Jessie Liu-Ernsting

Ms. Liu-Ernsting is an accomplished executive and professional engineer with 20 years of experience in the natural resources industry. She is Chief Corporate Development Officer of FireFly Metals, responsible for establishing and delivering the Company's strategy around developing its flagship Green Bay Copper-Gold project in Newfoundland. She was previously Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications of TSX Venture 50™ and OTCQX Best 50 company, G Mining Ventures Corp. (TSX:GMIN) where she was part of the leadership team responsible for a share price increase of 600%, taking the market capitalisation to C$4.7B.

Prior to joining GMIN, Ms. Liu-Ernsting led a junior mining company as its inaugural VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations to achieve 14x share price accretion. Before that, she guided a public mining company to achieve settlement on a disputed proxy. Previously, as investment manager at Resource Capital Funds, Ms. Liu-Ernsting sourced, evaluated, structured and managed a portfolio of natural resources investments. Ms. Liu-Ernsting started her career with two of the preeminent Canadian engineering firms conducting backfill, mine, mill and mining innovation capital projects.

She is currently a director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and of Aston Bay Holdings. She holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business with specializations in Mining, Finance and Strategy, and an Electrical Engineering degree from Queen’s University.