MAX Power appoints Tony Van Burgsteden to board of directors

MAX Power Mining Corp. (CSE: MAXX; OTC: MAXXF; FSE: 89N) announced voting results from its annual general and special meeting of shareholders held April 17, 2026, including the appointment of Tony Van Burgsteden to the company's board of directors.

Shareholders representing approximately 24.8% of the company's outstanding common shares voted on several resolutions. They approved reappointing D&H Group LLP as auditors, setting the board at six directors, and implementing a shareholder rights plan.

The six elected directors include Ran Narayanasamy, Neil McMillan, Tom Kishchuk, Rob Norris, Phung Khac Hoan, and Van Burgsteden. Narayanasamy was also named vice chairman of the board.

Van Burgsteden brings several decades of financial and operations experience in energy, mining, agriculture, and retail sectors. He served as chief financial officer for three years at Orano Canada, a uranium mining company, followed by over eight years as CFO of Federated Co-operatives Ltd., one of Canada's largest co-operatives with annual sales exceeding $10 billion.

He currently serves on the boards of Saskatchewan Blue Cross and the Canadian Light Source. Van Burgsteden is a CPA and CFA and completed the Institute for Corporate Directors program.

The company also granted 200,000 stock options exercisable at $1.38 for five years and 200,000 restricted stock units to a director, in accordance with its current stock option plan.

MAX Power focuses on natural hydrogen exploration in Saskatchewan, where it holds approximately 1.3 million acres of permits with an additional 5.7 million acres under application. The company also maintains critical mineral properties in the United States and Canada.

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