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Don O’Leary has been named VP of finance at Vonage Canada. His mandate is to ensure Vonage Canada maintains the highest possible levels of financial performance and operational efficiency. He was most recently CFO of a venture capital funded software provider. Prior to that, he had increasingly responsible financial management positions at consulting firms Ernst & Young and Marsh & McLennan, CAE Inc., and mining conglomerate Sherritt International Corp. Duncan McEwan has resigned as executive VP and chief strategy officer of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., effective February 15. He will remain with the company in an advisory capacity for six months. Clay Horner has been appointed co-chair of Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. He will co-chair the law firm with Brian Levitt. Horner succeeds Tim Kennish, who became chair of the firm in 1999. As well, Stephen Sigurdson was named as managing partner and Dale Ponder moves to the role of managing partner responsible for the firm’s strategic development and client relationships. That position was formerly held by Terry Burgoyne, who is returning to full-time practice after six years as managing partner at the firm. Ponder was formerly managing partner responsible for the firm’s operations. Kennish will continue to serve as counsel in the firm’s competition law practice. Mike Zafirovski has resigned as Motorola president and COO, effective January 31. He will remain in an advisory role during the period in which Sun Microsystems executive Ed Zander takes over the CEO position from Christopher Galvin. Motorola has revamped its business into four groups: personal devices, networks, government and enterprise, and connected home. Ron Garriques has been chosen to oversee the personal devices unit. Adrian Nemcek will be responsible for the networks division, Greg Brown will oversee the government and enterprise division, and Dan Moloney will run the connected home section. Leonard Katz has joined the CRTC as executive director of telecommunications. He has held senior positions at Bell Canada, Cantel Inc., and Rogers Cable Inc. Most recently, he was president and COO of Digimerge Technologies Inc. and prior to that was president of Rogers Business Solutions. Shirley Soehn will serve as telecom special advisor to Katz until the end of March (see story in this issue). David Elder has been promoted to the position of VP of regulatory law, with responsibility for broadcasting law matters, as well as tariff filings, customer complaints to the CRTC, regulatory compliance, copyright board matters and policy, at Bell Canada

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