MONTREAL – L. Scott Thomson, BCE’s executive vice-president of corporate development and planning, has been named executive vice-president of finance and CFO of Talisman Energy Inc., effective July 2, 2008.
“Scott was central to BCE’s $52 billion project to take the company private – the largest transaction of its kind in the world,” said Michael J. Sabia, CEO of BCE. “Scott’s leadership of BCE’s mergers and acquisitions group, that completed a series of transactions including the sale of Telesat, contributed to the successful execution of the strategy to return the company to its core communications roots and surfaced tremendous value for BCE shareholders.”
