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NEWSMAKERS - M&A's / Alliances / Appointments


Appointments

September 2001 

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

-  HealthCare/Pharmaceutical

 

Consumer  Goods 

Brent Walker is appointed Director of Finance, Distribution for Molson Canada, Ontario and West Region. Sharon Fligel is appointed Director of Accounting Shared Services at Molson Canada.  Sept. 28, 2001

Anthony Bristow to André's Wines Ltd. as Chief Operating Officer.  Sept. 26, 2001

John Cahill, the current President and COO of Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., is named Chief Executive. Eric Foss is appointed President of the company's North American business.   Sept. 20, 2001

Anthony Ruys to Heineken NV as Chairman effective April 2002.  Sept. 13, 2001

Mark Peterson and Carolyn Tastad are promoted within Procter & Gamble Inc. to Director, Customer Business Development, SuperValu, and Manager, Customer Business Development, North Region, respectively.  Sept. 11, 2001

Ed Marra to Nestlé S.A. as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Canada Inc.  Sept. 4, 2001

Retail     

  Sherry Porter to the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores (CACDS) as Director, Atlantic Canada.  Sept. 25, 2001

Andy Giancamilli to Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited as Executive Vice-President, Dealer Operations and as an Officer of the Corporation. 
Sept. 13, 2001

Sir Graham Day to Sobeys Inc. as Chairman. Sept. 12, 2001

Ronald W. Waye to Procor Limited as President.  Sept. 5, 2001  

Rob Lawrie to Wal-Mart as Worldwide Account Director.  Sept. 4, 2001

Johnnie Mike Irving to Regus Canada as President.  Sept. 4, 2001

Marketing Services  

Howard Breen is promoted within Young & Rubicam to Chair & CEO of North American regions.  Sept. 28, 2001

Beverley Hammond to Veritas Communications' new business communications division as President. 
Sept. 25, 2001

Janet Schoel and Laura Forester to Mosaic Group's Direct and Interactive division as Account Director of the Kraft account, and Lottery Director, respectively.  Sept. 25, 2001

Jim Herrler to Palmer Jarvis DDB as President of the Toronto office.  Sept. 25, 2001

Tom Wright to Envoy Communications Group Inc. as President and Chief Operating Officer.  Sept. 25, 2001

Pierre Vidal to Sponsorium International as Vice President, Business Development.  Sept. 24, 2001

Joan Faubert to Ellis Teichman Communications as Director of Client Services.  Sept. 24, 2001

Dana Kerr promoted within Grey Direct to Vice-President and Client Services Director.   Sept. 19, 2001

Nick Foglia to Interactive Marketing Concepts as Account Director.   Sept. 17, 2001

Molly Scotchmer to Saatchi & Saatchi as Account Director for Maple Leaf Foods, McNeil and So Good Food.  Sept. 12, 2001

Magda Zachara to Taylor George as Media Director.  Sept. 10, 2001

Lowe RMP has made several promotions. Martin Strazovec moves to Vice-President and Managing Director. Heather McDonald and Jeanette Lee Fritzler are promoted to Vice Presidents.  Sept. 10, 2001

John Peloza to Bryant Fulton & Shee's Calgary office as Managing Director.  Sept. 10, 2001

Heather Hutchinson to ICOM as Director of Consumer Marketing.  Sept. 4, 2001

Adrian Taylor to Carlson Marketing as Managing Director.  Sept. 4, 2001

Shane Hilkowitz to Pattison Outdoor as Director of Finance.  Sept. 4, 2001

Marc Byron, the current CEO Paradigm Direct, takes on the additional role of COO of the Performance Solutions division.  Sept. 4, 2001

Ben Kaak to Mosaic Group as Chief Financial Officer.  Sept. 4, 2001

Technology   

Ed Candolini to Hitachi Data Systems as President of the Canadian operation.  Sept. 18, 2001

Mike B. Levine to META Group Inc. as President.  Sept. 13, 2001

Donald Sinnar to Spectrian Corp. as Vice President of Sales and Service.  Sept. 6, 2001

Robert Grossman to Telecom Computer as Executive Vice President.  Sept. 5, 2001

Internet Services   

Gerry Rivers to CGI as Senior Vice President, Banking & Investment Services.  Sept. 28, 2001

Ross Marsden to CGI as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Greater Toronto Area.  Sept. 20, 2001

Michael E. Roach to CGI as President, Canada and Europe. 
Sept. 13, 2001

David Willis to Microsoft Canada Co. as Director of Small Business and Channels.  Sept. 12, 2001

James D. Foy to Davox Corporation as President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors.  Sept. 4, 2001

Dennis Durco to Interlink Networks as Chief Financial Officer.  Sept. 4, 2001

Tom Castanzo to GraphOn(R) Corporation as Managing Director of GraphOn's European Operations.  Sept. 4, 2001

Telecommunications
   


  Robert Bruce to Rogers AT&T Wireless as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. He will also hold the title of President of Wireless Data Services.  Sept. 28, 2001

Serge Laporte to Boomerang Tracking Inc. as Vice President, Sales and Marketing.  Sept. 24, 2001

Larry Morgan to Infonet Services Corporation as President of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  Sept. 11, 2001

Ashley G. Fernandes to PanAmSat Corporation as Vice President of Sales of PanAmSat's Pacific Ocean Region.   Sept. 10, 2001

Ken Martin to New Millennium Development Group, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board.  Sept. 7, 2001

Roger J. Tinley to Telesat Canada as Vice President, Space Systems.  Sept. 7, 2001

William (Bill) Kelly to Novo Broadband, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer.  Sept. 6, 2001

John R. "Bo" Boedecker to Interelate, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer.  Sept. 6, 2001

Stephen Burke to vVault as President and Chief Executive Officer.   Sept. 6, 2001

David Moss to Canal+ Technologies as Chief Executive Officer.  Sept. 5, 2001

Domenico Vadala to Airslide Systems, Inc. as Vice President of Sales for its European operations.   Sept. 5, 2001

John J. Joyce to Ambient Corp. as Chief Executive Officer.  Sept. 5, 2001

Steve Bellamy to Wi-LAN Inc. as Chief Financial Officer.  Sept. 5, 2001

Gaston Germain to Cogeco Cable Inc. as Vice-President, International Development of the newly-formed joint venture Cogeco/SNC-Lavalin Broadband International.   Sept. 5, 2001


James Taiclet to American Tower Corporation (ATC) as President and Chief Operating Officer.   Sept. 5, 2001

Roger Woolley to e-talk Corporation as Vice President of Marketing.  Sept. 5, 2001

Christopher J. Davis to Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Sept. 4, 2001


Christopher L. Davis to Captaris, Inc. as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing.  Sept. 3, 2001

Creative
  


 Jeff Lennard to Idea Machine as Vice President, Creative.  Sept. 24, 2001

Pete O'Neill to Loopmedia as Creative Director.  Sept. 18, 2001

Paul Ruta to Bensimon*Byrne D'Arcy as Vice-President, Group Creative Director.  Sept. 17, 2001

Steven Bochenek promoted within Lowe RMP to Creative Director.  Sept. 10, 2001

Markatel replaces its one Creative Director with five Creative Co-directors responsible for specific accounts. The newly appointed Creative Co-directors are: Alain Bourgeois, Gilles DuSablon, Jennifer Goddard, Marie-Christine Lévesque, and Andrew Morgan.  Sept. 7, 2001

Grace Marquez is promoted within GreyInteractive to Associate Creative Director.  Sept. 4, 2001

Financial Services   

Robert Fetherstonhaugh to Claridge Inc. as Executive Vice President. 
Sept. 26, 2001

Joseph Heffernan, currently Director at Clairvest Group Inc., is named Chairman.  Sept. 25, 2001

Perry Truster is elected Chair of the Canadian Tax Foundation.   Sept. 25, 2001

Richard Nesbitt to the Toronto Stock Exchange as President, TSE Market Services Inc.  Sept. 20, 2001

Brian A. Hunt to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario as President and CEO.  Sept. 20, 2001

Gilles L. Chaput to BDO Dunwoody as Chief Executive Officer.  Sept. 18, 2001

The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators have made several appointments. Michael D. Bowie is President. Craig N. McDougall is appointed Vice President. And Christopher E. Lee is appointed Secretary/Treasurer.  Sept. 12, 2001

Jill Denhan promoted within the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to Senior Executive Vice-President of Retail and Small Banking.  Sept. 12, 2001

Dan MacDonald to the Bank of Canada as Chief Administrative Officer.  Sept. 7, 2001

Broadcasting/Publishing/Media/
Entertainment
    


Mike Leahy to Nielsen Media Research as President of Nielsen Media Research (Canada).  Sept. 28, 2001

Rob Sopkic to Today's Parent as Director of Web Sales.  Sept. 19, 2001

Cam Cowie to Craig Broadcast Systems Inc. as General Manager A-Channel Manitoba/Vice President Revenue Management Craig Broadcast Systems Inc.  Sept. 17, 2001

John Riley to Astral Media as President of its Astral Television Networks group. 
Sept. 13, 2001

Bill Neill to Rogers Publishing and Online Services as Senior Vice-President, Sales, Consumer Magazines.  Sept. 10, 2001

Paula Tillmann Peirce to Torstar Media Group as Director of Integrated Marketing and Sales.  Sept. 10, 2001

Carina D'Brass to Avid Media as Vice-President of Advertising Sales and Marketing.  Sept. 6, 2001

HealthCare/
Pharmaceutical    


Brian Goffenbreg to Remtulla as Euro RSCG as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer.  Sept. 28, 2001

Bruce Squires to the Ontario Chiropractic Association as Executive Director.  Sept. 28, 2001

Lina Lawrence to the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) as Senior Vice-President, Central Services. 
Sept. 26, 2001

Sandra Hanmer to the Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services (COTA) as Executive Director.  Sept. 18, 2001

Chris Nelson to the Canadian Arthritis Network as President and CEO.  Sept. 18, 2001

Craig Martin to Pharmacia Canada as Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs. 
Sept. 13, 2001

André Duranceau to the Canadian Medical Protective Association as President of Council.  Sept. 13, 2001

Susan M. Doyle to the Ottawa Hospital Foundation as President and CEO.  Sept. 12, 2001

Paul Lirette to GlaxoSmithKline Inc. as Vice President of Sales.  Sept. 11, 2001

Robert Butchofsky to QLT Inc. as Vice President, Marketing & Sales Planning.  Sept. 6, 2001

 

   


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