Board of Directors

Mr. Sartori is the Chairman and founder of Union Group International Holdings, a privately owned investment and private equity management firm with significant strategic Latin American interests. These cover the agricultural, energy, forestry, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Mr. Sartori established Union Group in 2007. Since its incorporation, Union Group and its subsidiaries have performed numerous transactions growing its portfolio of businesses of private and public companies. He has served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board for Union Acquisition Corp. II since December 2018 to 2021. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Union Acquisition Corp. from November 2017 until it completed its merger with Bioceres Crop Solutions in March 2019. Mr. Sartori is the co-owner of Sunderland A.F.C, Vice-President of AS Monaco Football Club, Board member of the European Club Association and of the Professional Football League (LFP) in France, and Executive Chairman of Adecoagro S.A. Mr. Sartori is a regular speaker about Latin American issues in worldwide conferences and media. Mr. Sartori began his career as a financial services entrepreneur in 2002 launching Union Capital Group, a Geneva based multi-strategy asset manager, selling its control in 2008. Mr. Sartori was elected and served as Senator of the Uruguayan Parliament for the legislative period going from February 15, 2020 to February 15, 2025. Mr. Sartori received a Bachelor Degree in Business and Economics from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Lausanne.

David Cole brings over two decades of leadership experience as the long-time CEO and co-founder of EMX Royalty Corp. He has a proven track record in public markets, capital allocation, and the technical disciplines of exploration, mining, and royalty generation. Under his leadership, EMX grew from a single-asset explorer with a C$3.3 million market cap into a globally diversified royalty company holding more than 250 mineral assets, across six continents.

Mr. Cole co-founded Standard Uranium Corp. and served as a director of Energy Metals Corporation, which was later acquired for US$1.8 billion. He also chaired IG Copper, overseeing the sale of the Malmyzh copper-gold discovery for US$200 million, generating significant returns for EMX shareholders.

An economic geologist by training, Mr. Cole holds geology degrees from Fort Lewis College and Colorado State University. Before EMX, he spent 17 years with Newmont Mining in senior technical and management roles, contributing to major exploration successes worldwide.

Ms. Sunny Lowe is a CPA, CA with more than 25 years of capital markets, finance, and international accounting, tax and risk management experience mostly spent in the mining sector. Ms. Lowe is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Highlander Silver Corp. Prior to joining Highlander Silver, Ms. Lowe was the Chief Financial Officer of Solaris Resources Inc. and before that, of INV Metals Inc. Ms. Lowe has previously served as Vice President, Finance and Vice President, Internal Audit & Enterprise Risk Management at Kinross Gold overseeing the company’s External Financial Reporting and Corporate Controllership functions. Ms. Lowe also worked at Inmet Mining Corporation where she held leadership roles across functions including Enterprise Risk Management, International Tax, and Business Systems & Controls. Ms. Lowe obtained her CPA, CA designation while working at Ernst & Young LLP and holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Mr. Vumbaca is currently principal of London-based private investment office ASV Private Office where he works with businesses to set and to execute sophisticated value creation strategies. Over the past three decades, Mr. Vumbaca has led complex, high profile, and high value corporate and commercial negotiations, including most recently the sale of Pit Stop Betting in 2019. He operates in a peer group of investors including high-net worth individuals, overseas royal families, international conglomerates, private investors, financial institutions, elite athletes, artists, and sports club owners. Mr. Vumbaca currently serves as a non-executive director of Sunderland AFC, a professional English premier league football club, and is the Chair of AIG, an Agro conglomerate, amongst other appointments. Mr. Vumbaca holds a Masters (DEA) graduate degree from the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and is a licensed member of the Law Society of England and Wales and of the Colegio de la Abogacia Espanola.

Mr. Sood is the managing director of Signal 8 Limited based in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Sood has been a founder of and the principal investor in several businesses in emerging markets and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Golconda Gold Ltd. (TSXV) and Executive Chairman of Abraxas Power Corp. Mr. Sood was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Navina Asset Management Inc., a global asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Sood led the investment activities of Navina and its predecessor company, Lawrence Asset Management Inc., from its founding in 2001 until he sold the firm in 2010. Mr. Sood received a Bachelor Degree of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo where he was a Descartes Fellow and the recipient of numerous national awards.