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Michael Phelps

Michael E.J. Phelps
Chairman of the Board

Michael E.J. Phelps is Chairman of Dornoch Capital Inc., a private investment company.

In 2003, the Canadian Government appointed Mr. Phelps as Chairman of "the Wise Persons' Committee", a panel developed to review Canada's system of securities regulation.

From January 1988 to 2002, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and subsequently as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westcoast Energy Inc. Vancouver, BC.

Mr. Phelps serves on the Boards of Directors of Spectra Energy Corporation, Marathon Oil Corporation, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

He is Chairman of the Board of the GLOBE Foundation and Kodiak Exploration Limited. From 1997 to 2006, he served as Chairman of the Committee to Nominate the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Mr. Phelps also serves on the board of the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and is a Senior Advisor to Deutsche Bank AG, Canada and a special Advisor to CVRD Inco.

In 2001, Mr. Phelps was appointed as an Officer to the Order of Canada.





Robert Fung

Robert A. Fung

Robert Fung is currently an Advisor to Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. Mr. Fung is the former chairman of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, a corporation established to lead the $17 billion renewal of Toronto's waterfront.

From 1980 to 1998, he served as Vice-Chairman and a Director of Gordon Capital Corporation. Much of his efforts focused on corporate finance in the natural resources sector, particularly in acquisitions in the oil and gas industry. From 1998 to 2001 he joined independent investment dealer Capital West as a Senior Partner.

From 1967 to 1978, Mr. Fung was Vice-President and a Director of Dominion Securities Limited with responsibilities for its investment activities in Asia. He began his career in the investment industry in 1964 with Wood Gundy.

Mr. Fung is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of private, public and charitable organizations. He is Chairman of Crystallex International Corporation,  and Deputy Chairman of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is also on the boards of Mount Sinai Hospital, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, and Export Development Canada.





David Unruh

David G. Unruh

David Unruh (B.A.; LLB) currently serves as a Director of Westcoast Energy Inc., Union Gas Limited, Pacific Northern Gas Inc., Corriente Resources Inc., Catalyst Paper Corp., Ontario Power Generation, The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc and Translink .

Prior to this, Mr. Unruh served as Vice Chairman of Westcoast Energy Inc. and Union Gas Limited, before that as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Houston based Duke Energy Gas Transmission and Senior Vice President, Law and Corporate Secretary of Westcoast Energy Inc.

Before joining Westcoast Energy Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993, Mr. Unruh practiced corporate and commercial law in Winnipeg, Manitoba.



John Wiebe

John D. Wiebe

John Wiebe (BSc; PhD) is President & CEO of the GLOBE Foundation. Until May of 2005 he was also the President & CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and until April of 2007 was Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Education Centre Network and Global Schools Inc with operations throughout the world.

He serves as a Director of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, the International Finance Centre, EcoCanada, the McCrae Institute, West Mountain Capital Corp. and Tonbridge Power Corporation. He is a member of the United Nations Finance Initiative's Expert Group on Responsible Investment and serves on the Advisory Council of the Independent Power Producers Forum in Asia.

He is a past Chair of the Vancouver Economic Commission and from 2000 to 2006 served as a member of the National Roundtable on Environment and Economy.

In 2003 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada.