Calgary-based Electronics Manufacturing Group (EMG-TSE) has lots one of its key players.
The company has announced that chief financial officer Sean Bovington has resigned to take a senior post at a publicly traded oilsands development company.
Bovington, who was also vice-president of finance, called his departure a “very difficult career decision” and noted he remains a supportive shareholder of EMG. The firm’s board of directors said chartered accountant Alastair Robertson, the current board chairman, will assume the position of interim chief financial officer.
Robertson has been involved with a number of early-stage public companies over the past five years and previously served as senior vice-president and CFO of Nowsco Well Service Ltd.
Electronics Manufacturing Group Inc. (EMG-TSE) is an electronics manufacturing services company which provides product development and delivery services to the global technology and electronics industry.
Hugh MacDiarmid, executive vice-president, Commercial, is leaving Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at the end of June to pursue another career track. Ed Dodge, a 30-year company veteran who was previously executive vice-president of operations, has been appointed executive vice-president and COO, effective immediately.
In his new position, Dodge will be responsible for all of CPR’s operations and commercial activities.
He becomes the No. 2 executive with the company, behind president and chief executive officer Rob Ritchie.
CPR (CP-TSE), headquartered in Calgary, operates a transcontinental railway network.
Kevin Schade has been appointed director of sales and marketing (North America) of Cinnaroll’s Baker Boys division.
Schade, a certified food broker, brings more than 26 years of broad-based sales, marketing and management expertise gained in the grocery, drug and non-food channels in Canada. He has held a variety of sales, marketing and management positions with Tees & Persse Brokerage, Oppenheimer, Ramsey Brokerage, Canada Safeway and Shirra Sales.
He will be responsible for the division’s sales, marketing and new business development initiatives in North America.
Calgary-based Cinnaroll Bakeries Limited owns and operates a 10,000 square foot commercial bakery in Calgary. The company specializes in the manufacture of frozen gourmet cinnamon-based products sold under the Baker Boys brand to major North American retailers and food service distributors.
Ken Tetterington of Tetratel Inc. is giving up the company presidency to spend more time in the lab.
Current chief financial officer and director James DuBarry will be relocating to Edmonton from Toronto to become Tetratel’s new president. DuBarry was previously with WiBand Communications.
Tetterington will remain chairman of the board, and will assume the role of vice-president of technology and development.
The company says realignment of its executive team is “in keeping with any organization that begins to evolve beyond the upstart stage, and faces unprecedented opportunity.”
Edmonton-based Tetratel (TIN-CDNX) is a technology company specializing in stereoscopic vision and three-dimensional laser technology.
Rod Love and Angus Michael Roderick Mackenzie are two newcomers to the six-person board of directors of Calgary-based Zi Corporation.
Directors elected for 2001 at Calgary-based Zi Corp.’s annual meeting earlier this month also included board veterans Michael Lobsinger, (chairman and CEO), Derrick Armstrong, Simon Jiang and Thompson MacDonald.
Love brings expertise in strategic planning, political analysis, issues management, communications planning and media management to Zi’s board of directors.
Currently, he is president and owner of Rod Love Consulting Inc., specializing in customized services in strategic planning and issues management.
Mackenzie brings extensive experience in corporate governance to Zi’s board. For more than 15 years, he has held leadership positions with a variety of Hong Kong-based organizations. Currently, Mackenzie is chairman, Mayfair Cellars Group; chairman, Tasmanian Vineyards Pty; director, Taltarni Vineyards; director, The Lindsell Train Investment Trust PLC; and directeur-general and managing partner at Champagne Jacquesson & Fils.
Zi Corporation (NASDAQ-ZICA) (TSE-ZIC) is a technology company delivering interface solutions to enhance the user experience of wireless and consumer technologies.
Donald Mahoney of Calgary has been appointed senior account executive with Verticore Technologies Inc.
Mahoney will be based in the Philadelphia area in proximity to many of the eastern process manufacturing companies expected to use Verticore’s software, where he will develop and maintain business relationships.
Prior to joining Verticore, Mahoney served as vice-president of sales and marketing for Logisight, Calgary; in several executive positions at AEA Technology Engineering & Software/Hyprotech, Calgary; as a program manager and process engineer with DuPont, in Wilmington Delaware; and as a control systems engineer with General Motors at its technology centre in Luxembourg.
Verticore Technologies, based in Salt Lake City, is an enterprise software company, focusing on the operational effectiveness market.
