Kobo Resources Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Brian Scott to its Board of Directors and the resignation of Mr. Charles Spector. Brian has gathered extensive exploration and resource estimation modelling experience during his distinguished mining career spanning over 35 years. During this time, his expertise was instrumental in the success of various large-cap gold companies such as B2Gold Corp.

and Bema Gold Corp. (acquired by Kinross Gold in 2006), which will complement the Companys efforts to move its 100%-owned Kossou Gold Project forward. Brian Scott is a geologist with over 35 years of exploration and mine development experience across a wide variety of deposit types and political jurisdictions throughout the world.

His experience encompasses a wide range of deposit types from high Andes porphyries (Cerro Casale and Refugio) to orogenic gold deposits (Venezuela, Canada, Finland, West Africa, Namibia, Uruguay, and South Africa) and epithermal deposits (Russia, Philippines, Central America). During his 30-year career with Bema Gold Corp. (acquired by Kinross Gold) and B2Gold Corp., he engaged in all phases of exploration, development, and mining within the Bema Gold Corp./B2Gold Corp.

portfolio of properties. During this period, his responsibilities included providing geological guidance on exploration programs. He also managed B2Gold Corp.'s Technical Services Group and oversaw its in-house Technical Services Team's geologic and resource estimation models. Mr. Scott retired from B2Gold Corp.

at the end of 2023 where he served as VP Geology and Technical Services from 2015 to 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Scott was Chief Geologist for B2Gold Corp. from 2007 to 2014 and Chief Geologist for Bema Gold Corp.

from 1996 to 2007. Mr. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Geology from Lakehead University in Ontario.