Robert Normand Mr. Normand is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the CICA (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants). From 1962 until 1967, he worked as an auditor with two major accounting firms. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Gaz M�tropolitain Inc. (now Gaz M�tro Inc.), a public company, from 1976 until 1997. He is a member and past Canada Chair and Vice President, U.S. of the Financial Executive Institute (now Financial Executive International), a leading professional association for corporate finance executives. Since his retirement from Gaz M�tropolitain Inc. in 1997, Mr. Normand has served on the board of directors and audit committee of a number of public companies, some of which are registrants with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and are required to reconcile their financial statements between Canadian and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. |