Almaden Minerals Ltd. announced at annual general meeting held on June 29, 2021, the shareholders elected Ria Fitzgerald as Director of the company. Ria has twenty years of experience in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, project financing and project development with global and start-up companies in mining, infrastructure, and renewable power sectors. She has ten years of experience as an investment banker focused on the mining industry, where she was involved in over 100 financings raising more than $7 billion in private and public equity for global mining companies.