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Mr. Jonsson received his Bachelor of Laws Degree from the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada. He has spent the whole of his professional career as a practising lawyer and is the senior principal of the Vancouver law firm of Tupper, Jonsson & Yeadon.
For more than 35 years Mr. Jonsson’s legal practice has been as a specialist involved in securities and corporate law with a particular focus on mineral exploration, mining and oil and gas companies. Mr. Jonsson has sat on the Board of Directors of many public companies primarily companies involved in natural resource exploration. His work has been involved extensively with the securities laws of Canada and to some extent the US and other jurisdictions as well as the rules and requirements of the Toronto and Vancouver Stock Exchanges and the US NASDAQ.
Mr. Jonsson has, in his legal practice and as a result of his positions with many public companies, become familiar with the principal requirements for accounting and auditing and is accordingly qualified to act as a member of the audit committee of Caledonia.
Mr. Jonsson has been a director of Caledonia since February 1992 and prior to that date he was a director of one of the predecessor companies, Golden North Resources Inc. for many years. Mr. Jonsson is resident in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is a principal of the law firm Tupper, Jonsson and Yeadon. Mr. Jonsson sits on the board of directors of several companies in Canada, including Acrex Ventures, Altima Resources Ltd., Bonterra Energy Income Trust, Comet Industries Ltd., Dolly Varden Resources Inc., Earthworks Industries Inc. (Secretary only), Novitas Energy Ltd, TelcoPlus Enterprises Ltd. and Comaplex Minerals Corporation.
Mr Jonsson was appointed Caledonia’s Company Secretary in January 2006. | 