| 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. | ||
| Michael Sadhra, C.A. Director | ||
| Michael Sadhra, Director, received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1991 and his Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia in 2001. He has since worked in the financial field for 10 years and was employed by the global audit, tax, and advisory services firm KPMG LLP from September 1999 to December 2006, where he served as a senior tax manager from 2003 -- 2006 specializing in mining. In 2007, Mr. Sadhra took the position of tax consultant and Chief Financial Officer of Lara Exploration Ltd. and Reservoir Capital Corp. (May 2007 -- May 2009). In May 2009, he became a partner of Sadhra & Chow LLP, a firm that specializes in mining taxation. Mr. Sadhra has also served as a Director of Orion Oil and Gas Ltd. (formerly Wintraysan Capital Corp.) and a Director of Phoenix Coal Corporation (formerly Marimba Capital Corp.). In April 2011, he joined the board of directors of ValGold Resources Ltd. | ||
| William J. Witte, P.Eng. Director | ||
| Bill Witte, Director, brings more than 26 years of mining, engineering, business, and entrepreneurial experience to ValGold. He holds degrees in both Civil (University of Nevada, Reno 1976) and Mechanical Engineering (University of Arizona 1978), and he is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of British Columbia. His mining and engineering experience covers not only all aspects of mine exploration, process research and development, and operations, but also engineering, construction and corporate management. Mr. Witte has been responsible for various aspects of over 200 mining and technology projects around the world and the successful development of numerous profitable mining ventures. | ||

