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D3 Management, Toronto, has appointed Sanjiv Purba as technology lead, leadership team, at the interactive agency. Purba is also a regular columnist at The Globe and Mail. Also at D3, Rick Brown has been named creative director. He has held previous positions at The Brainstorm Group, Vickers and Benson Advertising, and Ian Roberts Advertising, among others. RIAN eLearning has elected its executive team for the next year. Serving will be Mario Robert, president; Ronald LaBrie, VP; Romain Gagnon, VP; Robert Roy, secretary; and André Lefebvre, treasurer. David Dembroski has joined the law firm Stohn Hay, LLP, becoming its third partner. Prior to joining the entertainment law shop, Dembroski was a partner at Aird & Berlis where he worked for nine years after articling and summering at Blake, Cassels & Graydon. Besides all areas of entertainment law, his practice also focuses on technology law and sports law. He is a member of the executive committee of the media, sports and entertainment section of the Canadian Bar Association, and is also a director and legal counsel to Junior Achievement of Canada and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has elected a new board of directors as well as elected a new president, Earl Rosen. Rosen served as executive director of the Canadian Independent Record Production Association from 1978 until 1987, and was the founding executive director of the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records. He is also co-chair of the Trade Team Canada - Cultural Goods and Services of Canadian Heritage. He is founder and president of the record label Marquis Classics. Rosen replaces outgoing president Gilles Valiquette. A full list of SOCAN’s new directors, who will serve for the 2003-2006 term, is available on the collective’s web site. They were elected at the copyright collective’s June 9 annual general meeting. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has announced that Richard Pfohl will replace Ken Thompson as the association’s main counsel. Pfohl will join the organization as general counsel on July 2. Thompson held the title VP, general counsel. Pfohl joins from the technology, communications and intellectual property group of McCarthy Tétrault, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University. A media release announcing his appointment extols his experience on Capitol Hill and relationships with law firms in the U.S. capital. Thompson is leaving the organization to complete a course at Harvard Law School. Former Adobe Systems Inc./Accelio Corp. senior marketing manager Kelly Moodie has joined Gatineau QC-based Provance Technologies Inc. as VP of alliances.

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