Eleven Engineering, Inc. has brought a former Nortel executive aboard.
John Brick becomes president and CEO. John Sobota, co-founder of Eleven Engineering, steps aside as CEO to become the chief technology officer.
Brick has more than 23 years of experience in sales and marketing. He was most recently VP, sales for Nortel Networks where he served for more than 14 years. Brick is a board member of the Alberta Science Research Authority and chair of the provincial ICT Task Force.
Headquartered in Edmonton with locations in Calgary, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo, Eleven develops and markets high-performance nanocell platforms and semiconductors.
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Glenn Robinson has been retained by the Alberta Securities Commission to join a team developing and implementing proposed new oil and gas disclosure requirements. As the commission’s senior petroleum evaluation engineer, Robinson will work with legal staff to finalize draft national instrument disclosure standards for oil and gas activities over the next several months. Once implemented, he will work with analysts on continuous disclosure reviews of the reserves filings.
Robinson was president of Sproule Associates until retiring in 2000 and has since done advanced petroleum reserves on a consulting basis.
The commission is the industry-funded regulatory agency responsible for administering the Alberta Securities Act.
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Richard Ballantyne will assume the president’s role for Trans Mountain Pipe Line Company Ltd. as well as Corridor Pipeline Limited and Bison Pipeline Limited Ballantyne joined Trans Mountain in 1985 and later held senior roles in Calgary and at parent company BC Gas Inc. of Vancouver. In October last year, he rejoined the Calgary operation as executive vice-president in charge of operations and new project development.
He replaces Tom Doyle, who is retiring at the end of this month after 17 years with the company. Doyle will continue to be involved as an executive adviser.
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Isotechnika Inc. of Edmonton is making changes at the senior level.
Medical affairs vice-president Anthony Broski has left the life sciences firm (ISA-TSX). The company has hired Robert Huizinga for the new position of director of clinical trials.
Huizinga has more than 10 years experience co-ordinating clinical trials at a major Canadian academic centre/hospital.
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George Watson is the new president and CEO of Calgary-based WNS Inc.
He replaces Alykhan Mamdani, who is returning to the chief financial officer’s post. Interim CFO Shawn Thompson has left the company.
Watson is a partner in Northridge Canada and executive chairman at VerticalBuilder.com. Prior to that,Watson held a variety of senior roles in the oilpatch including president and CEO of TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. from 1993 to 1999.
WNS Inc. (WNS-TSX) is a document management technology solutions provider.
