Norsemont Mining Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Nikolas Perrault to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Perrault is a Corporate Finance executive who, over the last 32 years, has built an international network of strategic relationships and has raised directly and indirectly hundreds of millions of dollars for public as well as private companies. He has considerable experience in securities trading, going-public transactions, capital markets, spin-offs, mergers, and acquisitions (M&A) and other matters related to those fields.

Mr. Perrault is currently CEO of Twilight Capital, which he founded in 2008. Previously, Mr. Perrault served as an investment executive with some of Canada's largest institutions. This includes National Bank, Merrill-Lynch, CIBC, and Scotia Capital.

Mr. Perrault graduated from Concordia University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997. Kyle Haddow has resigned from the Board of Directors.