Engineer Gold Mines Ltd. has appointed Christopher Huggins as CEO effective immediately. The Company's President Andrew Rees has stepped down, with CEO Thomas Kennedy appointed as COO; both of whom will remain Directors with the Company. Mr. Huggins is an experienced executive with a proven track record and decades of business development, management, capital markets and public company experience in technology and
resource sectors. Mr. Huggins earned a B.Sc. in Honours Geology from UBC in 1997 and spent 4 seasons as a geologist on the regional exploration team for Homestake focused around Eskay Creek, Snip Mine, Stewart camp and Dease Lake areas. Commencing in 2011 Mr. Huggins developed and delivered innovative capital equipment and financial solutions for surface and underground mining operations across NWT and Yukon. He recently spent 2 years with Finning on the Corporate Accounts team, managing several Global and National Caterpillar accounts, including the Site C dam project. Chris currently serves as an independent director at Exploits Discovery Corp., and was formerly President and COO of Crest Resources Inc.