Management

Stephen J. Wilkinson, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.B.A.
President, CEO, & Director

Stephen Wilkinson, President, CEO & Director, is a mining executive, corporate director and business consultant based in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Since September 2002, he has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of ValGold Resources Ltd., an international mining development company, TSX-Venture Exchange listed under the symbol, VAL. Prior to which, Mr. Wilkinson was President, CEO and Director of Northern Orion Explorations Ltd. for the period of 1999 to 2002. From 1996 to 1999, he was the Vancouver-based mining analyst for RBC Dominion Securities Inc. responsible for small capitalization gold and base metal companies. Mr. Wilkinson has extensive experience in the mining and finance industries having served as an officer and director of several private and public companies, supplemented over the past three decades by experience working for mining companies and government agencies. Mr. Wilkinson has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Ontario (Geology, 1976), a Master of Science from Carleton University in Ottawa (Geology, 1983) and an MBA degree from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY (1995).


Kenneth R. Yurichuk, C.A.
Chief Financial Officer, Director

Ken Yurichuk, Chief Financial Officer and Director, is a professional accountant in public practice for more than 25 years, and is a partner in the firm of Bobot and Yurichuk based in Toronto. Mr. Yurichuk currently serves as chief financial officer and director of Contrarian Resource Fund 2003 Management Ltd., director of Mavrix Fund Management Inc., a publicly traded mutual fund corporation, and has been an officer and director of several other private and public companies. He is also a tax lecturer for the Chartered Accountants Association.


Sargent H. Berner, LL.B
Chairman, Director

Sargent Berner, Chairman and Director, is a graduate of the University of British Columbia where he received his B.A. in 1963 and his LL.B. in 1966, and the London School of Economics, London, England where he received the degree of Master of Laws in 1967. He has practised corporate, securities and natural resources law as a partner in the Vancouver law firm of DuMoulin Black since 1976.


A. Darryl Drummond, Ph.D, P.Eng.
Director

Dr. A. Darryl Drummond, Director, earned a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in geological engineering at the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. For 15 years he was associated with the Placer Development Group of Companies. Since 1981, he has been President of D.D.H. Geomanagement Ltd., a mineral-industry consulting firm, covering all aspects of mineral deposit evaluation including precious and base metals and industrial minerals, primarily in North and South America. Dr. Drummond brings 40 years of mining expertise to the ValGold Board.


Rod Whyte
Director
Rod Whyte, Director, brings more than 40 years of practical experience in the natural resource sector and in emerging markets.

Charles Parsons, C.A.
Director
Charles Parsons, Director, is a Chartered Accountant with considerable experience in the junior mining sector and has participated on audit committees over his career. He also has considerable experience working within the former CIS.