Board of Directors
The Allied Board of Directors comprises highly experienced and qualified individuals, bringing significant global expertise in management, finance, accounting, mining transactions, and related fields.
Peter Marrone
CHAIRMAN & CEO
Peter Marrone is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and was Executive Chairman of Yamana, which he founded in 2003. He has more than 35 years of mining, business and capital markets experience. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Marrone has founded and taken public several companies in various sectors and advised companies on going public and establishing the required protocols for governance in his role as an investment banker and lawyer before that. He has been on the boards of a number of public companies and has advised companies with a strong international presence.
Mr. Marrone currently sits on the board of directors of Aris Gold Corporation. Prior to Allied, Mr. Marrone was the head of investment banking at a major Canadian investment bank and before that practiced law in Toronto with a strong focus on corporate law, securities law and international transactions.
Justin Dibb
Vice Chairman
Justin Dibb is Vice Chairman of Allied and has been co-founder and CEO of Allied Gold Corp Limited since 2011 and has over 20 years of business experience in Africa. Mr. Dibb has overseen the transformation of Allied to an Africa focused mining group targeting gold production of 1 Moz. Co-founding Dominion Petroleum in 2004. Justin acquired seven assets in Tanzania, Uganda and the DRC before listing on the London Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of $240 million. He was instrumental to its raising of $140 million before its acquisition by Ophir Energy. Mr. Dibb studied Laws, Banking and Finance at Griffith University.
Daniel Racine
President & Director
Daniel Racine is President and a director of Allied. Mr. Racine joined Yamana in May 2014 and in August 2018 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. From August 2012 until March 2014, Mr. Racine was President and Chief Operating Officer of Brigus Gold Corp. Prior to joining Brigus, Mr. Racine was Senior Vice President, Mining of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited where he was responsible for Agnico-Eagle’s global mining operations. Mr. Racine joined Agnico-Eagle as a junior mining engineer in 1987 taking on progressively senior roles throughout his tenure, including LaRonde Mine Manager, Vice-President Operations Manager, and Senior Vice President Operations.
Mr. Racine holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree from Laval University and is a registered engineer from L’Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec, a professional engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario and a member of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers.
PIERRE D. CHENARD
Director
Pierre Chenard has held progressive roles in both the corporate development and legal areas over the past 35 years. Since February 2021, Mr. Chenard has been Executive Chairman of Allied Seychelles. From April 2019 to February 2021, he was Executive VP, Corporate Development & Strategy at AngloGold Ashanti. Prior to that, Mr. Chenard spent 12 years with Rio Tinto Aluminium including 8 years as Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel, Aluminium and 8 years as Vice President and General Counsel at Alcan Inc. From 1988 to 2000, Mr. Chenard was Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at Cambior Inc., a Canadian mining company who had mining operations in various countries including Guyana and Suriname. Mr. Chenard earned Civil and Common Law degrees from McGill University and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1984.
John Beardsworth
Lead/Independent Director
John Beardsworth retired in 2021 as a Senior Partner of the Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP law firm, where he served multiple terms as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Partnership Admission Committee. Mr. Beardsworth also served for ten years as Global Head of Hunton’s Business Practice Group and he served as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section. Mr. Beardsworth is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee’s Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP). With over 40 years of experience, he focused his practice on energy and infrastructure transactions and finance, particularly in the oil, gas, electricity, mining and infrastructure sectors. Prior to retiring, Mr. Beardsworth served as Hunton’s relationship Partner for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the US International Development Finance Corporation, the Port Authority of Virginia, the US Department of Energy and multiple sovereign Governments throughout the world, including many in Africa. In Chambers rankings, Mr. Beardsworth is one of two lawyers worldwide ranked with the highest “Senior Statespeople” designation for Africa Infrastructure Projects and Energy.
Mr. Beardsworth is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the development and financing of energy, extractive industries, renewables and infrastructure projects with a particular focus on Africa and emerging markets. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s ground-breaking treatise on resource-financed infrastructure and his work in Africa has been the subject of feature articles. Mr. Beardsworth has undertaken speaking and lecturing assignments in North and South America, Africa, Europe and Africa, generally with a focus on emerging market development and finance.
Jane Sadowsky
Independent Director
Jane Sadowsky retired from Evercore Partners as a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Power & Utility Group in 2011, after more than 22 years as an investment banker. Prior to Evercore Partners, she was a Managing Director and Group Head at Citigroup’s Investment Bank and began her investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
In addition to a broad and diverse range of finance and deal-related expertise, Ms. Sadowsky has sector expertise in power and utilities and the related fields of commodities, renewables, power technology, infrastructure and energy. She brings depth of knowledge and experience in mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity, corporate restructurings and cross-border transactions. While at Evercore and Citigroup, she was responsible for strategy and resultant P&L, for managing people and for internal and external collaboration. She participated in or led global committees including compensation, fairness and valuation, diversity, mentoring and recruiting. Ms. Sadowsky has provided expert testimony in numerous US jurisdictions and the World Court.
Since retiring, Ms. Sadowsky has served as the Managing Partner for Gardener Advisory LLC, which provides consulting and advisory services, and as a Senior Advisor on diversity and inclusion at Moelis & Company, a global investment bank. Ms. Sadowsky presents and teaches at the NACD as well as other governance forums. Ms. Sadowsky earned her MBA from the Wharton School and her BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Sadowsky is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and currently sits on the board, audit committee and compensation, nominating and governance committee of Nexa Resources S.A.
John Begeman
Independent Director
John Begeman is a Professional Mining Engineer with over 40 years of mining experience. His extensive experience in the mining industry, combined with his background in precious metals operations, executive and project development management, provide valuable industry insight and perspective to both the board and management. He currently sits on the board of directors of i-80 Gold Corp. and Pan American Silver.
Mr. Begeman previously served as the Executive Chairman of the board of Premier Gold Mines Limited, a director of African Gold Group, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Avion Gold Corporation, the Chief Operating Officer of Zinifex Canada Inc. and Vice President, Western Operations of Goldcorp Inc. Prior to his employment at Goldcorp, Mr. Begeman held various and progressive engineering and management positions with Morrison Knudsen Company’s mining operations group throughout the western United States. His experience in executive leadership in international mining operations, permitting and community involvement assists the board and management with its ongoing business endeavours. His past environmental and social license analysis along with project risk assessment also form a broad base of experience that the board and management can draw on.
Mr. Begeman holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering Management and an MBA. He has completed the Rotman-ICD Directors Education program, and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors with the ICD.D designation. He is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”) and is NACD Directorship Certified.
Dino Titaro
Independent Director
Dino Titaro has over 35 years of international experience in the mining and exploration mineral resource industry. He has been involved in project management, feasibility studies, reserve estimation, due diligence studies, valuation studies, social and environmental permitting processes for mine construction and development and related risk management and has extensive corporate and operational experience. He was the founder of Carpathian Gold Inc., a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX, and was the President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2003 to January 2014 and a director from January 2003 to August 2014. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Titaro was the principal owner and President and Chief Executive Officer of A.C.A. Howe International Limited, a geological and mining consulting firm. From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Titaro was employed by Getty Mines Limited in various supervisory roles as a geologist, working on base and precious metal projects as well as uranium, principally in resource definition stages.
Mr. Titaro currently serves as the Chairman, director and a member of the governance and nominating committee of Avidian Gold Corp. He is also a director of Golconda Gold Ltd, Chair of the governance committee and member of the audit and compensation committee. Mr. Titaro has been a director and officer of several other publicly traded companies in the mining, industrial and health care technology fields.
Mr. Titaro holds a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Western Ontario. He is also a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is a registered P.Geo in Ontario.
Richard Graff
Independent Director
Richard Graff has served on numerous public boards in the mining and oil and gas industries and has served as a board chairman, chairman of audit committees, governance and nominating committees, and special committees, as well as having compensation committee experience. His extensive experience in the metals and mining industry includes accounting and financial reporting, internal control, governance and compliance initiatives, and mergers. Mr. Graff has been an advisor to the mining industry and was a member of a Financial Accounting Standards Board task force, which resulted in the issuance of accounting and financial reporting guidance in the mining industry for US GAAP. He represented a consortium of international mining companies and has met with and provided recommendations to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on financial reporting issues in the mining industry. The IASB incorporated input from these meetings into its published rules. Mr. Graff organized periodic meetings in London between global mining companies and the IASB to discuss financial reporting issues affecting the industry and shared that information with the management, boards and audit committees on which he serves. He also has had discussions with and provided input to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on financial reporting issues in the industry. Mr. Graff has been a speaker at industry conferences and directors’ education programs on the topics of financial reporting in the mining industry, audit committee trends, board succession, investor engagement and enterprise risk management. Mr. Graff has moderated the Canadian Public
Accountability Board (CPAB) Mining Industry Forum in Toronto. He also serves as interim chairman of the Board of the Directors and is a member of the audit committee and risk committee of DMC Global Inc. He served as the chairman of the audit committee for many years and was the lead director and a member of the compensation committee of Yamana Gold Inc. and was chair of the audit committee and member of the compensation committee of Alacer Gold Corp. Mr. Graff’s extensive international experience in the mining industry, coupled with his expertise summarized above, brings insight to the board and management as to best practices with respect to accounting, corporate governance and other issues for an international public company in the mining industry.
Mr. Graff is a retired partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served as the audit leader in the United States for the mining industry. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Boston College and his post-graduate degree in Accounting from Northeastern University.