Altai Mourns the Passing of Chairman and President Niyazi Kacira, and Announces Election of the Board of Directors, Appointment of New Chairman and President, and Stock Option Grants
October 22 2024 - 6:43PM
Altai Resources Inc. (ATI, TSX VENTURE; US SEC Rule
12g3-2(b) File # 82-2950) (“Altai” or the “Company”)
announces with great sadness the passing of its Chairman and
President, Dr. Niyazi Kacira following a short illness. We extend
our deepest sympathies to his family.
The Board and the Altai family will greatly miss
his extraordinary passion and devotion to the Company, thoughtful
leadership and ability to connect with people. He was a person of
great integrity and unparalleled reputation.
Dr. Kacira took over the helm of the dormant
Black Cliff Mines Ltd. (later changed the name to Altai Resources
Inc) in 1987, revived it and listed it on the Toronto Stock
Exchange. Since 1987, he served as President (except for a short
period of time) and Chairman until his passing. He has made an
invaluable and immeasurable contribution in nurturing, building and
growing Altai with his tremendous geological expertise and
foresight and always with the best interest of the Company in mind
and in action, and has set the highest standard of integrity for
the Company.
At its annual general meeting of the
shareholders held on October 21, 2024 (the “Meeting”) in Toronto,
Jeffrey S. Ackert, Maria Au and Eric Yao as described in the
Management Information Circular of the Meeting, were elected as
Directors of the Company. Due to his passing, Dr. Kacira was not
nominated as director in the Meeting. In the Meeting, Kursat
Kacira, who has advised that he is willing and able to serve as a
Director of Altai if elected, was nominated as permitted in
accordance with the Company’s Advance Notice By-laws and was duly
elected as a Director of the Company.
Mr. Kursat Kacira, a resident of Ontario,
Canada, is an accomplished finance and investment executive with
over 25 years of global experience in investment management, real
estate, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, and
public accounting. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant
(Ontario), has a Master of Business Administration (Dean’s
Scholarship) from the Stern School of Business at New York
University, and a Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) from the
University of Waterloo.
He is currently the President of Kacira Holdings
Ltd., a private family office investment company. Previously, he
served as Managing Director, Head of Global Capital Markets in the
Private Markets group at Manulife Investment Management, the Global
Wealth & Asset Management division of Manulife Financial
Corporation. Prior to joining Manulife, he was the CEO and a
director of Firm Capital American Realty Partners Corp., a publicly
traded real estate company focused on investing in multi-family
residential real estate in the United States. He has also
previously been the CEO (and Board Trustee) of Maplewood
International REIT (a publicly traded REIT focused on investing in
commercial real estate in Europe); CFO of NorthWest International
Healthcare Properties REIT (a publicly traded REIT focused on
investing in healthcare real estate in Europe, South America, and
Australasia); CFO of Whiterock REIT, a publicly traded REIT focused
on investing in commercial real estate in Canada and the United
States, where he was responsible for the ultimate sale of Whiterock
to publicly traded Dundee REIT in 2012, for an enterprise value of
$1.4 billion (at the time, the 3rd largest Canadian commercial real
estate M&A transaction since 2006). Prior to the above, he had
been Vice President & Director in the Real Estate Group,
Investment Banking at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, in
investment banking with Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York,
US and in public accounting in Canada and Europe (Price Waterhouse
in Toronto and Paris). Through his investment banking career in
Canada and the United States, he was responsible for completing
over $10 billion of capital raising (equity and debt) and M&A
transactions for companies across numerous industries, primarily in
the real estate sector.
Mr. Harold Tan, a director of the Company since
2023, did not stand for renomination as a director in this Meeting,
for personal reasons. Altai sincerely thanks him for his
contributions to the Company during his directorship and wishes him
well in all his future ventures.
In the Meeting, CAN Partners LLP, Chartered
Professional Accountants were appointed as Auditors of the
Company.
On October 21, 2024 and after the Meeting, the
Board appointed Kursat Kacira as the Chairman and President of the
Company.
On October 21, 2024, the Company granted to each
of the two new directors and a new officer, a stock option of
200,000 shares to purchase common shares of the Company at an
exercise price of $0.10 per share and expiring October 19,
2029.
ABOUT ALTAIAltai Resources Inc.
is a resource company with a producing oil property in Alberta and
an exploration gold property in Quebec.
For further information, please
contactMaria Au, Secretary-TreasurerTel: (416)
383-1328 Fax: (416) 383-1686Email: info@altairesources.com
Internet: http://www.altairesources.com
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