CATAAlliance has added Peter Thomas to its management team as a government relations executive. He has more than 35 years of experience in the information and communications technology industry.
Thomas has been an independent consultant in Ottawa focusing his practice on the federal government and Crown corporations.
Keith Minty has been appointed president and chief operating officer at St. Andrew Goldfields Ltd.'s corporate office in Oakville.
Minty most recently managed Hunter Dickinson's South African project interests in Anooraq Resources Ltd. and Great Basin Gold Ltd.
St. Andrew (TSX:SAS) is a gold mining and exploration company.
Claude Ferron, formerly president of Canadian Copper and Recycling for Falconbridge, has been appointed as COO for the newly established division Xstrata Copper Canada. He will work from Toronto.
Xstrata is a major global diversified mining group with head office in Zug, Switzerland.
InterOil Corp. (TSX:IOL, AMEX:IOC) has appointed William Jasper as president and COO. He previously spent 33 years with Chevron Pipe Line Co. USA.
InterOil is a Canadian company with operations in Papua New Guinea.
Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN) has hired William Middleton as vice-president of licensing and general counsel, and Jung Yee as chief technology officer.
Middleton comes from Nygard International, where he was VP of legal services and general counsel. Yee comes from IceFyre Semiconductor, where he was the CTO and one of the company's founders.
Wi-LAN, a technology company with key patents in the areas of WiFi, CDMA2000, WCDMA and WiMAX, has its corporate headquarters in Ottawa.
Toromont Industries Ltd. (TSX:TIH) says that Hugo Sorensen is leaving to pursue other business opportunities, resigning as director, president and CEO.
Robert Ogilvie, chairman of the board, has been appointed CEO and Wayne Hill executive vice-president.
Toromont operates an equipment group and compression group. The company's head office is in Concord.
Eric Olson has been named vice-president of projects for GlobeStar Mining Corp. (TSXV:GMI). He was most recently managing director of Range Consulting Group in Houston.
GlobeStar is a minerals exploration company with a portfolio in the Dominican Republic. Its head office is in Toronto.
David Glass is the new president and CEO of Ontario Realty Corp., an agency of the province responsible for providing a broad range of real estate services to the government and to its client ministries and agencies.
Glass was most recently the president and CEO of Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls.
Aura Gold Inc. (TSX:ORA) has hired Carlos Bertoni as COO, and as president and CEO of its Brazilian subsidiary, Aura Gold Mineraçao Ltda. He was most recently CEO of Minières du Nord of Quebec.
Aura is a Canadian exploration company focused on gold deposits in Brazil. Its head office is in Toronto.
InterRent International Properties Inc. (TSXV:IIP) has named Gary Traer to the post of CFO. Traer was most recently VP of finance with an international resort developer.
InterRent acquires and operates multi-residential real estate. Its head office is in Toronto.
Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX, NYSE:SLF) has appointed Richard McKenney as executive vice-president and CFO, Stephan Rajotte as president of Sun Life Financial Asia and Dean Connor as executive VP.
McKenney was most recently senior VP and CFO of Genworth Financial Inc. Rajotte was most recently senior VP and managing director of the Asia Pacific region for MetLife International. Connor was most recently president of the Americas for Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
Excel-Tech Ltd. (TSX:NRV) has promoted Bruce McKean as VP of sales for its NeuroPATH instrument business. McKean had been VP of diagnostic sales for North America.
Excel-Tech's instruments are used for the diagnosis and monitoring of epilepsy and sleep disorders. Its head office is in Oakville.
Armtec Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX:ARF.UN) has named John Slattery as senior vice-president of finance. Slattery remains CFO and his expanded role will include growing the business through corporate finance activity.
At the same time Carrie Boutcher was named VP of finance. Prior to joining Armtec, she was employed at Linamar Corp.
Armtec manufactures plastic and steel drainage pipe and engineered products for infrastructure. Its head office is in Guelph.
Pacific Stratus Energy Ltd. (TSXV:PSE) has named Jose Francisco Arata as CEO, Marino Ostos as COO and president of the company's Colombian subsidiaries, Manfred Kruger as VP of investor relations, and Juan Manuel Pelaez as country manager for Colombia.
Pacific Stratus is an oil and gas company with producing interests in Colombia. Its head office is in Toronto.
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