Montreal, QC, Canada - May 21, 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada - Orbite Aluminae Inc., a cleantech company, announced that Peter Crossgrove, Pascal Decary and Claude Lamoureux are joining the board as independent members.
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Mr. Crossgrove, a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, is currently Executive Chairman of Excellon Resources, and is Director and Non-Executive Co-Chairman of Detour Gold. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Lake Shore Gold, Pelangio Mines, Nordex Explosives, and Dundee REIT, and previously served as CEO and Vice Chairman of Placer Dome Inc. and as a Director of Barrick Gold.
Mr. Crossgrove is the former Chairman and founder of Masonite International Inc. He holds a B.Comm. from Concordia University, an MBA from the University of Western Ontario, and was a Sloan Fellow in the Doctoral Program at Harvard Business School.
Mr. Decary is the Senior Executive Vice President for Germany, Eastern Europe and Asia and Executive Director at Veolia Environmental Services, a division of Veolia Environnement S.A.. He began his career in 1984 at Caisse des Depots et Consignations, a French national financial institution, as manager of mixed ownership corporations. He then joined the JC Decaux Company in 1987 to create and set up financial control.
In 1989, Mr. Decary became the Chief Financial Officer for the North West part of France. In 1991, he accepted a position as a consultant for the CAPFOR firm and joined Veolia in January 1993 as HR Director for a transportation subsidiary. He then served as a divisional HR Director, before moving to Corporate as Executive Vice-President Human Resources for Veolia Environmental Services. He is an environmental specialist and has been in the industry for nearly two decades.
Mr. Decary holds a Master in Finance from the Universite de Rouen and a Master in Human Resources from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), and was a faculty member at Paris-Dauphine University for twelve years, teaching human resources.
Mr. Lamoureux is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario and the Ordre national du Quebec. From 1990 until his retirement in 2007, he was President and CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Mr. Lamoureux previously spent 25 years as a senior financial executive with Metropolitan Life in Canada and the United States. He co-founded the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance in 2002 to work for improved corporate governance practices at Canadian companies. ■