Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. announced changes to the executive management team. Subsequent to the acquisition of St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. the Company announced that Mr. Doug Cater, P.Geo, and Mr. Keyvan Salehi, P.Eng, MBA, have joined Kirkland Lake Gold as Vice President of Exploration and Vice President of Corporate Development and Technical Services, respectively. Mr. Cater is a professional geologist with over 30 years of industry experience gained while working with senior Canadian based mining and exploration companies.

Most recently he served as the Vice President of Exploration with St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. since 2012 and was responsible for resource expansion, and testing targets on the company's 120 kilometre strike length of claims along the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Mr. Salehi is a professional engineer with over 15 years of experience within the mining industry providing technical, operational, project management and corporate development support. In his most recent role with St Andrew Goldfields, Mr. Salehi held the position of Vice President of Corporate Development and Technical Services.