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Executive VP and CFO W. Judson Martin is leaving Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. to become president/CEO of a trans-border real estate income trust. He will be replaced by Rita Middleton, senior VP, corporate finance, until a search for a permanent replacement is completed. CTV Inc. has appointed Elaine Ali as senior VP, CTV Stations Group, effective immediately. She will have overall responsibility for all of CTV’s 27 owned-and-operated local stations, with all of the company’s station general managers reporting to her. She was previously VP and GM at CKY Winnipeg, a position she held since 1998. From 1996 until January 2002, she was president of WTN, a position she held concurrently with her GM duties at CKY. Ali joined the broadcast industry in 1975. MSN.CA has given Gerri Sinclair the nod as its new general manager. Sinclair was previously the president of the B.C. Premier’s Technology Council, and founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, since acquired by Microsoft Canada. She has also served on Canada’s National Information Highway Advisory Council, and the National Broadband Task Force. The company has also appointed Claude Richard as manager of business development and advertising sales. Richard will lead the national sales team, manage strategic business relationships and develop new business opportunities at the company. He has more than six years of experience with parent company Microsoft Canada, where he has held several positions including leader of the technical team that deployed all of MSN.CA’s service offerings in the Canadian market. The Liberty Village New Media Centre has appointed four new members to its board of directors. James Allan of Corus Interactive, James Anderson, a products manager with Sympatico-Lycos, Robert Gorrie, president/CEO of TheCiti.com and Ten Plus One Communications Inc.’s co-founder Shawn Pucknell have been named to the board. Masayuki Ihara, chief research engineer at Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone’s Cyber Space Laboratories, will spend a year at Vancouver’s New Media Innovation Centre participating in new media research and development.

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Broadcast | September 18, 2002

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