AuTECO Minerals Ltd. announced that Kevin Tomlinson has been appointed a Non-Executive Director of AuTECO, effective 15 December 2022. Mr. Tomlinson has more than three decades' experience in major discoveries, exploration and resource growth, mine development and financing of mining projects globally. He has also played leading roles in many successful mergers and acquisitions.

He is currently Independent Non-Executive Chairman of highly successful ASX300 Company Bellevue Gold Limited. Mr. Tomlinson was previously Managing Director of Investment Banking at Westwind Partners and Stifel Nicolaus (2006-2012), raising significant equity and providing M&A corporate advice, and is the former Chair of ASX/TSX-listed Cardinal Resources Ltd, leading its CAD 587 million sale to Shandong Gold. Mr. Tomlinson was also a Non-Executive Director at Centamin Plc, which discovered and built a significant gold mine in Egypt.

Mr. Tomlinson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers (UK). He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a Masters degree in Structural Geology and has a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment, Banking, Corporate, Finance and Securities Law from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Kodiak Copper Corp.

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