Resort and adventure-travel company Intrawest Corp. is appointing several new executives at key divisions.
Gary Raymond, the head of Intrawest Placemaking, is leaving later this year to pursue other business interests. Drew Stotesbury, chief financial officer of Intrawest Placemaking, will become interim head of the division.
Michael Hannan, former executive VP of strategic and corporate development, has been appointed president of Abercrombie & Kent (A&K), responsible for worldwide operations.
A&K said Joss Kent has rejoined the company as chief operating officer after a three-year absence.
In addition, Brad Miller, former VP for sales and marketing at Royal Caribbean Cruises, is joining A&K as executive VP and chief development officer.
Vancouver-based Intrawest (TSX:ITW) has interests in 10 mountain resorts in North America.
Freegold Ventures Ltd. (TSX:ITF; OTCBB:FGOVF) reports Steve Manz has been appointed president and CEO.
The company says Manz has a 17-year track record in financing and developing gold projects.
Freegold Ventures Ltd. is a Vancouver-based gold exploration company exploring and developing projects in Idaho, the Yukon and Alaska.
Tanganyika Oil Co. Ltd. (TSXV:TYK) has a new CFO.
The company says Arlene Weatherdon has an extensive background in the area of finance.
Tanganyika is a Canadian oil and gas company with production and exploration assets in Egypt and Syria. Its corporate headquarters are in Vancouver.
Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSXV:TKO; AMEX:TGB) has made two appointments to the company's management team: John McManus as VP of operations and Robert Rotzinger as general manager of the Gibraltar Joint Venture.
Most recently, McManus was the GM of Coal Mountain operations at Elk Valley Coal Corp.
Rotzinger has worked at Gibraltar Mine since 1994 where he has taken on increasingly senior positions.
Vancouver-based Taseko has three mining properties in British Columbia.
Jim Grey has resigned as president, CEO and a director after five years with Internet services provider Radiant Communications Corp.
No reason was made public for his departure.
Chairman Chris Worthy will fill the chief executive officer duties while an external search goes on. Radiant (TSXV:RCX) is based in Vancouver.
Burnaby-based QuestAir Technologies Inc. has appointed a new chief financial officer effective Nov. 1.
Sherry Tryssenaar replaces Dan Parmar, who is leaving to take a role with another company. Most recently, Tryssenaar was CFO of OncoGenex Technologies Inc.
QuestAir (TSX:QAR; AIM:QAR) develops and supplies gas purification systems for refinery, industrial and fuel-cell markets.
Ballard Power Systems Inc. says it has completed a restructuring of the company with the firing of president and chief executive Dennis Campbell.
Campbell took over as chief executive in 2003 from then-chairman and CEO Firoz Rasul.
The board now is searching for a permanent president and CEO.
Ballard (TSX:BLD), which is commercializing fuel cells for the transportation market and power electronics and fuel cells for power-generation markets, is headquartered in Burnaby.
Aurea Mining Inc. (TSXV:MXA) has appointed Richard Whittall as president. Whittall, currently a director of Aurea, is an investment banker.
Aurea Mining Inc. of Vancouver, via its wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico City, is exploring for gold in the area of southern Mexico known as the Guerrero Gold Belt.
Rex Outzen has been named as chief operating officer of Romarco Minerals Inc. Outzen will be overseeing the operations at the Mesquite mine owned by Western Goldfields.
Most recently, Outzen was a consulting operator for Metallica Resources Inc.
Vancouver-based Romarco (TSXV:R) has recently struck a binding agreement with Western Goldfields (OTCBB:WGDF) to combine the two companies and create an intermediate gold producer with a pipeline of exploration projects.
Sally Eyre has stepped down as president and CEO of TLC Ventures Corp. (TSXV:TLV). She will remain on the board of directors.
Edward Farrauto, currently a TLC director and its CFO, will take on the role of interim president and CEO.
TLC Ventures Corp. is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and mine development company.
Magnum Uranium Corp. (NEX BOARD:MM.H) has appointed Craig Lindsay to the positions of president, CEO and a director. Most recently, he was a VP in the corporate finance and investment banking group at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Lindsay succeeds Norm Eyolfson, who has resigned to pursue other business opportunities. Eyolfson will remain a director.
Magnum is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of uranium assets.
Optimal Geomatics Inc., a geomatics service and software provider to the powerline and pipeline utility sector, has appointed Verne Pecho as its CFO.
Pecho joins Optimal from MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc., where he served as CFO for the past nine years.
Optimal Geomatics (TSXV:OPG) is headquartered in Vancouver
Rampart Ventures Ltd. (TSXV:RPT) has made a corporate change.
Ted Duncan has relinquished the post of company president but will continue to serve on the board.
Nelson Baker, a director of the company, has been appointed president and CEO. Baker comes from Rainy River Resources Ltd., where he was president and COO.
Vancouver-based Rampart is exploring for commercial-grade uranium deposits in Canada.
Members of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders' Association (GVHBA) have elected Chuck Marr as their 2005/2006 president.
Marr is senior development manager of Genstar Development Co. He also chairs the National Urban Council, whose members include industry leaders from the 10 largest metropolitan areas in Canada.
Elected to the 2005/2006 GVHBA executive committee were first VP Dale Barron, Morningstar Homes; second VP John Friswell, CCI Renovations; and secretary/treasurer John Harris, Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants, Vancouver.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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