PPX Mining Corp. announced the appointment of Mr. Pompeyo Gallardo as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Gallardo has over 27 years of experience in corporate finance, with particular strengths in budgeting and control, project structuring, financial modelling and analysis.

He is a former senior credit risk manager at Scotiabank, a former financial analyst at CIBC, a former CFO at Chieftain Metals and Red Cloud Klondike Strike (now Red Cloud Securities). Mr. Gallardo also provides financial and corporate development consulting services to mining and non-mining clients. Mr. Gallardo holds a B.A. of Economics from Universidad del Pacífico with post-graduate studies in finance and control at Harvard University and a Risk and Compliance certification from the International Association of Risk and Compliance Professionals.