Rudi Fronk
Chairman & CEO

Good morning. My name is Rudi Fronk, and I'm the Chair and CEO of Seabridge Gold. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the special meeting of the company. I will act as Chair of this meeting, and I have asked [indiscernible] White, to act as Secretary. I'm delighted Ashley, Valor Gold's proposed CEO, Mark, if you can maybe just raise your hand is here with us. Before we get started, I would like to address a few procedural matters.

The special meeting will commence with the formal portion of the meeting described in the notice of meeting. To help move the formal portion of the meeting along, I've asked certain shareholders to make motions when required. We'll be conducting voting by ballot, and I'll explain this procedure shortly.

At the conclusion of the formal portion of the meeting, I will provide some comments on the Spin-out of Valor Gold, and Mark Ashley will come up and do a presentation on the company and what's next for Valor Gold. The company's registrar and transfer agent is Computershare.

On behalf of Computershare, Dale Loyol is here and will act as a scrutineer of the meeting and he's joined by colleagues, David Cavasin; and David Martin. If anyone has not yet registered with the scrutineer, would they please do so now.

Also with us today from the Seabridge side, we have Greg Martin, our fairly new CFO who joined us formally on March 1, but he's been working with us longer than that. We also have Hassan Esmaeili. Hassan is our VP of Finance; and also [ Nagar ], who is -- manages my life as my executive assistant, and also basically does most