Gold Star Adds Former Barclays Bank PLC, Executive to Board of Directors
September 22 2009 - 9:32AM
PR Newswire (US)
VANCOUVER, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Star Resources
Corp. (TSX-V;GXX; OTC Bulletin Board: GXXFF;
http://www.goldstarresources.com/) today announced that John King
Burns, a former Managing Director and Global Head of Structured
Derivative Finance for Barclays Metals Group, Barclays Bank PLC,
London, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Burns is
an experienced international executive in the global resource
sector and is currently a director of Hunter Energy LLC, in
Centennial Colorado, a director of NuCoal Energy Corp in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Senior Project Advisor to Potomac Asset Management
Co, in Frederick Maryland, and a director of NovaDx Ventures Corp,
a publicly-traded investment firm that provides capital investment,
investment banking, financial and business advisory services to
early-stage natural resource exploration companies. Gold Star
Resources is a Vancouver-based energy resource company that is
currently targeting high impact, oil and gas opportunities in the
petroleum systems throughout West Africa, including Liberia, Cote
d'Ivoire, Ghana, and other African countries which have shown
increased promise for the development of new hydrocarbon deposits.
Mr. Burns has extensive experience in the global resource sector
from previous positions with Frontier Risk Management based in
Chicago, Illinois, Northern Orion Resources in Vancouver, Canada,
and Athabasca Potash Inc. in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is a
former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with Drexel
Burnham Lambert Commodity Group in New York. Mr. Burns joins recent
board appointments Charles de Chezelles, L.L.B., James Dick B.A.
Honors Geology, and Robert Dinning C.A. to a restructured Board of
Directors that brings a variety of international experience as the
Company focuses on development of new resource opportunities on the
African continent and aggressively pursues the acquisition of
onshore oil and gas properties throughout the entire continent of
Africa. ABOUT GOLD STAR RESOURCES CORP. Gold Star Resources Corp.
is a Canadian exploration company focused on high-impact onshore
opportunities in the petroleum systems of West Africa. On Behalf of
the Board, "Patrick Morris" Patrick Morris, President and CEO For
further information, contact Patrick Morris, President and CEO of
the Company at: Telephone: (604) 641-4450 Facsimile: (604) 669-9335
"Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release." DATASOURCE: Gold Star Resources Corp. CONTACT:
Patrick Morris, President and CEO of Gold Star Resources Corp.,
+1-604-641-4450, or fax, +1-604-669-9335, Web Site:
http://www.goldstarresources.com/
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