Megawheels Inc., revved up and aimed at global markets, has added three new executives and three new board members.
Tom Stanton has moved into the driver’s seat as president and chief operating officer of the Calgary-based company founded in 1995 to capture some of the lucrative auto market. Stanton is a partner in Paradigm Management Partners, a group of business executives who assist high-growth companies.
R.W. (Bob) Garnett, also a partner in Paradigm, has been appointed the company’s chief financial officer.
“The company is moving from a Canadian supplier to a global supplier,” Garnett said. “We’ll be operating in Great Britain and Europe next year.”
Also joining the company is Cheryl Row, now the new Megawheels marketing vice-president. Row has worked for companies including Procter & Gamble, Southam Inc. and Delrina Corporation.
Megawheels is in partnership with the Globe and Mail in Canada and the Evening Standard in England. It operates the Globe’s automotive Web site and publishes a weekly auto insert, GlobeMegawheels. Megawheels, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, also markets dealer-management systems (DMS). DMS is an integrated IT system helping auto dealers manage customers, marketing, parts, service and inventory.
The three new Megawheels board members are John Varghese, vice-president of investments for eLab Technology Ventures Inc.; Vince Lum, managing director of the information technology venture fund for Royal Bank Capital Partners; and William French, Megawheel’s executive vice-president of media partnerships. Megawheels CEO Martin Hilsenteger will also become board chairman.
Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. has announced that Ron McIntosh will take over as senior vice-president and chief operating officer Dec. 1.
McIntosh, currently vice-president of international operations and exploration at Petro-Canada, has more than 35 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry.
Gulf is a Calgary-based based exploration and production company with primary operations in Western Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Ecuador. Its shares trade on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.
Graham H. Smith has assumed the role of chief sales and marketing officer at Wi-Lan Inc.
The Calgary-based company, which trades on the TSE, specializes in high-speed Internet access and data communications. Launched in 1992, Wi-Lan has sold its products in more than 50 countries on six continents.
Smith, who hails from Markham, Ont., has 25 years of wireless industry experience with companies including Motorola and Telular Canada/Global Data Inc.
International technology superstar Craig Goldman has been appointed to the to the board of Control-F1, a Calgary-based e-support software company. Goldman, president and CEO of Cyber Consulting Services Corp. of New Jersey, has received numerous awards.
He was given the the 1992 Carnegie Mellon and American Management Systems award for Achievement in Managing Information Technology, the 1994 U.S. Banker CIO of the Year award and the 1994 Service News award for being one of the 25 leading corporate support professionals in the U.S.
In 1995, he received the 1995 Network Computing magazine Top 50 Network Technology Drivers Award, and was included in the 1995 Computer Reseller News list of the top 25 most influential technology-industry executives. The following year, he was named as one of Wall Street’s most powerful CIOs.
Control F-1 is a private company co-founded by Veer and Vinay Gidwaney.
Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) has gone on a hiring spree. The company — which has 1,250 employees at five local labs and 24 patient-service centres set up to collect samples — has added 15 new physicians and scientists. The majority of the new hires are pathologists, examining body tissues for signs of disease and other abnormalities. They include:
* CLS’s medical microbiologist and infectious disease control specialist, Dr. Daniel Gregson. He was previously director of microbiology, virology and infection control at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in London, Ont.
* Dr. Duane Barber works in the the division of anatomical pathology. He was previously an anatomic pathologist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon.
* Also joining the anatomical pathology division is Dr. Andrea Bruecks, who hails from the anatomic pathology residency programs of the Universities of Calgary and Saskatchewan. She graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of Hamburg and has been involved in teaching medical students.
* Dr. Sameer Elsayed, who just completed a five-year residency program in medical microbiology at the University of Western Ontario, joins the microbiology division. He is a graduate of Queen’s University’s medical faculty.
* Dr. David George of the anatomical pathology division comes from his position as anatomic pathologist at the Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital where he was an anatomic pathologist. Previously, he was associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
* Joining the cytopathology and general laboratory at CLS is Dr. Clinton Ho. He holds both an advanced degree in biochemistry, and a medical degree from U of C. Ho completed a fellowship in cytopathology at the Foothills Medical Centre.
* Dr. Marion Jankunis, division of anatomical pathology, completed her anatomic pathology residency at the University of Calgary. She holds a degree in medical laboratory technology from the University of British Columbia and M.D. from the University of Alberta.
* Also in anatomical pathology is Dr. Travis Ogilvie, who recently completed a molecular pathology research fellowship at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. He received his M.D. with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan and completed an anatomic pathology residency at U of C.
* From the medical schools and universities of Macedonia comes Dr. Kiril Trpkov, who has also been hired to work in anatomical pathology. He completed a fellowship in lymph-node pathology at Edmonton’s Cross Cancer Institute as well as a fellowship in kidney pathology at U of A.
* Another recruit to anatomical pathology, Dr. Andrzej Kulaga, graduated from the Medical Academy of Wroclaw in Poland. Most recently, he was a staff pathologist at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, and an assistant professor at McGill University.
* Dr. Shaun Medlicott, also joining the anatomical pathology division, comes from Medicine Hat Regional Hospital where he was staff pathologist. He has held fellowships at U of C and the University of Texas.
* Dr. Martin Trotter has been hired as section head of dermatopathology, and teaches at the U of C medical school. He holds degrees in physiology, medicine and experimental pathology from the University of British Columbia.
* CLS clinical chemist Dr. Andrew Lyon obtained his PhD from Queen’s University and studied clinical chemistry at the University of Ottawa. Most recently, he taught pathology at the University of Saskatchewan.
* Clinical chemist Dr. Martha Lyon obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Washington. She has also taught at the University of Saskatchewan.
