Husky Energy Inc. has named a new vice-president and chief financial officer for Husky Oil Operations Ltd.
Prior to this appointment, Doug Fraser held several positions with other Canadian companies, most recently with Petro-Canada.
Husky Energy (TSX:HSE) is an integrated energy and energy-related company headquartered in Calgary.
Open Range Energy Corp. (TSX:ONR) is looking for a new VP of finance and CFO to replace Douglas Penner, who has resigned for personal reasons.
Open Range is a Calgary-based oil and gas company focused on Western Canada.
Fakhreddin Jamali is the new CEO for EquiTech Corp. (TSXV:EQT). He is currently the company's chief scientific officer and a company founder.
Jamali replaces James Chivers-Wilson, who resigned as president and CEO of EquiTech.
EquiTech Corp. is a junior pharmaceutical company focused on reformulations and bio-absorption. Its corporate office is in Edmonton.
Alex McPherson is stepping down as president and CEO of Biomira Inc. (TSX:BRA) after the anti-cancer drug company's annual meeting May 17.
McPherson joined the Edmonton company in 1991 as president and CEO.
The move comes a month after Biomira widened its losses in the fourth quarter and said it expects job cuts in the wake of the takeover of its key lung cancer treatment by German drug giant Merck KGaA.
Chief financial officer Edward Taylor will be interim president-CEO if the board of directors hasn't found a successor by the time McPherson leaves, the company said.
The Canadian Petroleum Institute (CPI) has named Gerrit Maureau as president and CEO. Maureau succeeds Craig McDonald, who held the position of interim president since November 2003.
Most recently, Maureau was president of MaurOil International Inc. He remains an active teacher in the areas of economics, geo-technical and economic/political risk.
CPI is an independent, not-for-profit training and advisory organization with an international clientele.
Patricia Newson will step down as CFO of AltaGas Income Trust effective May 1 to focus on her role as president and CEO of AltaGas Utility Group Inc.
Newson remains a senior vice-president of the trust (TSX: ALA.UN).
Richard Alexander joins the trust as senior VP of finance and CFO effective May 1. The trust says he has served in senior positions with a number of large oil and gas companies in Toronto and Calgary.
Calgary-based AltaGas Income Trust is an integrated energy infrastructure and services company. AltaGas spun out Utility Group in late 2005 as a separate entity in which the trust retains a 26.7-per-cent interest.
Michael Waites has resigned as executive VP and CFO of Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX, NYSE:CP) effective April 14. He is going to Finning International Inc. as its new CFO.
Brian Grassby will continue in his current roles as VP and comptroller as well as taking on responsibilities as acting CFO.
Based in Calgary, CPR is a transcontinental carrier operating in Canada and the U.S.
Edmonton-based easyhome Ltd. (TSX:EH) has appointed Chris Fregren as vice-president and CFO effective April 17. Fregren, a CA, comes to easyhome from AGF Management Ltd.
where he was VP of finance and controller.
He replaces Bill Johnson, who has resigned.
easyhome Ltd leases household furnishings, appliances and home electronics products to consumers.
Ceapro Inc. (TSXV:CZO) has made two promotions: Shawn McMillan becomes CFO and David Fielder the VP for scientific affairs.
McMillan joined Ceapro in 2005 in the positions of corporate secretary and financial controller.
Fielder joined Ceapro in 1996 and for the last five years has directed the company's operations at its Leduc manufacturing plant.
Edmonton-based Ceapro Inc. is a growth-stage biotech company that develops products for the personal care and healthcare markets.
Fred Kirkham has joined Blackpool Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:BPX.A) as VP of engineering. Most recently, Kirkham was a principal of Martin Brusset & Associates.
Calgary-based Blackpool is an oil and natural gas exploration company focused on the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Craig Martin of Edmonton has been promoted to the position of executive VP for western and central operations of Sun Media Corp. Martin joined Sun Media in 1984. He held several senior positions prior to becoming VP of operation for Western Canada.
Sun Media, a Quebecor company, publishes a total of 11 metropolitan dailies as well as 11 dailies in smaller markets and more than 180 community newspapers and specialty publications.
Technology company Aloak Corp. (TSXV:AOK) has appointed Khalid Mohiuddin as president and a director of its wholly owned subsidiary, Probilling Inc. Most recently, Mohiuddin, who has spent more than two decades in the computer technology industry, was a systems consultant to several e-commerce startups.
Through Probilling, Aloak provides e-commerce payment processing services.
Its administrative office is in Calgary.
Lonn Bate is the new CFO of Richards Oil & Gas Ltd. Bate, a CA, comes from Viking Energy Royalty Trust.
Richards (TSXV:RIX) is an energy company based in Calgary that focuses in the exploration and development of CBM properties.
Spitfire Energy Ltd. (TSXV:SEL) has hired Greg Kondro as its VP of operations effective May 1. Prior to that date, Kondro is providing consulting services to Spitfire on a limited basis.
Kondro has spent the last six years with a junior oil and gas exploration company as its VP of operations.
Based in Calgary, Spitfire is an emerging junior oil and gas company.
Accretive General Partner Inc. has appointed Bruce Warkentin as VP of finance and CFO for Accretive Flow-Through (2005) Limited Partnership (TSXV:LP.UN).
He replaces Michael Charlton, who has been promoted to VP of corporate development and chief operating officer.
Bruce Warkentin, a CA, comes from Deloitte & Touche LLP.
The Accretive Partnership is an investment company focusing on emerging energy juniors. It is based in Calgary.
- with files from CP
