Ron Hooge has joined Berris Mangan Valuations Inc. as director of valuation services. He was previously vice-president in the valuation and business modelling group at Ernst & Young.
Alan Maddox has joined the board of Functional Technologies Corp. He was previously president of Sepp’s Group of Companies.
Philip Steenkamp has been appointed vice-president of external relations at SFU. He was previously deputy minister in the B.C. ministries of regional economic and skills development; tourism, culture and the arts; aboriginal affairs; and advanced education. He was also president and CEO of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games secretariat, co-chair of the finance committee of VANOC and chair of B.C.’s deputy ministers’ committee on the Games.
Doug Hinton, executive vice-president, divisional manager, Western Canada, at Hatch Mott MacDonald Ltd., has been appointed president of the board of the Consulting Engineers of BC.
Allan Russell has been appointed vice-president leading the Vancouver region engineering group at McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. He is past president of the Consulting Engineers of BC and of Terra Engineering and was previously senior vice-president of Trow Associates Inc.
Virginia Weiler and Jan O’Brien have joined Vancity as chair and vice-chair of the board. Patrice Pratt has stepped down as chair. Weiler was the founding director of economic development for Ecotrust Canada. O’Brien is the provincial secretary for the BC NDP and has worked as a labour relations specialist with the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union and the BC Labour Relations Board.
David Chalmers and Dylan Reece have joined Nicola Wealth Management as financial advisers. They previously held the same positions at Rogers Financial Group.
Robyn Orford has been appointed branch manager at Envision Financial’s Abbotsford Village branch. She was previously branch manager at Envision’s Yarrow branch.
Adam Calleja and Julie Ireton have joined MHPM Project Managers Inc. as business development manager, Pacific region, and senior adviser and project manager, respectively. Calleja was previously senior business development manager at MWB Business Exchange and Ireton was a project manager for ICBC.
Geoff Carkner has joined the Fairmont Vancouver Airport as executive chef and leader of the culinary team at the Globe@YVR restaurant and Jetside Bar. He was previously executive sous chef at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
Kathy deLisser has been appointed assistant general manager, guest experience, at BC Place. She was previously director of planning, 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, for the Vancouver Airport Authority.
Ryan Irving, Lee Mauro and Michael Toulch have joined Harper Grey LLP as associates. All three articled with Harper Grey before being called to the B.C. bar in 2011.
Michael Thicke has been appointed president of Cobriza Metals Corp. He was previously vice-president, exploration, and technical adviser at Candente Copper Corp. and a geologist at BHP Billiton.
David Beling has joined the board of Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. and James Reynolds and David Shoemaker have joined as advisers. Beling is an independent consultant with D.C. Beling & Associates. Reynolds was previously a project manager at Hazen Research. Shoemaker was previously manager and vice-president of Molycorp Inc. Molybdenum Group.
Tom Ogryzlo has been appointed interim CEO of Aura Minerals Inc. He was previously vice-president, Latin America, of Ram Power Corp., founder and CEO of Polaris Energy Corp. and president of Kilborn Engineering and Kilborn SNC-Lavalin.
Michael Hunter has been appointed president of Cardero Resource Corp. replacing Hendrik Van Alphen who will remain as CEO and director. Hunter was previously founder and president of Coalhunter.
Wang Xiaoshen has joined International Lithium Corp. as non-executive director to the board. He is vice-chair and executive vice-president of Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium.
Steven Green has been appointed president of Otterburn Ventures Inc. He was previously a manager at Fronteer Gold USA.
Bruce Winfield and Richard Tschauder have joined Defiance Capital Corp. as president, CEO and director, and vice-president of exploration, respectively. Winfield was previously vice-president, exploration, for Greenstone Resources. Tschauder was previously an independent project manager.
Conrad Swanson has joined the board of Swift Resources Inc. He is president and director of Gold Reach Resources Ltd., International Samuel Exploration Corp. and Alya Ventures.
James Topham has been appointed to the board and been named chair of the audit committee at DDS Wireless International Inc. He is CFO of dpoint Technologies Inc. and was previously a technology partner at KPMG.