Apex Critical Metals Corp. announced it has appointed Joness Lang as an independent director. Mr. Lang is an experienced executive leader with 15 years of corporate growth strategy and capital markets experience within the natural resource sector.

Mr. Lang is the CEO of Canter Resources Corp., a critical metals exploration company focused on lithium and boron in the western USA. He has served as President for American Pacific Mining Corp, and prior to that the Executive Vice President of Maple Gold Mines Ltd. Mr. Lang brings significant transaction experience to the Apex board, with a track record of leading project acquisitions and securing major mining companies as strategic partners. His career began with corporate development work for a multi-commodity prospect generator where he was lead for numerous acquisitions and sourced significant funding for the company through joint-ventures, asset sales and strategic alliance partnerships.

He played an important role in bringing Agnico Eagle in as a strategic partner, increasing institutional ownership and leading or co-leading property acquisitions and equity financing transactions while at Maple Gold. While with American Pacific, the company was nominated for Deal of the Year twice by S&P Global Platts. In addition to his Leadership: Inventing the Future (George Mason University) and Canadian Securities Course certificates, Mr. Lang received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University, graduating with distinction.

Mr. Lang also graduated with honours from the British Columbia Institute of Technology where he received his Marketing Management Entrepreneurship diploma.