White Tiger Gold Ltd. (WTG.TO) announced that, effective July 18, 2012, James McBurney will join the company as its new Chief Executive officerMcBurney is presently CEO of HCF International Advisers and he has over twenty years of experience with various financial advisory and private equity firms focused on the resource sector. Prior to joining HCF, McBurney had been CEO of JNR (UK) Limited, a Rothschild family-owned merchant bank with a primary focus on natural resources in the former Soviet Union.
Previously, he headed the European Natural Resources investment banking group at Bank of America in London, was a managing director of Merrill Lynch's Energy & Power group in New York and was an executive director of the M&A and Energy & Power groups with Goldman Sachs in New York and London.
Prior to his banking career McBurney served for five years in the U.S. Marine Corps as both an infantry officer and as a reconnaissance officer.
Concurrent with McBurney's appointment as CEO, the Company's current CEO, Daniel Major, will move to the role of Chief Financial Officer, and the Company's current CFO, Sergey Chalykh, is expected to take another position within the Company's financial department.
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