Uncategorized Sheriff steps up Howard Solomon @HowardITWC Published: October 29th, 2008Karen Sheriff has been promoted from chief operating office to CEO of Bell Aliant. She replaces Stephen Wetmore, who announced in July he was stepping down. Sheriff joined Bell Canada in 1999 as senior vice-president of product management and development and later became chief marketing officer. In 2003 she became president of Bell Canada’s small and medium business division and then moved to Bell Aliant, which has operations in six provinces.“Karen’s extensive experience as a telecommunications executive and deep knowledge of Bell Aliant position her well to provide sound leadership to our organization,” Charles White, chair of the board’s management resources and compensation committee and its lead independent director, said in a news release.Sheriff has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women three times, and in 2007 was named to the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Women Hall of Fame.Would you recommend this article?00 Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article! We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication. Click this link to send me a note →Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada Related Download Sponsor: Carbon60 Moving to the Cloud: Beyond the Myths Get on the road to cloud success by moving past the myths around it. Register Now Uncategorized The GNU Affero General Public License and "DRM" New Americas head for Alcatel-Lucent Related Content Technicity West welcomes Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi Technicity West: What’s next for digital government? Sponsored By: Myth busting: Seven reasons not to submit a Digital Transformation Award nomination Sponsored By: AMC Convergence of the titans: Today’s top technologies meet in Toronto MapleSEC Satellite 2021: Emerging threats are ready to target critical infrastructure Supreme Court of Canada rejects telecom incumbents’ appeal of CRTC’s 2019 rate-correction ruling Canada’s critical infrastructure an ‘area of increasing concern’ says BlackBerry report MapleSEC Satellite Session – New threats are ‘accelerated and unpredictable’