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Financial Executives International

Southwestern Ontario Chapter

August 2007 Newsletter | |Chapter Website:

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|Hope everyone is having a good summer – too bad that it is almost over! We have a new executive and lots |

|of great meetings and events lined up for you and we wanted to let you know all about them. |

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|New Executive |

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|Subject to your approval at the Annual General Meeting on September 12, the slate of officers on your new |

|executive is as follows: |

|President – Dawn Butler |

|Vice President – Sue Deakin |

|Treasurer – Nicole Archibald |

|Membership chair – Jim Knowles |

|Website chair – Cynthia McConnell |

|Past President – Leroy Innanen |

|Directors – Jim Fentin, Gitta Kulczycki, Dave Corner, Paul Shanks |

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|Many thanks to our retiring directors: |

|Trent Krauel, Rick Robertson, Jaap Burck, Katie Mills |

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|New directors wanted !!! |

|Please contact Dawn Butler - butlerd@highstreet.ca |

Mark the following dates on your calendar – meeting notices will follow shortly !!!

|Meeting Date |Location |Details |

|Wednesday, Sept. 12 |Pine Knot Dorchester|Kick off the Fall and join us for a fun day on the links. Cost is $75.00 per person for green |

| | |fees, cart and dinner.  Register on your own or in a foursome by 5 pm on Friday Sept 7 to Dave |

|First tee-off – 12:30 | |Corner.  Any cancellation after that date will be charged a full fee. Confirm your attendance |

|Cocktails – 5:30 | |by emailing Dave Corner at |

|Dinner – 6:00 | |DavidCorner@  |

|AGM following dinner | | |

|Wednesday, Oct. 24 |London Club |Terry Fallis, President of Thornley Fallis is a seasoned public affairs and communications |

| | |professional with over 20 years of experience. Prior to co-founding Thornley Fallis, he was |

|Cocktails – 5:30 | |President and CEO of Berger & Associates, one of Canada's oldest public relations firms. He |

|Dinner – 6:30 | |manages a broad range of communications, public affairs and crisis management projects for |

|Speaker – 7:30 | |clients in many sectors of industry. Terry is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on |

| | |public relations and social media. See their website |

|Meeting Date |Location |Details |

|Wednesday, Nov.14, |Spencer |Rob Fellows, founding partner of STS Capital Partners is our guest speaker. STS Capital |

| |Hall |Partners is an international boutique investment banking firm specializing in mergers, |

|Cocktails – 5:30 | |acquisitions and corporate finance for small and mid-market companies in the USA, Canada, |

|Dinner – 6:30 | |Europe, and Latin America. Rob has an entrepreneurial background, having started his own |

|Speaker – 7:30 | |business in 1981 and then selling it to the largest privately held marketing services provider, |

| | |the Maritz family, out of St. Louis, MO, in 1992.  Rob became a corporate executive in the |

| | |family business working in several international executive positions with the Maritz family |

| | |until 2003 when he retired to start STS Capital Partners, focusing on international mid-range |

| | |mergers and acquisitions - where all of Rob's M&A experience has been focused over his 25 years |

| | |as a CEO.  Rob has been involved with/led over 50 successful M&A transactions in the USA, |

| | |Canada, Europe, and Latin America. See their website at   |

|Thursday, Jan. 31 |London Club |Mark Warren, from Aon Canada is our guest speaker, speaking on D&O coverage, E&O coverage and |

| | |other topics of interest. Aon Corporation is the world's premier insurance brokerage, |

|Cocktails – 5:30 | |consulting services and consumer insurance underwriting organization. Aon creates value for |

|Dinner – 6:30 | |clients by offering knowledgeable, flexible and innovative solutions, from mitigating risk to |

|Speaker – 7:30 | |improving human resources. See their website at |

|Wednesday, Feb. 27 |TBA |TBA (to be announced) |

|Wednesday, Mar. 26 |TBA |TBA |

|Wednesday, Apr. 23 |TBA |TBA |

|Wednesday, May 28 |TBA |TBA |

|Wednesday, Jun. 25 |TBA |TBA |

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We have had 18 new members join us since the start of 2006 – that’s terrific !!!

|New member |Company |Title |Date joined |

|Thomas Wright |Chicopee Mfg. Ltd. |Controller |Jun / 07 |

|Perry Hromadka |Hercules Tire |Controller |May / 07 |

|John Mockler |LHSC & St. Joseph’s |Corporate Controller |Apr /07 |

|Kelly Esquimaux |Dock Products |Controller |Mar /07 |

|John Stephenson |London Hydro |VP & CFO |Mar /07 |

|John Bernhardt |Ellis Don |CFO |Mar /07 |

|John Leitch |TSC Stores |VP Finance, CFO |Mar /07 |

|Gary Hicken |BTC Logistics |Controller |Sep / 06 |

|Curtis Pope |Atlas Tube |CFO |Jul / 06 |

|Carl Merton |Atlas Tube |VP, Special Projects |Jul / 06 |

|Raffi Mazmanian |Spencer Steel |Director, Finance |May /06 |

|Keith Wettlaufer |Bruce Power |CFO, EVP |May /06 |

|Mary Heisz |Richard Ivey School |Professor |Apr / 06 |

|Craig Harris | | |Apr / 06 |

|Drew Forrret |Activeplant |Director of Finance |Mar / 06 |

|Steve Bowden |3M |Financial Manager |Feb / 06 |

|John McCraw |Union Gas |EVP, Controller |Feb / 06 |

|Scott Calver |ICS Courier |Director of Finance |Feb / 06 |

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