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CFO Moves Canada – week ending February 8, 2019

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CFO Moves in Canada this week include:

Trueblu Westport Fuel Systems Inc. Acasta Enterprises Inc.
COIN Hodl Inc. Golden Leaf Holdings Ltd. Zonetail Inc.
Acceleware Ltd. Getty Copper Inc.

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CFO Moves Canada is published by Samuel Dergel (Executive Search Consultant and CFO & Financial Executive Search Specialist).

Samuel can be reached by email at samuel@dergelcfo.com or by phone at +1 (514) 907-0925.

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Mario Settino

Trueblu [VERONA, Italy, MILANO and MONTREAL] announced the appointment of Mario Settino as Executive VP of Corporate Development and CFO. Most recently he was CFO of BioAmber and previously President of Peds Legwear. Before this he held senior executive positions at Miranda Technologies /Grass Valley, Loblaws, Bombardier and LGS, (an IBM company).

Westport Fuel Systems Inc. [VANCOUVER] (TSX: WRPT, NASDAQ: WPRT) announced that Michael Willis has resigned as its Chief Financial Officer. Jim MacCallum, Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Controller, has been named Acting Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. MacCallum has led the corporate accounting and treasury functions since joining Westport in 2014. Prior to that he held finance leadership roles at Amica Mature Lifestyles Inc., Absolute Software and Cisco Systems.

Acasta Enterprises Inc. [TORONTO] (TSX: AEF) announced the appointment of Paul Bozoki as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bozoki has over 10 years as serving as Chief Financial Officer of various public companies listed on the TSX and TSXV.  Bozoki replaces Michael Murphy as CFO.

COIN Hodl Inc. [TORONTO] (TSX-V: COIN) announced the resignation of Daniel Crandall as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The Company is pleased to announce that Aamer Siddiqui will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer. Siddiqui is a Manager of Financial Reporting at Marrelli Support Services Inc.

Golden Leaf Holdings Ltd. [TORONTO] (CSE: GLH, OTCQB: GLDFF) announced the appointment of Karyn O. Barsa as its new Chief Financial Officer. The Company’s outgoing CFO, Craig Eastwood, is leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Ms. Barsa’s experience includes service as a Director, CEO, CFO and COO for multi-million and billion-dollar privately held and public companies across consumer products, financial services and other industries, including Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Performance Sports Group Ltd., Coyuchi, Inc., Investors’ Circle, Smith & Hawken, Ltd. and Patagonia Inc.

Zonetail Inc. [TORONTO] (TSX-V: ZONE) announced the appointment of Robert D.B. Suttie as the new Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Suttie is Vice President of Marrelli Support Services, serves as Chief Financial Officer or director on a number of other Canadian publicly listed companies including some listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and Canadian Securities Exchange. Mr. Suttie will succeed Dan Crandall who has left his role as senior manager of Marrelli Support Services.

Acceleware Ltd. [CALGARY] announced the appointment of Brian LeBlanc as Chief Financial Officer. Brian’s background features extensive experience in the oil and gas and energy services industries, as well as chemical processing, manufacturing, and wholesale/retail distribution and for the past 17 years, he has been operating an independent accounting consulting practice.

Getty Copper Inc. [VANCOUVER] (TSX-V: GTC) announced the appointment of Meryl R Tellis as new Chief Financial Officer. From 1979 to 2016, Meryl was a manager and director of taxation at a large forest company in BC. Meryl also chaired the tax committee for the Forest Products Association of Canada. Meryl Tellis is replacing interim CFO Shaheem Aziz Ali.

CFO Moves Canada – week ending June 8, 2018

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CFO Moves in Canada this week include:

Arbutus Biopharma Corporation Acasta Enterprises Inc. McCoy Global Inc.
Walton Big Lake Development L.P. E3 Metals Corp. Spot Coffee
Genius Properties Ltd. Valens GroWorks Corp.

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CFO Moves Canada is published by Samuel Dergel (Executive Search Consultant and CFO & Financial Executive Search Specialist).

Samuel can be reached by email at samuel@dergelcfo.com or by phone at +1 (514) 907-0925.

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Arbutus Biopharma Corporation [VANCOUVER] (NASDAQ: ABUS) announced the appointment of David Hastings as Chief Financial Officer.  Hastings will assume the CFO role from Koert VandenEnden, Arbutus’ interim Chief Financial Officer. Hastings previously served as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Incyte Corporation from 2003 until 2014. Hastings also previously served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of ArQule Inc. Prior to that, Hastings was with Genzyme Corporation as its Vice President and Corporate Controller, and with Sepracor, Inc. where he was Director of Finance. Most recently, Mr. Hastings served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Unilife Corporation from 2015 to 2017 and as its Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer from 2016 to 2017. Mr. VandenEnden, Arbutus’ current interim Chief Financial Officer, will remain as a member of the executive leadership team in the role of Chief Accounting Officer.

Acasta Enterprises Inc. [TORONTO] (TSX: AEF) announced the appointment of Michael Murphy as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

McCoy Global Inc. [EDMONTON] (TSX: MCB) announced that Jacob Coonan, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, will be departing from the Corporation to pursue other career opportunities.

Walton Big Lake Development L.P. [CALGARY] announce that Michael Maier has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of its general partner, Walton Big Lake Development Corporation. Mr. Maier is also the Chief Financial Officer of Walton Global Investments Ltd., having served in that capacity since April 1, 2018. Mr. Maier has been with the Walton group of companies for just over 5 years in increasingly progressive positions starting as the VP Finance of Walton Asset Management LP and most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of Walton Development and Management LP. Prior to joining the Walton group of companies, Mr. Maier had over 9 years of experience in commercial banking and real estate financing with two Canadian financial institutions. The Partnership also announces Michelle Cameron has resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of the GP.

E3 Metals Corp. [CALGARY] (TSXV: ETMC, OTC: EEMMF) announced the appointment of Greg Florence as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Greg has over thirty-seven years of business experience in various sectors including upstream oil and gas, green technologies, industrial supplies, and agribusiness. Florence replaces Debbie Lew.

Spot Coffee (Canada) Ltd. [TORONTO] (TSX-V: SPP) announced the departure of Ying Chen as CFO and welcomes Colleen Hobson, who has re-joined the Company and is once again assuming the role of Chief Financial Officer.

Genius Properties Ltd. [ST-SAUVEUR, Québec] (CSE: GNI) announced the appointment of Robert Boisjoli as Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation. Boisjoli, is currently Chief Executive Officer of AKESOgen, Inc., Chairman of Palos Management Inc., Managing Director of Atwater Financial Group, and a partner at Robert Boisjoli & Associates S.E.C. Robert has been the founder of two life science companies where he has acted as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He sits on the boards of directors of various public and private companies where he is also the audit committee chairman and is a board member of various not-for-profit organizations in the community and within the profession.

Valens GroWorks Corp. [KELOWNA, BC] (CSE: VGW) announced the addition of Chris Buysen as Chief Financial Officer. Buys has over 15 years of diverse financial experience working as a senior financial executive with many public and private organizations in a wide range of industries including retail, pharmacy and consumer packaged goods.