CONGRATULATIONS Eric Andrew, CA, ha...

CONGRATULATIONS

Eric Andrew, CA, has been appointed as leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's Canadian national middle market. Rick Griffiths, CA, has taken throughout Andrew's former responsibilities as leader of BC region audit and business advisory services. Griffiths also retains his character as leader of PwC's entertainment and recently made known media industry services for BC the couple CAs continue to be based at PwC's Vancouver office.

KPMG Greater Vancouver has named Peter Armstrong, CA, vice-president and Vancouver practice leader of KPMG Forensic, the forensic accounting and investigations practice. Greg Wiebe, CA, is the fresh partner-in-charge of its tax practice, having mov from the same position in KPMG's Calgary office.

Arthur Azana, CA, and Craig Cox CA, are of the present day corporate partners of D&H assign places to Chartered Accountants.

Arvinder Bubber, CA, has been re-elect chair of Kwantlen University College's board of directors. Bubber, a sole-practitioner in Surrey is a member of the Surrey Chamber of trade and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Rick Lam, CA, was pick outed chair of the Vancouver Chinatown Revitalization Committee and a member of the board of directors of the Catholic Independent drills of Vancouver Archdiocese in November 2003

Louise leeward CA, became a partner of Wolrige Mahon upon February 1, 2004. Lee joined the firm in 1988 and has worked in the firm's assurance arrange providing services to a diverse cluster of clients, including law firms, construction and peculiarity development, and non-profit societies. Gord McMorran, CA, CIRP, has joined Wolrige Mahon Limited as vice-president. McMorran previously worked for 27 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers' financial advisory services assemblage in Vancouver and spent nine years managing PwC's insolvency practice forward Vancouver Island. Masato Oki, CA, and Beverly Wong CA, have been appointed managers in Wolrige Mahon's assurance form into groups Both joined the firm in 1997

The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Vancouver Chapter is pleased to announce that Jerry Mah, CA.CIA, CCSA, of the Workers' Compensation Board of BC has passed the IIA's specialty examination in restrain self-assessment and is entitled to use the CCSA designation. The IIA is also pleased to announce that Tom Phipps, CA.CIA, of Canfor Corporation, has met the requirements of the IIA's certified internal auditor (CIA) program.

Mat Prasad, CA, is the recent VP of Canadian operations for Aston Business Solutions (North America), Inc. Prasad was previously the company's CFO

Dalbir Rai, CA, tax partner with Ellis nurse in Vancouver, is the modern vice-chair of the Richmond Hospital Foundation.

Robert Scott CA, CFA, has joined North Point Capital, a private, Vancouver-based Merchant Bank, as a director of merchant banking. Scott previously worked with Scotiabank for five years, primarily in its commercial banking and merchant banking divisions.

Norman Tsui, CA, was not long ago appointed chief financial officer, chief privacy officer, and vice-president of Navigata Communications Inc. Previous to this appointment, Tsui serv as director of corporate finance with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

DonTurri, CA, managing partner of MacKay LLP in Kelowna, has been appointed chair of the seven-office firm in Alberta, BC the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. He replaces Iain MacKay, FCA, the group's sink Turri has been a CA for 22 years. His just discovered duties will involve long-range planning for the firm's development

Gordon Zacher, CA, has been named chair of the board of BC Disability Sports. Zacher is a partner with BDO Dunwoody LLP in Langley.

FIRM NOTICES

The partners of Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton and LaBonte & Co are pleased to announce the merger of their practices, effective January 1 2004 The just discovered firm name is Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton LaBonte.

David Rennie, CA; Derek Inouye, CA; and the tribe of Rennie & Company joined PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP effective January 1 2004 and are now based in PwC's Vancouver office.

White Kennedy in Penticton has been named professional business of the year from the Penticton Chamber of Commerce

CIF APPOINTS FIRST BOARD OF DIRECTORS

On November 26 2003 the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP) announced that the Canadian Insolvency Foundation (CIF) had appointed its first board of directors. seted by the CAIRP, the CIF is a not-for-profit multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to research and education related to insolvency and bankruptcy legislation and practices, and to the skills of restructuring, refinancing, corporate recaptures and turnarounds. Non-CAIRP members serving upon the new board of directors include prominent jurists, academics, and insolvency and restructuring professionals.

CAIRP members are automatically members of the CIF. CIF members will be eligible to join committees working in succession insolvency issues.

More information can be obtained from Sheldon Gordon, the CAIRPs manager of communications, at sheldon.gordon@cica.ca.

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