Edward Ringrose has resigned as president of Welwyn Energy Ltd. (WYN-CDNX). He will be replaced by Douglas Church.

As well, Senai Kozak has resigned as CFO and COO, but will remain as a director of the Calgary-based oil and gas company. H.S. (Scobey) Hartley has also been named board chairman.

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Roger Pederson has been named the new CEO of Edmonton-based TRLabs.

Pederson, the chief operating officer since January of this year, has been on secondment since 1997 from TELUS Corp., where he held senior roles including director of technology. He was appointed last week to the top job at the information and communications technology research network.

The agency, a consortium supported by 57 corporations as well as governments and universities, has laboratories in Calgary and Edmonton as well as Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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Phyllis Heaphy is the new vice-president of finance and services at the University of Calgary.

Heaphy, a chartered accountant by trade, was most recently managing director of the Toronto office of Resources Connection – an international financial corporation.

Prior to that she was vice-president of finance and CFO at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. She will assume her duties June 1.

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Dale Clark is the new portfolio manager at AVAC Ltd. of Calgary. Clark, who operated his own consulting company following a 12-year career in commercial lending, will oversee the flow of investments from approval to completion of royalty streams.

As well, Scott Gilbert has been seconded to AVAC to help southern Alberta entrepreneurs move their products to the marketplace.

Gilbert has more than 16 years of experience in academic, industrial and government research settings, working in areas such as molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology and technology transfer and commercialization.

Gilbert’s secondment from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is part of the WestLink Innovation Network Ltd. technology commercialization internship program.

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WavePOINT Systems Inc. of Edmonton has appointed Christopher Hedrick as a senior adviser. Hedrick will work closely with management and the board of directors, providing strategic leadership for the company’s planning and development efforts.

Hedrick is a co-founder and CEO of Lguide, an independent provider of e-learning research and consulting services. Prior to that he was a technology policy adviser to Gov. Gary Locke of the State of Washington.

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Oops – last week, we erroneously called new Rights Market Inc. chief executive John Krpan the former CEO of Cell-Loc. Let us set the record straight – Krpan was the former COO. Michel Fattouche is the CEO of Cell-Loc.