The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) has a new chief executive officer.
Paul Taylor takes up his duties on Oct. 1. Taylor is currently deputy minister of finance in the provincial government.
He joined the Government of British Columbia in 2001 from the BC Automobile Dealers Association where he was president and CEO.
Peter Tomsett has become the president and CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
(PDG-NYSE, TSX, ASX).
Tomsett takes over from Jay Taylor, who has retired after 32 years with the company. Taylor will remain in an advisory role until March 2005.
Tomsett has been with Placer Dome for 18 years, most recently as executive VP of Placer Dome Asia Pacific and Africa.
Vancouver-based Placer Dome Inc. operates 17 mines in seven countries.
John A. Pollock has resigned as president, CEO and director of Jonpol Explorations Ltd.
The company has appointed Gordon Keep, a director of Jonpol, to those positions.
In another company appointment, Bill Koutsouras becomes the CFO and secretary, effective immediately.
The Okanagan Science & Technology Council (OSTEC) has two new executives.
Gary Hovey was elected to a one-year term as president at the council’s recent annual meeting. Hovey is a technical manager at the National Research Council’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory.
OSTEC has also hired a new executive director, Glenn Rousseau, who will officially commence duties Oct. 18. He brings leadership experience within the value-added wood and manufacturing sectors.
Rainmaker Income Fund has appointed Barry Chambers as president of Rainmaker Entertainment Group Ltd., the general partner of Rainmaker’s operating entity Rainmaker Limited Partnership.
Chambers has been with Rainmaker for 24 years, 15 of them as its general manager responsible for overseeing all operations.
Rainmaker Income Fund is an unincorporated open-ended, limited-purpose trust based in Vancouver.
Reynold Hert is the new president and CEO of Western Forest Products Inc. (WEF-TSX), the successor company to Doman Industries. He assumes his new duties with WFP at the company’s Duncan, B.C., office on Oct. 4.
Hert joins WFP from Weyerhaeuser Canada where he spent 26 years in various roles, most recently in Kamloops, B.C., as VP of Canadian forestlands.
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