George Horhota has been named to the board of directors of Wi-Lan Inc. Horhota is co-founder, executive VP and CFO of Suiteworks Inc. He fills a vacancy left by the departure of Robert Schulz in March 2004, and he will sit on the audit committee. Horhota is a well-known figure in Canadian telecommunications, having served in the Royal Bank of Canada's information technology and media portfolio group before moving on to become CFO and VP corporate development at ACC Canada until 1998 when that companay was acquired by AT&T Corp. He then spent three years as president of Cannect Networks until, in 2002, he joined BCE Emergis as VP of operations.

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