Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. announced the appointment of Meri Verli, Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer effective September 14, 2016, Pierre Rocque, Vice President Mining Engineering effective September 26, 2016, and Ray Yip, as Vice President Business Intelligence Systems effective September 3, 2016. In addition, the company announced that Mr. Chris Stewart, the Vice President of Operations is no longer with the Company. Ms. Verli is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 9 years of financial management experience in the mining sector and 18 years of overall industry experience. Ms. Verli was most recently the Vice President Finance with Lake Shore Gold Corp., providing senior financial planning and analysis support, treasury responsibilities and managing the internal controls. She played a key role in building the accounting department as the Company transitioned from a junior exploration company to a commercial producer. Mr. Rocque is a mining engineer with over 25 years of experience. He has worked at many gold mines in Canada, including as Vice President Engineering for St Andrew Goldfields, Director Technical Services at Lake Shore Gold, Chief Engineer at the Red Lake, QR and Macassa mines, Rock Mechanics Engineer at Hemlo's Golden Giant Mine and various mining engineering roles at Hoyle Pond and Agnico-Eagle's Joutel mines. Most recently, Mr. Rocque was the Global Practice Director – Mining at Hatch.