Stephen Akerfeldt, president since January 2003 while the company (TSX:PPI) restructured through executive-suite turmoil and accounting disorder, will continue as chairman.
Enbridge Income Fund (TSX:ENF.UN) has made changes to the senior management of Enbridge Management Services Inc., the administrator of Enbridge Income Fund.
Stephen Wuori has become president. He has been vice-president and chief financial officer of Enbridge Inc.
Wuori replaces J. Richard Bird, who will now focus fully on crude-oil pipelines and expansion projects as group VP of liquids pipelines for Enbridge Inc.
In addition, Leigh Cruess becomes VP of business development and chief financial officer of Enbridge Management.
Enbridge Income Fund is a Calgary-based, unincorporated, open-ended trust focused on energy pipeline transportation assets.
K2 Energy Corp. has a new name and new management.
D.M. (Bud) McDonald has been appointed as the president and CEO and a director of the newly restructured Resilient Resources Ltd. (TSX:RRL). McDonald has been involved in the oil and gas business for more than 50 years, currently owning and operating two private companies involved in the industry.
Located in Calgary, Resilient is a junior oil and gas exploration company.
Golder Associates Ltd. has appointed Louise Ménard as the Calgary office's managing associate.
Ménard will be responsible for leading and managing more than 400 people in the international company's largest office.
Ménard joined Golder in 1995 and brings more than 16 years of experience in environmental consulting.
Golder Associates is an employee-owned group of consulting companies specializing in ground engineering and environmental services.
The Alberta Chambers of Commerce has a new president and executive committee for the 2005/2006 term. They are: President, Darrell Toma of Edmonton.
Past president, Mark Lencucha of Lethbridge.
President elect, Murray Hales of Leduc.
First vice-president, Simon Vincent of Calgary.
Second vice-president, Brad Cody of St. Albert.
Treasurer, Jack Grant of Calgary.
The Alberta Chambers of Commerce is a federation of 127 community-based chambers of commerce that represents more than 22,000 businesses.
Yoho Resources Inc.
has named Wendy Woolsey as vice-president of finance and chief financial officer, and Clark Drader as vice-president of land.
Woolsey has more than 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and was most recently manager of finance of Baytex Energy Trust.
Drader has more than 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, and was most recently a senior consultant at Northrock Resources.
Yoho is a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration company operating within the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and initially focusing on the Peace River Arch.
Acclaim Energy Trust (AE.UN-TSX) has made two additions to its senior management team.
Brian Evans has joined Acclaim as VP, general counsel and secretary, while Wesley Morningstar has been promoted to VP of exploitation with responsibility for geology, geophysics and engineering. Evans joined Acclaim from Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP where he worked with Acclaim on numerous transactions. Morningstar, a geologist, has been with Acclaim since October 2002.
Calgary-based Acclaim is an open-ended Canadian energy trust that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the development and acquisition of oil and natural gas reserves in Western Canada.
CIBC Mellon has promoted David Planden to executive director for Western Canada.
Planden joined CIBC Mellon in 1998. He replaces John Hay, vice-president of relationship management for Western Canada, who retired in March of this year.
CIBC Mellon is a 50-50 joint venture between Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Mellon Financial Corporation.
Western Oil Sands Inc. has promoted two members of its senior management team.
Steve Reynish, currently a Western executive seconded to Albian Sands Energy as chief operating officer, will relocate to Calgary to become Western's senior VP of operations. David Dyck, currently VP of finance and chief financial officer of Western, will become senior VP of finance and CFO.
Dyck's appointment is effective immediately while Reynish's appointment is effective Sept. 15 when he relocates.
Western Oil Sands (TSX:WTO) is a Canadian oilsands corporation that holds a 20-per-cent undivided interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP).
- with files from The Canadian Press.
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