Ms. Schroeder has served as a director of Dakota Gold since August 2022 and serves on or has served on numerous public and private company boards. She also currently serves on two additional U.S. public company boards: Stellantis N.V. (April 2025 present)(NYSE: STLA) and HSBC N.A. Holdings (October 2021 present)(NYSE: HSBC). She has served on or chaired audit, compensation, nominating/ governance, and sustainability committees on several boards. She began her career as a CPA at Ernst & Young and spent nearly two decades on Wall Street as an analyst and banker and as a managing director at several firms, principally Morgan Stanley. Ms. Schroeder holds both a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Our Board of Directors believes Ms. Schroeder s experience and skills developed as a director for numerous publicly traded companies provide her with the appropriate background in matters related to finance and risk assessment and make her well-qualified to serve as a director of the Company.