Mr. Pierre Gagnon reports

THE MINT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THEIR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Mint Corp. has released the results of the vote by shareholders at its annual general meeting held on Sept. 4, 2014, in Toronto, Ont.

Results of annual general meeting

Each of the director nominees proposed by management for election was elected to the board of directors. Pierre G. Gagnon, Neil Gilday, Vishy Karamadam, Ashish Kapoor and Samuel Webster were elected to the board of directors, and Graeme Johnson is new to the board.

At the meeting, shareholders also approved the following resolutions:

• To set the number of directors to be elected to the board of directors at six;
• Reappointment of MNP LLP as auditor for the ensuing year and authorizing the directors to fix its remuneration;
• Approval of the company's stock option plan;
• Approval for the advance-notice bylaw No. 3, as set out in the management information circular as filed on SEDAR.

Randy Koroll did not stand for re-election to the board in order to pursue other business interests. The company wishes to kindly thank Mr. Koroll for his contributions and dedicated service.

Pierre Gagnon, chairman of the board, is pleased to welcome Mr. Johnson to the board and believes that his skills and background will provide significant value to Mint, both in terms of enhancing corporate governance as well as providing strategic leadership for Mint.

Mr. Johnson is president of Granite & Pine Investments, a private investment company, and acts as investor and adviser with regard to substantial private equity assets, in particular those of a scarce or particularly strategic nature. Mr. Johnson is also a pro bono member of the board of directors of the Quebec City Conference as well as co-president of its Global Investment Forum, bringing together investors from sovereign wealth, pension and endowment funds, as well as leading single-family offices. He is also founder and a director of Abu Dhabi Earth Observation Systems Ltd., a private company based in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates that was founded by Mr. Johnson to provide governments and corporates throughout the Arab-speaking world with exclusive access to cutting-edge earth observation data.

Mr. Johnson began his career at KPMG in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall before leaving to attend Harvard Business School. Moving to Patagonia after HBS, he ran the treasury and strategic financial operations for Argentina's third-largest export group. Subsequent to this corporate financial leadership role he moved into professional investing and spent more than 10 years in institutional private equity through until 2009. Notably, at 32 years of age, Mr. Johnson was managing director, head of Europe, in the private equity funds group at Deutsche Bank Group in London. Whilst at Deutsche, he served on the global private equity investment committee for the bank and was responsible for private equity investing and financing in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Johnson also worked in a similar capacity for other private equity fund investment houses and, prior to his recruitment to Deutsche, was a member of the management committee at LGT Capital Partners, belonging to the family office for the Princely family of Lichtenstein. He has closed on over $2-billion of financing commitments from institutional investors and participated directly in a similar amount of investments in companies and funds. He has served on the advisory committees of numerous leading private equity funds from around the world.

Acting as a principal investor, Mr. Johnson has also been chief executive officer of a publicly listed oil company, trading on the senior exchange in Canada, with oil and gas deposits under development in Kazakhstan.

Mr. Johnson earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School; a BA, scholars electives, from the University of Western Ontario; and holds the CFA designation. He has worked and lived on five continents, has business fluency in four languages, and is a member of the Travellers Century Club (for travel to 100-plus countries).