Ascendant Resources Inc. announced that Dr. Sergio Gelcich, PGEO, has joined as Vice President of Exploration replacing Mr.Robert (Andy) Campbell, who is retiring from day-to-day operations. Mr. Campbell will remain a Director of the company. Dr. Gelcich is a senior exploration geologist whose career spans over 20 years in a broad range of jurisdictions and geological environments. Prior to joining Ascendant, Dr. Gelcich served as the Exploration Director at Hudbay Minerals where he was in charge of global exploration with special emphasis on technical geological aspects. Sergio formed and guided a highly skilled geoscientific team that dealt with green to brown field exploration contributing also to the geological understanding of Hudbay's operations, notably in VMS (Flin Flon/Snow Lake world class belt) and Porphyry/Skarn/Epithermal environments (Nevada, Arizona and Peru) Dr. Gelcich started his career as a project Geologist in the Geological Survey of Chile and after completing his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2006 moved into the exploration/mining sector through a number of positions in Toronto based junior and mid-tier mining companies.