Murray Edwards is stepping down as chairman at Penn West Petroleum Ltd. when shareholders meet later this month to vote on the company's conversion to an income trust. Calgary lawyer John Brussa is expected to stand for election as board chair at that time.
Financier and entrepreneur Edwards has spent 13 years at the head of Penn West's board of directors.
Ceramic Protection Corp. is replacing its retiring chief executive with the company's president at the end of the month.
CEO Ron Wallace is retiring May 31 to be replaced by John Walsh. Wallace will assume the new position of vice-chairman of the board and remain an adviser to the company under a consulting contract.
Ceramic Protection (TSXV:CEP) manufactures and sells industrial-wear clothing and armour plates for soldiers' uniforms, tanks and other military vehicles.
The CEO of Western Warrior Resources Inc. has resigned.
The company said Klaus Zahnd left to devote his full time to his private venture capital firm.
Western Warrior (TSXV:WWR) is a Calgary-based mineral exploration company with 100-per-cent ownership of properties in northern Manitoba, northwest Ontario and Valdez, Alaska.
Endev Energy Inc. (TSX:ENE) has appointed Terry Johnson as vice'-president for land.
He was most recently with a large oil and gas company where he was responsible for business development activities in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Endev is headquartered in Calgary.
Bernard Isautier is retiring as president-CEO of PetroKazakhstan Inc. in September. He will remain as chairman.
Graeme Phipps will succeed Isautier on Sept. 16, the Calgary-headquartered company said at its annual meeting in Toronto. Phipps' most recent corporate job was as vice-president of exploration at Petro-Canada.
PetroKazakhstan (TSX:PKZ, NYSE:PKZ) is a 150,000'-barrel-a-day oil producer with operations centred in Kazakhstan.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide has appointed Mark Ferguson as the director for client development for Western Canada.
Ferguson has spent 24 years in the corporate sector in Western Canada. More recently, he has been involved in his own business dealing in business succession and corporate finance.
Watson Wyatt is a global consulting firm focused on human capital and financial management.
Robert Bhatia has been named as the new deputy minister for Alberta Government Services.
Bhatia has been serving as the revenue deputy minister in Alberta Finance since November 2004.
His appointment follows the resignation of Roger Jackson from the position.
The former Revenue Ministry was merged with Finance after the last provincial election. The position of revenue deputy minister will not be continued.
- with files from The Canadian Press
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