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William (Bill) Rainey becomes president of Vonage Canada. In the newly created position, he reports directly to Jeffrey Citron, chair and CEO of parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. Rainey is responsible for the development, execution and expansion of Vonage’s Canadian service offerings. Previously, he was senior VP of commercial services at Group Telecom, and has worked in executive and management roles with TELUS Corp. David Emerson was appointed as minister of Industry in prime minister Paul Martin’s Cabinet announced July 20. Liza Frulla was named minister of Canadian Heritage and minister responsible for the Status of Women. Jerry Pickard was named Parliamentary secretary to the minister of industry and Sarmite Bulte was named Parliamentary secretary to Frulla. Emerson has been named to the following Cabinet committees: Treasury Board (mandates the government’s financial, personnel and administrative responsibilities), Expenditure Review Subcommittee of the Treasury Board (reviews all programs and areas of cross-cutting interest and makes recommendations to the Treasury Board on funding decisions and reallocations), Domestic Affairs (considers, in an integrated manner, social, economic and environmental policy issues), and Canada-U.S. (ensures an integrated, government-wide approach to Canada-U.S. relations). Frulla is on the two Parliamentary committees: Operations (provides day-to-day coordination of the implementation of the government’s agenda, including policy, House planning, urgent issues and communications) and Domestic Affairs. Malcolm Buxton-Forman has been appointed as CFO at Unique Broadband Systems Inc. (UBS). He has been acting in the position on an interim basis since January 2004. Previous to joining UBS, Buxton-Forman has held senior positions in a number of operating companies in the Cadbury Schweppes Group. Bill Tam has been named as chair of the board of directors of Colligo Networks. He has chaired Colligo’s board of advisors for the past two years. He is the founder and CEO of Thoughtbridge Management, and has more than 16 years experience in the telecommunications and technology industry. Tamara Steffens has joined 724 Solutions’ executive team as senior VP of worldwide sales. Most recently, she was VP of worldwide carrier sales at Boingo Wireless, and prior to that she was VP of sales at Openwave Systems. Jean Marchand has been named to the newly created position of VP of production at Nurun Inc.

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News | 07/20/2004 4:00 am EDT

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