Ms. Liu-Ernsting is an accomplished executive and professional engineer with 20 years of experience in the natural resources industry. She was previously Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications of TSX Venture 50™ and OTCQX Best 50 company, G Mining Ventures Corp. (TSX:GMIN) where she was part of the leadership team responsible for a share price increase of 600%, taking the market capitalisation to C$4.7B.


Ms. Liu-Ernsting was responsible for establishing and delivering GMIN’s inaugural investor relations program to increase investor awareness and engagement. She was involved in GMIN securing the US$481M Tocantinzinho project construction financing package consisting of gold stream, equity, debt and equipment financing in the tough market environment of 2022, and GMIN’s shareholder approved C$875M merger with Reunion Gold in 2024.


Prior to joining GMIN, Ms. Liu-Ernsting led a junior mining company as its inaugural VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations to achieve 14x share price accretion and raised $33M over that company’s first 12 months during the COVID-19 crisis. Before that, she guided a public mining company to achieve settlement on a disputed proxy. Previously, as investment manager at Resource Capital Funds, Ms. Liu-Ernsting sourced, evaluated, structured and managed a portfolio of natural resources investments. Ms. Liu-Ernsting started her career with two of the preeminent Canadian engineering firms conducting backfill, mine, mill and mining innovation capital projects.


She is currently a director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and is a 2021 CIM Bedford Canadian Mining Young Leader Award recipient and holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business with specializations in Mining, Finance and Strategy, and an Electrical Engineering degree from Queen’s University.


Jessie first joined FireFly in March 2024 as Non-Executive Director before transitioning to Chief Corporate Development Officer in May 2025.