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Mr. Ainsworth is an accomplished professional geologist and mining executive that has been awarded for two significant mineral discoveries and has raised more than $300M in equity and convertible debt throughout his career.

Prior to joining District Metals Corp., Mr. Ainsworth was Vice President Exploration & Development at NexGen Energy Ltd. where he led the technical team and was involved with marketing and raising capital. For his technical work at NexGen, Mr. Ainsworth was co-recipient of the 2018 PDAC Bill Dennis Award, and the 2016 Mines and Money Exploration Award. Prior to NexGen, Mr. Ainsworth was the Vice President Exploration at Alpha Minerals Inc., and project managed the discovery of the Patterson Lake South high-grade uranium boulder field and drill discovery of the Triple R Uranium deposit. Mr. Ainsworth was named co-recipient of the AMEBC Colin Spence Award in 2013 for his lead role in the discovery of Triple R.

Mr. Ainsworth is currently the Chairman of Kraken Energy Corp., and a Technical Advisor of Aero Energy Ltd. and Summa Silver Corp. He was previously a Director of Standard Uranium Ltd. from 2018 to 2021, as well as a Director of IsoEnergy Ltd. and NxGold Ltd. from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Ainsworth is an Institute of Corporate Directors, Director (ICD.D), and a Professional Geoscientist (PGeo) in the Province of British Columbia. He also holds a Diploma of Technology in Mining and Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Engineering with honours from BCIT, and a Bachelor of Science in Geology with first class honours from Birkbeck, University of London.