Board Appointment

Highlander Silver Adds Law Scholar Poonam Puri to Board

Toronto – October 12, 2026 -- Highlander Silver Corp. (TSX, NYSE American: HSLV) has appointed Poonam Puri as an independent director, effective immediately.

Puri brings tenured law and governance credentials from Osgoode Hall

Puri is a tenured Professor of Law and Research Chair in Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. She is also a corporate lawyer and Affiliated Scholar at Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg, LLP. Her specialties are corporate law, corporate governance and capital markets regulation.

She is a member of the Order of Ontario. Her honors include the Institute of Corporate Directors Fellowship Award, the Ontario Law Society Medal and the Royal Society of Canada's Yvan Allaire Medal. She graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School.