Darrell Beaulieu

Board Director/ President & CEO, FNMPC/ Denendeh Investments Incorporated (DII)

Darrell Beaulieu was appointed President and CEO of Denendeh Investments  Incorporated (DII) and Denendeh group of companies in October 2005. DII is the General  Partner of Denendeh Investments Limited Partnership (DILP) which holds investments on  behalf of all the NWT Dene First Nations in Mineral Exploration, Communications  Infrastructure Logistics, Power Generation and Supply, Food Supply and Real Estate. He  also serves as President and CEO of Denendeh Development Corporation, a not-for-profit  corporation whose members are the 27 Chiefs of the Dene Nation. DDC owns 50% of  the NWT Metis Dene Development Fund, which provides developmental lending to NWT  businesses.

Mr. Beaulieu served one term as Councillor and three terms as Chief of the Yellowknives  Dene First Nation. He is a founder and past President of De’ton Cho Corporation from  1990 to 2000 and served as CEO from 1997 to 2002. He was also President and Director  of Denendeh Development Corporation from 1995-1997 and served on the Boards of  Northland Utilities Enterprises Ltd., Northland Utilities (NWT) Limited and Northland  Utilities (Yellowknife) Limited from 1995-1998, and was reappointed to those boards again  in 2006. He is a founding Director and served as President of De’ton Cho Diamonds Inc.  from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Beaulieu was Co-Chair of the Mine Training Committee from 1996- 2004. He also served on the NWT-Nunavut Chamber of Mines from 1998-2001 and was  re-appointed in 2015.

From 2005 to 2019, Mr. Beaulieu served as a Director and Chair of the Northwest  Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation (BDIC). Since 1998, he  has served as Chair of the Akaitcho Business Development Corporation, and from 2003  to 2019, was a Director of the NWT Law Foundation.

In 2015, he was appointed as a Director of Indspire (formerly known as the National  Aboriginal Achievement Foundation), elected as a Director to the Canadian Council of  Aboriginal Business and appointed to the Northwest Territories Mining Industry Advisory  Board. Since June 2017, he is a member of the External Advisory Committee for the

University of Calgary, School of Public Policy and also the Canadian Northern Corridor  (CNC) program, a multi-year research and outreach program run by the University of  Calgary, School of Public Policy. In 2019, Mr. Beaulieu was appointed as the  Spokesperson of the NWT Indigenous Leaders Economic Coalition, and Chair of its

Investors Committee. He represents the Coalition on the GNWT Business Advisory  Council. In 2021, he was asked to serve on Northwestel’s Community Advisor Board and  on ATCO’s Indigenous Relations Advisory Committee. Mr. Beaulieu is the recipient of  the 2016 Skookum Jim Award from the Prospectors and Developers Association of  Canada (PDAC), for exceptional Aboriginal achievement in the Mineral Industry.

Prior to 1988, Mr. Beaulieu was employed/self-employed in various aspects of mineral  exploration in the NWT. He was born and raised in Ndilo (Yellowknife) where he resides  with his wife, Cecilie Beaulieu. They have four sons, a daughter, a grandson and three  granddaughters.