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MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 17, 2017 /CNW/ - Bird Construction Inc. is
pleased to announce the appointment of Karyn A. Brooks as a member of its Board of
Directors. Ms. Brooks will also serve on the Human Resources,
Safety and Governance and Audit Committees.
Ms. Brooks retired from BCE and Bell
Canada in 2014 where she was Senior Vice President and
Controller and has been providing financial consulting services
since then. She is a member of the boards and audit committees of
Information Services Corporation and The Calgary Zoological
Society, was a member of the Board of Trustees and Audit Committee
of Queen's University from 2007 to 2014 and has held a number of
other volunteer board and committee seats. Ms. Brooks holds a
Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant)
designation and was elected a Fellow of Chartered Professional
Accountants Ontario in 2009. Ms. Brooks was named to the top 100
Most Powerful Women in Canada in
2009. Ms. Brooks received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
from Queen's University.
Ms. Brooks joins other members J.
Richard Bird, Paul A.
Charette, D. Greg Doyle,
Bonnie D. DuPont, Ian J. Boyd, Luc J.
Messier, Ron D. Munkley,
Paul R. Raboud and Arni C. Thorsteinson on the Board of Directors
of the Company.
Bird Construction is one of Canada's leading General Contractors
with offices in St. John's,
Halifax, Saint John, Wabush, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. The Company services the
industrial, commercial and institutional markets as well as the
heavy civil construction and contract surface mining sectors.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve a number of risks and uncertainties because they relate to
events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future.
Many factors could cause actual results and developments to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements.
The Toronto Stock Exchange does not accept responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE Bird Construction Inc.