Rain City Resources Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. David A. Shaw as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Shaw spent the majority of his career engaged in either the financial or technical areas of the resource industry. He obtained a B.Sc.

Geology in 1973 from the University of Sheffield, U.K., and a Ph.D in Structural Geology from Carleton University, Canada, in 1980. Post doctoral graduation he first worked for Bema Resource Management, the precursor to Bema Gold Inc, before returning to Chevron as in-house structural geologist in the Mineral Division. He subsequently transferred to the Financial Evaluations Group in Calgary.

Upon leaving Chevron he joined Charlton Securities Inc. in Calgary where he initiated the Resource Research Group, an entity focused on the due diligence of resource projects. Shaw returned to Vancouver in 1990 to head up the Corporate Finance Department's due diligence at Yorkton Securities Inc. In 2009 he acquired a lithium brine project in Chile which, via a junior public company, was acquired by Talison Inc., the Australian hard rock lithium producer. Shaw joined Talison's board in 2010, during the next three years the production was doubled and Talison cemented its position as the world's largest lithium producer.

In 2013 the company was acquired by Tianqui, the Chinese processing company. Since then Shaw has had a continued involvement in lithium exploration. 4 From 2005 to 2019 he was on the board of First Majestic Silver Inc, during that period the company opened both its initial and eighth silver mine in Mexico.