Gold Standard Ventures Corp. announced that it has appointed Bruce McLeod as a director of the company. Jonathan Awde, a Gold Standard director and its CEO noted that Mr. McLeod strengthens the board's engineering expertise at a time when the company is pushing ahead with plans to begin defining the economics of its Pinion- Railroad Gold Project in the Carlin Trend of Nevada. Mr. McLeod is a mining engineer with over 30 years of experience in all areas of the mining industry. Most recently he was a director of Kaminak Gold Corp.