Nancy Reardon has become COO of Premium Exploration, Inc. (TSXV: PEM) and a member of the board. For the past 13 years she has operated her own consulting firm.
Prior to joining Premium, Reardon completed a field reconnaissance on a company gold project in Mexico.
Premium Exploration is a Vancouver-based junior exploration company focused on precious metals.
Redhawk Resources, Inc. (TSXV:RDK) has seen some changes in its management team.
Kristian Ross is departing as CEO, president and a director to work as a consultant. Bruce Briggs succeeds Ross as president and a director. Briggs is a professional engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the mining industry.
Joe Sandberg has been appointed as VP of development for Redhawk's Copper Creek project in Arizona. He has been a consulting geologist with Redhawk since 2004.
Redhawk is a Vancouver-based resource exploration and development company with projects in Arizona, Nevada and British Columbia.
The Mining Association of Canada has elected Derek Pannell, CEO of Falconbridge Ltd., as its chairman. He succeeds Richard Ross, president and CEO of Inmet Mining Corp.
Pannell is a metallurgical engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the mining and metals industry.
Based in Ottawa, MAC is the national organization for the Canadian mining industry.
Calpine Corp. (OTC: CPNLQ) has named Gregory Doody as executive VP, general counsel and secretary.
He was previously executive VP, general counsel and secretary at HealthSouth Corp. Nancy Murray, who had been serving as Calpine's interim general counsel, remains in her position as senior VP.
Founded in 1984, Calpine is a North American power company, capable of delivering nearly 27,000 megawatts of electricity to customers and communities in 21 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces.
Its head office is in San Jose.
China Education Resources Inc. (TSXV: CHN) has appointed Kathryn Witter as CFO. The company says Witter has 20 years of organizational and financial management experience.
China Education, through its majority owned subsidiary in China, Today's Teachers Technology & Culture Ltd., develops and distributes educational and training materials in China. Its corporate office is in Vancouver.
Pacific Rim Mining Corp. (TSX:PMU; AMEX:PMU) is getting a new COO.
Pete Neilans will act in a consulting capacity on an as-needed basis until his official start date of Sept. 1.
Most recently, Neilans was president and CEO of Placer Dome US.
Based in Vancouver, Pacific Rim is a gold exploration company with assets in North, Central and South America.
ITI International Technology Integration Inc. has appointed Kathryn Siemens to its marketing team.
She brings more than a decade of sales and marketing experience to ITI.
Based in Victoria, ITI provides information management/information technology services.
Boston Pizza International Inc. has promoted Susan Hunter to the newly created position of director of corporate communications.
She will work from Boston Pizza's head office in Richmond. In her prior post, Hunter was executive assistant to Boston Pizza's senior executives and owners.
Boston Pizza has more than 235 restaurants in Canada
Chromos Molecular Systems Inc. of Burnaby has named Jeff Charpentier to the positions of VP of finance and CFO. He comes to Chromos from Sierra Wireless.
The company's former VP of finance, Kathryn Hayashi, has left to pursue other interests.
Chromos (TSX:CHR) is a biopharm developing drugs for inflammatory diseases and thrombotic disorders.
Coastal Contacts Inc. (TSX:COA) has appointed Reta Byvelds as CFO. Most recently she was VP of finance with Teleflex Inc.
The company said its previous CFO, Joseph Lee, resigned to pursue other business opportunities.
Coastal Contacts is a worldwide contact lens store with headquarters in Vancouver.
Forest & Marine Investments Ltd. (TSXV:FME) has promoted David Hitchcock to the position of president and CEO. Hitchcock has been with the Forest & Marine Group of companies since July 1986.
Based in Nanaimo, the Forest and Marine Group's primary focus is to provide funding to independent logging contractors and marine operators throughout coastal B.C.
Cardiome Pharma Corp. (TSX:COM, Nasdaq:CRME) has appointed Curtis Sikorsky to the position of CFO. Sikorsky most recently served as VP of finance for a private Vancouver energy technology company.
He succeeds Doug Janzen, who has been promoted to president and chief business officer.
Cardiome Pharma Corp.
is a cardiovascular drug development company with its head office in Vancouver.
Starfield Resources Inc. (TSXV:SRU, OTCBB: SRFDF) has appointed chartered accountant David Lewis as chief financial officer. Lewis has more than 35 years of corporate finance-related business experience and is currently CFO of Aurelian Resources Inc. (TSXV:ARU), a junior mining exploration company.
Red Mountain Ventures Inc. has made changes in the management team at Red Resort.
Jim Greene has been appointed vice-president of sales and marketing at Red Resort Properties Ltd. Greene will continue in his current capacity of VP of resort operations for the 2006/07 ski season, during which time he will transition with his replacement, Erik Kalacis, currently VP of sales and marketing at Red Resort.
Kalacis recently joined Red Resort as VP of sales and marketing from Grouse Mountain in Vancouver. Red Resort is located in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, within the community of Rossland.
- with files from CP
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