New Energy Metals Corp. announced the appointment of Keenan Hohol to New Energy's Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Hohol is a lawyer and executive with over 20 years of international advisory experience, with a reco of achievements in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions, corporate governance and corporate development, legal and regulatory compliance, risk management, litigation management, business ethics and anti-corruption, and corporate social responsibility.

Mr. Hohol 's previous executive roles include General Counsel, Global Exploration, BHP Billiton; Global Head of Legal, Western Coal and interim General Counsel at Walter Energy; Vice-President, Legal and Genera Counsel, for Silver Standard Resources; and General Counsel, for Pan American Silver. The Company also announces the resignation of Mr. Stuart Ross as a director. The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Nilda Rivera as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary effective immediately.

Ms. Rivera has over 20 years of experience in corporate and operational finance and managed publicly listed companies in the areas of accounting, finance, regulatory compliance and corporate governance. She was involved in IPOs, RTOs and mergers and acquisitions in several industries including cannabis, hemp, resource and technology, and assisted various start-up companies in achieving public listings on the CSE, TSXV and OTC, and their uplisting to the TSX and NYSE. Ms. Rivera is currently CFO of Cloud Nine Web3 Technologies Inc. Previously, she served as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Secretary at Aurora Cannabis Inc. where she was instrumental in building its finance team, and involved in completing its early equity and debt financings and its uplisting to the TSX and NYSE.

She has also served as CFO, Corporate Secretary and a director for several public mining and exploration companies. The Company also would like to announce the resignation of Priscilla Ikani as CFO and Corporate Secretary. The Company would like to thank Priscilla for her contributions and commitments to the Company and wishes her success with her future plans.