Yamana Gold Inc. announced the appointment of Kimberly Keating to its Board of Directors and the formal appointment of Jason LeBlanc as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Keating has been appointed to the Company's Board, effective immediately. Ms. Keating is currently Vice President, Fabrication with the Cahill Group, where among other things she has overseen the construction of offshore accommodation facility built in Canada.

In Ms. Keating's career, she has made significant engineering and project management contributions to key projects in the North Atlantic offshore oil and gas industry. Ms. Keating also currently serves as the Vice Chair of Memorial University's Board of Regents, where she is also the Chair of the Governance &Pensions Committee, and is a board director with the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Care Foundation and Opera on the Avalon. The Company also announced that Jason LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, Finance has now been formally appointed as Chief Financial Officer.

He has been with Yamana for 11 years and has held increasingly senior positions over that time. In February 2016, the Company announced that Charles Main, Executive Vice President, Finance and CFO would be retiring effective the end of February 2017 and that in the interim an orderly succession plan would be undertaken to transition Mr. LeBlanc into the CFO role. That transition is now completed.

That orderly transition allowed Mr. LeBlanc to assume increasing levels of responsibilities over the course of 2016 based on a series of detailed steps, which minimized any potential disruption to the Company's management. Now that the transition is complete, Mr. LeBlanc has assumed the role of CFO and all of the corresponding responsibilities of this role.