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International Datacasting Corp. has announced the departure of Phillip Bolger, executive VP and CFO. He is leaving to pursue other opportunities, but has agreed to serve as interim CFO until a replacement can be found. Contec Innovations has expanded into the Asia-Pacific region and has hired Steven Frank as director of business development for the region. He will be based in Singapore. Frank joins the Vancouver-based firm after having served two years at mobile gaming company Riot Entertainment as GM for Asia Pacific. He also spent four years at Intel Corp. Unity Wireless has announced the appointments of Casey O’Byrne and Andrew Chamberlain to its board of directors and executive, respectively. In addition to joining the board, O’Byrne will act as vice-chair. Chamberlain, a securities lawyer, will take over as corporate secretary. Nortel Networks Corp. is making changes to its sales organization as Gary Donahee, president of the Americas region, plans to retire in the spring of 2003 following 28 years of service with the company. Under the sales organization transition plan for wireless products, Pascal Debon, president of Wireless Networks, will assume accountability for North American wireless account teams. Day-to-day responsibilities will remain with Peter MacKinnon. On the wireline side, president of the Wireline Networks division Sue Spradley will spearhead North American account teams. She will be aided by Martha Bejar, who will work on ILEC accounts, and Randy Dodd, who will lead CLEC, IXC and independent and regional accounts. Bejar and Dodd will also report to Brian McFadden for optical network sales. Steve Schilling will continue to drive enterprise sales as president of enterprise accounts. Dion Joannou will return from Europe to lead the company’s CALA sales organization as president of CALA, replacing Winston Estridge, who plans to retire next year. Arthur Johns, chair, president and CEO of engineering firm Morrison Hershfield Group Inc., was presented with the Gold Medal at the annual Ontario Professional Engineers Award Gala on November 15. He has been a professional engineer since 1962. Ken Miller has joined the board of directors of Ignition Point Technologies Corp. Additionally, Irene Wilson has announced that she will stand down from her appointment as director. One of the leaders of Vancouver’s high-tech community, he has more than 20 years experience in the sector. For the last 15 years, Miller has operated a private investment firm specializing in investment and management services. From 1995 to 2001, he held various board positions with MDSI Mobile Data Systems Inc. including CEO. Stéphane Boisvert has been appointed president of Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. In this role, Boisvert will oversee the company’s business operations, market development and investment strategies in the Canadian public and private market segments. He joins the company from IBM where he spent 17 years in various sales, marketing and operations positions. Boisvert received the Top 40 Under 40 award for 2000. Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. has appointed Glen Myers to its board of directors, replacing Ken Spencer who has resigned from the board. Myers is currently CEO of IP Fabrics. Prior to joining IP Fabrics, he co-founded in 1987 Radisys Corp., a supplier of embedded computing systems for high-tech equipment. Infosat Telecommunications Inc. has contracted Warren Stevenson to lobby various federal government departments and agencies on issues ranging from broadcasting to telecommunications to employment and training to small business. Stevenson is a consultant with Canadian Corporate Consultants Ltd. Infowave Software Inc. has appointed Stephen Wu and Lew Turnquist to its board of directors. Wu is the founder of Alliance MG and currently serves as managing director. The firm provides investment advice on the telecommunications and other high-tech industries. Turnquist brings a lot of experience having most recently served as president of J Commerce Inc. He also held the position of executive VP and COO of Cell-Loc Inc. and served as CEO of its subsidiary TimesThree Inc. Prior to Cell-Loc, he co-founded Saraide Inc. and served as its director of marketing.

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News | 11/25/2002 5:00 am EST

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