Alison White
CFO
Alison White is the Chief Financial Officer at Discovery, bringing over 20 years of executive finance leadership across diverse industries including mining, technology, and industrial manufacturing. As a seasoned finance executive, she has a track record of building teams that specialize in strategic business transformation, capital markets, treasury management, and regulatory compliance at large, global public companies. Before joining Discovery, Alison served as CFO and Executive Vice President at a NASDAQ & TSX traded precious metals mining company for three years, where she led comprehensive transformation initiatives across finance, accounting, treasury, tax, IT, cybersecurity, internal audit and enterprise risk management functions. She previously held various executive roles at Newmont Corporation, including serving as the CFO of the North American region that formed the Nevada Gold Mines Joint Venture and as the Newmont Assistant Treasurer.
Her early career foundation was built at leading organizations and included working at and servicing Fortune 500 companies through her time at KPMG and EY, where she developed comprehensive expertise in financial best practices and organizational processes. Throughout her career, Alison has demonstrated her ability to successfully lead teams through complex business transformations while maintaining focus on stakeholder value creation.
Alison holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and a Bachelors with a concentration in Finance from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a Certified Public Accountant.