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James Leider has been appointed to the board of GSky Plant Systems Inc. He is currently chair and CEO of Leider Horticultural Companies Inc.
Ray Torresan has been appointed to the board of Valcent Products Inc. He was previously president of Torresan|TCI Communications. Bob Baker has resigned from the board of Valcent. John Hamilton will take over from Baker as CFO.
Heather Kennedy has joined Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival as director of marketing. She was previously head of Kennedy Communications Services.
Matthew Quetton has been appointed CEO of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network. He was previously a senior consultant with the Business Families Centre at the University of British Columbia and the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise.
Richard Hogg, Willie McCarter and Fred Hogg have resigned from the board of LGC Skyrota Wind Energy Corp.
Robert Geisthardt has been appointed CFO for Greenscape Capital Group Inc. He is currently with the energy trading division at Powerex Corp. and a partner at Quantum Advisory Partners LLP.
Danny Robinson has been named CEO of BCIC. He was previously co-founder of Bootup Labs and co-founder of the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society.
Travis Evans and Greg Iftody have joined Metropolitan Fine Printers Inc. as senior account executives. Luciano Bruschetta has joined the company as senior production planner. Evans was previously with 3S Printers; Iftody was previously with Rhino Print Solutions; and Bruschetta was previously with Generation Printing.
Kristal Kaye has been appointed CFO of Paragon Pharmacies Ltd. She was previously director of finance and administration and, prior to that, corporate controller with the company.
Ingrid Jarrett has been elected chair of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) board. She is currently general manager of the Watermark Beach Resort and vice-president of the BC Hotel Association. Other new TOTA board members include: Chris Bower (NK’MIP Resort Association); Lee Morris (Tourism Kamloops); Hans-Peter Mayr (Sparkling Hill Resort); Robyn Cyr (Regional District Columbia Shuswap); Christine Latimer (Best Western Valemount); and John Heshka (Thompson Rivers University).
Andrew Sharp has been appointed general manager of Great Panther Silver Ltd.’s Guanajuato mine. He was previously manager of technical services for the Mexican subsidiary of Pan American Silver.
Tony Floyd has been appointed technical adviser to the board of AuRo Resources Corp. He is currently chair of Inca Pacific Resources Inc. and was previously co-founder of Lumina Copper Group.
Jules Lajoie has been appointed senior consulting geologist for CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. He was previously chief geophysicist with Cominco Ltd., TeckCominco Ltd. and Teck Ltd.
Richard Mann has joined Balmoral Resources Ltd. as manager, exploration. He was previously senior geologist for Barrick Gold Corp. Robert Duess, Dan MacInnis, Wayne O’Connor and Kenneth Strong have been named advisers to Balmoral. Duess was previously Canadian project manager for West Timmins Mining Inc. MacInnis is currently president and CEO of MAG Silver. O’Connor is currently a director of Excellon Resources Inc. Strong is currently president of Technology Development Corp. and chair of Environmental Capital Corp.
Gil Leathley has been appointed senior vice-president and COO of NovaGold Resources Inc. He was previously senior adviser to the president of the company.
Bryan Hyde has joined Rockgate Capital Corp. as technical director. He was previously a member of the founding management team of LionOre Mining International, managing director of Tati Nickel Mining Co. (Pty) Ltd. and project managing director at Mirabela Nickel Ltd.
Steve Garwin has been appointed to the board of Southern Arc Minerals Inc. He was previously chief geologist, Nevada, with Newmont Mining.
Jan Castro has been appointed to the board of Nevada Copper Corp., replacing Michael Barton. Castro is currently managing director of Pala Investments AG and a director of Anatolia Minerals Development Ltd., Avoca Resources Ltd., Churchill Mining PLC, Titanium Resources Group, Dumas Contracting Ltd. and Norcast Wear Solutions Ltd. He was previously senior vice-president of investments and corporate affairs for Mechel OAO.
Matt Simpson has been appointed a director of Ridgemont Iron Ore Corp. He is currently COO of Alderon Resource Corp. and was previously mine general manager for the Iron Ore Co. of Canada, a RioTinto subsidiary. Kenneth Brophy has been appointed vice-president, operations, of Ridgemont. He was previously a consultation lead for Nalcor Energy.
Thomas Mulja has been appointed COO of Centurion Minerals Ltd. He is currently a consultant with PT Sigma Mineral Exploration. Mulja was previously with East Asia Minerals Corp., Minorca Resources Inc. and Barrick Gold Corp.
Glenn Little has been appointed president, CEO and director of Intelimax Media Inc. He was previously director of Stream Communications Network & Media Inc. and vice-president and director of Trooper Technologies Inc. Raymond Slee has resigned as an officer and director of Intelimax but will continue to oversee the management and development of the Inteli-gaming platform.