HALIFAX – Along with its controlling shareholder, Bell Canada, Bell Aliant today announced changes of trustees and directors – and organizational changes that are effective immediately.
Lawson Hunter leaves his position as trustee and chair of the Fund and Michael Sabia, Hunter and Patrick Pichette leave their positions, respectively, as chair and directors of the boards of Bell Aliant’s main operating subsidiaries.
George Cope, incoming president and CEO of BCE Inc., Siim Vanaselja, chief financial officer of BCE Inc., and David Wells, a telecommunications executive with over 30 years of industry expertise, have been appointed members of the Bell Aliant operating company boards. Cope has been elected chair of the Boards.
Aliant is the incumbent telco serving Canada’s easternmost provinces of PEI, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as well as many rural communities in Ontario and Quebec.
The company also announced that Karen Sheriff has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Bell Aliant. She has most recently been president, small and medium business, Bell Canada.
"Karen is an accomplished telecommunications executive with a deep knowledge of Bell Aliant’s business, having served as a director of Aliant Inc. and Bell Aliant, respectively, since 2004. I look forward to her contribution to the executive leadership of Bell Aliant,” said outgoing Aliant CEO Stephen Wetmore, in a statement.
