Jaeger Resources Corp. (Jaeger) announced that Mr. Bruce W. Downing, M.Sc., P. Geo., FGC and FEC (hon) has been appointed as CEO of Jaeger, and Peter Gommerud has resigned as CEO of Jaeger. Mr. Gommerud will be staying on as a Director of Jaeger.

Mr. Downing was elected as a director of Jaeger at the Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders held June 27, 2018. Mr. Downing has over 30 years of experience as a senior geologist working for several corporations and as a consultant on surface and underground gold and base metal exploration and production projects in British Columbia and around the world. His early experience centered on exploration but since 1989 his career hasexpanded into mining, the environment and technology.

Mr. Downing has been involved in the exploration and pre-production of an open pit and underground massive copper sulphide deposit (British Columbia); wrote reclamation and closure plan for an open pit copper -- gold mine (British Columbia): was involved in acid rock drainage studies for the feasibility studies for a massive nickel sulphide deposit (Newfoundland) and copper porphyry deposit in Panama; and worked at a nickel laterite mine in the Dominican Republic.