About

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.

Dean Nawata has over 18 years of public company experience. He spent 9 years as a licensed stockbroker focusing on financing junior mining and oil and gas projects around the globe with Nesbitt Burns, Research Capital and most recently, Raymond James, formerly Goepel McDermid. Mr. Nawata has also worked for several TSX listed companies in project procurement, corporate development and financing.

Minaz Dhanani is the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. Mr. Dhanani brings with him more than 20 years accounting and financial experience obtained both locally and internationally, including several other publically listed resource companies. Mr. Dhanani also has several years of senior administrative experience including a position as managing director of the Workstation Ltd., a business support services firm located in Tanzania. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Dhanani acted in the capacity of controller for the Resource group of companies since December 2007.

Jian-Zhao (Jim) Yin, PhD, P.Geo. received his PhD in Geology from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and has published over 70 geo-scientific papers. He has more than 17 years of experience serving as Mine Manager, General Manager, Chief Geologist, Chief Representative, and Project Manager for several Canadian, American and Australian mining companies.

Arnie Pollmer, P.Geo will be supervising the development, drilling and exploration operations at the QR Mine site. Mr. Pollmer has over 37 years experience as a geologist holding past positions as underground and open pit mine geologist to Chief Geologist. His areas of specialization as mine and exploration geologist are in porphyry copper-moly, skarn-hosted and epithermal gold deposits.

Kevin L. McMurren will be on site, overseeing all of the mining operations at the QR Mine and Mill. Mr. McMurren has over 30 years of mining operations experience most recently as Mine Manager from 2005 through 2009 for New Gold Incorporated at the New Afton Project, an 11,000-tpd, block cave, copper-gold project near Kamloops, BC. In prior years, Mr. McMurren has held senior technical and supervisory positions with an emphasis on the startup of mining operations Projects have included: the LAC Minerals - Billiton Tin Project in New Brunswick, the Canmine Resources' Werner Lake Cobalt Project in Ontario, the Maskwa Nickel Project in Manitoba, and the Tantalum Mining Corporation's Lac du Bonnet Project also in Manitoba.

Dr. Ettlinger has thirty years of mineral exploration experience with gold, tungsten, platinum, diamond, and uranium projects throughout Canada, the United States, Russia and Central Asia. As a post-doctoral fellow in the Mineral Deposit Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, he studied gold mineralization in the Eskay Creek deposit in the Iskut River area of northwestern British Columbia. As a mining analyst for two Canadian brokerage firms, Dr. Ettlinger performed due diligence site visits on over 100 mineral projects throughout the world. Dr. Ettlinger was formerly President and CEO of Dunsmuir Ventures Ltd., a diamond exploration company exploring in the Canadian Arctic, Chief Geologist at Energy Metals Corporation, and most recently President of True North Mining, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Golden Predator Mines Inc.. Dr. Ettlinger has a B.S. in geological engineering, and a M.S. in mining engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Ph.D. in geology from Washington State University.