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NEWSMAKERS - M&A's / Alliances / Appointments


Appointments

October 2001 

Consumer Goods
Retail
Marketing Services 
Technology
Internet Services
Telecommunications
Creative
Financial Services
Broadcasting/Publishing/Media/
    Entertainment

-  HealthCare/Pharmaceutical

 

Consumer  Goods 

Petraea Heynike and Tracy Thomas to Nestlé Canada Inc. as President, Ice Cream, and President, FoodServices, respectively.  Oct. 30, 2001

Catharine A. Horne to Van Houtte's Coffee Break Group as Vice President, Central Region.  Oct. 23, 2001

Pierre G. Cõté to Lantic Sugar Limited as President and Chief Executive Officer of Lantic Sugar Limited and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Sugar Ltd..  Oct. 18, 2001

Bruno Manzinali to Staedtler-Mars Limited as President.  Oct. 15, 2001

Jean-Robert Ouimet to J.-R. Ouimet Inc. as Vice-President Marketing for J.-R. Ouimet Inc. Oct. 9, 2001

Retail     

  

Marketing Services  

Andrea Isbester to Palmer Jarvis DDB as Vice President, Group Head, Amicus.  Oct. 31, 2001

Nancy Mitchell to Rapp Collins Worldwide as Vice President, General Manager.  Oct. 31, 2001

Ritchie Emslie to Publicis Canada  as Planning Director.  Oct. 31, 2001

Stephen Rouse is promoted within Maverick Public Relations to Senior Vice-President and Director Corporate Enterprise.  Oct. 30, 2001

Adbargains have made several appointments. David Bowden is Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer. Ian Pattinson is Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer. And Sandra Landreth-Kerr is Vice-President of Marketing.  Oct. 30, 2001

Anthony Ruta to J. Walter Thompson as Chief Financial Officer.  Oct. 29, 2001

Christina Kim to NewAd as Senior Vice-President and Managing Director. 
Oct. 26, 2001

Bates Canada has promoted David Duncan and Katie Wallace to Executive Vice-President of Planning and New Business Development, and Senior Vice-President of Diversified Services, respectively.  Oct. 26, 2001

Philip Hogarth to Hewson Bridge and Smith Ltd. as Director of Internet Strategy.  Oct. 25, 2001

Michel Pepin to Advantex Marketing International as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.  Oct. 25, 2001

Gerry Frascione to BBDO Canada as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 24, 2001

John Boniface is promoted to Senior Vice President, Managing Director at FCB Toronto, and R.P. Kumar is promoted to Vice President Management Director/Director of Strategic Planning. 
Oct. 23, 2001

Martin Sansregret to Palm Publicité Marketing as Vice President of Synergy and Business Development.  Oct. 23, 2001

Pascal Léporé to GroupaXion Digital Communications as Vice President and General Manager.  Oct. 22, 2001

John Hilbrich to The Marketing Store Worldwide as President of the Canadian office.  Oct. 17, 2001

Nick Arakgi to Viacom Outdoor Canada as General Manager.  Oct. 15, 2001

R. Bruce Barr to DraftWorldwide Toronto as President.  Oct. 12, 2001

Bill Hogg to Padulo Integrated as Vice-President and Account Director.   Oct. 9, 2001

Paul Martinez to Grey Worldwide Canada as Director of Print Production.  Oct. 9, 2001

Lorena Chiarotto to Starcom Worldwide Canada as Direct Response Director.  Oct. 8, 2001

Kelly Rowcliffe is promoted within Honey Design, Marketing and Communications to Director, Client Services.  Oct. 8, 2001

Neil Everett to Ammirati Puris as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 5, 2001

Christina Polzl promoted within the Canadian Marketing Association to Senior Director of Education and Professional Development.  Oct. 5, 2001

Tim Snelgrove to Mark IV Promotions as Vice-President of Account Services. 
Oct. 4, 2001

Marie Bourbonniére to Communications Redgrave & Associates as Vice-President.  Oct. 4, 2001

Boyd Neil promoted within Hill and Knowlton Canada's new national communications training service as National Service Director.  Oct. 4, 2001

Brad Stevens, the current Chief Operating Officer at FWJ Advertising and Public Relations, is appointed President.  Oct. 3, 2001

Paul Fleming to Sharpe Blackmore EURO RSCG as Director of Strategic Planning.  Oct. 3, 2001

Rebecca Dennison to Response Innovations as Account Director.  Oct. 1, 2001

Mauer Chiarello to Commins Wingrove as Partner.  Oct. 1, 2001

Sasha Volkau promoted to Account Director at MacLaren McCann.  Oct. 1, 2001

Technology   

 Vicky J. Sharpe to the Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology in Canada as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 25, 2001 

John Longbottom and Sandy Lovell to Ceridian Canada Ltd. as Vice-President/General Manager for Western Canada, and Vice-President, Operations and Technology, respectively.  Oct. 10, 2001 

Robert Gordon is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Platform Computing Inc. Platform Founder Songnian Zhou remains Chairman and assumes the position of Chief Technology Officer. Oct. 10, 2001 

Gary DeMel to ATI Technologies Inc. as as Senior Vice President of Sales.  Oct. 4, 2001

Internet Services   

 Rick Filippelli to Rediff.com India Limited as Chief Financial Officer. 
Oct. 24, 2001

David P. Woodall to Pivotech Systems, Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 23, 2001

Carla Buckner to PayStar Corporation as Vice President Sales and Marketing for PayStar's InfoStation (kiosk) Division.  Oct. 22, 2001

Antonio J. Espinosa to Talarian Corporation as Vice President of Sales.  Oct. 9, 2001

Herb Woodward to Starfish Software as Vice President of Professional Services.  Oct. 8, 2001

Michel Beland to Microforum Inc. as Chief Financial Officer.  Oct. 1, 2001

Telecommunications
   


Francis J. O'Brien to StockerYale, Inc. as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. 
Oct. 25, 2001

Stephen E. Silva is promoted within Charter Communications, Inc. to Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer.  Oct. 25, 2001

Richard R. Frizalone to NuVox Communications as Vice President of Direct Sales.  Oct. 24, 2001

Jae M. Park to Tessera Inc. as Vice President of Intellectual Property.  Oct. 23, 2001

Jean Monty, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BCE Inc., has been elected Chairman of the Business Council on National Issues.  Oct. 23, 2001

Court Carruthers to Dynamex Inc. as Vice President, Business Development for North America.  Oct. 22, 2001

Peter H. McKenzie to Syntegra as Vice President, Engery Industry Group.  Oct. 22, 2001

Robert A. DeKoning to Pixion Inc. as President, CEO and board member.  Oct. 17, 2001

Patrick Bennett to Covad Communications as Senior Vice President of Sales.  Oct. 16, 2001

James Ide to Next Level Communications Inc. as Chief Financial Officer.  Oct. 16, 2001

Phillip Arneson to Sorrento Networks as Chief Operating Officer.  Oct. 16, 2001

Roger Greenwald to CTI Group (Holdings) Inc. as Group Chief Marketing Officer.  Oct. 12, 2001

Michael S. Liebow to PamAmSat Corporation as Vice President of Marketing.  Oct. 11, 2001

Peter Nielsen to Shaw Communications Inc. as Vice President, Government and Industry Relations.  Oct. 11, 2001

Carl Vogel to Charter Communications, Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 9, 2001

Kevin Conlon to Palomar Technologies Inc. as President.  Oct. 9, 2001

Michael ("Mick") Mullagh to Telephia, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 8, 2001

Robert (Bob) Russo to Sequence Design Inc. as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and General Manager.  Oct. 8, 2001

Mark Canha to Broadwing Communications as President of Broadband Services.  Oct. 5, 2001

John Petersen to Microsemi Corp. as Vice President of Corporate Quality and Business Process Improvement.  Oct. 4, 2001

Mark T. Notten to Halcyon Monitoring Solutions as CEO.  Oct. 4, 2001

Brady O. Bruce to NightFire Software Inc. as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.  Oct. 3, 2001

Julia Harper to RadiSys Corp. as Chief Financial Officer.  Oct. 3, 2001

Frank Dunn, the current Chief Financial Officer at Nortel Networks Corp., is named the company's new President & CEO, effective Nov. 1.   Oct. 2, 2001

Chung Liu to ACCESS Systems America as CTO and Vice President of Engineering.  Oct. 1, 2001

George Ellis to AremisSoft Corporation as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 1, 2001

Michael P. Corkery to Berliner Communications as Chief Financial Officer.   Oct. 1, 2001

Dr. Barry Abzug to Rockwell Collins as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development.  Oct. 1, 2001

Creative
  


 Michael Willson to Prescient as Creative Director.  Oct. 31, 2001

Rick Donomme to Hewson Bridge and Smith Ltd. as Chief Creative Officer.  Oct. 25, 2001

Tyson Hynes to MT&L Advertising and Public Affairs as Art Director. 
Oct. 23, 2001

Tammy Silny and David Adams to Bimm Communications Group as Media Director, and Creative Director, respectively.  Oct. 22, 2001

Jim Lawrus to Padulo Integrated as Art Director.  Oct. 9, 2001

Larry Donen to Detroit Creative Group as President.  Oct. 5, 2001

Jeff Finkler to Ammirati Puris as Chief Creative Creative Officer.   Oct. 5, 2001

Richard Mirabelli to Grey Worldwide Toronto as Associate Creative Director and Head of Art.  Oct. 2, 2001


Financial Services 
  


Robert Normand to the Alberta Treasury Branches as President and Chief Executive Officer.  Oct. 31, 2001

Guy G. Beaudry to the Business Development Bank of Canada as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs.  Oct. 31, 2001

Paul Farrell to Working Ventures as Vice President, Marketing.  Oct. 31, 2001

Martin (Marty) Sims to Thomson Kernaghan as Executive Vice President & Director, Retail Brokerage and National Sales Manager. 
Oct. 30, 2001

Paul M. Jurist to Deutsche Bank AG, Canada Branch, Deutsche Bank Securities Limited as Principal Officer of Deutsche Bank AG, Canada Branch and as President & CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities Limited.
Oct. 30, 2001

Bruce MacKenzie is promoted within RBC Royal Bank to Senior Vice-President, Prairies Region. Oct. 26, 2001

Donald M. Raymond to the CPP Investment Board as  Vice President - Public Market Investments.  Oct. 11, 2001

Bette D. Andrews to Sun Life Financial Services of Canada Inc. as Vice-President, Central Region, Group.  Oct. 5, 2001

John A. Welch and Liann Pincott to UBS Bank (Canada) as President and Chief Executive Officer of UBS Bank (Canada) and UBS Trust (Canada), and Director, Domestic Private Banking, respectively.  Oct. 4, 2001

Deborah M. Lomow to Scotiabank as Senior Vice-President, Corporate Pensions.  Oct. 4, 2001

Broadcasting/Publishing/Media/
Entertainment
    


Glenn O'Farrell to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as President and Chief Executive Officer. 
Oct. 29, 2001

Errol Da-Ré to Alliance Atlantis as Vice-President of English Advertising Sales in the Broadcast Sales Group. Oct. 29, 2001

Mark Shapiro to Formula Publications as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing.   Oct. 26, 2001

Sara Ross-Schlatter to Alliance Atlantis Communications as Director of Marketing for its interactive group.  Oct. 25, 2001

Suzanne Raitt to the Canadian Newspaper Association as Vice President, Marketing.  Oct. 17, 2001

Denise Cooper, currently Vice-President of Business and Legal Affairs for ChumCity International, assumes additional responsibility for all of Chum Television's business and legal affairs worldwide.  Oct. 9, 2001

Jean Durocher is appointed Vice-President, Sales and Marketing of the daily La Presse and President of Probec.  Caroline Jamet is promoted to Vice-President of Communications.  Oct. 5, 2001

Jack Tomik to CanWest Media Sales Ltd. as President.  Oct. 5, 2001

Peter King to NBA Canada as Director of Marketing Partnerships.  Oct. 3, 2001

Len Cochrane to Teletoon as President of the Specialty Television Network.  Oct. 1, 2001

HealthCare/
Pharmaceutical    


 Lorus Therapeutics Inc. has made several appointments.  Dr. Jim A. Wright is named Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Raafat E.F. Fahim is appointed President and Chief Operating Officer. Aiping Young becomes Senior Vice-President of Research and Development and Chief Technical Officer. Suzanne Cadden is Vice-President of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance. And Peter Campbell is appointed Chairman.  Oct. 1, 2001

Julie White to the Canadian Cancer Society as Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada.  Oct. 2, 2001

 

   


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