Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd. has promoted Hanif Mamdani to chief investment officer.
Mamdani, who joined PH&N in 1998, maintains his responsibilities within the Vancouver-based firm's fixed income department.
PH&N is an independent investment counselling firm.
Indicator Minerals Inc. (TSXV:IME) has appointed Stuart Peterson, CA, as its new chief financial officer. He replaces Sean Mager, who will remain on the board of directors.
Peterson comes from PROACT Chartered Accountants, where he has been principal.
Indicator is a Vancouver-based exploration company focused on the discovery of economic diamond deposits.
Canaccord Capital Inc. (TSX:CCI) has set in motion a succession plan that will see chairman and chief executive Peter Brown shed his executive role and become non-executive chairman by the company's annual meeting next year.
Brown, who turns 65 later this year, said the time has come to make way for "the people in the company who have earned the right to take the firm the next step."
As part of the plan, Michael Greenwood has relinquished his roles as president and chief operating officer, and signed a one-year consulting contract with the Vancouver brokerage and wealth manager.
Paul Reynolds, a Canaccord director and global head of Canaccord Adams, its investment banking unit, has been promoted to president.
Meanwhile, Mark Maybank, deputy head of Canaccord Adams and global head of research and operations, becomes COO.
The change in leadership comes as the financial services firm reported strong quarterly results.
UrAsia Energy Ltd. (TSXV:UUU) has made a number of appointments to its senior management team: Robin Merrifield becomes CFO and senior VP; Gordon Keep becomes senior VP and corporate secretary; Vitaly Melnikov becomes VP of finance and administration; and Susan Speight becomes VP of marketing and sales.
Merrifield, a CA, has held the position of controller for Cameco.
Keep was managing director of corporate finance for Endeavour Financial.
Melnikov, a CPA, has held financial management positions with a number of international companies.
Speight was formerly the VP of marketing and sales for Nuclear Fuels Corp.
UrAsia Energy is a uranium producer focused on projects in Central Asia. Its corporate office is in Vancouver.
NaiKun Wind Development Inc., proponent of the world's largest offshore wind project in B.C.'s Hecate Strait, has named Ray Castelli as its new president effective Oct. 9. Castelli was elected to the NaiKun board of directors in September 2005.
Michael Burns, the current president and vice-chairman, assumes the position of chairman of the board.
Castelli was most recently senior vice-president of Quadrem.
Vancouver-based NaiKun is a subsidiary of Uniterre Resources.
Jose Guerrero has resigned as CFO of TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV:TNC) for personal reasons. Derek Lai, VP of finance, has been named acting CFO.
Burnaby-based TIO owns an automated bill payment and financial services network.
Augusta Resource Corp. (TSXV:ARS) has appointed Lance Newman as VP of metallurgical operations and Mark Stevens as chief project geologist.
Newman joins Augusta after working for more than a decade with Stillwater Mining Co., spending the last nine years as refinery manager.
Stevens joins Augusta with 25 years of technical and managerial experience, most recently as chief geologist with Pincock, Allen & Holt.
Augusta is a mineral exploration and development company with copper and other base-metal assets in the U.S. southwest. Its head office is in Vancouver.
Gold Hawk Resources Inc. (TSXV:CGK) has named Larry Taddei, CA, as VP of finance and CFO.
Gold Hawk is a natural resource company based in Vancouver with properties in Peru and Quebec.
Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:KHT) has a new president. Terry Fields was also appointed to the company board.
Burnaby-based Yankee Hat is focused on gold, base-metal and uranium projects in Western Canada and the N.W.T.
Skye Resources Inc. (TSX:SKR) has made Bill Enrico its VP of operations, responsible for Skye's Fenix nickel project in Guatemala.
Prior to joining Skye, Enrico held the position of general director of Umicore Med JSC.
Vancouver-based Skye is an international mining company focused on becoming a mid-tier nickel producer.
Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSXV:NUS) has named Shontel Norgate as its new chief financial officer. The Vancouver-based firm said Norgate, a former CFO at Australian firm Macarthur Coal Ltd., will begin her job Sept. 6.
Nautilus is an underwater mineral explorer with a focus in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea.
Minco Mining & Metals Corp. (TSX:MMM, AMEX:MMK) has appointed Matthew Kavanagh as its CFO. He replaces Mark Orsmond, who has resigned as CFO to act as VP of finance and corporate development.
Kavanagh, a CA, was most recently the director of finance and corporate compliance with Dragon Pharmaceutical Inc.
Minco has a portfolio of mineral projects in China. Its head office is in Vancouver.
- with files from CP
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