GMV Minerals Inc. — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2023

Jan 9, 2023

INFORMATION CIRCULAR

SOLICITATION OF PROXIES BY MANAGEMENT

This management information circular (the "Information Circular") is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by or on behalf of the management of GMV Minerals Inc. (the "Company") for use at the annual general and special meeting (the "Meeting") of the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") to be held at 3200 – 650 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, February 3, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) and at any adjournments thereof for the purposes set out in the accompanying Notice of Meeting. Although it is expected that the solicitation of proxies will be primarily by mail, proxies may also be solicited personally, electronically or by telephone by directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company. Arrangements will also be made with clearing agencies, brokerage houses and other financial intermediaries to forward proxy solicitation material to the beneficial owners of common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") pursuant to the requirements of National Instrument 54-101, Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer ("National Instrument 54-101").

The Canadian securities regulators have adopted new rules under National Instrument 54-101, which permit the use of notice-and-access for proxy solicitation, instead of the traditional physical delivery of material. This new process provides the option to post meeting related materials, including management information circulars, as well as annual financial statements, and related management's discussion and analysis, on a website in addition to SEDAR. Under notice-and-access, such meeting related materials will be available for viewing for up to one (1) year from the date of posting, and a paper copy of the material can be requested at any time during this period. The Company is not relying on the notice-and-access provisions of National Instrument 54-101 to send proxy related materials to registered shareholders or beneficial owners of shares in connection with the Meeting.

The Company may reimburse shareholders' nominees or intermediaries (including brokers or their agents holding shares on behalf of clients) for the cost incurred in obtaining from their principals' authorization to execute forms of proxy. The cost of any such solicitation will be borne by the Company. Unless otherwise stated, the information contained in this Information Circular is given as at December 30, 2022.

APPOINTMENT OF PROXYHOLDERS AND COMPLETION AND REVOCATION OF PROXIES

The purpose of a proxy is to designate persons who will vote the proxy on a Shareholder's behalf in accordance with the instructions given by the Shareholder in the proxy. The persons named in the enclosed proxy (the "Management Designees") have been selected by the directors of the Company.

A Shareholder has the right to designate a person (who need not be a Shareholder), other than the Management Designees to represent the Shareholder at the Meeting. Such right may be exercised by inserting in the space provided for that purpose on the proxy the name of the person to be designated, and by deleting from the proxy the names of the Management Designees, or by completing another proper form of proxy and delivering the same to the transfer agent of the Company. Such Shareholder should notify the nominee of the appointment, obtain the nominee's consent to act as proxyholder and attend the Meeting, and provide instructions on how the Shareholder's shares are to be voted. The nominee should bring personal identification with them to the Meeting.

To be valid, the proxy must be dated and executed by the Shareholder or an attorney authorized in writing, with proof of such authorization attached (where an attorney executed the proxy). The proxy must then be delivered to the Company's registrar and transfer agent, Olympia Trust Company, by mail to Proxy Department, P.O. Box 128, STN, Calgary, AB, T2P 2H6, by fax to (403) 668-8307, by email to proxy@olympiatrust.com, or by internet at https://css.olympiatrust.com/pxlogin and entering the 12-digit control number shown on your proxy, at least 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, before the time of the Meeting or any adjournment thereof. Proxies received after that time may be accepted by the Chairman of the Meeting in the Chairman's discretion, but the Chairman is under no obligation to accept late proxies.

Any registered Shareholder who has returned a proxy may revoke it at any time before it has been exercised. A proxy may be revoked by a registered Shareholder personally attending at the Meeting and voting their shares. A Shareholder may also revoke their proxy in respect of any matter upon which a vote has not already been cast by depositing an instrument in writing, including a proxy bearing a later date executed by the registered Shareholder or by their authorized attorney in writing, or, if the Shareholder is a corporation, under its corporate seal by an officer or attorney thereof duly authorized, either at the office of the Company's registrar and transfer agent at the foregoing address or the head office of the Company, at Suite 280 – 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 3V7, at any time up to and including the last business day preceding the date of the Meeting, or any adjournment thereof at which the proxy is to be used, or by depositing the instrument in writing with the Chairman of such Meeting, or any adjournment thereof. Only registered Shareholders have the right to revoke a proxy. Non-registered Shareholders who wish to change their vote must, at least seven days before the Meeting, arrange for their respective nominees to revoke the proxy on their behalf.

VOTING OF PROXIES

Voting at the Meeting will be by a show of hands, each registered Shareholder and each proxyholder (representing a registered or unregistered Shareholder) having one vote, unless a poll is required or requested, whereupon each such Shareholder and proxyholder is entitled to one vote for each Common Share held or represented, respectively. Each Shareholder may instruct their proxyholder how to vote their Common Shares by completing the blanks on the proxy. All Common Shares represented at the Meeting by properly executed proxies will be voted or withheld from voting when a poll is required or requested and, where a choice with respect to any matter to be acted upon has been specified in the form of proxy, the Common Shares represented by the proxy will be voted in accordance with such specification. In the absence of any such specification as to voting on the proxy, the Management Designees, if named as proxyholder, will vote in favour of the matters set out therein.

The enclosed proxy confers discretionary authority upon the Management Designees, or other person named as proxyholder, with respect to amendments to or variations of matters identified in the Notice of Meeting and any other matters which may properly come before the Meeting. As of the date hereof, the Company is not aware of any amendments to, variations of or other matters which may come before the Meeting. If other matters properly come before the Meeting, then the Management Designees intend to vote in a manner which in their judgment is in the best interests of the Company.

In order to approve a motion proposed at the Meeting, a majority of greater than 50% of the votes cast will be required (an "ordinary resolution"), unless the motion requires a "special resolution" in which case a majority of 66 2/3% of the votes cast will be required.

BENEFICIAL HOLDERS

Only registered shareholders or duly appointed proxyholders are permitted to vote at the Meeting. Most shareholders of the Company are "non-registered" or "beneficial" shareholders because the shares they own are not registered in their names, but are instead registered in the name of the brokerage firm, bank or trust company through which they purchased the shares. More particularly, a person is not a registered shareholder in respect of shares which are held on behalf of that person (the "Beneficial Holder") but which are registered either: (a) in the name of an intermediary (an "Intermediary") that the Beneficial Holder deals with in respect of the shares (Intermediaries include, among others, banks, trust companies, securities dealers or brokers and trustees or administrators of self-administered RRSP's, RRIF's, RESP's and similar plans); or (b) in the name of a clearing agency (such as The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited ("CDS")) of which the Intermediary is a participant. In accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 54-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators, the Company has distributed copies of the Notice of Meeting, this Information Circular and the Proxy (collectively, the "Meeting Materials") directly, and to the clearing agencies and Intermediaries for onward distribution to Beneficial Holders. These securityholder materials are being sent to both registered and non-registered owners of the securities. If you are a non-registered owner, and the issuer or its agent has sent these materials directly to you, your name and address and information about your holdings of securities, have been obtained in accordance with applicable securities regulatory requirements from the Intermediary holding on your behalf.

Intermediaries are required to forward the Meeting Materials to Beneficial Holders unless a Beneficial Holder has waived the right to receive them. Very often, Intermediaries will use service companies to forward the Meeting Materials to Beneficial Holders. Generally, Beneficial Holders who have not waived the right to receive Meeting Materials will either:

• (a) be given a form of proxy which has already been signed by the Intermediary (typically by a facsimile, stamped signature), which is restricted as to the number of shares beneficially owned by the Beneficial Holder but which is otherwise not completed. Because the Intermediary has already signed the form of proxy, this form of proxy is not required to be signed by the Beneficial Holder when submitting the proxy. In this case, the Beneficial Holder who wishes to submit a proxy should otherwise properly complete the form of proxy and deposit it with the Company's transfer agent as provided above; or
• (b) more typically, be given a voting instruction form which is not signed by the Intermediary, and which, when properly completed and signed by the Beneficial Holder and returned to the Intermediary or its service company, will constitute voting instructions (often called a "proxy authorization form") which the Intermediary must follow. Typically, the proxy authorization form will consist of a one-page pre-printed form. Sometimes, instead of the one-page pre-printed form, the proxy authorization form will consist of a regular printed proxy form accompanied by a page of instructions which contains a removable label containing a bar-code and other information. In order for the form of proxy to validly constitute a proxy authorization form, the Beneficial Holder must remove the label from the instructions and affix it to the form of proxy, properly complete and sign the form of proxy and return it to the Intermediary or its service company in accordance with the instructions of the Intermediary or its service company.

In either case, the purpose of this procedure is to permit Beneficial Holders to direct the voting of the shares which they beneficially own. Should a Beneficial Holder who receives one of the above forms wish to vote at the Meeting in person, the Beneficial Holder should strike out the names of the Management Designees named in the form and insert the Beneficial Holder's name in the blank space provided. In either case, Beneficial Holders should carefully follow the instructions of their Intermediary, including those regarding when and where the proxy or proxy authorization form is to be delivered.

VOTING SECURITIES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS THEREOF

The authorized share structure of the Company consists of an unlimited number of common shares without par value and an unlimited number of preferred shares without par value. As at December 30, 2022, the Company had 75,345,165 issued and outstanding common shares, each common share carrying the right to one vote. There are no outstanding preferred shares.

The holders of common shares of record at the close of business on the record date, set by the directors of the Company to be December 30, 2022, are entitled to vote such common shares at the Meeting on the basis of one vote for each common share held.

The Articles of the Company provide that a quorum for the transaction of business at the Meeting is two (2) persons who are, or represented by proxy, shareholders holding, in the aggregate, at least five percent (5%) of the issued shares.

To the knowledge of the directors and senior officers of the Company, there are no persons or companies who beneficially own, directly or indirectly, or exercise control or direction over, voting securities carrying more than 10% of the outstanding voting rights.

Those shareholders so desiring may be represented by proxy at the Meeting.

PARTICULARS OF MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMPANY'S DIRECTORS, THE ONLY MATTERS TO BE PLACED BEFORE THE MEETING ARE THOSE REFERRED TO IN THE NOTICE OF MEETING ACCOMPANYING THIS INFORMATION CIRCULAR. HOWEVER, SHOULD ANY OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING, THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THE PROXY SOLICITED HEREBY WILL BE VOTED ON SUCH MATTERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BEST JUDGMENT OF THE PERSONS VOTING THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THE PROXY.

Additional detail regarding each of the matters to be acted upon at the Meeting is set forth below.

I. Financial Statements

The audited financial statements of the company for the financial year ended June 30, 2022 (the "Financial Statements"), together with the Auditors' Report thereon, will be presented to the shareholders at the Meeting. Shareholders should note that in accordance with the rules of National Instrument 51-102 "Continuous Disclosure Obligations", shareholders will no longer automatically receive copies of financial statements unless a return card (in the form enclosed herewith) has been completed and returned as instructed. Copies of all previously issued annual and quarterly financial statements and related Management Discussions and Analysis are available to the public on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. Hard copies of the Audited Annual Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis will be available to shareholders free of charge upon request.

II. Appointment of Auditors

Management proposes the appointment of Manning Elliott LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, as Auditors of the Company for the ensuing year and that the directors be authorized to fix their remuneration.

In the absence of instructions to the contrary the shares represented by proxy will be voted in favour of a resolution to appoint Manning Elliott LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, as Auditors of the Company for the ensuing year, at a remuneration to be fixed by the Board of Directors, unless the Shareholder has specified in the Shareholder's proxy that the Shareholder's Common Shares are to be withheld from voting on the appointment of auditors.

III. Election of Directors

The board of directors of the Company (the "Board" or the "Board of Directors") currently consists of five (5) directors, all of whom are elected annually. The term of office for each of the present directors of the Company expires at the Meeting. All of the current directors of the Company will be standing for re-election. It is proposed that the number of directors for the ensuing year be fixed at five (5) subject to such increases as may be permitted by the Articles of the Company. At the Meeting, the Shareholders will be asked to consider and, if thought fit, approve an ordinary resolution fixing the number of directors to be elected at the Meeting at five (5).

It is proposed that the persons named below will be nominated at the Meeting. Each director elected will hold office until the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or until his successor is duly elected or appointed pursuant to the Articles of the Company unless his office is earlier vacated in accordance with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) or the Company's Articles.

It is the intention of the management designees, if named as proxy, to vote for the election of the said persons to the Board of Directors, unless the Shareholder has specified in its proxy that its Common Shares are to be withheld from voting on the election of directors. Management does not contemplate that any of the nominees will be unable to serve as a director.

The following information relating to the nominees for election to the Board of Directors is based on information received by the Company from said nominees:

Robert Coltura(1)British Columbia, CanadaDirector since April 2014Common Shares: 15,500	President of Matalia Investments Ltd.from October 1993 to present, acompany that provides management consulting, corporate finance andinvestor relation services to public and private companies. President ofColtura Financial Corp. and Coltura Properties, both of which owncommercial properties and hotels in British Columbia and the United States.
Carl Hale(1)(2)Washington, United StatesDirector since January 2013	Geologist; Exploration Manager on the Herbert Gold Project in southeastAlaska.
Common Shares: 30,000

Ian M. Klassen(1)(2)British Columbia, CanadaDirector since December2007President and CEO sinceMarch2009Common Shares: 1,649,234(3)	PresidentandChief Executive Officer of the Company; Director of XORTXTherapeutics Inc. from August 2020 to present; Director of eXeBlockTechnology Corporation from September 2017 to present; Director ofGrande Portage Resources Ltd.from August2007 to present,President fromApril 2007 to present, and Chief Executive Officer from September 2007topresent; Director of Sixty North Gold Mining Ltd.from July 2017 toSeptember 2019.
Alistair MacLennan(1)British Columbia, CanadaDirector since December 2007Chairman since March 2009Common Shares: 4,559,666(4)	President of W.M. Technologies Inc. and self-employed businessman;Chairman of the Board of Helijet International Inc. since 1987; Director ofGrande Portage Resources Ltd.since June 2005; Director of Aleafia HealthInc. from January 2016 to March 2018.
Douglas A. Perkins(1)(2)Massachusetts, United StatesDirector since December 2009	Consultant Geologist from 2001 to 2007; Director of Grande PortageResources Ltd.from April 2011to present.

Common Shares: 30,000

(1) Information as to the Province or State of residence, principal occupation, and shares beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, or controlled or directed, has been furnished by the respective directors.

(2) Member of the audit committee.

(3) Of which, 558,200 shares are owned by Mr. Klassen's spouse but Mr. Klassen has control or direction over them.

(4) Of which, 2,099,633 shares are held through DCT Holdings Ltd. and 72,500 shares are held through W.M. Technologies Inc., both companies are controlled by Mr. MacLennan; 219,600 shares are owned by Mr. MacLennan's spouse but Mr. MacLennan has control or direction over them; and 20,000 shares are held in an RRSP.

Corporate Cease Trade Orders or Bankruptcies

To the knowledge of the Company, no director or proposed director of the Company is, or within the ten years prior to the date of this Circular has been, a director or executive officer of any company, including the Company, that while that person was acting in that capacity:

• (a) was the subject of a cease trade order or similar order or an order that denied the company access to any exemption under securities legislation for a period of more than 30 consecutive days; or
• (b) was subject to an event that resulted, after the director ceased to be a director or executive officer of the company being the subject of a cease trade order or similar order or an order that denied the relevant company access to any exemption under securities legislation, for a period of more than 30 consecutive days; or
• (c) within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets.

Individual Bankruptcies

To the knowledge of the Company, no director or proposed director of the Company has, within the ten years prior to the date of this Circular, become bankrupt or made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, or been subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors, or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold the assets of that individual.

Penalties or Sanctions

To the knowledge of the Company, no proposed director of the Company has been subject to any penalties or sanctions imposed by a court relating to securities legislation or by a securities regulatory authority or has entered into a settlement agreement with a securities regulatory authority, or has been subject to any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would likely be considered important to a reasonable securityholder in deciding whether to vote for a proposed director.

IV. Ratification of the Incentive Stock Option Plan

The Company currently maintains a rolling stock option plan (the "Stock Option Plan"), authorizing the issuance of incentive stock options to eligible persons for up to an aggregate of 10% of the issued shares of the Company from time to time. The policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") require the approval of the Stock Option Plan by the Company's shareholders on an annual basis. There are currently 75,345,165 shares of the Company issued and outstanding, and therefore the current 10% threshold is 7,534,516 shares available for incentive stock option grants under the Stock Option Plan. Incentive stock options under the Stock Option Plan may be granted by the Board of Directors to eligible persons, who are directors, officers or consultants of the Company or its subsidiaries (if any), or who are employees of a company providing management services to the Company, or who are eligible charitable organizations. Stock options may be granted under the Stock Option Plan with a maximum exercise period of up to ten (10) years, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company.

The Stock Option Plan will limit the number of stock options which may be granted to any one individual to not more than 5% of the total issued shares of the Company in any 12-month period (unless otherwise approved by the disinterested shareholders of the Company, as defined under the policies of the Exchange), and not more than 10% of the total issued shares to all insiders at any time or granted over any 12-month period. The number of options granted to any one consultant or person employed to provide investor relations activities in any 12-month period must not exceed 2% of the total issued shares of the Company. Any stock options granted under the Stock Option Plan will not be subject to any vesting schedule, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors or required by the policies of the Exchange.

Options under the Stock Option Plan may be granted at an exercise price which is at or above the current discounted market price (as defined under the policies of the Exchange) on the date of the grant. In the event of the death or permanent disability of an optionee, any option granted to such optionee will be exercisable upon the earlier of 365 days from the date of death or permanent disability, or the expiry date of the option. In the event of the resignation, or the termination or removal of an optionee without just cause, any option granted to such optionee will be exercisable for a period of 90 days thereafter. In the event of termination for cause, any option granted to such optionee will be cancelled as at the date of termination.

Shareholders are referred to the full text of the Stock Option Plan, a copy of which has been posted on SEDAR and is available for inspection under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, for complete details.

In the event that annual shareholder approval is not obtained at the Meeting, the Company will implement a new fixed stock option plan for up to 10% of the Company's issued shares (which does not require shareholder approval), and any existing option grants under the Stock Option Plan as previously approved by the shareholders of the Company at the last Annual General Meeting will not be affected.

V. Special Business – New Articles

From time to time, it is appropriate for a public corporation to review its form of Articles to ensure that they are up to date with the current legislation and standard practices with respect to the management and administration of a reporting issuer. The Articles of the Company have not been amended since the Company's incorporation on May 18, 2006. Accordingly, the Company is proposing to delete its existing Articles in their entirety and replace them with a new set of Articles (the "New Articles"). The New Articles will make the Company's Articles consistent with the current terminology and provisions of the British Columbia Business Corporations Act (the "Act"). A complete copy of the proposed New Articles of the Company will be available for inspection at the Meeting and at the Company's registered office, located at Suite 3200 - 650 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, during regular business hours up to the day before the Meeting.

Most of the changes in the New Articles are minor in nature, and will not affect shareholders or the day to day administration of the Company. However, there are several changes of note, designed to facilitate the administration of the Company's affairs and reduce the overhead and administrative costs related to implementing such matters, including:

• 1. A Shareholder attending a meeting virtually will be counted as present at the meeting and will be counted in the quorum for the meeting.
• 1. A Shareholder entitled to vote at a meeting of shareholders will be able to vote remotely.
• 1. The chair of the meetings of directors will have a second or casting vote, in the case of an equality of votes.
• 1. Any share consolidation or subdivision will be permitted by resolution of the directors.
• 1. The New Articles provide for advance notice of shareholder nominees for election of directors (the "Advance Notice Provision"), which will: (i) facilitate orderly and efficient annual general or, where the need arises, special meetings; (ii) ensure that all shareholders receive adequate notice of the director nominations and sufficient information with respect to all nominees; and (iii) allow shareholders to register an informed vote, having been afforded reasonable time for appropriate deliberation.

In regards to the last item noted above, and as part of its ongoing commitment to good corporate governance practices, the Board has reviewed and approved the form of the New Articles to provide for advance notice of nominees from shareholders for the election of directors. The purpose of the Advance Notice Provision is to provide shareholders, directors, and management of the Company with direction on the procedure for a shareholder's nomination of directors. The Advance Notice Provision is the framework by which the Company seeks to fix a deadline by which holders of record of common shares of the Company must submit nominations for director to the Company prior to any annual or special meeting of shareholders and sets forth the information that a shareholder must include in the notice to the Company for the notice to be in proper written form in order for any director nominee to be eligible for election at any annual or special meeting of shareholders. For shareholders who wish further information, further details on the effect of the Advance Notice Provision are set out below.

Effect of the Advance Notice Provision

The following information is intended as a brief description of the Advance Notice Provision and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Advance Notice Provision set out as Article 14.12 of the New Articles.

The Advance Notice Provision provides that advance notice to the Company must be made in circumstances where nominations of persons for election to the Board are made by shareholders of the Company other than pursuant to: (i) a "proposal" made in accordance with Division 7 of the Act; or (ii) a requisition of the shareholders made in accordance with section 167 of the Act.

Among other things, the Advance Notice Provision fixes a deadline by which holders of record of common shares of the Company must submit director nominations to the Secretary of the Company prior to any annual or special meeting of shareholders and sets forth the specific information that a Shareholder must include in the written notice to the Secretary of the Company for an effective nomination to occur. No person nominated by a Shareholder will be eligible for election as a director of the Company, unless nominated in accordance with the provisions of the Advance Notice Provision.

In the case of an annual meeting of shareholders, notice to the Company must be made not less than 30 nor more than 65 days prior to the date of the annual meeting of shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting of shareholders is to be held on a date that is less than 50 days after the date on which the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was made, notice may be made not later than the close of business on the 10th day following such public announcement.

In the case of a special meeting of shareholders (which is not also an annual meeting), notice to the Company must be made not later than the close of business on the 15th day following the day on which the first public announcement of the date of the special meeting was made.

The Board may, in its sole discretion, waive any requirement of the Advance Notice Provision.

At the Meeting, shareholders will be asked to approve a special resolution deleting the existing Articles of the Company in their entirety and replacing them with the new form of Articles. The text of the special resolution to be considered and, if thought fit, approved at the Meeting is as follows:

"BE IT RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION THAT:

• 1. The existing Articles of the Company be deleted in their entirety, and the form of Articles presented to the shareholders at the annual general and special meeting of the Company, be adopted as the Articles of the Company.
• 1. Any one director or officer of the Company be and is hereby authorized to do all things and execute all instruments necessary or desirable to give effect to this special resolution, including without limitation delivering a certified copy of this special resolution to the British Columbia Registrar of Companies.
• 1. Notwithstanding that this special resolution has been duly passed by the shareholders of the Company, the directors of the Company be and are hereby authorized and empowered to revoke this resolution at any time prior to the effective date hereof, and to determine not to proceed with the alteration of the Articles of the Company without further approval of the shareholders of the Company."

Approval of the special resolution will require the affirmative votes of the holders of not less than twothirds of the votes cast at the Meeting in respect thereof. As set out in the text of the special resolution, notwithstanding its approval, the Board of Directors may determine not to proceed with the alteration of the Articles at any time prior to its effective date.

Management of the Company recommends that Shareholders vote in favour of the special resolution altering the Articles of the Company, and the persons named in the enclosed form of proxy intend to vote for the approval of the resolution at the Meeting unless otherwise directed by the Shareholders appointing them.

DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION (For the financial year ended June 30, 2022)

For purposes of this Information Circular, "named executive officer" of the Company means an individual who, at any time during the year, was:

• (a) each individual who, in respect of the Company, during any part of the most recently completed financial year, served as a Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), including an individual performing functions similar to a CEO;
• (b) each individual who, in respect of the Company, during any part of the most recently completed financial year, served as a Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), including an individual performing functions similar to a CFO;
• (c) in respect of the Company and its subsidiaries, the most highly compensated executive officer, other than individuals identified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above at the end of the most recently completed financial year whose total compensation was more than $150,000 for that financial year; and
• (d) each individual who would be a NEO under paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above, but for the fact that the individual was not an executive officer of the Company, and was not acting in a similar capacity, at the end of that financial year;

(each a "Named Executive Officer" or "NEO").

Based on the foregoing definition, during the last completed financial year of the Company, there were two (2) Named Executive Officers, namely, its President and CEO, Ian M. Klassen, and its CFO and Secretary, Michele Pillon.

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

In assessing the compensation of its executive officers, the Company does not have in place any formal objectives, criteria or analysis; instead, it relies mainly on discussions at the Board level.

The Company's executive compensation program has three principal components: base salary, incentive bonus plan, and incentive stock options. The determination and administration of base salaries or incentive bonuses, or both, are discussed in greater detail below. When appropriate to do so, incentive bonuses in the form of cash payments, are designed to add a variable component of compensation, in addition to stock options, based on corporate and individual performances for Named Executive Officers, and may or may not be awarded in any financial year. The Company has no other forms of compensation for its NEOs, although payments may be made from time to time to individuals who are NEOs or companies they control, for the provision of consulting services. Such consulting services are paid for by the Company at competitive industry rates for work of a similar nature by reputable arm's length services providers.

The Company notes that it is in an exploration phase with respect to its properties, has to operate with limited financial resources, and must control costs to ensure that funds are available to complete scheduled exploration programs and otherwise fund its operations. The Board has to consider the current and anticipated financial position of the Company at the time of any compensation determination. The Board has attempted to keep the cash compensation paid to the Company's NEOs relatively modest, while providing long-term incentives through the granting of stock options.

The Company's executive compensation program is administered by the Board of Directors and is designed to provide incentives for the enhancement of shareholder value. The overall objectives are to attract and retain qualified executives critical to the success of the Company, to provide fair and competitive compensation, to align the interest of management with those of the Shareholders and to reward corporate and individual performance. The Company's compensation package has been structured in order to link shareholder return, measured by the change in the share price, with executive compensation through the use of incentive stock options as the primary element of variable compensation for its Named Executive Officers. The Company does not currently offer long-term incentive plans or pension plans to its Named Executive Officers.

The Company bases the compensation for a NEO on the years of service with the Company, responsibilities of each officer and their duties in that position. The Company also bases compensation on the performance of each officer. The Company believes that stock options can create a strong incentive to the performance of each officer and is intended to recognize extra contributions and achievements towards the goals of the Company.

The Board, when determining cash compensation payable to a NEO, takes into consideration their experience in the mining industry, as well as their responsibilities and duties and contributions to the Company's success. Named Executive Officers receive a base cash compensation that the Company feels is in line with that paid by similar companies in North America, subject to the Company's financial resources; however, no formal survey was completed by the Board.

In performing its duties, the Board has considered the implications of risks associated with the Company's compensation policies and practices. At its early stage of development and considering its current compensation policies, the Company has no compensation policies or practices that would encourage an executive officer or other individual to take inappropriate or excessive risks. An NEO or director is permitted for his or her own benefit and at his or her own financial risk, to purchase financial instruments, including, for greater certainty, prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars or units or exchange funds, that are designed to hedge or offset a decrease in the market value of equity securities granted as compensation or held, directly or indirectly, by the NEO or director.

Option-Based Awards

Stock options are granted to provide an incentive to the directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company to achieve the longer-term objectives of the Company; to give suitable recognition to the ability and industry of such persons who contribute materially to the success of the Company; and to attract and retain persons of experience and ability, by providing them with the opportunity to acquire an increased proprietary interest in the Company. The Company awards stock options to its executive officers based upon the recommendation of the Board, which recommendation is based upon the Board's review of a proposal from the CEO. Previous grants of incentive stock options are taken into account when considering new grants.

Implementation of a new incentive stock option plan and amendments to the existing stock option plan are the responsibility of the Company's Board.

Director and Named Executive Officer Compensation

Director and NEO Compensation, excluding Compensation Securities

The following table provides a summary of compensation paid, payable, awarded, granted, given, or otherwise provided, directly or indirectly, by the Company or a subsidiary of the Company to each NEO and director of the Company during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021:

Name and PrincipalPosition	Year	Salary,ConsultingFee, Retainerof Commission($)	Bonus($)	Committeeor MeetingFees($)	Value ofPerquisites($)	Value of allOtherCompensation($)	TotalCompensation($)
Ian M. KlassenPresident, CEO andDirector	20222021	198,000198,000	NilNil	NilNil	NilNil	NilNil	198,000198,000
Alistair MacLennan	2022	72,000	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	72,000
Chairman and Director	2021	72,000	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	72,000
Carl Hale	2022	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Director	2021	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Robert Coltura	2022	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Director	2021	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Michele PillonCFO and CorporateSecretary	20222021	84,00084,000	NilNil	NilNil	NilNil	NilNil	84,00084,000

Table of Compensation Excluding Compensation Securities

Stock Options and Other Compensation Securities

The following table discloses the granting and/or issuance of any compensation securities or stock options to any director and NEO of the Company or any of its subsidiaries during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. During the year, there were no re-pricing of compensation securities under the Stock Option Plan or otherwise. All granted options have standard vesting provisions under the Stock Option Plan (see section below). The footnotes to the table disclose the number of stock options held by the directors and NEOs of the Company and its subsidiaries as at June 30, 2022:

Table of Compensation Securities

Name and Position	Type ofCompensation	Number ofCompensationSecurities, Numberof UnderlyingSecurities, andPercentage ofClass(1)	Date ofIssue orGrant	Issue,Conversionor exercisePrice($)	ClosingPrice ofSecurity orUnderlyingSecurity onDate ofGrant($)	ClosingPrice ofSecurity orUnderlyingSecurity atYear End($)	Expiry Date
Ian M. KlassenPresident, CEO andDirector	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Alistair MacLennanChairman andDirector	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carl HaleDirector	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Robert ColturaDirector	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Michele PillonCFO and CorporateSecretary	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

(1) The numbers under this column represent the number of options and the same number of Common Shares underlying the related options.

No compensation security has been re-priced, cancelled and replaced, had its term extended, or otherwise been materially modified, in the most recently completed financial year.

There are no restrictions or conditions for converting, exercising or exchanging the compensation securities.

Exercise of Compensation Securities by Directors and NEOs

There were no stock options exercised during the year ended June 30, 2022 by directors and Named Executive Officers.

Termination and Change of Control Benefits

The Company has entered into management services agreements with companies owned by each of Ian M. Klassen, the President and CEO, and Michele Pillon, the Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the Company (the "Management Agreements"). The Company may terminate each of the Management Agreements for just cause. In the absence of just cause or the mutual agreement to terminate an agreement, the Company may earlier terminate the agreement with the company owned by Ian M. Klassen only upon providing twelve (12) months advance notice in writing or payment in lieu thereof and in the case of the agreement with the company owned by Michele Pillon, the Company may earlier terminate the agreement only upon providing four (4) months advance notice in writing or payment in lieu thereof. If termination of each of the Management Agreements would have occurred on June 30, 2021 without advance notice in writing, Ian M. Klassen would have received a termination payment of $198,000, and Michele Pillon would have received a termination payment of $42,000.

There are no other management or consulting agreements with any directors or officers of the Company, and no other arrangements for termination or change of control benefits.

EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION

Plan Category	Number of Securities tobe Issued Upon Exerciseof Outstanding Options,Warrants and Rights(a)	Weighted-averageExercise Price ofOutstanding Options,Warrants and Rights(b)	Number of Securities RemainingAvailable for Future IssuanceUnder Equity CompensationPlans (Excluding SecuritiesReflected in Column (a))(c)
Equity compensation plansapproved by securityholders	3,625,000	$0.22	3,459,516
Equity compensation plans notapproved by securityholders	N/A	N/A	4,075,000
TOTAL	3,625,000	$0.22	7,534,516

The following table sets forth certain information pertaining to the Company's equity compensation plan as at the end of the most recently completed financial year:

INDEBTEDNESS OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

None of the directors or senior officers of the Company, no proposed nominee for election as a director of the Company, and no associates or affiliates of any of them, is or has been indebted to the Company or its subsidiaries at any time since the beginning of the Company's last completed financial year.

INTEREST OF INFORMED PERSONS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

No Insider of the Company, no proposed nominee for election as a director of the Company and no associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing, has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction since the commencement of the Company's last financial year or in any proposed transaction, which, in either case, has materially affected or will materially affect the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS OR COMPANIES IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

Other than as set forth herein, management of the Company is not aware of any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter to be acted upon at the Meeting, other than the election of directors or the appointment of auditors, of any person or company who has been: (a) if the solicitation is made by or on behalf of management of the Company, a director or executive officer of the Company at any time since the beginning of the Company's last financial year; (b) if the solicitation is made other than by or on behalf of management of the Company, any person or company by whom or on whose behalf, directly or indirectly, the solicitation is made; (c) any proposed nominee for election as a director of the Company; or (d) any associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons or companies.

MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS

Management functions of the Company and its subsidiaries are substantially performed by the Company's directors and executive officers. The Company has not entered into any contracts, agreements or arrangements with parties other than its directors and executive officers for the provision of such management functions.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

General

The Board believes that good corporate governance improves corporate performance and benefits all shareholders. National Policy 58-201 - Corporate Governance Guidelines provides non-prescriptive guidelines on corporate governance practices for reporting issuers such as the Company. In addition, National Instrument 58-101 - Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices ("NI 58-101") prescribes certain disclosure by the Company of its corporate governance practices. This disclosure is presented below.

Board of Directors

The Board facilitates its exercise of independent supervision over the Company's management through frequent meetings of the Board.

The Board is currently comprised of five (5) directors, four (4) of whom are independent for the purposes of NI 58-101; namely, Robert Coltura, Carl Hale, Alistair MacLennan, and Douglas A. Perkins. Ian M. Klassen is not independent since Mr. Klassen serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

Directorships

Certain of the directors and proposed directors are also directors of other reporting issuers, as follows:

Director	Other Reporting Issuers
Robert Coltura	iMetal Resources Inc.
Ian M. Klassen	eXeBlock Technology CorporationGrande Portage Resources Ltd.XORTX Therapeutics Inc.
Alistair MacLennan	HelijetInternational Inc.Grande Portage Resources Ltd.
Douglas A. Perkins	Grande Portage Resources Ltd.

Orientation and Continuing Education

New Board members receive an orientation package which includes reports on operations and results, and public disclosure filings by the Company. Board meetings are sometimes held at the Company's offices and, from time to time, are combined with presentations by the Company's management to give the directors additional insight into the Company's business. In addition, management of the Company makes itself available for discussion with all Board members.

Ethical Business Conduct

The Board has found that the fiduciary duties placed on individual directors by the Company's governing corporate legislation and the common law and the restrictions placed by applicable corporate legislation on an individual director's participation in decisions of the Board in which the director has an interest have been sufficient to ensure that the Board operates independently of management and in the best interests of the Company.

Nomination of Directors

The Board considers its size each year when it considers the number of directors to recommend to the shareholders for election at the annual meeting of shareholders, taking into account the number required to carry out the Board's duties effectively and to maintain a diversity of view and experience.

The Board does not have a nominating committee, and these functions are currently performed by the Board as a whole. However, if there is a change in the number of directors required by the Company, this policy will be reviewed.

Compensation Governance

The Company does not have a separate Compensation Committee, so the entire Board of Directors comprises the Compensation Committee, and is responsible for, among other things, evaluating the performance of the Company's executive officers, determining or making recommendations with respect to the compensation of the Company's executive officers, making recommendations with respect to director compensation, incentive compensation plans and equity-based plans, making recommendations with respect to the compensation policy for the employees of the Company or its subsidiaries and ensuring that the Company is in compliance with all legal requirements with respect to compensation disclosure. In performing its duties, the Board has the authority to engage such advisors, including executive compensation consultants, as it considers necessary.

The Board is currently composed of Robert Coltura, Carl Hale, Ian M. Klassen, Alistair MacLennan and Douglas A. Perkins, four (4) of whom are independent directors within the meaning set out in NI 58-101. Ian M. Klassen is not independent as he serves as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. All members of the Board are experienced participants in business or finance and have sat on the board of directors of other companies, charities or business associations, in addition to the Board of the Company.

The Board does not have a pre-determined compensation plan. The Company does not engage in benchmarking practices and the process for determining executive compensation is at the discretion of the Board. For further discussion, see "Executive Compensation – Compensation Discussion and Analysis" above.

The Board has not engaged the services of independent compensation consultants to assist it by making recommendations to the Board with respect to director and executive officer compensation.

Other Board Committees

The Board has no other committees, other than the Audit Committee.

Assessments

Due to the minimal size of the Company's Board of directors, no formal policy has been established to monitor the effectiveness of the directors, the Board and its committees.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Under National Instrument 52-110 – Audit Committees ("NI 52-110") reporting issuers are required to provide disclosure with respect to its Audit Committee including the text of the Audit Committee's Charter, composition of the Committee, and the fees paid to the external auditor. The Company provides the following disclosure with respect to its Audit Committee:

Audit Committee Charter

1. Purpose of the Committee

1.1 The purpose of the Audit Committee is to assist the Board in its oversight of the integrity of the Company's financial statements and other relevant public disclosures, the Company's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements relating to financial reporting, the external auditors' qualifications and independence and the performance of the internal audit function and the external auditors.

2. Members of the Audit Committee

• 2.1 At least one member must be "financially literate" as defined under NI 52-110, having sufficient accounting or related financial management expertise to read and understand a set of financial statements, including the related notes, that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of the issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised by the Company's financial statements.
• 2.2 The Audit Committee shall consist of no less than three Directors.
• 2.3 At least one member of the Audit Committee must be "independent" as defined under NI 52-110, while the Company is in the developmental stage of its business.

3. Relationship with External Auditors

• 3.1 The external auditors are the independent representatives of the shareholders, but the external auditors are also accountable to the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee.
• 3.2 The external auditors must be able to complete their audit procedures and reviews with professional independence, free from any undue interference from the management or directors.
• 3.3 The Audit Committee must direct and ensure that the management fully co-operates with the external auditors in the course of carrying out their professional duties.
• 3.4 The Audit Committee will have direct communication access at all times with the external auditors.

4. Non-Audit Services

• 4.1 The external auditors are prohibited from providing any non-audit services to the Company, without the express written consent of the Audit Committee. In determining whether the external auditors will be granted permission to provide non-audit services to the Company, the Audit Committee must consider that the benefits to the Company from the provision of such services, outweighs the risk of any compromise to or loss of the independence of the external auditors in carrying out their auditing mandate.
• 4.2 Notwithstanding section 4.1, the external auditors are prohibited at all times from carrying out any of the following services, while they are appointed the external auditors of the Company:
  • (i) acting as an agent of the Company for the sale of all or substantially all of the undertaking of the Company; and
  • (ii) performing any non-audit consulting work for any director or senior officer of the Company in their personal capacity, but not as a director, officer or insider of any other entity not associated or related to the Company.

5. Appointment of Auditors

• 5.1 The external auditors will be appointed each year by the shareholders of the Company at the annual general meeting of the shareholders.
• 5.2 The Audit Committee will nominate the external auditors for appointment, such nomination to be approved by the Board of Directors.

6. Evaluation of Auditors

6.1 The Audit Committee will review the performance of the external auditors on at least an annual basis and notify the Board and the external auditors in writing of any concerns in regards to the performance of the external auditors, or the accounting or auditing methods, procedures, standards, or principles applied by the external auditors, or any other accounting or auditing issues which come to the attention of the Audit Committee.

7. Remuneration of the Auditors

• 7.1 The remuneration of the external auditors will be determined by the Board of Directors, upon the annual authorization of the shareholders at each general meeting of the shareholders.
• 7.2 The remuneration of the external auditors will be determined based on the time required to complete the audit and preparation of the audited financial statements, and the difficulty of the audit and performance of the standard auditing procedures under generally accepted auditing standards and generally accepted accounting principles of Canada.

8. Termination of the Auditors

8.1 The Audit Committee has the power to terminate the services of the external auditors, with or without the approval of the Board of Directors, acting reasonably.

9. Funding of Auditing and Consulting Services

9.1 Auditing expenses will be funded by the Company. The auditors must not perform any other consulting services for the Company, which could impair or interfere with their role as the independent auditors of the Company.

10. Role and Responsibilities of the Internal Auditor

10.1 At this time, due to the Company's size and limited financial resources, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are responsible for implementing internal controls and performing the role as the internal auditor to ensure that such controls are adequate.

11. Oversight of Internal Controls

11.1 The Audit Committee will have the oversight responsibility for ensuring that the internal controls are implemented and monitored, and that such internal controls are effective.

12. Continuous Disclosure Requirements

12.1 At this time, due to the Company's size and limited financial resources, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are responsible for ensuring that the Company's continuous reporting requirements are met and in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

13. Other Auditing Matters

• 13.1 The Audit Committee may meet with the Auditors independently of the management of the Company at any time, acting reasonably.
• 13.2 The Auditors are authorized and directed to respond to all enquiries from the Audit Committee in a thorough and timely fashion, without reporting these enquiries or actions to the Board of Directors or the management of the Company.

14. Annual Review

14.1 The Audit Committee Charter will be reviewed annually by the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee to assess the adequacy of this Charter.

15. Independent Advisers

15.1 The Audit Committee shall have the power to retain legal, accounting or other advisors to assist the Committee.

Composition of Audit Committee

Following the election of directors pursuant to this Information Circular, the following will be members of the Audit Committee:

Carl Hale	Independent(1)	Financially literate(2)
Ian M. Klassen	Not Independent(1)	Financially literate(2)
Douglas A. Perkins	Independent(1)	Financially literate(2)

(1) A member of an audit committee is independent if the member has no direct or indirect material relationship with the Company, which could, in the view of the Board of Directors, reasonably interfere with the exercise of a member's independent judgment.

Relevant Education and Experience

The relevant education and/or experience of each member of the Audit Committee is as follows:

Carl Hale, Director

Mr. Hale spent several years as a mine geologist at the Cannon Mine, a large gold mine in Wenatchee, Washington, as a geologist at the Sunshine silver mine in Idaho, managed a copper exploration project at Bornite, Alaska for three years for Kennecott and served as a geologist on a gold exploration project in Myanmar. Mr. Hale serves as the exploration manager on the Herbert Gold Project in southeast Alaska.

Ian M. Klassen, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Klassen has served as the President and CEO of the Company since 2009. Mr. Klassen also serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Grande Portage Resources Ltd., and director of XORTX Therapeutics Inc. Mr. Klassen has a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario (1989) and has been actively involved in financing and management of both private and public companies since 1996.

(2) An individual is financially literate if he has the ability to read and understand a set of financial statements that present a breadth of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of the issues that can reasonably be expected to be raised by the Company's financial statements.

Douglas A. Perkins, Director

Mr. Perkins graduated with a degree in Geology in 1979 from University of British Columbia and has been involved in mineral exploration for over 40 years.

Audit Committee Oversight

At no time since the commencement of the Company's most recently completed financial year was a recommendation of the Audit Committee to nominate or compensate an external auditor not adopted by the Board of Directors.

Reliance on Certain Exemptions

At no time since the commencement of the Company's most recently completed financial year has the Company relied on the exemption in Section 2.4 of NI 52-110 (De Minimis Non-Audit Services), or an exemption from NI 52-110, in whole or in part, granted under Part 8 of National Instrument 52-110.

Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

The Audit Committee is authorized by the Board of Directors to review the performance of the Company's external auditors and approve in advance provision of services other than auditing and to consider the independence of the external auditors, including a review of the range of services provided in the context of all consulting services bought by the Company. The Audit Committee is authorized to approve in writing any non-audit services or additional work which the Chairman of the Audit Committee deems is necessary, and the Chairman will notify the other members of the Audit Committee of such non-audit or additional work and the reasons for such non-audit work for the Committee's consideration, and if thought fit, approval in writing.

External Auditor Service Fees

The fees billed by the Company's external auditors in each of the last two financial years for audit and nonaudit related services provided to the Company or its subsidiaries (if any) are as follows:

Financial Year EndingJune 30	Audit Fees($)	Audit Related Fees($)	Tax Fees($)	All Other Fees($)
2022	42,000	Nil	4,000 (est.)	Nil
2021	35,000	Nil	3,000	Nil

Exemption

As a TSX Venture Exchange listed issuer, the Company is exempt from the requirements of Part 3 Composition of the Audit Committee and Part 5 Reporting Obligations of NI 52-110.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Financial information is provided in the Company's audited annual financial statements and accompanying management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A") for the year ended June 30, 2022.

Under National Instrument 51-102, Continuous Disclosure Obligations, any person or company who wishes to receive financial statements from the Company may deliver a written request for such material to the Company or the Company's agent, together with a signed statement that the persons or company is the owner of securities of the Company. Shareholders who wish to receive financial statements are encouraged to send the enclosed mail card, together with the completed form of proxy, in the addressed envelope provided, to the Company's registrar and transfer agent, Olympia Trust Company, 1003 - 750 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6C 2T8. The Company will maintain a supplemental mailing list of persons or companies wishing to receive financial statements.

Shareholders may obtain copies of the Company's financial statements and related MD&A by contacting the Company at Suite 280 – 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia or by telephone at (604) 987-8386. Additional information relating to the Company is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

GENERAL

Unless otherwise specified, all matters referred to herein for approval by the Shareholders require a simple majority of the Shareholders voting, in person or by proxy, at the Meeting. Where information contained in this Information Circular, rests specifically within the knowledge of a person other than the Company, the Company has relied upon information furnished by such person.

The contents of this Information Circular have been approved and this mailing has been authorized by the Directors of the Company.

DATED as of the 30th day of December, 2022.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF GMV MINERALS INC.

"Ian M. Klassen"

Ian M. Klassen President and Chief Executive Officer