Board of Directors
J. Frank Callaghan, President & CEO, Director
J. Frank Callaghan has served as President & CEO of Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. since 1991 and serves as Director for numerous other public and private companies. Mr. Callaghan has sat as President for several publicly traded resource companies in the mining and oil and gas sectors in Alberta, BC and the Yukon. Mr. Callaghan as President of Barkerville Gold Mines has been focused on the Barkerville project continuously for 15 years - since 1994. Under Mr. Callaghan, the Company has been able to amass its large land position, delineate two gold deposits and is credited for the new type of gold mineralization found at the Bonanza Ledge discovery.
Craig D. Thomas, Director
Mr. Thomas is a barrister and solicitor and principal of the law firm of Thomas, Rondeau LLP specializing in the practice of corporate and securities law matters, including structuring and implementation of corporate financing transactions, public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, registration, reporting and compliance matters. Mr. Thomas earned his undergraduate degree in 1975 from Harvard College and his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978 from the University of Alberta. Mr. Thomas has practiced law in British Columbia since 1979. Mr. Thomas has been a board member of Barkerville Gold Mines since 2007 and serves as an officer and director of numerous publicly listed companies.
Farshad Shirvani MSc. Geol., Director
Mr. Shirvani holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geology from Shiraz University in Iran. He is specialist in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Resource Modeling as applied to Mining and Mineral Resource Exploration industries. He has worked in Vancouver's resource and exploration industry since 1997 and is president of Terracad Geosciences Services Ltd. He is on the board of several Junior Mining Exploration Companies and has been a board member of Barkerville Gold Mines since 2005. He is in the process of becoming a member of Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC).
Andrew Hutchinson Rees, Director
Mr. Rees was elected to the board of directors of Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. in August, 2006, and has been a consultant with the company since March, 1998. Mr. Rees is presently the President and Chief Executive Officer of WellStar Energy Corp. (TSX-V: WSE) and sits on the board of directors of several public companies in the mining and oil & gas sectors. Mr. Rees has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.