Sismanian succeeds Lesia Burianyk as Chief Financial Officer. The latter will remain with Kuya in the role of a Finance Director.

Canadian silver miners Kuya Silver Corporation, appointed Annie Sismanian as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company subject to the approval of the Canadian Securities Exchange.

Sismanian succeeds Lesia Burianyk as Chief Financial Officer. The latter will remain with Kuya in the role of a Finance Director.

A Chartered Professional Accountant with over 18 years of experience in finance, strategy, and corporate development, Sismanian previously served as Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Guyana Gold. Prior to that, she held senior financial positions at Hydro One, Kinross, Barrick, Fairmont and PWC.

The company also welcomes a new General Counsel- Aaron Hunter who has over fifteen years of business law experience, with a focus on extractive industries.  

Kuya’s President and CEO, David Stein stated, “We are very excited to be growing our senior management team with these outstanding and experienced industry professionals. We are very proud of the team we have assembled to date in Peru and Canada. Kuya has ambitious goals of achieving low-cost silver production and corporate growth and building a high-quality team to execute our strategy is an important part of our plans”.

The Company also announces, subject to approval by the Exchange, that it has granted 625,000 incentive stock options to acquire common shares in the capital of the Company, 150,000 were granted to Sismanian in connection with her appointment as Chief Financial Officer at an exercise price.

Primarily a silver‐focused mining company, Kuya Silver Corporation owns the Bethania Project that includes the Bethania mine, located in Central Peru. The Bethania mine was in production until 2016, toll‐milling its ore at various other concentrate plants in the region, the Company’s plan is to implement an expansion and construct a concentrate plant at the site before restarting operations.