CEO Breakfast

Date: Monday, January 23
Location: Marine Room
Time: 7:00 am to 8:30 am
Sponsored by: Miller Thomson LLP
(ticket required)

Keynote Speaker: Eric Friedland, Chief Executive Officer, Peregrine Diamonds Ltd.

Mr. Friedland has over 25 years of exploration and development experience in mining as well as mining finance and is the founder, CEO and Chairman of both Peregrine Diamonds and Peregrine Metals. Mr. Friedland was the President and Director of Fairbanks Gold Ltd. and played a primary role in the creation, development and financing of the Fort Knox gold discovery in Alaska and the subsequent sale of Fairbanks Gold and partners to Amax Gold Corp. for $86 million. He was formerly CEO and Director of Carson Gold Corp., which explored and developed gold mining assets in Venezuela, and which, as DiamondWorks Ltd., developed two producing diamond mines in Angola as well as the re-opening of the Koidu Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone. Mr. Friedland was also a Director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. from Ivanhoe's inception to its major copper gold discovery in Mongolia called Oyu Tolgoi. Mr. Friedland has a B.Sc. degree in Geophysical Engineering with a minor in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines.