Bombardier Announces Appointment of L. Denis Desautels to its Board of Directors.Business EditorsMONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2003 Bombardier (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :BBD BBD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Barbados Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. .A) (TSX:BBD.B) announced today that former Auditor General of Canada The role of the Auditor General of Canada is to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of federal government operations. The Auditor General reports to the House of Commons, not to the government. L. Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Desautels has joined its Board of Directors. "I am delighted that Mr. Desautels has agreed to join our board. His vast experience in both the private and public sectors and his solid knowledge of finance, operations and risk management will be very valuable to us. We are looking forward to benefiting from his expertise and leadership," said Mr. Laurent Beaudoin, Chairman of the Board and of the Executive Committee of Bombardier Inc. The appointment was effective Feb. 14, 2003. Mr. Desautels served as Auditor General of Canada from 1991 to 2001 following a 27-year career at Ernst & Young. Mr. Desautels is currently a member of the Accounting Standards Oversight Council for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) is the umbrella body for the Chartered Accountant profession in Canada and Bermuda. Membership of the CICA totals 70,000 Chartered Accountants and 8,500 students. , as well as a member of the Conference Board of Canada's National Awards in Governance Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and Chair of the Capital Health Alliance. Mr. Desautels also sits on the Boards of Directors for CARE Canada, the Laurentian Bank of Canada The Laurentian Bank of Canada (Banque Laurentienne du Canada) TSX: LB is a Schedule I bank in the province of Quebec. (It also has one branch in Ottawa, Ontario). and Groupe Jean Coutu (PJC) Inc. On Oct. 1, 2001, he was named Executive Director of the University of Ottawa's Centre on Governance. Bombardier Inc., a diversified manufacturing and services company, is a world-leading manufacturer of business jets, regional aircraft, rail transportation equipment and motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. recreational products. It also provides financial services and asset management in business areas aligned with its core expertise. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, the Corporation has a workforce of some 80,000 people in 24 countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2002 stood at $21.6 billion Cdn. Bombardier shares are traded on the Toronto, Brussels and Frankfurt stock exchanges (BBD, BOM and BBDd.F). |
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