Two new professors join the University of Calgary’s faculty of management July 1.
Robert Elliott takes up the Royal Bank Financial Group Professorship in Management while Barrie Nault takes on the Robson Professorship in Management Information Systems.
Elliott arrives from the University of Alberta. A specialist in a variety of aspects of mathematics, he has taught in Europe, Australia and North America, including prestigious schools such as Yale and Oxford.
Nault leaves Ohio State University. His current research focuses on ownership, incentives and investment in information systems between organizations.
Nault brings industry experience to his research, having consulted for international strategic network alliances and having worked in the pharmaceutical and rail transportation industries.
Rich Nash has been appointed manager, oil and gas ventures, of Acadian Resources Company, a recently incorporated Canadian company.
Acadian has also announced that Jim Gibney has been retained as land consultant. The company is Calgary-based and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Continental Land & Fur Co., Inc. of Houston, Tex.
Rob Scott is the new sales manager of Stormworks Inc.’s Edmonton office. Prior to joining Stormworks, Scott worked as an independent distributor and regional sales manager for MDT Software, an Atlanta-based client/server software developer.
Stormworks, an Internet commercialization company, also has an office in Calgary.
Sharon Supple joins Raven Energy Ltd. as its chief financial officer. Supple, a chartered accountant, has more than 12 years of oil and gas experience and spent the last nine years as CFO of an intermediate sized oil and gas company.
Raven is a junior oil and gas company focused on exploration in Alberta.
William Burch is joining the board of directors of Floron Food Services Ltd. Burch was formerly managing partner of the St. John’s and then Edmonton offices of Coopers & Lybrand, Chartered Accountants.
Edmonton-based Floron Food Services (FFS-CDNX) specializes in the food manufacturing and distribution business.
KeyWest Energy Corporation is expanding.
Jeff Boissonneault has joined the company as chief geologist responsible for generating and developing new prospect areas in eastern and central Alberta. Brent Lacey will be a senior geologist with KeyWest working in western Saskatchewan and southern Alberta.
David Wardlaw joins the company as chief geophysicist with an extensive background in both structural and stratigraphic interpretation.
KeyWest (KWE-TSE) is a Calgary-based junior oil and gas company operating in Western Canada.
