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Ursula Menke has left the CRTC as Secretary General, to become deputy commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard. Diane Rhéaume is acting Secretary General. Christopher Cary has been named EVP corporate strategy and chief marketing officer of Telus Corp. He has worked for AT&T in the U. S., Bell Canada Enterprises, BCI, and Bell Cablemedia in Britain. Linmor Inc. has appointed David Burns VP of strategic marketing. Before joining the Ottawa network software manufacturer, he held positions at Callixa, Scient, Oracle and Price Waterhouse. Debbie MacLeod is the new VP sales & marketing at Cygnal Technologies Corp. She has been with the Oshawa ON company since 1993. Toronto’s Sigma Systems is expanding into Europe with the opening of an office in Frankfurt. Robert Wiesheu, formerly of Digiquant, will serve as regional director. The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation has named Jim Orban Jr. as VP marketing and business development. He is a veteran of Watchfire, an Internet software company, and Corel Corp. The upheaval at Ontario’s Hydro One has led to the appointment of a new board of directors. Glen Wright of Cowan Insurance Group Ltd. is chair and will serve with Woodbridge Co. Ltd. president Geoffrey Beattie; University of Toronto VP Heather Munroe-Blum; Rita Burak, president/CEO Network Executive Team, Management Consultants Inc.; former Liberal provincial Cabinet minister Murray Elston; entrepreneur Murray Frum; former Conservative provincial Cabinet minister Darcy McKeough; Power Workers Union president Don MacKinnon; former NDP premier Bob Rae; Ken Taylor, the former Canadian ambassador to Iran; and retired Noranda chair Adam Zimmerman. Obituary Guido Henter, a former executive director of the CRTC, died in Ottawa on June 2 at the age of 70. He is survived by his wife Maria, three children and a stepdaughter.

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News | June 18, 2002

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