BMO Bank of Montreal (TSX, NYSE:BMO) has hired Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis in the role of senior vice-president for personal and commercial banking in the Greater Toronto Area.
Dousmanis-Curtis comes from TD Canada Trust, where she was most recently responsible for leading TD’s retail sales strategy projects. She started her banking career at BMO.
The BMO Financial Group is a diversified North American financial services organization with head office in Toronto.
Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN) has hired four new senior staff members.
Andrew Parolin joins Wi-LAN as VP of business development. He was formerly director of wireless data products at SiGe Semiconductor.
Curtis Dodd is the new director of patents and counsel. He comes to Wi-LAN from Nortel Networks, where he was intellectual property counsel.
Vipin Aggarwal becomes senior counsel for intellectual property. He brings more than 15 years’ experience in intellectual property matters.
Bob Kedrosky is director of human resources and corporate services. He was most recently senior HR director at Bell Security Solutions.
Wi-LAN licenses intellectual property that drives a full range of products providing access in wireless and wireline telecommunications markets. Its head office is in Ottawa.
Tom Tittel has been named general manager of the Hilton Toronto Airport. He brings more than 25 years of hospitality experience throughout North America, mostly recently as general manager of the Doubletree Castle Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
Hilton Hotels (NYSE:HLT) has nearly 500 hotels on six continents. Its head office is in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Morguard Corp. (TSX:MRC) has appointed Paul Miatello as chief financial officer.
Miatello was most recently VP of finance for Morguard Corp. and CFO of Revenue Properties Co. Ltd. (TSX:RPC).
Morguard Corp. is a public real estate company with some $8 billion in assets under management. Its head office is in Mississauga.
Joseph Brown has been appointed CFO of semiconductor technology company Mosaid Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD). He succeeds Richard Boadway, the company’s CFO since 1997.
Brown has been with the Ottawa company since 1988, most recently as VP of finance.
Mosaid’s head office is in Ottawa.
Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX:WDO) has appointed Rowland Uloth as president. He has been chairman of Wesdome since 2006.
Wesdome is a gold producer with mining operations and development projects in Val d’Or, Que., and Wawa. Its head office is in Toronto.
Dalsa Corp. (TSX:DSA) has appointed Brian Doody as CEO. He has spent more than 20 years with the company, most recently as COO.
The company also appointed Wajid Ali as CFO. He joins from Advanced Micro Devices, where he headed finance for AMD’s second-largest business unit.
Jim Roberts has been named president of Dalsa’s digital-imaging business. He had been executive VP of the digital-imaging business since 2004.
Edwin Roks has been named VP and general manager of the new image-sensor business. Roks has been with Dalsa since 2005.
Dalsa sells digital-imaging products and services. Its head office is in Waterloo.
AOL veteran Michael Fogarty has been named chief revenue officer of Kaboose Inc. (TSX:KAB). Fogarty was most recently VP of AOL media networks.
Kaboose is an independent, family-focused online media company. Its head office is in Toronto.
Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc. (TSX:OYM) says company president Colin Patterson is becoming CEO.
Peter Tiedemann, acting CFO and corporate secretary, has accepted those positions on a permanent basis.
Olympus Pacific is a gold explorer and producer focused on Southeast Asia. Its head office is in Toronto.
Iamgold Corp. (TSX:IMG, NYSE:IAG) has made a number of management appointments as part of continuing integration after acquisitions last year.
Jacques Perron becomes senior VP for the Americas, Denis Miville-Deschenes becomes senior VP for project development, and Ross Gallinger becomes senior VP for health, safety and sustainability.
Janet Wilkinson has been hired as senior VP for human resources.
John McCombe, formerly VP of operations, becomes senior VP for Africa. Larry Phillips becomes senior VP for corporate affairs and Paul Olmsted senior VP for corporate development.
Iamgold is a mid-tier gold producer with operations in North America, South America and Africa. Its head office is in Toronto.
Strongco Income Fund (TSX:SQP.UN) says Grant McCardle is its new CFO and VP of finance. He was appointed on an interim basis in March.
Strongco Income Fund is a trust established to hold the securities of Strongco Limited Partnership, a full-line equipment sales and service provider. Its head office is in Mississauga.
Frontera Copper Corp. (TSX:FCC, FCC.NT, FCC.NT.A) has appointed Tim Swendseid as VP of engineering. He has more than 20 years of underground and open pit experience in various roles.
Frontera is a mining company whose principle activity is the production of copper cathode from a mine in Sonora, Mexico. Its head office is in Toronto.
Dexit Inc. (TSX: DXT) has appointed Sol Korngold as COO.
Korngold is a founding member of Dexit, which operates an electronic payment facilitation service for small transactions. Its head office is in Toronto.
Gold World Resources Inc. (TSXV:GDW) has appointed Domenico Bertucci as CFO. Bertucci comes with extensive prior experience, including 10 years as CFO for Twin Mining Corp.
Gold World explores gold and silver properties in China. Its head office is in Toronto.
Apogee Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:APE) has made several executive changes. David Gower becomes CEO, Helio Diniz president and Flavio Lamberti VP of operations.
Gower comes with more than 20 years of exploration experience, Diniz with 26 years in exploration and Lamberti with 15 years’ diverse mining engineering experience.
Apogee is focused on advanced silver-zinc-lead projects. Its head office is in Toronto.
U.S. Silver Corp. (TSXV:USA) has named Joseph Rauhala as its CFO.
Previously he was CFO of a regulated Canadian financial institution.
U.S. Silver owns and operates the producing Galena Silver Mine in Idaho. Its head office is in Toronto.
ZipLocal Inc. (TSXV:ZIP) has named Aubrey Baillie as CFO. He succeeds Jeffrey Jackson, who will stay on to the end of June to ensure a smooth transition.
Baillie was previously CFO of CanDeal.ca, an IDA member company.
ZipLocal is a local business directory that connects buyers and sellers. It has offices in Toronto and Montreal.
Family Memorials Inc. (TSXV:FAM) says its CFO, David O’Brien, is retiring. He will act as a consultant to ensure a smooth transition to his successor.
Family Memorials acquires retail businesses selling granite gravesite monuments. Its head office is in Thunder Bay.
Vault Minerals Inc. (TSXV: VMI) has appointed Tara Gilfillan as CFO. She was most recently corporate controller of Northgate Minerals Inc.
Gilfillan replaces Kathy Reid, who is stepping down to pursue other business interests.
Vault is a junior exploration company searching for gold and base metals in Ontario. Its head office is in Kirkland Lake.
United Reef Ltd. (TSXV:URP, CNQ:URPL) says that General Reef Corp. has appointed Douglas Brown as president and Paul Mackay as VP of exploration.
Mackay has been the VP for oil and gas of United Reef since June 2005. Brown was most recently VP of production and engineering for Rally Energy Corp.
General Reef is a private company with offices in Calgary. It was formed by General Gas Corp., a private Alberta company, and United Reef for the purpose of acquiring and developing oil and gas properties in North America.
United Reef is based in Toronto.
Opalis Software Inc. has appointed George Kellar as COO. Kellar has held executive positions at both public and private companies.
Opalis provides software to automate IT operational processes. It is privately held and has its head office in Toronto.
Viron Therapeutics Inc. has named Claude Benedict, MD, as its senior VP for clinical development and regulatory affairs.
Benedict joins Viron from Archemix Corp. and will work in Boston, the location of Viron’s new U.S. office.
Viron is a clinical-stage biopharm company focused on the commercialization of a new class of anti-inflammatory drugs. Its head office is in London.
View22 Technology Inc. has hired Paul Lypaczewski as its president and COO. He brings management experience over more than two decades.
View22 provides 3-D web commerce and media solutions. Its head office is in Richmond Hill.
McVicar Resources Inc. (TSXV:MCV) has named Henry Tse as CFO.
Tse has been CFO of Jite Technologies Inc. (TSXV:JTI) and its predecessor Jite Connectors Inc. since October 2005. McVicar acquired 51 per cent of Jite in January 2007.
McVicar has various interests in the mining, chemical and electronic industries in China. Its head office is in Toronto.
Escape Group Inc. (TSXV:EGT) has named Christopher Pratt as VP of exploration. He brings more than 28 years of precious-metals exploration experience.
Escape is an exploration company with projects in Nevada and northern Ontario. Its head office is in Toronto.
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