Awards & Recognition
★Recognition as one of Mining Review's 'Mining Elites 2025'
★Yamana Gold recognized in Canada's Best 50 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights in 2021
Notable Facts
→Founded Yamana Gold in 2003, sold it for $4.8 billion in 2023 to Pan American Silver and Agnico Eagle
→Currently Chairman & CEO of Allied Gold Corporation, which he took public in 2023
→Over 35 years experience in mining, business and capital markets
→Former head of investment banking at major Canadian investment bank
→Practiced corporate law in Toronto before entering mining
→Built Yamana into a 1+ million ounce per year gold producer
→Immigrated from Italy to Canada as a child, speaking no English initially
→Paid over $900 million in dividends during his tenure at Yamana
→Invested $30 million of his own money into Allied Gold