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H COL ROBERT J.S. GIBSON, CLJ, MMLJ, CHAIR
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Robert J. S. Gibson joined the Royal Canadian Navy as an officer cadet
and attended first year at the University of Alberta. This was
followed by a period with Southland Canada during which he became
District Manager for Alberta and was responsible for the management of
thirty-one 7-Eleven stores.
After leaving Southland Canada, Bob was engaged in the real estate
development industry with Western Realty Projects where he became Area
Manager for Southern Alberta. In 1976, he accepted a position as
President of United Management Ltd. and ultimately, Managing Director
of Alsten Holdings Ltd., the holding company of the Singer Family of
Calgary, a position that he still holds.
In 1986, Bob returned to the family roots and acquired the Bobtail
Ranch in Penticton, B.C. where he and Brigitte raise a commercial herd
as well as a reputable herd of pedigree Angus cattle.
Bob sits on a number of committees related to the Army Reserve
restructuring. He is active in charitable works through both the Order
of St. Lazarus and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program.
He is currently holding the position of Honorary Colonel of the
Calgary Highlanders in 2002.
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ROBERT BOOTH
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Bob Booth is a senior partner in the Calgary office of the Bennett
Jones LLP law firm.
Bob is involved in business, professional, academic and public policy
organizations. He is a director of ATCO Ltd. and of Canadian Utilities
Limited; he has served as a director of the Canadian Energy Law
Foundation, the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and is a
past president of The Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada. He
received the Institute-certified Director qualification (ICD.D) from
the Institute of Corporate Directors on March 13, 2009.
Bob's legal practice covers many areas of corporate, commercial,
energy and resources law both for Canadian and a variety of foreign
corporations.
To complement his legal practice, Bob has taught Oil and Gas Law and
has spoken and authored articles on Canadian Oil and Gas for the
Canadian Energy Law Foundation, the Alberta Law Review, and various
professional and business seminars.
Bob is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar
Association. He is recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in
Energy Law (2011, Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500
Lawyers in Canada. 2011, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers
for Business in Energy: Oil and Gas. 2011, Best Lawyers in Canada).
Bob has been with Bennett Jones throughout his legal career, joining
in 1977 and becoming a partner in 1984. A Bachelor of Engineering
graduate from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1974, he entered
Dalhousie Law School as a Dunn Scholar and was awarded the Oil and Gas
Prize upon graduation in 1977.
Bob is Honourary Counsel to the Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada
Foundation Inc., the Conference of Defence Associations, and the CDA
Institute.
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BRIAN
FLEMMING
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 Brian Flemming, CM, QC, DCL, is a Canadian policy advisor, writer and
international lawyer. From 2002 to 2005, he was Chairman of the
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), a Crown corporation
that was created by Canada’s federal Parliament on April 1, 2002, to
improve security at Canadian airports and on Canadian aircraft. He
acted as CATSA’s first CEO and set up the Crown corporation.
Following his departure from CATSA, Mr. Flemming became a Special
Advisor to Sypher-Mueller International, an Ottawa-based consulting
firm working primarily in the aviation sector. In August, 2005, he was
appointed for a two-year term by the Government of Canada to the new
Advisory Council on National Security.
Previously, in 2000-01, Mr. Flemming was Chairman of the Canadian
Transportation Act Review (CTAR) Panel, a major statutory decennial
review of Canada’s transport policies. His report to the Government of
Canada was widely hailed for its vision and balance. In 2003, he was
awarded the National Transportation Week “Award of Achievement”.
Mr. Flemming is a former senior partner of the law firm of Stewart,
McKelvey, Stirling & Scales and a former lecturer in public
international law at Dalhousie Law`School. He has been chairman as
well as a director of scores of public, private and not-for-profit
corporations. His public company directorships have included Noranda,
Brunswick Mining & Smelting, Enheat, VGM Capital, First Choice
Canadian Communications, Azure Resources and Homburg Invest. He is
currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDM Royalties Income
Fund.
Between 1976 and 1979, he was Assistant Principal Secretary to Prime
Minister Pierre E. Trudeau. In recent years, he has spoken at
international meetings or universities in North America, Europe, Asia
and Africa on transport policy, general security issues, air transport
security in Canada and internationally, the war on terrorism and the
public international law of the sea.
He has been the vice chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, a
board member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, chairman of the
International Centre for Ocean Development, founding chairman of
Symphony Nova Scotia and a board member of: the Canadian Institute of
International Affairs, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Van Horne Institute,
Pearson College of the Pacific and the International Oceans Institute
of Canada.
Mr. Flemming has degrees in science from Saint Mary’s University,
Halifax, and in law from Dalhousie University, Halifax. He did
post-graduate work in public international law at University College
London, England, and at the Hague Academy of International Law,
Netherlands.
He has an honorary doctorate from the University of King’s College
where he was chairman of the Board of Governors for nearly 10 years.
He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989. He lives in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is married and has two adult children.
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Robert B. Hamilton
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Mr. Hamilton has been an Executive with the Royal
Bank Financial Group for the past 18 years where he is involved in
financial planning and investments for institutions and individuals,
as well as managerial responsibilities. Previously, he was was the
senior executive for Royal Trust in western Canada 10 years before his
tenure at RBC. Bob's community service is
extensive. He is most proud of his role as a board member of
organizations such as the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation,
Calgary Stampede Foundation, Wilfrid Laurier University Board of
Governors, Red Deer College Foundation Board, and as the co-founder
of the Tim Hamilton Endowment Scholarship Fund at the Red Deer
College and the Wish Foundation of Alberta. He also sits on the
board of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and is the co-Chairman of the
Hall's relocation to Calgary. Mr. Hamilton's
enthusiasm, positive attitude, professionalism, creative approach to
problem solving and his ability to successfully encourage others to
give back to their community have served him well as a leader in his
professional and volunteering activities.
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Stephen Letwin
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Steve Letwin was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
IAMGOLD on November 1, 2010. He has been a member of the Board of
Directors since joining the Company.
Specializing in corporate finance, operational management, and
merger and acquisitions, Steve brings over 30 years of experience from
the highly-competitive resource sector. Steve actively leads his
executive management team with a clear and pragmatic approach to
driving business results, creating shareholder value, and achieving
sustainable growth.
Prior to joining IAMGOLD, Steve was based in Houston, Texas, where
he was the Executive Vice President, Gas Transportation &
International, with Enbridge Inc. Steve was responsible for Enbridge's
natural gas operations, including overall responsibility for Enbridge
Energy Partners, as the partnership's Managing Director. In 1999, he
joined Enbridge as President and Chief Operating Officer, Energy
Services, based in Toronto, Canada.
Before joining Enbridge, Steve served as President & Chief
Operating Officer of TransCanada Energy and was Chief Financial
Officer, TransCanada Pipelines Limited, Numac (Westcoast Energy), and
Encor Energy. Mr. Letwin holds an MBA from the University of Windsor,
is a Certified General Accountant, a graduate of McMaster University
(B.Sc., Honors), and a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management
Program.
Throughout his career, Steve has actively demonstrated his
commitment to voluntary leadership. His most recent community
affiliations have included Director, Corporate Campaign Committee of
Texas Children's Hospital; Patron, UNICEF Alberta, Canada; and
Director, YMCA Calgary, Canada. For his commitment to the community,
Steve was awarded the 2006 Alberta Centennial Medal.
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ROBERT S. MILLAR
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Robert S. Millar has academic, corporate, government, military and
not-for-profit experience. Over a 20 year career, he held leadership
positions in several corporations ranging from oil sands development,
downstream petroleum, biotechnology, private medicine and high tech
research & development. In 2000 he retired with the rank of
Brigadier-General from the Canadian Forces, having served 15 years in
the Regular Army and 20 years with the Army Reserve. In 2001 he became
the founding President of Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs
Institute.
Bob has served on several Boards: Shooting Star
Technologies, Eric Technologies Corporation, Alberta Children’s
Hospital Research Board, Citizen’s Advisory Roundtable (CAR) on the
future use of the former Canadian Forces Base Calgary, Alberta
Children’s Hospital, Canadian Petroleum Products Institute,
Transportation Association of Canada, Kids Cancer Care Foundation of
Alberta and The Military Museums. He was Chair of a private Research
Ethics Board, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, Prairie
Petroleum Association – Marketing, Conference of Defence Associations,
Sharing Our Military Heritage Foundation and President of the Royal
Canadian Armoured Corps Association. Currently, he is Chair of the
Calgary Military Museums Society, a Governor with SALTA Corps of
Commissionaires and a Director with the Last Post Fund, AB Branch.
Bob has Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of
Commerce degrees from Queen’s University as well as the Queen’s
University Public Executive Program certificate. He holds the
designation “Officer” in the Order of Military Merit.
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Hugh
Segal
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Senator Hugh Segal, C.M., is a former Chief of Staff to the Prime
Minister of Canada, Associate Cabinet Secretary (policies and
priorities) in Ontario and a former President of the Institute for
Research on Public Policy. A former Chair of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, a member of the recent Special Senate Committee on
Terrorism. He is a Senior Fellow of the Queen’s
School of Policy Studies, and a Member of both the Council of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and of the
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. He is
also Senior Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute in Calgary, and a regular Lecturer on Defence Policy at the
Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto. A graduate
in history from the University of Ottawa, Senator Segal is
an honorary captain in the Canadian Navy and holds honorary
doctorates in law from the Royal Military College of Canada He sits
on a range of private, public and not-for-profit boards of directors,
and is Senior Research Fellow at the McMillan law firm in Canada.
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MICHAEL SHAW
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Michael M. Shaw spent 30 years with the ATCO Group of Companies in a
wide variety of roles with increasing responsibility over his career.
He retired from ATCO in September of 2009 and is currently involved
with corporate boards, charitable endeavors and fundraising
activities.
Mr. Shaw graduated with Honours from Queen’s University in Kingston,
Ontario with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He is a member of the
World Presidents’
Organization (WPO) and serves on the Board of Directors of Chariot
Carriers Inc., Great Western Brewing Co., AVIVA Insurance Canada, Cash
Store Financial Services Inc., and ITC Construction Group.
He is a Director of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
(CDFAI) and is 2nd Vice President of the Calgary Petroleum Club. He
is past Chair of the Calgary Science Centre. He and his wife Linda
also co-chair a fund raising effort for the Kid's Cancer Care
Foundation of Alberta - Camp Kindle.
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