Inno-centre Alberta has new faces on its executive team.

Doug Craig

Doug Craig becomes director of the Edmonton office. Craig has held senior management positions in business development, marketing and sales with both start-up and established companies during his 15-year career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Darren Massey becomes director of client financing. Massey was formerly lead investment manager and partner of a private venture capital firm specializing in early-stage energy and high-tech investments.

Richard May becomes VP, advanced technologies. May was most recently president and CEO of a venture-backed software company.

Darren Massey

Inno-centre Alberta, a private, not-for-profit company with offices in Calgary and Edmonton, provides business and financing mentorship to investment-calibre, early-stage technology companies.

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Meridian Energy Corporation (MDG-TSX Venture) of Calgary has completed its reorganization, under which prior management resigned and was replaced by Raymond G. Smith in the position of president and CEO; Philip E. Collins in the position of vice-president, exploration; and Ving Y. Woo in the position of vice-president, engineering.

Richard May

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TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, Canada has appointed Gary Makar to the position of general manager, FWJ/TMP Integrated Marketing Communications in Calgary.

Gary, who joined FWJ Advertising • Public Relations in 1991, assumes this new responsibility in addition to his role as vice-president, advertising. He was most recently acting general manager for the Calgary office.

Gary replaces former general manager Brad Stevens, who has left to spend more time with his family.

Calgary-based FWJ Advertising • Public Relations was acquired last year by TMP Worldwide.

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Investment firm Peters & Co. Limited has made a number of new appointments among its officers and directors, effective upon regulatory and corporate approvals.

* Michael J. Tims, formerly the president and CEO, becomes chairman. Tims has served as the firm’s president since 1990; he joined the firm in 1980.

* Ian D. Bruce, formerly vice-chairman and director, becomes president. Bruce has served as the firm’s vice-chairman since 1998, prior to which he was a managing director of a major Canadian investment firm.

* Wilfred A. Gobert, formerly the managing director, research, becomes vice-chairman. Gobert has been with the firm for 23 years.

* Andrew V. Boland, formerly an oil and gas analyst, becomes managing director of research. Prior to joining the research group at Peters three years ago, Boland served as the manager of exploration at Pan East Petroleum Corp.

* David L. Foley, formerly co-head of trading, becomes managing director of trading. Foley joined the firm in 2000 after 12 years of institutional trading experience with two other Canadian investment firms.

* Christopher S. Potter becomes managing director of corporate finance. Potter has been a member of the firm’s corporate finance group for the past eight years.

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After 26 years with Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), Gordon Edwards is now stepping into the position of executive vice-president. Edwards replaces Rod Fowler, who retired earlier this year.

Edwards leaves his former position as director of revenue and membership programs in DUC’s Edmonton office. In his new position, Edwards will oversee DUC’s 350 staff members across the country.
Ducks Unlimited Canada conserves, manages and restores wetlands and associated habitats for North America’s waterfowl.

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ZooLink Communications Ltd., a developer of next-generation Internet data centres in North America, has hired Pauline Skriver as VP of sales in Alberta.
Skriver will spearhead ZooLink’s data centre growth initiative in the Alberta marketplace.

Skriver was previously Group Telecom’s western channel manager and was one of the original
employees of Group Telecom in the Calgary market.

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Gord Lehn, woodlands manager for Spray Lake Sawmills, was named the new president of the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) at the industry association’s annual meeting in Jasper last week.
Lehn has been involved in the forest industry for 25 years.

AFPA represents companies that produce lumber, pulp and paper, panelboard and secondary manufactured products. The forest products sector is Alberta’s third-largest manufacturing industry.

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Ian Maddock has joined Tenaska Marketing Canada (TMC) as manager of marketing in its Calgary office. Maddock will handle origination of deals in Central and Eastern Canada.

Prior to joining TMC, Maddock served as director of Midwest marketing for Mirant Americas Energy Marketing Ltd.

TMC, an affiliate of Tenaska, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska, conducts marketing and risk management of natural gas and energy-linked commodities.

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