Sprott Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Graham Birch to the Company’s board of directors, effective immediately. Dr. Birch started his career in 1984 as a mining equity analyst working with Panmure Gordon, Kleinwort Benson Securities and Ord Minnett. In 1993, he joined Mercury Asset Management as a portfolio manager in the mining and gold sectors. Mercury Asset Management was subsequently taken over by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and then BlackRock. In 1999, Dr. Birch was promoted to Managing Director and Head of the Natural Resources Investment Team at BlackRock in London, a position he held until 2010. He is currently a non-executive director of Hochschild Mining, a mid-tier silver and gold mining company. Until 2018, Dr. Birch was a non-executive director of ETF Securities. Dr. Birch has a PhD in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.