The Board of Directors of Callinan is elected by shareholders to serve the owners of the company by representing their interests and providing sound governance. Directors are responsible for ensuring that Callinan operates properly in accordance with high business standards and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. They implement effective corporate polices, set the agenda for the company and provide oversight of management. Callinan has five directors with extensive and diverse business experience and are significant shareholders of Callinan.
Brian Irwin
Chairman
Mr. Irwin is a former partner of DuMoulin Black, a Vancouver based Securities and Corporate Law firm where he practiced corporate, securities and natural resource law with a focus on mining and corporate finance.During his forty year career, he served as chairman of the natural resources subsection of the Continuing Legal Education Program of the British Columbia Bar. He has served as chairman of Ashton Mining of Canada, a director and officer of Brazauro Resources Corporation (acquired by Eldorado Gold Corporation) and Goldbelt Resources Ltd. (acquired by Wega Mining) and now sits on the boards of a number of resource based public companies.
Roland Butler, B.Sc., Geology
CEO
Mr. Butler graduated from Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador (B.Sc., Geology) in 1996 and was the co-founder of Altius Minerals Corporation (ALS:TSX). He served as Vice President and Director of Altius from listing in October 1997 through to March 2010 and also served as CFO until 2003 and COO from 2007. During that time, he played an integral part in a successful business model of generating mineral exploration projects and pursuing joint venture and royalty agreements or creating new companies with third parties. Roland was also co-recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2008 by the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University on behalf of Altius Minerals Corporation. He is currently a director of Millrock Resources Inc. (TSXV:MRO), which is active in Alaska and Arizona.
Anna Stylianides
Director
Ms. Stylianides holds a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She began her career as a corporate lawyer by joining the firm of Webber Wentzel, Attorneys, in 1990. In 1992, she joined Investec Merchant Bank Limited where she specialized in risk management and gained extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance and structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, structuring, specialized finance and other banking and financial products for financial institutions and corporations. Since her relocation to Vancouver in 1997, she has been a director of, and has been engaged in the financial restructuring of certain Nasdaq traded companies and she has extensive knowledge of the securities regulatory regime in Canada and the United States. Recently, Ms. Stylianides was the CEO of FinTec Holdings Corp., a company specializing in structuring and implementing corporate and structured finance transactions in the mining and bioscience sectors. In September 2005, Ms. Stylianides joined the Surgical Spaces, Inc. Group of Companies as CEO and has been instrumental in overseeing its national expansion strategy as Canada’s private health care consolidator.
David Korbin
Director
Mr. Korbin presently works as a management and financial consultant. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of Ivanhoe Mines in May, 2006 and is a former director of E-Comm Emergency Communications for Southwest British Columbia. He was Chairman of E-Comm’s board of directors since 2004 and was Chairman of the audit committee from 2002 to 2003. From 1992 to 2000, he was a director of the Vancouver General Hospital and then the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, serving as Chairman of the Vancouver General Hospital audit committee from 1993 to 1994 and Chairman of the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Korbin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1966, and from 1990 to 1992 he was a managing partner of Deloitte Touche LLC. Mr. Korbin also was a director of Seaspan Corporation (NYSE – SSW), and Chairman of Seaspan’s Audit Committee.
Frank Dembinsky
Director
Mr. Dembinsky, now semi-retired, was Chairman of the Newland Group Inc in San Diego from 1986 until 1991. Prior to that he held successive executive posts with Genstar Land USA, Genstar Eastern Development, Abbey Glen Corp., Great Northern and Home-Smith International.
Cheri Pedersen
Corporate Secretary
Ms. Pedersen is a lawyer at Boughton Law Corporation. She has practiced corporate and securities law, with a focus on mining, oil and gas and corporate finance, for over thirty years. She has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of matters including initial public offerings, public and private equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, reverse takeovers, dispositions, options, leases, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, capital alterations, continuous disclosure requirements, corporate governance and listing companies and the maintenance thereof on Canadian stock exchanges.
