Position: President, Chief Executive Officer, Director - Emgold Mining Corporation
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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.
Position: 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.
Position: Chief Financial Officer, 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.
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.
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.