Kuya Silver Corporation announced that Dr. Quinton Hennigh has retired as a Director and Chairman of the Board to become Crescat Capital LLC's ("Crescat") fulltime geologic and technical advisor. In addition, Kuya announced that Christian Aramayo, M.Sc., C.Eng., has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer and David Lewis, P.Geo, has been promoted to Exploration Director. Kuya has entered into a Strategic Shareholder Agreement with Crescat under which Dr. Hennigh will continue to provide geologic expertise on exploration and development activities on Kuya's portfolio of projects. Crescat is a global macro asset management firm headquartered in Denver, Colo. Crescat's mission is to grow and protect wealth over the long term by deploying tactical investment themes based on proprietary valuedriven equity and macro models. Crescat's goal is industryleading absolute and riskadjusted returns over complete business cycles with low correlation to common benchmarks. Crescat's investment process involves a mix of asset classes and strategies to assist with each client's unique needs and objectives, and includes global macro, long/short, large cap and precious metals funds. Kuya announced the appointment of Christian Aramayo, M.Sc., C.Eng., to Chief Operating Officer. Previously Christian was VP Operations of Kuya and cofounded the Company with President and CEO, David Stein, in 2017. Christian is an experienced engineer with broad project management experience in the mining industry. Previously, Christian has held senior engineering roles with Kinross Gold, and several engineering consulting firms. Christian has received an engineering degree (C.Eng.) in Kuya is also pleased to announce the appointment of David Lewis, P.Geo., to the position of Exploration Director. David has been working with Kuya since March 2021 as Exploration Manager for the Silver Kings project. He is a professional structural geologist with over 18 years' experience in geology and mineral exploration. He has a wideranging background in global mineral exploration, consulting, government and academia, with experience with the Ontario Geological Survey, First Cobalt, Hudbay Minerals, as well as several explorationfocused companies. David also teaches Rock Mechanics and Structural Geology at Fleming College in Ontario.