Shane Holland and Isabel Sum have joined the Greater Vancouver Community Services Society as CFO and director of home support operations, respectively. Holland was previously director, value in kind and sponsorship revenue, at VANOC. Sum was previously director of home support at the Community Home Support Services Association.
Stephen Bruyneel, Josh Handley, Tracy Price and David Rickards have been appointed to the board of the Fraser River Discovery Centre Society. Brunyeel is principal of SB Communications & Public Affairs Ltd. Handley is marine manager at Lafarge Aggregates. Price is vice-president and portfolio manager at RBC Dominion Securities. Rickards is a taxation services partner at Grant Thornton LLP.
Louise Yako has been appointed president and CEO of the BC Trucking Association (BCTA). She was previously vice-president of policy, communications and partnerships; director of policy and communications; and manager of government and inter agency affairs for the BCTA.
Eric Denhoff has been appointed president and CEO of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. He was previously chief treaty negotiator for the Government of Canada and BC Hydro and chair and acting CEO of BC Transit.
Barry Gee, director of operations and communications at LifeSciences BC, has resigned from his position.
Allan Russell has been appointed vice-president of the Vancouver-region engineering group at McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. He was previously president of the Consulting Engineers of BC and Terra Engineering,and senior vice-president of Trow Associates Inc.
Ross Stringer has resigned from the board of Strategem Capital Corp.
Shawn Neumann, Colleen Lister and Stewart Ladyman have been elected to the board of First West Credit Union as chair, vice-chair and board secretary, respectively. Neumann is founder and owner of Domain7 Solutions Inc. Lister is a partner at Harvey, Lister and Webb. Ladyman runs his own education consulting firm.
Darin Martin has been appointed director of marketing and communications at Crelogix Acceptance Corp. He was previously marketing account manager at Ariad Custom Communications and marketing manager at the Ontario Real Estate Association.
Nicole Minions has been appointed executive director at SOS Children’s Village BC. She was previously executive assistant to the president at Envision Financial.
David England has been appointed principal and CEO of HQ Real Estate Services and David Goodman, Mark Goodman, and Ken England have joined as principals. Stephen Ellis and Lani Jo Weaver have been appointed managing brokers at the company. David England is co-founder of HQ and was previously a commercial broker with Colliers International. David and Mark Goodman were previously commercial brokers with Macdonald Commercial. Ken England was previously a commercial broker with Colliers International. Ellis is president and managing broker of eCo Realty Inc. and was previously a managing broker at Colliers International. Weaver is managing broker of eCo Realty and past-president of the commercial division of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.
James Komadina has been appointed CEO of International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. He was previously president and COO of Brazauro Resources, senior vice-president, development projects, for Gold Fields and president and CEO, North America, for AngloGold Ltd.
Eduardo Baer and Peter Olander have been appointed directors of the board of La Quinta Resources Corp. Baer was previously interim president and CEO of European Goldfields Ltd. Olander is COO of Angus Mining Inc.
William Harris, founder of Northern Freegold Resources Ltd., is stepping down as chair of the board and COO and will remain as an adviser. Susan Craig has resigned as CEO and will remain as president. Tim Termuende will act as interim CEO. Marco Strub, principal of Sircon AG, has joined the board and Connie Norman has been appointed corporate secretary to Northern Freegold. She is corporate secretary for Skyline Gold Corp., and previously for Brett Resources Inc.
Joshua Crumb has been appointed to the board of Astur Gold Corp. He was previously senior metals strategist at Goldman Sachs, director of corporate development at Lundin Mining and special project analyst for Lukas Lundin.
Ram Ramachandran has been appointed to the board of Rio Alto Mining Ltd. He is CFO of CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. and Purepoint Uranium Inc. and was previously associate chief accountant and deputy director, corporate finance, at the Ontario Securities Commission.
Mike Anglin, Ferol Baker and Ann Carpenter have joined THEMAC Resources Group Ltd. as executive adviser, general manager and project director, respectively. Anglin was previously COO at BHP Billiton, Baker was previously a mine manager with QuadraFNX Mining Ltd. and Carpenter was previously president and COO of US Gold Corp.
Douglas Wood has been appointed vice-president, exploration, at American Bonanza Gold Corp. He was previously an independent consultant.
Glen Hoffmeyer has been appointed manager of metallurgy and mineral processing at Curis Resources Ltd. He was previously chief engineer at Freeport-McMoRan.
Thomas Amoah has been appointed exploration manager for Adansi Gold Co. a subsidiary of PMI Gold Corp. He was previously exploration manager at Avocet Mining.
Darren Lindsay has been appointed to the board of Castle Peak Mining Ltd. He is Castle Peak’s president and CEO.
Ken Stowe, president and CEO of Northgate Minerals Corp., has retired.
Peter Olander has been appointed to the board of La Quinta Resources Corp. He is COO of Angus Mining (Namibia) Ltd.
Alastair Tiver has been appointed vice-president, operations, at Yellowhead Mining Inc. He was previously chief engineer of Copper Mountain Mining Corp. and chief mining engineer with bcMetals Corp.
Cliff Carson has joined the board of Hard Creek Nickel Corp. as independent director. He was previously president and director of Diamond Fields Resources Inc., senior vice-president, marketing and sales, at Falconbridge Ltd. and chair of the Nickel Development Institute.
James Campbell has been appointed president and CEO of Rockwell Diamonds Inc. He was previously vice-president, new business, at Lucara Diamond Corp., managing director of African Diamonds plc and general manager, global mining and exploration group, at De Beers.
Timothy Smith has been appointed vice-president, operations, at Fire River Gold Corp. He was previoulsy vice-president of U.S. and Canadian operations with Apollo Gold and operating manager with Cominco.
Gerry Jardine has been appointed as a director of Mercer Gold Corp. He is president and principal shareholder of Amcan Fiscal Consultants. William Thomas, previously Mercer Gold’s secretary, treasurer, CFO and a director, has been appointed CEO and president. He was previously CFO of Hana Mining Inc. and NWT Uranium Corp.
Lisa Payne has joined Colligo Networks Inc. as COO. She was previously CFO and vice-president, business development, at BC Innovation Council, president of Aegis Mobility, president of TeraSpanNetworks Inc. and CFO at Wavemakers Inc.
Richard Sherman and Michael Liggett have been appointed to the board of Functional Technologies Corp. Sherman is he is general counsel of Hawaii Biotech, a principal at CIP Capital LP and a venture partner of SCP Private Equity Partners and Vitalife II. He was previously deputy general counsel of SmithKline Beckman Corp. and founder and managing officer of QED Technologies Inc. Liggett was previously CFO of EACOM Timber Corp. and Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Gordon Becker has joined the board of Tranzeo Wireless Technologies, Inc. He was previously president of WebTech International Inc. and president and CEO of Modern Logic Inc.