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Sargent H. Berner, BA, LL.B, LL.M
Position: Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chairman of the Board, Chair Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees, Director
Sargent Berner practiced corporate, securities, and natural resources law as a partner in the Vancouver law firm of DuMoulin Black from 1976 until 2004, after eight years as a full time faculty member of the University of British Columbia Law School. Mr. Berner is a graduate of the University of British Columbia where he received his B.A. in 1963 and his LL.B. in 1966. He also received the degree of Master of Laws from the London School of Economics, London, England in 1967. Mr. Berner is a director of a number of other companies trading on the TSX Venture Exchange, the TSX and the American Stock Exchange.
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| | | Kenneth R. Yurichuk, B.Comm., CA
Position: Chief Financial Officer, Co-Chairman of the Board, Director
Kenneth Yurichuk is a Chartered Accountant and senior partner in the public accounting firm Bobot & Yurichuk LLP, Chartered Accountants, Toronto. Mr. Yurichuk has been in public practice for over 30 years and has served as both director and officer of private and publicly-traded corporations involved in a wide range of businesses including mining, real estate development, investment and manufacturing. In addition Mr. Yurichuk is a director of Mavrix Fund Management Inc. and served as a director and officer of the General Partners for several Contrarian Resource Fund Limited Partnerships and Mavrix Fund Limited Partnerships. Mr. Yurichuk holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree as well as the CA designation.
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| | | David G. Watkinson, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Position: President, Chief Operating Officer, Director - Emgold Mining Corporation
President, Chief Executive Officer - Idaho-Maryland Mining Corp.
David Watkinson brings over 20 years of professional engineering experience in underground and open pit mine development, including mine permitting, engineering, feasibility, construction, and operations to Emgold. In addition, he has extensive experience in project management, having taken projects from grass roots start-up to successful operating status. Mr. Watkinson has been responsible for management of large capital projects and operations in Canada, the United States and the Philippines. He has held progressively senior positions with Placer Dome Inc., Kinross Gold Corporation, Thyssen Mining Construction and Vulcan Materials Company. Mr. Watkinson holds a B.Sc. in Applied Science, Mining Engineering, from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (1985) and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
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| | | Robin A. W. Elliott, B.Comm., FCA
Position: Chair Audit Committee; Member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees; Independent Director
Robin Elliott is a Senior Partner at Manning Elliott LLP, Chartered Accountants and has been with the firm since 1975. Mr. Elliott has more than thirty years of accounting experience, primarily with small to medium-sized, owner-managed businesses and family holding and investment companies. Over the years, he has been on several committees related to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, including the Discipline Tribunal, Professional Liability Task Force, FCA Nominating, Regulatory Policy, Professional Development, and is a past President (2003) of the Institute. He is currently a member of a National Committee for professional liability insurance and was elected a Fellow in 1991. He is also a member of the Trust and Estate Practitioners Society, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Institute of Corporate Directors (and is on the executive of the BC chapter). Mr. Elliott received his Chartered Accountant designation in 1969, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia (1965).
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| | | William J. Witte, B.Sc., P. Eng.
Position: Director - Emgold Mining Corporation
President, Chief Executive Officer - Golden Bear Ceramics Company
Bill Witte brings more than 27 years of mining, engineering, business, and entrepreneurial experience to Emgold Mining Corporation. 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. 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.
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| | | Stephen J. Wilkinson, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.B.A.
Position: Member of the Audit, Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees; Independent Director
Stephen Wilkinson is President and Chief Executive Officer of ValGold Resources Ltd. and Chairman of NovaDX Ventures Corp., a publicly traded junior merchant banking company specializing in raising capital and providing advisory services to early-stage junior resource companies. Mr. Wilkinson was President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Northern Orion Explorations Ltd. during its successful restructuring over the period from 1999 to 2002 and from 1996 to 1999, he was the Vancouver based mining analyst for RBC Dominion Securities Inc., responsible for small capitalization and gold and base metal companies. Mr. Wilkinson holds an MBA from Clarkson University, Potsdam New York, a M.Sc.(Geology) from Carleton University and B.Sc. (Geology) from the University of Western Ontario.
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| | | I. Rodrigo A. Romo, DiplT, DiplPS
Position: Corporate Secretary
Mr. Romo holds a two-year Diploma of Technology in Financial Management (Professional Accounting Option) from BCIT (1993) and a two-year Diploma of Paralegal Studies from Capilano College's Institute of Paralegal Studies (2000).
Since 2001, Mr. Romo has been the in-house Securities and Corporate Paralegal for LMC Management Services Ltd. ("LMC"), a private company, which provides management, administrative, legal, geological and other services to Emgold and a number of other publicly traded mineral exploration companies. Prior to joining LMC, Mr. Romo was a Securities and Corporate Paralegal with the law firm of Lang Michener LLP.
After graduating from BCIT, Mr. Romo worked in various management and administrative capacities for a plastic-manufacturing firm. Additionally, Mr. Romo was Vice President of Esteban Management Corporation, a private company in the food and hospitality industry, where Mr. Romo's responsibilities included the planning, construction and outfitting of a food-service business. Later, as General Manager, Mr. Romo oversaw operations and human resource management of that same food-service business.
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