Agnico Eagle Mines Names Ammar Al-Joundi President

(RTTNews) - Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM, AEM.TO) announced that Ammar Al-Joundi will be joining the Company as President, effective April 6, 2015. Al-Joundi was most recently Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice-President of Barrick Gold Corporation (from July 2012 to February 2015) and prior to that was Chief Financial Officer of Agnico Eagle (from September 2010 to June 2012).

Prior to joining Agnico Eagle in 2010, he spent 11 years at Barrick in various senior financial roles including Senior Vice-President of Finance, Senior Vice-President of Business Strategy and Capital Allocation, and two years as Executive Director and CFO of Barrick South America. Al-Joundi will report to CEO Sean Boyd

With the Appointment of Al-Joundi as President, Mr. Sean Boyd's title will change to Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Dominique Girard has been appointed Vice-President Technical Services and Nunavut Operations.

Nancy Guay has been appointed Senior Corporate Director, Technical Services, reporting to Dominique.

Michael Timmins has been promoted to Vice-President, Corporate Development. Michael has been with Agnico Eagle since May 2006 and his role has evolved and grown significantly over the years.

Carol Plummer has been appointed Vice-President, Project Development, USA & Latin America.

Carol's role will be to assemble a solid project development team and lead our expansion efforts for the Southern Business Unit. Carol will report to Tim Haldane, Senior Vice-President Operations, USA & Latin America.

Michel Julien has been appointed Vice-President Environment. Michel has been Corporate Director of Environment with Agnico since 2011. Prior to that, he had over 20 years of experience working in the geotechnical field and on mining, environmental and geotechnical issues with Golder and Associates.