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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Revel + NovuHealth today announced the launch of its new name and brand, Icario^™ (“ih-car-ee-oh”). The new brand represents the combined business of two market leaders that merged in October 2020. Icario creates value by uniting pioneering technology, data science and behavioral insights to make the world a healthier place, one person at a time. Icario’s technology and services currently support more than 50 leading healthcare payers, including seven of the ten largest health plans in the United States.

“We chose the Icario name and brand to represent a successful, growing business that deeply understands people and is focused on making healthcare more human through personalized communication,” said Steve Wigginton, CEO of Icario. “Bringing Revel and NovuHealth together under one brand has allowed us to accelerate new product development to solve healthcare problems quickly in a highly interconnected way. There has never been a more important time to improve people’s health, and the Icario team is driven to achieve the highest health outcomes on behalf of our customers through an ever-expanding suite of capabilities.”

Icario currently helps more than 10 million health plan members per month take health actions that drive better outcomes. Icario’s expanded data analytics, adaptive multi-channel platform, and behavioral insights allow health plan customers to connect with their members in a highly personalized way. Icario’s deep expertise in Medicare and Medicaid — supporting critical quality, satisfaction and outcome measures that drive plan performance — enables the company to partner with innovative health plans and risk-bearing entities to accelerate innovation and growth.

Check out the new Icario website and brand design here: www.icariohealth.com.

About Icario

Icario is the leading health action company focused on connecting people to health. Icario uses pioneering behavioral research, data science and our adaptive multi-channel platform to deliver personalization at scale for the most trusted healthcare organizations in all 50 states, including seven of the 10 largest health plans. Learn more at www.icariohealth.com.

Media Contact:


Sandi Scott
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Company Adds Client Success and Customer Experience Innovator, Continues to Invest in Senior Talent to Support its Customer Success Obsessed Mission

EXETER, R.I., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Carousel Industries, a leader in communication and network technologies, professional and managed services, security and cloud solutions, today announced Juan Gonzalez has joined the company in the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Gonzalez, an accomplished client success and customer experience executive, will be responsible for driving Carousel’s overall management strategy to deepen and expand relationships with clients.

At Carousel, Gonzalez will oversee all cross-functional client experience teams, including the Service Delivery Management (SDM) and Customer Success Management (CSM) teams. In this capacity, Gonzalez will ensure that Carousel is empowered to drive innovation in its stewardship of technical account management through SDMs and the actualization of value through growth, renewal, and adoption through the CSMs. This broader Customer Success Organization will prioritize making investments in growing Carousel’s services business by increasing recurring revenue streams, developing go-to-market strategies to define valuable new offerings and expand accounts via the company’s new and enhanced cloud, security, and services offerings.

“As we continue to prioritize long-term client relationships and ensuring that every client is maximizing its technology investments, Juan Gonzalez will play a pivotal role at Carousel,” said Steven De Maayer, Chief Services Officer, Carousel Industries. “Juan’s accomplishments in leading client services, managing organizational change, and building engaged communities have been widely praised by international institutions, companies, and organizations. We are fortunate to be able to add him to our team.”

Gonzalez brings to Carousel more than 15 years of advanced customer experience, technology, and consulting with B2B technology firms. Most recently he was Vice President of Customer Success for CRMNEXT, a leading customer engagement platform. In this role, he oversaw value delivery, adoption, account management, and business partnerships for a global multinational’s initial entry into North America. Prior, Gonzalez served as Vice President of Customer Success for Ipswitch, a leading technology innovator in network and data security, where he oversaw cross-functional client experience across the account management, channel and partnership strategy, support, services, and product innovation roadmap.

“Juan’s appointment as SVP of Customer Success is yet another critical investment in our pledge to be a Customer Success Obsessed organization. We are fanatical about creating true and measurable value for our clients all along the customer journey. It is not a nice to have, but an absolute must have,” said Jim Marsh, Chief Revenue Officer, Carousel Industries. “When you keenly focus first and foremost on each customer’s unique business levers and the outcomes they are aiming to achieve, your lens for defining and measuring success is at the center of everything you do for the customer. We will continue to prioritize making investments in growing Carousel’s services business by increasing recurring revenue streams and defining valuable new offers across cloud, security, and our portfolio of services offerings.”

Previously, Gonzalez built a reputation of high-performance organizational transformation at CRM provider Bullhorn, where he helped establish an Enterprise Customer Success organization that drove a nearly ten percent annual increase in revenue retention.

“I was drawn to Carousel to help it continue to further expand its ‘Customer Success Obsessed’ vision and join the mission to bring extreme technology value to customers across customer service, remote workforce collaboration, cloud migration, vendor management, and cybersecurity,” said Gonzalez. “I look forward to helping the talented and dedicated SDM, CSM, and other teams continue to help customers navigate increased uncertainty, increasingly common remote work environments and intensified competitive pressures.”

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Juan holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Government and is a subject matter expert in game theory and grand strategy. He also enjoys playing the piano, creative writing, and speaking passionately to trade and industry groups on customer engagement, digital transformation, and community building.

About Carousel Industries

Blending customer advisory, customer support, and customer experience, Carousel’s supercharged Customer Success Obsessed mission goes beyond any one IT function. Rather, it’s a mindset, a mantra, and a company-wide drive to bring extreme technology value to Carousel customers—so they can bring value to theirs.

With deep expertise across a vast portfolio of technologies, including security, unified communications and collaboration, data center, networking, managed services, and cloud solutions, Carousel can design, implement, and support solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of each customer. By offering professional and managed services with flexible deployments in the cloud, Carousel ensures customers achieve agility and use technologies in the way most effective for their business.

A legion of 1,300, the Carousel team has been committed to the art of customer success for its more than 6,000 highly satisfied customers since 1992. The company has been recognized by multiple publications and industry consortiums as a top technology integrator and managed services and cloud solution provider—including the Inc. 500/5000, Healthcare Informatics 100, and CRN MSP Elite 150. Headquartered in Exeter, RI, the company has offices across the United States and internationally—with three Network Operations Centers.

 

Contact:
Shauna Hassett
Carousel Industries
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Portland, Ore., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Exterro Inc., the preferred provider of Legal GRC software specifically designed for law enforcement and in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw 200 organizations, and the Association of Corporate Counsel exclusive Alliance Partner for Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Compliance and E-Discovery, announced today that the company’s breakthrough Gateway Coordinator Technology has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

“This is a truly unique and incredible technology that has really powered Exterro’s industry-leading data collection capabilities,” said company Founder and CEO Bobby Balachandran. “We are looking forward to further integrating this technology with the digital forensics capabilities we obtained in our recent acquisition of AccessData, and we’ll continue to innovate on this critical capability to make our Legal Governance, Risk and Compliance platform even more comprehensive and compelling.”

Exterro’s now-patented Gateway Coordinator helps facilitate processing and filtering of collected data to significantly reduce the amount of data leaving an organization’s security firewalls during collection which helps reduce risk, reduce bandwidth usage, and lower storage requirements. Such transferred data can then be analyzed and/or reviewed in conjunction with the data collection across an ever-growing wide spectrum of legacy and cloud data sources through Exterro’s Integration Hub.

“Exterro’s Gateway Coordinator is built with a highly-efficient framework, since processing and collection of multiple on-premises and cloud data sources can progress in parallel,” said Exterro’s Chief Technology Officer Shashi Angadi. “The added bonus is that there is minimal overhead for the IT department, since deployment of the software is utilized via a Docker container.”

Exterro Gateway Coordinator helps organizational data management capabilities in the following ways:

• Significantly reduces the scope of data that must leave the walls of the organization, helping to reduce risk
• Deduplicates data to ensure that only one instance of a file is transferred to the cloud and stored—even if it’s responsive in multiple matters or cases
• Increases collection speeds by applying those deduplication protocols to any new data sent to the cloud

Read more about Exterro’s E-Discovery Data Management here.

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About Exterro

Exterro was founded with the simple vision that applying the concepts of process optimization and data science to how companies manage digital information and respond to litigation would drive more successful outcomes at a lower cost. We remain committed to this vision today as we deliver a fully integrated Legal GRC platform that enables our clients to address their privacy, regulatory, compliance, digital forensics and litigation risks more effectively and at lower costs. With software solutions that span privacy, legal operations, compliance, cybersecurity, law enforcement and information governance, Exterro helps some of the world’s largest enterprises and government agencies work smarter, more efficiently, and do greater good for all. For more information, visit exterro.com.

Ron J. Rambo Jr.
Marketing Content & Communications Manager
Exterro, Inc.
[email protected]
(503) 501-5104

 

With Progress Sitefinity Cloud, Ireland’s leading brokerage
quadrupled its account openings through customer-centric digital transformation efforts

BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact business applications, today announced that Goodbody, one of the largest wealth management firms in Ireland, implemented Progress® Sitefinity® Cloud content management system to improve customer engagement with tailored experiences that empower its broader digital transformation efforts.

Voted Ireland’s leading brokerage, trust, integrity and expert advice have been the foundations of Goodbody’s relationship with its clients for more than 140 years. Goodbody sought to create more engaging, customer-centric digital experiences. However, disjointed marketing technologies and internally managed infrastructure made it difficult for the brokerage to bring new campaigns and experiences to market.

Goodbody selected Progress Sitefinity Cloud to better tie together disparate marketing and sales processes and improve customer experiences in a highly effective and highly efficient manner. Going live on Sitefinity Cloud in just 15 business days, Goodbody was able to immediately accelerate the execution of new marketing campaigns. This includes some of its newest marketing microsites, like a marketing hub that houses all the company’s brochures.

“Sitefinity has been a positive experience in terms of our digital transformation, increasing customer engagement substantially and its impact on our ability to respond to COVID,” said Sean Croston, Chief Operating Officer, Goodbody. “It has been an enabler for our business.”

Redefining productivity, Sitefinity Cloud empowers organizational scale, eliminates the need for infrastructure management and deeply integrates Microsoft Azure services so organizations can focus on their core business. As a resource-efficient PaaS, Sitefinity Cloud frees IT from having to dedicate time, money and resources to website infrastructure management while also providing more flexibility to support future growth plans.

The combination of drag-and-drop content editing tools, custom workflows and compliance features available within Sitefinity Cloud has helped Goodbody operate more efficiently, ensuring speedy end-to-end creation and publication of new content. Goodbody’s newfound marketing agility has also resulted in better customer engagement. While many in the financial services space have dialed back customer acquisition efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic, Goodbody quadrupled the number of account openings year over year.

“Businesses across the financial services industry must provide customers engagement with seamless digital experiences in order to maintain customer loyalty and gain market share,” said John Ainsworth, Senior Vice President, Core Products, Progress. “Sitefinity delivers superior digital customer experiences that can achieve up to a 3x increase in engagement and productivity with a secure, scalable, cloud-enabled platform trusted by hundreds of financial institutions worldwide.”

Additional Resources

• Read the Goodbody case study
• Follow Progress on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Read the Progress blog

About Progress

Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides the best products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact business applications. Our comprehensive product stack is designed to make technology teams more productive and we have a deep commitment to the developer community, both open source and commercial alike. With Progress, organizations can accelerate the creation and delivery of strategic business applications, automate the process by which apps are configured, deployed and scaled, and make critical data and content more accessible and secure—leading to competitive differentiation and business success. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000+ enterprise customers, and a three-million-strong developer community rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473. 

Progress, Sitefinity, and Sitefinity Cloud are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Kim Baker           
Progress        
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ANDOVER, Mass. and VALHALLA, N.Y., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Retia Medical is the first company to utilize Capsule Technologies’ new Device Driver Interface (DDI) development strategy to integrate its Argos Cardiac Monitor, the companies announced today.

Capsule’s new DDI development strategy uses the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Patient Care Device (IHE-PCD) framework to speed device connectivity to other systems, improve clinician workflow efficiency, and to protect patient safety through rapid and accurate identification.

IHE is a consortium of healthcare and industry experts focused on improving healthcare information sharing. The IHE framework fills the gaps between device communication standards such as HL7 without site-specific interface development so hospitals can more easily connect devices to their IT networks and capture data that drives safe and effective clinical decisions.

“Medical devices, such as Retia Medical’s Argos Cardiac Monitor, are indispensable for delivering safe and high-quality patient care,” said John McHutcheon, Vice President of Operations of Capsule Technologies. “Yet effectively capturing and protecting the data generated from these life-saving devices, while enabling them to access EHR data, can be complicated. That is why we are very pleased to collaborate with Retia Medical on this first utilization of our Device Driver Interface that helps speed the development of highly interoperable, easily connected medical devices using an industry-recognized standard.”

By leveraging the new DDI development strategy, Retia Medical expedited the integration of its updated Argos Cardiac Monitor, saving engineering time and improving customer satisfaction. Using this strategy also enables the Argos Cardiac Monitor to take advantage of Capsule Technologies’ Rapid Patient Identification (RPI) capability, which empowers clinicians at the point of care to more rapidly send patient demographic information to the device for faster identification confirmation, streamlining workflows, and promoting safer care.

Likewise, the agreement with Capsule also supports Retia Medical’s ability to develop its device output following Rosetta Terminology Mapping (RTM) and to receive patient demographics on its device using an IHE Patient Demographics Query (PDQ) request. Incorporating RTM and IHE profiles improves the interoperability of Retia Medical’s device across a variety of different IT systems while also enabling clinicians to identify patients accurately and easily to protect their safety.

“Our vision is to help prevent cardiovascular and other major complications from surgery and critical care by providing consistently accurate hemodynamic data to guide diagnosis and therapy. A key component of this approach is to help implement physiology-based, data-driven protocols through streamlined connectivity to the electronic health record (EHR) using modern communication protocols,” said Marc Zemel, co-founder and CEO of Retia Medical. “We are pleased to collaborate with Capsule to make this vision a reality.”

About Capsule Technologies

Capsule Technologies is a leading global provider of medical data technologies for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Our Medical Device Information Platform — comprised of device integration, vital signs monitoring, and clinical surveillance solutions — captures streaming clinical data from connected systems and transforms it into context-rich information for clinical documentation, alarm management, patient surveillance, decision support, predictive analytics, clinical research and more. End-to-end data management and connectivity supports better collaboration and communication between clinicians and departments. More than 2,700 global clients leverage our platform to improve patient safety, simplify workflows and raise overall satisfaction throughout the hospital and across care settings. Learn more at www.capsuletech.com.

About Retia Medical

Retia Medical’s Argos Monitor, with its Multi-Beat Analysis (MBA™) algorithm, eliminates a critical problem with older cardiac output technologies. By analyzing multiple heart beats (MBA™) and not just one single beat at a time, the Argos provides consistently accurate hemodynamic measurements for critically ill adult patients, enabling clinicians to make more informed, data-driven decisions to improve end-organ perfusion. Additionally, the Argos system is unique in its class by not requiring costly disposables to monitor each patient, and is available at a low, fixed capital cost. Setting up the minimally invasive Argos requires a single cable connection and takes less than 2 minutes to start monitoring. Learn more at www.retiamedical.com.

Media contact:

Philip Anast
Amendola Communications for Capsule Technologies, Inc.
(312) 576-6990
[email protected]

Morris Nguyen
Retia Medical
(617) 916-8230
[email protected]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sonoro Gold Corp. (TSXV: SGO | OTCQB: SMOFF | FRA: 23SP) (“Sonoro” or the “Company”) is pleased to report continuing favourable results from eight reverse circulation (RC) drill holes at the premier Buena Suerte and Japoneses gold mineralized zones located in the central region of the Company’s Cerro Caliche gold project in Sonora State, Mexico.

Buena Suerte: Zone Extended and Widened and Remains Open Along Strike
At Buena Suerte, five drill holes extended the zone 100 meters to the northwest and 50 meters to the southeast, increasing the total length along strike to approximately 600 meters:

• SCR-141 intercepted 3.05 m averaging 1.479 g/t Au, including 1.52 m averaging 2.591 g/t Au
• SCR-142 intercepted 7.62 m averaging 1.322 g/t Au and 12.19 m averaging 0.965 g/t Au
• SCR-143 intercepted 12.19 m averaging 0.687 g/t Au, including 1.52 m averaging 1.741 g/t Au
• SCR-148 intercepted 27.44 m averaging 1.170 g/t Au, including 3.05 m averaging 4.696 g/t Au
• SCR-149 intercepted 12.19 m averaging 0.498 g/t Au from a depth of 4.57 m

In the southeastern extension of the zone, drill holes SCR-141, SCR-142 and SCR-143 demonstrated an increase in the lateral width of the zone to approximately 150 meters with at least four different segments. In the northwestern extension, SCR-148 and SCR-149 have extended the zone approximately 100 meters to the northwest from where, as previously reported on November 24, 2020, SCR-109 intercepted 45.72 meters averaging 0.97 g/t Au and 4.0 g/t Ag. The Buena Suerte mineralized gold zone follows the Cucurpe district’s predominant northwesterly trend and runs in parallel along the western boundary of the larger Japoneses mineralized gold zone.

The geology of the main extent of both the Buena Suerte and Japoneses gold zones consists of strongly fractured Mesozoic clastic sedimentary rocks, quartzite and fine-grained shale units. Parts of the Buena Suerte zone are crosscut by fractured and veined rhyolitic intrusives possibly related to the Oligocene rhyolite flow dome unit that forms the crest of Cerro Caliche peak located approximately two kilometers to the northeast. The crest of Cerro Caliche peak shows strong silicification with moderate argillic alteration and quartz veining with gold anomalous surface outcrops. Rock textures and mineralization sampled on surface show this area to be within the low sulfidation epithermal system’s ideal boiling zone, adding to its potential for future targeting.

Mel Herdrick, Sonoro’s VP Exploration, commented, “The good gold grades and wide intervals returned from the latest drilling results continue to add to the Buena Suerte mineralized zone and show that it has now become a large area with significant resource potential.  I look forward to this zone being added to the next resource study which is to be conducted in the coming months.”

Cerro Caliche Project, Holes Composites with Cut-Off 0.15 Au g/t
Hole	Target		From	To	Interval	Au	Ag	AuEq
			(meters)			g/t	g/t	g/t
SCR-141	BUENA SUERTE		3.05	10.67	7.62	0.500	13.0	0.69
		and	13.72	22.86	9.14	0.210	1.50	0.23
		and	68.58	71.63	3.05	1.479	0.80	1.49
		includes	68.58	70.10	1.52	2.591	0.80	2.60
		and	94.49	97.54	3.05	0.286	0.55	0.29
		and	103.63	121.92	18.29	0.337	4.56	0.40
		and	137.16	147.83	10.67	0.304	0.70	0.31
SCR-142	BUENA SUERTE		0.00	4.57	4.57	0.625	10.90	0.78
		includes	1.52	3.05	1.53	1.418	19.80	1.70
		and	9.14	15.24	6.10	0.401	2.10	0.43
		and	50.29	57.91	7.62	1.322	18.80	1.59
		includes	54.86	57.91	3.05	2.150	38.60	2.70
		and	62.48	67.06	4.58	0.296	12.70	0.48
		and	74.68	86.87	12.19	0.965	19.50	1.24
		includes	77.72	80.77	3.05	2.650	69.90	3.65
		and	103.63	111.25	7.62	0.185	6.70	0.28
SCR-143	BUENA SUERTE		28.96	32.00	3.04	0.398	23.60	0.74
		and	41.15	44.20	3.05	1.015	41.0	1.60
		includes	41.15	42.67	1.52	1.798	71.90	2.83
		and	54.86	57.91	3.05	0.202	0.40	0.21
		and	74.68	77.72	3.04	0.468	3.40	0.52
		and	88.39	92.96	4.57	0.480	1.50	0.50
		and	99.06	111.25	12.19	0.687	2.10	0.72
		includes	99.06	100.58	1.52	1.741	10.90	1.90
SCR-145	JAPONESES	and	59.44	62.48	3.04	0.206	2.00	0.23
		and	65.53	88.39	22.86	0.568	8.40	0.69
		and	91.44	102.11	10.67	0.449	4.20	0.51
		and	112.78	117.35	4.57	0.166	0.70	0.18
		and	138.68	144.78	6.10	0.209	0.80	0.22
SCR-146	JAPONESES		21.34	25.91	4.57	0.238	9.40	0.37
		and	67.06	80.77	13.71	0.599	8.00	0.71
		includes	77.72	79.25	1.53	2.479	43.8	3.11
		and	83.82	86.87	3.05	0.279	0.20	0.28
		and	94.49	103.63	9.14	0.261	0.60	0.27
SCR-147	JAPONESES	and	77.72	88.39	10.67	0.405	4.30	0.47
		and	128.02	140.21	12.19	0.361	0.50	0.37
SCR-148	BUENA SUERTE		1.52	6.10	4.58	0.409	0.30	0.41
		and	16.76	44.20	27.44	1.170	2.40	1.20
		includes	25.91	27.43	1.52	3.101	2.20	3.13
		includes	39.62	42.67	3.05	4.696	3.40	4.75
SCR-149	BUENA SUERTE		4.57	16.76	12.19	0.498	0.60	0.51

Drill collar locations, azimuths and dips for the drill holes included in this release are provided in the table below and have been posted to the Company’s website for all drill holes.

Drill Collar Locations (NAD 1927 UTM Zone 12N)
Drill Hole	Zone	Easting	Northing	Elevation	Depth (m)	Dip	Azimuth
SCR-141	Buena Suerte	536578	3365025	1363	170.69	-45	232
SCR-142	Buena Suerte	536545	3364987	1365	131.06	-45	228
SCR-143	Buena Suerte	536546	3364949	1347	121.92	-45	230
SCR-145	Japoneses	536736	3365290	1350	170.69	-48	232
SCR-146	Japoneses	536715	3365349	1329	140.21	-45	243
SCR-147	Japoneses	536758	3365380	1325	140.21	-45	232
SCR-148	Buena Suerte	536419	3365282	1319	121.92	-45	250
SCR-149	Buena Suerte	536394	3365325	1286	134.11	-45	246

Japoneses Zone: Drill Results Further Define Northwestern Extent of the Gold Mineralization

At Japoneses, three infill RC holes, SCR-145, SCR-146 and SCR-147, located in the northern portion of the zone, were drilled at a 45° angle on a 225° azimuth. All three drill holes, which are outside the Company’s pit constrained NI 43-101 inferred resource estimate reported in 2019¹, represent mineralized intervals that help to define the northwestern part of the Japoneses mineralized zone. The topographic location of these drill holes is on the north facing canyon slope where the inclusion of the new mineralized material may be incorporated into the proposed conceptual plan for a heap leach mine operation (HLMO) for the main body of the Japoneses zone to the southeast.

Additional Assay Results and Recommencement of Drilling

Assay results from six RC holes and nine core holes completed in December 2020 are expected to be announced within two weeks. These include two core holes from Cabeza Blanca, one core hole from the neighbouring Guadalupe zone, and four core holes from Veta de Oro where a newly discovered higher-grade zone announced on December 8, 2020 extends one-kilometer northwest to the El Rincón vein zone. Eight RC holes include four from the Japoneses zone and two from the Buena Vista zone. The two remaining RC hole results investigate shallow gold mineralization at the El Rincón – Veta de Oro gold mineralized zone as it continues for 500 meters to the southeast along a zone of vein stockwork to the Abejas zone.

Drilling is planned to re-start January 5, 2021 with an initial focus on segments of the Veta de Oro vein trend and its extension into El Rincón vein zone.

To date, an Air Track (AT) drilling program has resulted in the completion of 703.5 meters of drilling in 27 drill holes, averaging 26 meters depth per hole. The AT holes are located mainly in the Guadalupe Vein area, parallel to the western boundary of the Cabeza Blanca zone, where it crosses several access-road cuts. The samples obtained from AT drilling are being assayed at an independent laboratory. AT drilling will also be utilized this month for condemnation purposes in areas that have been identified as possible sites for the proposed mine’s heap leach pad and the disposal site for what is predominantly oxide waste rock.

A Strong Case for a Larger HLMO Following an Exceptionally Productive 2nd Half of 2020

The latest drill results and the Company’s plan to increase the conceptual throughput for a proposed mine plan up to 20,000 tonnes per day (tpd) are the culmination of what management considers an exceptionally productive second half of 2020. This achievement was in part the consequence of a comprehensive geological review and planning based on the Cerro Caliche project’s extensive data set. The results of the review followed by the proposed drill campaign and the mine proposal enabled the successful closing of an $8 million financing, supported by Palisades Gold Corp. a leading Canadian merchant bank specializing in the resource sector.

The financing was immediately followed by the execution of a two-pronged drilling campaign. The first focused on exploring and developing the current shallow oxide gold zones, while the second tested multiple higher risk, potential high-grade gold targets. Details regarding this initial campaign can be viewed on the Cerro Caliche project page of the Company’s website. Based on the subsequent flow of positive drill results, Sonoro is now examining a materially larger mine development proposal with a conceptual throughput of up to 20,000 tpd. The proposed design of a larger operation is a consequence of the work of Sonoro’s technical team in Mexico which has kept the project on time and within budget.

Kenneth MacLeod, Sonoro’s President and CEO, stated, “With regard to these achievements, Sonoro’s Executive would like to specifically commend the efforts of our team in Mexico, most notably VP Exploration, Mel Herdrick, and VP Operations, Jorge Diaz. Mr. Herdrick has been instrumental in the success of Sonoro’s exploration program. Our HLMO proposal is under the direction of Mr. Diaz, a Glamis Gold alumnus, who has directed the development and operation of heap leach mines in the region since the 1980’s, including more recently, Alamos Gold’s highly successful Mulatos, which produced its 2 millionth ounce of gold in 2019. He is the principal overseer of Sonoro’s Mexico-based mine development team and has done an exceptional job working to ensure that a significant gold mining operation at Cerro Caliche can become a reality.”

2021 Outlook: Independent Metallurgical Study, Updated Resource Estimate and PEA Scheduled for Completion in Q2-2021

During 2019, Sonoro conducted internal metallurgical column leach tests on the identified near surface mineralization. In November 2020, the Company engaged McClelland Laboratories to conduct independent metallurgical testing which the Company expects will confirm its preliminary in-house test results, while also testing deeper mineralized material. On December 8, Sonoro announced that Toronto-based Micon International Ltd. (Micon) had been contracted to complete an updated mineral resource estimate and Ontario-based D.E.N.M. Engineering Ltd. (D.E.N.M.) had been contracted to prepare an NI 43-101 compliant Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) based on the anticipated McClelland Laboratories and Micon reports.

The Company’s 2020 drilling campaign was, in part, designed to increase drilling density to support an increase in the existing NI 43-101 compliant 201,000 oz. Au inferred resource estimate (filed on SEDAR on July 26, 2019). Furthermore, positive drilling results have included the discovery and expansion of new and previously identified mineralized zones as well as high-grade intercepts reported in step-out holes. For further information, please refer to Sonoro’s news releases dated November 4 and 24, 2020 and December 8 and 18, 2020.

The resource estimate and the metallurgical tests are expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021 with D.E.N.M. completing the PEA shortly afterwards. These independent consultants will address key material conditions that must be met for the Company to accomplish its goal of commencing gold production as early as December 2021. These conditions include the satisfactory completion of the current metallurgical testing, an updated resource estimate and a favorable PEA. In addition, advancement of the project is also dependent on the Company obtaining the required environmental permitting and securing project financing.

Drilling Campaigns Continue at Cerro Caliche
Sonoro’s campaign of higher-risk, high-grade core exploration drilling, together with low-risk RC drilling of the 17 shallow gold mineralization zones, are to continue until May 2021. The core drilling of the high-grade targets will average approximately 1,200 meters per month while the planned step out and infill RC drilling of the gold mineralization zones is expected to average slightly less than 3,000 meters per month. The Company’s focus is then expected to shift to the construction of the proposed HLMO. The Company plans to continue RC drilling during and after construction, assuming satisfaction of the above-discussed conditions for the proposed HLMO, to enlarge the estimated project resources with revenues from production funding ongoing drilling activities. For an overview of some of the gold veins and mineralization within the Cerro Caliche concession, see the presentations available under the Investors/Presentations tab on the Company’s website.

High Grade Targets Potentially Within the Lower Boundaries of Future Open Pit Mining

Initial core drilling results at Cerro Caliche have established the probable boundaries of Cerro Caliche’s epithermal, ideal boiling zone, which is roughly defined as the paleo-elevation’s most favourable for the deposition of high-grade gold. These results have established that the boiling zone is higher (shallower) in the system than the elevations of several of the earlier high-grade targets. It has also shown the rock units to have tilted approximately 20 degrees since they were formed.  The Company believes this means that the higher-grade potential likely is much closer to and, in some cases, adjacent to the shallow oxide gold mineralization. While the viability of the proposed development at Cerro Caliche has yet to be confirmed, any high-grade gold zones which are found to be within the lower boundaries of future low-cost bulk mining are likely to positively impact on the Cerro Caliche’s economics.

2021 Upcoming Key Corporate Milestones

Company management is confident that the upcoming technical reports will detail substantial increases in both the current inferred resource’s size and grade, while noting that this is being accomplished with less than 20% of the Cerro Caliche’s mapped gold zones having been drilled. In addition to the potential for a high-grade gold discovery or additional substantial increases in the shallow inferred gold resource, the release of both the Cerro Caliche’s metallurgical test results and the updated resource technical report, together with the contemplated PEA, are key milestones for the Company and as such are also significant potential share price catalysts. Considerable work has already been carried out and continues to be done which underpins management’s expectation that the PEA will be positive. As this occurs, the methodical work by Jorge Diaz and the rest of the Sonoro team is advancing the mine development proposal and, in doing so, brings Sonoro closer to its goal of becoming a gold producer by as early as the end of 2021.  

John Darch, Sonoro’s Chairman, stated, “2020 was a year where the Sonoro team turned adversity into a year of remarkable achievements. The first half was spent regrouping as we analyzed the Cerro Caliche’s extensive data set and created an alternate Mexico-centric strategy, which in our view became mandatory when the seriousness of the COVID pandemic was apparent. Since then, our team in Mexico has performed superbly, both in terms of exploration and development, and, in doing so, has helped to set the table for an even more productive and exciting 2021 as we continue our effort to transform Sonoro into a gold producer.” 

Quality Assurance/Quality Control (“QA/QC”) Measures and Analytical Procedures
Drill samples are collected with an airstream cyclone and passed into a splitter that divides each sample into quarters. The quartered samples are then bagged and sealed with identification. The sample group has blanks, standards and duplicates inserted into the sample stream.

Bureau Veritas (BV) collects the samples and transports them directly to the preparation laboratory in Hermosillo, Sonora. At the laboratory, part of each sample is reduced through crushing, splitting and pulverization. About 200 grams are sent by BV to their Vancouver, Canada laboratory and dissolved in aqua regia for multi-element ICP analysis including silver. Of these samples, 30 grams undergo fire assay in Hermosillo for gold by reducing the fire assay to a concentrated button of material that is dissolved in acids and the gold content determined by atomic absorption.

No QA/QC issues were noted with the results received from the laboratory.

Geologic Description
Cerro Caliche is located 45 kilometers east southeast of Magdalena de Kino in the Cucurpe-Sonora Mega-district of Sonora, Mexico. Multiple historic underground mines were developed in the concession including Cabeza Blanca, Los Cuervos, Japoneses, Las Abejas, Boluditos, El Colorado, Veta de Oro and Espanola. Mineralization types of the Cucurpe-Sonora Mega-district include variants of epithermal low sulfidation veins and related mineralized dikes and associated volcanic domes. Local altered felsic dikes cut the mineralized meta-sedimentary rock units and may be associated with mineralization both in the dikes and meta-sedimentary rocks.

Host rocks include Jurassic-Cretaceous meta-sedimentary rock units including argillite, shale, quartzite, limestone, quartz pebble conglomerate and andesite. Younger intrusive rock consisting of medium coarse-grained granodiorite-granite is present in the westerly parts of the concessions near the historic Cabeza Blanca Mine. It is apparent that veining cuts and pervasively alters the intrusive stock. Rhyolite occurs in irregular bodies distributed in higher elevations in the northerly part of the concession, including the Rincon area, where it occurs as flows, sills, dikes and rhyolite domes. Part of the rhyolite is mineralized and appears to be related to epithermal gold mineralization throughout the property.

Qualified Person Statement
Stephen Kenwood, P.Geo., a Director of Sonoro, is a Qualified Person within the context of National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) and has read and approved this news release. Readers are cautioned that the presence of mineralization on historic mines adjacent to or on Cerro Caliche is not necessarily indicative of gold mineralization in the concessions held by the Company.

About Sonoro Gold Corp.
Sonoro Gold Corp. is a publicly listed exploration and development company with a portfolio of exploration-stage precious metal properties in Sonora State, Mexico. The Company has highly experienced operational and management teams with proven track records for the discovery and development of natural resource deposits.

On behalf of the Board of Sonoro Gold Corp.
Per:	“Kenneth MacLeod”
	Kenneth MacLeod
	President & CEO
For further information, please contact:
Sonoro Gold Corp. – Tel: (604) 632-1764
Email: [email protected]

Forward-Looking Statement Cautions:

This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation, relating to, among other things, the Company’s plans for the exploration, development and operations at the above-described Cerro Caliche Concessions, located in the municipality of Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico, including statements regarding the anticipated release of additional assay results, an anticipated substantial increase in the current resource estimate for Cerro Caliche, the preparation and release of a favourable PEA supporting the Company’s plans for a proposed 20,000 tonne per day HLMO, including a targeted December 2021 production start date and the potential for revenue-positive operations, confirmation of the results of previous in-house column leach test results, the hope for results of continued exploration drilling, including to test high-grade targets, and other material conditions set out above on which the Company’s development plans are dependent. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable based on current circumstances, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they are generally, but not always, identified by the words “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”, “projects”, “aims”, “potential”, “goal”, “objective”, “prospective” and similar expressions, or that events or conditions “will”, “would”, “may”, “can”, “could” or “should” occur, or are those statements, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions that forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company’s management on the date the statements are made and they involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the possibility of unfavourable exploration and leach test results, unfavourable results of the contemplated PEA of the Cerro Caliche project, the lack of sufficient future financing to carry out exploration and development plans and unanticipated changes in the legal, regulatory and permitting requirements for the Company’s exploration programs. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law or the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. Readers are encouraged to review the Company’s complete public disclosure record on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com
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Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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¹ NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Cerro Caliche Property, July 26, 2019, Strickland, D., Sim, R.C. prepared for Sonoro Metals; comprised of an inferred resource of 201,000 AuEq ounces at a grade of 0.55 AuEq (0.495 g/t Au and 4.3 g/t Ag). 

WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Northeastern University’s School of Nursing, part of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, has accepted a generous gift-in-kind of over 1,800 temporal artery thermometers made by Drs. Frank and Marybeth Pompei, on behalf of the Exergen Corporation. The temporal thermometers were provided to students and faculty to protect the Northeastern University greater community.

With so much of preventing and treating the symptoms of COVID-19 and other illnesses, focusing on temperature checks, this gift-in-kind is invaluable to those who are preparing to work in the field.

“I was lucky enough to be provided with an Exergen Temporal Thermometer as a gift from the Northeastern School of Nursing. Especially as a student living off campus who hadn’t had a proper temporal thermometer, it became an extremely impactful and special gift when I contracted COVID-19. I’m so thankful that the School of Nursing and Exergen helped me throughout my illness and recovery.” – Senior School of Nursing student

As frontline workers, nurses are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19. By temperature-testing twice a day, students can monitor for an early warning sign that they are about to get sick, which is an immediate measure to protect others and a necessary safety measure amid this global pandemic.

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The Pompei’s hope that the thermometers will protect future and current frontline nurses from the effects of COVID-19 and possible vaccine side effects, through early and accurate detection of symptoms – which is their mission.

“With Exergen’s generous donation we are able to continue the College mission of keeping our students and community safe,” said Dr. Maria van Pelt, School of Nursing Dean. “There is an increasing need for temperature surveillance now more than ever. (Massachusetts) COVID-19 infection numbers are on the rise and the timeliness of this gift is huge given the need to stay aware and take continuous actions to keep our community safe. By taking your temperature twice daily, you are making strides to stay aware and alert.”

“We are honored by the support Exergen has provided to our community during these unparalleled times,” said Dr. Carmen Sceppa, Dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences. “Our students are training to become the frontline professionals holding the thermometers – in class, on clinicals, and co-ops. Protecting those that protect us is extremely important as we continue to address this global challenge.”

Exergen temporal thermometers are one of a kind and manufactured in the U.S. Distribution of the thermometers includes Northeastern Boston, Burlington, and North Carolina Campuses.

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