Fairborne Energy Ltd. has hired Shaun Alspach as vice-president of business development.

Prior to joining Fairborne, Alspach was co-founder and VP of operations for Enermarket Solutions Ltd.

Fairborne (TSX:FEL) is a crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company headquartered in Calgary.

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Athabasca University has appointed a new president. Frits Pannekoek will take up the position in June.

Pannekoek comes from the University of Calgary, where he is director of information resources with academic appoint- ments in the faculty of communication and culture and the department of history.

Athabasca University is a distance-learning institution offering more than 600 courses in 45 undergraduate or graduate programs to 32,000 students.

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Former Beaumont mayor Ken Kobly has joined the Alberta Chambers of Commerce as chief executive officer.

Kobly is a certified general accountant in private practice who is also a sessional instructor with Grant MacEwan College.

The Alberta Chambers of Commerce is a federation of 127 chambers of commerce, which in turn represent more than 22,000 businesses.

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Garth Sinclaire has resigned as CFO, vice- president and secretary to the board of directors of Lehman Trikes Inc.

C. L. (Les) Brown will replace Sinclaire as CFO on an interim basis until a permanent replacement is found. Based in Westlock, Lehman Trikes (TSXV:LHT) is the world's largest manufacturer of kits that convert conventional two-wheel motorcycles into three-wheel motorcycles. The company also assembles and sells complete trikes.