Anna El-Erian

Anna El-Erian (nee- Stylianides) has 30 years of experience in global capital markets having spent much of her career in investment banking, private equity, and corporate management and restructuring. Ms. El-Erian began her career in corporate law by joining the firm of Webber Wentzel Attorneys in 1990 after graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1992, she joined Investec Merchant Bank Limited where she specialized in risk management and gained extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance and structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, structuring, specialized finance and other banking and financial services transactions. Ms. El-Erian was also involved in designing and structuring of financial products for financial institutions and corporations. Since 1997, Ms. El-Erian has been a director of and has been engaged in the financial restructuring of certain Nasdaq publicly traded companies and has extensive knowledge of Canadian and SEC securities regulations. She has worked extensively in structuring and implementing corporate and structured finance transactions in the mining, banking and bio-science sectors. Ms. El-Erian was previously a director and CEO of Surgical Spaces Inc. group of companies, and has been instrumental in overseeing its national expansion strategy as Canada’s private healthcare consolidator. Ms. El-Erian was previously on the board of directors of Eco Oro Minerals Corp. and is currently a director of Altius Minerals, Altius Renewable Royalties, Entrée Resources and Sabina Gold & Silver. Ms. El-Erian is considered to be independent within the meaning of NI 58-101.