RUA GOLD Corporation announced the appointment of Tyron Breytenbach as independent director effective April 17, 2024. Mr. Breytenbach has been appointed to the Chair of the Audit Committee and member on the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, Compensation Committee and Sustainability and Governance Committee. Mr. Breytenbach is currently the CEO of Lithium Africa Resources and a former equity analyst at Cormark Securities and Stifel Canada and was SVP Capital Markets at Aris Mining.

In each of these roles he interacted extensively with the international investment community. Mr. Breytenbach was a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the investment banking group at Canada's largest employee-owned dealer ? Cormark.

Prior to entering capital markets, Mr. Breytenbach spent a decade in the mining industry as a geologist where he focused on orogenic and epithermal gold deposits and specialized in resource estimation. Mr. Breytenbach holds a BSc (Honours) Degree from Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa and is a designated P.Geo in Ontario .