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•Accounting D a v i d S a l e h a s b e e n appointed to the board of governors of the Certi-fied General Accountants Association of BC. He is a professor at Kwantlen Poly-technic University’s School of Business.

Linda Bowers has been pro-moted to principal, Mathew Lee, Vipin Sachdeva, Mar-garet Puhacz and Michelle So have been promoted to manager and Ben Capps,

chairman of the board of Baja Mining Corp. He is president of CB Gold Inc.

Brad Johansen has resigned from the board of Conifex Timber Inc. in order to pur-sue other interests.

Douglas Penrose has been appointed chairman of the board of First Majestic Sil-ver Corp., replacing Rob-ert McCallum. Penrose is chairman of the company’s audit committee and was previously vice-president of finance and corporate services for the BC Lottery Corp. Martin Palacios has been appointed chief infor-mation officer (CIO) of First Majestic. He was previously director of global applica-tions and IT at Goldcorp, CIO of Pivotal Corp. and

Julie Guenkel and Graeme Cocke have been appointed m a n a g e r s a t S m y t h e Ratcliffe LLP. Bowers was previously a manager at Smythe Ratcliffe. Lee, So and Sachdeva were previ-ously senior accountants at the firm and Puhacz was a senior tax accountant with the company. Capps, was previously manager at BDO Kamloops, Guenkel was previously controller at Cressey Development Group and Cocke was pre-viously senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP.

•FinanceJustin Stubbs has joined RealCap Financial as a part-ner. He was previously direc-tor of commercial credit with Coast Capital Savings and vice-president, commercial

mortgages, Ontario, at Cit-izens Bank of Canada.

•GeneralCarlos Teixeira has been appointed director of sales and marketing at NCIX. He was previously western sales manager for LG Electronics Canada.

•Hospitality/Tourism/Convention Michael Kreuger has been appointed senior v ice-president of finance and accounting at SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts. He was previously vice-president and controller of the For-zani Group Ltd. and cor-porate controller at Nike Canada Ltd.

•Human ResourcesCarly Fairhurst has been

promoted to branch man-ager, Vancouver, at The Headhunters Recruitment Inc. She was previously sen-ior recruitment consultant at The Headhunters, and David Aplin Recruiting.

•LegalNoordin Nanji has been appointed partner at Stike-man Elliott. He was previ-ously senior counsel at the firm and vice-president, strategy and development, at Ballard Power Systems Inc.

Joel Camley and Mar-garet Fitzpatrick have been appointed partners at Gowl-ing Laf leur Henderson LLP. Camley is a member of the business law group and was called to the BC Bar in 2003. Fitzpatrick is the

office group leader for the trade-mark national prac-tice group.

Jennifer Archer, Shantela Blaeser and Melanie Brad-ley have been promoted to partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Archer was previously an associate in the firm’s corporate com-mercial practice. Blaeser and Bradley were previously associates in the securities and capital markets group.

•Non-ProfitWendy Slavin has been appointed CEO of the Can-adian Breast Cancer Foun-dation , BC and Yukon region.

•ResourcesGiles Baynham has been appointed independent

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Linda Bowers (top left to right) is a principal and Mathew Lee, Vipin Sachdeva, Margaret Puhacz, Michelle So (bottom left to right), Ben Capps, Julie Guenkel and Graeme Cocke are managers at Smythe Ratcliffe

Mechele Bilton, branch manager, TD Canada Trust; Adrienne Bakker, president and CEO, Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation (RCHF); Belle Puri, RCHF board chair and RCHF director, John Ashbridge

vice-president of informa-tion technology for Seagate Software.

Ia n St a l k er h a s b e en appointed to the board of Aura Minerals Inc. He is CEO of Brazilian Gold Corp. and was previously CEO of Berkeley Resources Ltd. and UraMin Inc.

Hannes Meyer and Juliet Wall have joined First Quantum Minerals Ltd. as CFO and general man-ager, finance, respectively. Meyer was previously finan-cial director with Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. and executive director, CFO and acting CEO of Teal Explor-ation and Mining Inc. Wall was previously group finan-cial controller at Anglo American Plc.

Saurabh Handa has been appointed CFO of Yellow-head Mining Inc., replacing Robert Harper who will remain with the company as a consultant. Handa was previously corporate controller for SouthGobi Resources Ltd. and senior staff accountant at Deloitte and Touche LLP.

Gregory Martin has been appointed senior v ice-president and CFO of Sil-ver Standard Resources Inc. He was previously vice-president, business develop-ment, and treasurer for NovaGold Resources Inc.

Danny Williams, former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has been appointed special adviser to the chairman of Alderon Iron Ore Corp.

Brian Causey has been appointed a director of Cas-cadero Copper Corp. He is vice-president, project finance, for Hunter Dickin-son Inc. and was previously a partner of KPMG, LLP.

James O’Neil Jr. has been appointed CFO of Gryphon Gold Corp. He was pre-viously CFO and COO of Jipangu International and vice-president, f inance, controller and treasurer for Apollo Gold Corp.

Erika Vargas has been appointed CFO of Orestone Mining Corp., replacing Lorne Torhjelm, who has resigned. Vargas was previ-oulsy senior accountant for

Portal Resources Ltd. and controller for Scovill Fas-teners Mexico.

G r a nt H a l l h a s b e e n appointed president and CEO of Harmony Gold Corp. , replacing Craig E n g l e s m a n , w h o h a s resigned but will remain a director of the company. Hall is president and CEO of Brigadier Gold Ltd. and was previously president o f We s t e r n Wa r r i o r Resources.

Lisa May has been appointed director of investor relations at Bear Creek Mining. She is principal of Lisa D. May & Associates and was pre-viously director of investor relations for Plutonic Power Corp.

Paul Matysek has been appointed to the board of NMC Resource Corp. He is CEO of Lithium One Inc.

•TechnologyDouglas King has been appointed to the board of Westport Innovations Inc. He is a director at Silicon Graphics International Corp. , SJW Corp. and Adaptive Spectrum and

Signal Alignment, Inc. He was previously managing partner at Ernst & Young LLP.

Zack Wickes has joined PNI Digital Media as vice-president of technology. He was previously vice-president, software engin-eering, at MMX Software Inc. and CTO and vice-president, software develop-ment, at Yummy Interactive Inc.

Companies on the move• New In TownOn4 Communications, Inc. is located at Suite 102, 628 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver.

hats offBusiness in Vancouver wel-comes submissions from local small businesses and large corporations alike that demonstrate examples of corporate philanthropy and community involvement in the Vancouver area. High-resolution images are also welcome.

Avison Young’s Vancou-ver office raised more than $12,000 for Movember, the moustache-growing char-ity event that raises aware-ness and funds for prostate cancer.

TD Canada Trust donated $10,000 to Royal Colum-bian Hospital (RCH) to help build a multipurpose interventional suite that will expand cardiac, stroke and aneurysm care at RCH.

Chase Office Interiors donated $5,000 to the Child Development Foundation of BC to help children with special needs, at the Cen-tre for Child Development receive the therapies and services they require for a better quality of life and to reach their potential. •

Lawyer lands BIV Influential Women in Business lifetime achievement awardLaw firm partner and former BC Ferries executive Elizabeth Harrison recognized with 2012 Business in Vancouver honour

By Glen Korstrom

Elizabeth Harrison has impressed countless

legal clients through the years with her strong legal knowledge and ability to solve problems.

But her influence in the field of law and elsewhere also stems from an eight-year stint as chairwoman of British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.

The role showed young-er women that it’s possible to have a busy and success-ful career while taking on significant responsibilities outside of work and family. It also helped land her Busi-ness in Vancouver ’s 2012 Influential Women in Busi-ness lifetime achievement award.

“She is both influential and persuasive,” said Mac-Donald, Dettwiler and As-sociates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) CFO Anil Wirasekara, who has known Harrison since the 1990s and worked with her on MDA’s two IPOs and multiple acquisitions.

Harrison had no female lawyer role models when she was growing up in small-town Alberta in the 1950s and 1960s.

She earned her law de-gree at the University of Al-berta in 1972 and was hired as an articling student at Farris, Vaughan, Wills and Murphy LLP.

When the B.C. gov-ernment brought in a new Companies Act in 1973, Har-rison was the point-person at Farris to ensure clients’

books complied with new regulations.

A Farris partner since 1978, Harrison has worked on a number of significant mergers and acquisitions, in-cluding the complex takeover

battle between Inland Nat-ural Gas and Trans Moun-tain Pipeline Co. in the early 1980s and the BC Telephone Co. and Telus Corp. merger in the late 1990s.

Her board involvements have included the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation and Vancouver Opera. She sits on the boards of directors at the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and BC Ferries.

“I’ve learned aspects of business as well as the prac-tice of law,” Harrison said. “I’ve been able to apply that knowledge, and try to be of assistance to clients in a way that is not pure legal but pro-vides solutions that fit a busi-ness requirement.”

Harrison will receive her award March 6 at the 13th annual Influential Women in Business luncheon at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel.

Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at (www.biv.com/iwib). •gkorstrom@biv.com

“she is both influential

and persuasive”

– Anil Wirasekara,CFO,

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates

the role showed younger

women that it’s possible

to have a busy and

successful career while

taking on significant

responsibilities outside

of work and family

Elizabeth Harrison: “I’ve learned aspects of business as well as the practice of law”

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