold companies in the Americas growing to over a $15.0B market cap with mines in Brazil, Canada, Mexico and USA. In 2019, Solaris Resources joined the Augusta Group of companies; the Augusta Group revitalized the dormant Warintza Project in Ecuador and subsequently grew the resource over 45 times to 5.8 Bt. Solaris emigrated to Switzerland at the end of 2024 and is currently no longer an Augusta Group company, but Mr. Warke remains as Chairman of the Board.

During 2020, Augusta Group and Barrick Gold became cornerstone shareholders of Augusta Gold Corp. (formerly known as Bullfrog Gold Corp.). Augusta Group strengthened the board and leadership team, advanced exploration and development of the Bullfrog Project, and acquired the fully permitted Reward Project located just seven miles from the Bullfrog Project. This drew the attention of global gold mining company Anglo Gold Ashanti who acquired Augusta Gold in late 2025 for $200 million.

At the current time, the Augusta Group is comprised of private businesses and public companies that currently include Titan Mining Corporation and Highlander Silver Corp. Titan Mining is a zinc concentrate producer in upstate New York and an emerging natural flake graphite producer. Highlander Silver is focused on advancing the bonanza grade San Luis gold-silver project in Central Peru.

During the course of his career, Mr. Warke has established a reputation for building successful companies by generating pioneering transactions in the mining sector through prudent investing in earlier stages of the mine cycle. His specialization is surfacing value through award-winning exploration efforts and rapidly advancing projects with consistent access to low-cost capital through exploration, feasibility, and permitting to point of sale or into production. His expertise, combined with his extensive relationships across the global mining sector, have resulted in rapid growth and a proven track record of success making him a widely recognized strategic partner and a sought after industry expert for commentary on business, mining and related topics.

Daniel Earle has over 20 years of experience in the mining sector and capital markets, most recently serving as the President and CEO of Solaris Resources. At Solaris, Mr. Earle led an award-winning team credited with revitalizing a dormant copper discovery in Ecuador and launching it into a secular bull market for copper. Solaris delivered rapid socioeconomic development and returns for its shareholders by advancing its flagship project to the development stage and growing it to ten-times its original size. Prior to joining Solaris in 2019, Mr. Earle was a Vice President and Director at TD Securities, covering the mining sector for more than 12 years. Mr. Earle is a graduate and scholar of the Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program at the University of Toronto.

Mr. Whelan has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. Mr Whelan currently serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Development for Coeur Mining (“Coeur”). Prior to joining Coeur, Mr. Whelan served as CFO of Arizona Mining Inc. from September 2017 to August 2018, when the company was acquired from South32 Limited. Previously, Mr. Whelan served as CFO for Nevsun Resources Ltd. from January 2014 to August 2017. He is a chartered professional accountant and was previously a partner with the international accounting firm Ernst & Young (“EY”) LLP where he held many leadership roles including the EY Global Mining & Metals Assurance sector leader, the leader of the EY Assurance practice in Vancouver and EY’s Canadian Mining & Metals sector leader. Mr. Whelan graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University.

Mr. Velasquez has over 20 years of experience in project and operational roles in the natural resources sector leading strategic, regulatory, environmental, government, indigenous, sustainability, community, and crisis management duties in Africa, North and Latin America, and Australia. Most recently Mr. Velasquez was President, Latin America at Solaris Resources where he led Solaris Resources´ Warintza Project in Ecuador, successfully implementing an unprecedented participatory mining model with Shaur communities.

Mr. Jerrold Annett has most recently been responsible for leading Capstone Copper’s investor relations, marketing and metal sales activities. He joined Capstone in September 2019 and has over 29 years of global mining and capital markets experience, providing strategic direction and executive oversight for several junior exploration and development companies. His mining career started at Teck Resources and Falconbridge as a metallurgist and within their commercial metals sales groups, followed by 10 years in capital markets, most recently with Scotiabank where he was Head of Mining Institutional Sales. He is a Professional Engineer and has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining and Mineral Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada.

Mr. Toro is a Mining Engineer with over 25 years of experience leading the design and execution of engineering and economic studies for global scale open pit copper projects including the Constancia mine in Peru, Copper World mine in United States and Copper Mountain mine in Canada. Mr. Toro is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Solaris Resources. Prior to joining Solaris in January 2024 Mr. Toro was with Hudbay Minerals for over 11 years in progressively more senior capacities and most recently as Vice President, Mining Technical Services. Prior this, Mr. Toro worked at Golder Associates Peru S.A. leading a team to produce the mining design, schedule and cost estimations for various projects. Mr. Toro holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering with Honors from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru.