Barry Irvine
Director
Barry Irvine’s academic credentials include a Batchelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta and Certificate in Advanced Management from the Banff School of advanced management. Barry has held progressively senior positions in the construction materials industry including Presidential positions with Tilbury Cement Limited and Lehigh Northwest Cement. Barry’s background provides for expertise and unique insights into one of the core business customer relationships for Hillsborough Resources. Barry has served on a number of industry, business and charitable organization boards.

David J. Slater
President & CEO,
Hillsborough Resources Limited
David Slater was born in Zimbabwe. He started his business career as an articled clerk with a firm of chartered accountants, and then moved on to banking. A year in the financial hub of London resulted in a decision to emigrate from his birthplace, and he found himself in Toronto, recruited by a major Canadian bank. In 1986 he was transferred to Vancouver where he has resided ever since.

After increasingly senior positions in banking, latterly with ABN AMRO, the giant Dutch bank, Slater engineered the 1998 takeover of Hillsborough Resources Limited, and has seen it grow from a one-mine entity to the multi-mine, multi-prospect company it is today.

He is married with two children and three grandchildren. Next to his family and Hillsborough, golf is the great passion of his life.

George W. Stuart
Director
George Stuart, a longtime Campbell River resident and business entrepreneur, has formed an extensive array of companies. These enterprises cover a large range of activities which include: the excavation business, (civil construction, gravel pits, sub division construction, logging road construction), real estate investments, cement/concrete ready mix partnership with Tilbury Cement, and general investments.

In addition since 1988 George has been President and Chairman of the Board for the world-famous Mount Washington Alpine Resort. The Upland Group is the major shareholder in the resort which employs 600 people during the ski season.

H. G.(Gerry) Stephenson
Director
Gerry Stephenson has spent over 55 years in mining, beginning as an underground collier, foreman and Mine Manager in England during the 50’s. He was General Manager of a large coal company in N.E. India for 5 years and came to Canada in 1968 as Asst. General Manager at the Canmore Mines in Alberta. In 1974 Gerry set up an independent consulting company and, in 1979, joined with two partners to form a company now known as Norwest Corporation. Gerry was President of Norwest for 25 years and retired in 2004 having been involved in expanding the company to over 200 employees with nine offices in North America and elsewhere. Gerry has worked in 35 countries, mainly in coal and oil sands. He pioneered mine reclamation in Western Canada in the early 70’s and was largely responsible for developing the Underground Test Facility (UTF) in Northern Alberta where the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage process (SAGD) for recovery of bitumen from the oil sands was piloted. SAGD is now utilized commercially by ten oil companies using surface wells. Gerry is on the Board of OSUM Oil Sands Corp. in Calgary.