Thomson leaving Bell for Talisman Energy

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...