Mr. Mark Jarvis reports

GIGA METALS ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF MS. JULIET HEADING AS CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Juliet Heading joined Giga Metals Corp. as corporate communications manager, effective May 15, 2018.

Ms. Heading was educated at the University of Aberdeen and Napier University, Scotland, and her previous employment includes Lehman Brothers Europe, Nomura International PLC and most recently Teck Resources Ltd.

"We are very pleased to add Juliet's capital markets and communications experience to Giga Metals," said Mr. Jarvis. "This, combined with her energy and professionalism, will help us move the Turnagain project forward."

"I am very happy to be joining the Giga team," said Ms. Heading. "The battery materials space is the right place to be as adoption of electric vehicles is growing so rapidly, and the Turnagain project has such scale that the next few years should prove extremely exciting for this company."

Pursuant to the company's stock option plan, 150,000 options will be granted to Ms. Heading with a strike price of 60 cents and a term of five years, subject to certain vesting provisions and to TSX Venture Exchange approval.