Leo M. Drozdoff

Mr. Drozdoff also serves on the Nominating, Executive & Strategic Planning Committee and he joined the Company’s board of directors on February 12, 2018. He has extensive experience in Nevada’s mining industry, and in engineering, legislation, environmental regulation, economic development, legislation, and historical preservation. Most recently he served as the Director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources from 2010 to 2016 and was a Cabinet member reporting to two Nevada Governors where he oversaw 900 state employees responsible for mining, environmental protection, water resources, forestry, state parks, state lands and the State Historic Preservation Office. Mr. Drozdoff also served as lead Administrator of Nevada’s Division of Environmental Protection from October 2004 to April 2010, and from 1998 to 2001 as Bureau Chief over Water Control and Mining Regulation, two of the most critical Nevada mining regulatory bureaus. He also chaired the Nevada Public Employee Benefits Program Board, overseeing the benefits of more than 30,000 public employees, retirees and their families. Mr. Drozdoff graduated from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and he holds a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in management from the University of Nevada, Reno.