CN: Torrance Wylie Appointed Senior Vice-President, Public Affairs.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--CN (ME:CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser .) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CNR.) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. ) Torrance Wylie, currently Chairman, Government Policy Consultants, will become Senior Vice-President, Public Affairs, of Canadian National effective Feb. 1, CN President and Chief Executive Officer Paul M. Tellier announced today. Mr. Tellier said the appointment follows the retirement of Wes Kelley, who joined CN's public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most department at Moncton, N.B., in 1961 and has led CN's communications department since 1995. Mr. Wylie was an executive assistant to former Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. His experience includes serving as President and Chairman of Public Affairs International (now Hill and Knowlton Canada), and a Vice-President, Senior Vice-President, Executive Vice-President, and Director of Imasco Limited. He is a Director of CT Financial Services Inc., Royal Aviation Inc. and the Public Policy Forum, and a member of the advisory board, faculty of administration, University of Ottawa Mr. Wylie will be responsible for public and government relations at CN and will be a member of the executive and senior executive committees of the Company. He will report to the chief executive officer. Mr. Tellier said: "Torrance Wylie worked closely with CN on its privatization and proposed merger with Illinois Central. He brings a unique blend of communications and business experience to the executive table. His counsel and leadership will be significant in advancing CN's North American agenda." Mr. Tellier also thanked Mr. Kelley for his contribution to CN. "I am grateful to him for his role in the privatization of CN and for transforming CN's image from that of a Crown operation to that of a dynamic enterprise. I particularly appreciate the fact that he assembled and leaves us with a first-class corporate communications department." Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems serves all of Canada and the U.S. Midwest, including the ports of Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax, and the key cities of Toronto, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, with connections to all points in North America. |
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