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Bill Fraser will retire as CEO of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. next year, the company has announced. After more than 10 years in the top job at MTS, Fraser has decided to spend more time with his family. During his tenure, he helped transform the provincial incumbent telephone company into the third largest telco in the country behind only BCE Inc. and TELUS Corp. One of his major accomplishments was the $1.7 billion acquisition of Allstream Inc., which thrust the company onto the national scene. Fraser originally joined MTS in 1986 and served as VP of finance before taking over the reins in 1994 when Oz Pedde left the company. " decision to retire next year provides us with ample time to conduct a thorough North American-wide search to identify the best possible candidates for chief executive officer of MTS," Thomas Stefanson, MTS’ chair of the board of directors, said in a news release. TRLabs has appointed Kym Wittal as its new chair of the board of directors, effectively immediately. Wittal is CTO at provincial incumbent telephone company SaskTel where he is responsible for the planning, engineering and operation of the company network and corporate information systems. Prior to this appointment, Wittal held various positions at the telco spanning more than a decade. "The information and communications technology sector is rapidly transforming, and so too are industry R&D needs. From new vertical markets and shorter term project research, to re-design of internal processes that maximize commercialization rates, to multi-disciplinary graduate training, TRLabs is re-engineering itself to continue to be an attractive vehicle for industry to tap for new innovation," Wittal said in a news release. Serge Beaudoin has been appointed president and COO of Mediatrix Telecom Inc. and M5T, effective immediately. He also becomes first VP and COO of Media5 Corp. During his career at Mediatrix and M5T, he served as VP of research and development. He was instrumental in establishing the Voice over IP hardware and software development team for both companies. TigerTel Communications Inc. has announced that Timothy MacDonald was elected as chair of the board of directors at a meeting of the board last month. He has been a director of the company since May 2003. "Mr. MacDonald’s experience, business acumen and acknowledged integrity in the business community will be a great benefit in his role as chairman and the interests of TigerTel shareholders," reads a news release. Sang Mah has been appointed president of the Wireless Innovation Network of British Columbia. She brings more than 15 years in the technology sector to the job, most recently serving as CEO of Credo Interactive, a Vancouver-based interactive media firm. There, Mah helped commercialize in 1997 the company’s flagship product LifeForms which was developed at Simon Fraser University. While at the university, she was research manager for the graphics and multimedia research lab.

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News | September 29, 2005

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