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The Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) has announced the winners of its annual President’s Award, Merit Award, and Warren Heeley Environmental Award. This year, two honourees received the President’s Award—Victor Hyman and Gord Cooke. Hyman is the executive director of ClimateCare, chair of the NRCan Market Transformation Roadmap Space Heating Technology Advisory Team, a member of the CMPX show committee, and a contributor to HRAI’s Greener Homes Program advisory committee. Cooke is the president of Building Knowledge and has been a professional engineer for over 25 years in the residential building industry. Rick Ellul, regional sales manager of Belimo, received the 2021 HRAI Merit award. The award recognizes individuals that have gone above and beyond to support the growth and success of the association and Canada’s HVAC/R industry. Ellul has served in various roles over his 30-plus years in the field, including as the former HRAI chair. The Warren Heeley Environmental Award was given to Marie Li-Ying for her significant contributions to environmental services. Li-Ying is the business manager of Flourine products with Honeywell and has devoted countless hours of her time to help Refrigerant Management Canada. Wolseley Canada has announced the appointment of Jason Bloedow as national
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director of HVAC. Starting his role as of Jan. 4, Bloedow reports directly to Wolseley president S e b a s t i e n Laforge. Joe Senese, vice president of operations at GDI, Jason Bloedow announces his retirement. A significant contributor to the growth and success of the Deschenes group of companies, Senese spent more than 25 years with the Deschenes team. The Canadian Institute Joe of Plumbing and Heating Senese (CIPH) has awarded Senese with its Honorary Life Member award. V i e s s m a n n h a s an nounced that as of the beginning of 2022, Jeff A m l i n will assume responsibilities as regional manager of Eastern Canada Jeff and will work closely with Amlin sales agencies in the territories of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I, and Newfoundland. Randy Stuart will take on the responsibilities as regional manager of Western Canada and will continue Randy to manage the Viessmann Stuart B.C. office and will work closely with sales agencies in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. CIPH announced that Geeta Persaud will re-join the association’s team as program manager. Persaud’s responsibilities include elevating the support, coordination, planning and execution to ensure the council’s activities move forward in a timely fashion. Persaud has been with CIPH since 2014. During its 2021 Annual General Meeting, the Mechanical Contractors Association
of Canada (MCAC) ann o u n c e d t h at W a y n e Davidson will be the association’s new president and chairman of the board of directors. MCAC also Wayne Davidson announces that Jessica Shaver will be joining the team as its membership engagement coordinator. As the newest member of MCAC, Jessica Shaver will be responsible Shaver for leading MCA Canada’s member engagement strategies, as well as contribute to MCA Canada's overall operations. Aqua-Tech has announced t hat D a r r y l Singleton and Chris Neilson will Darryl Chris be assuming Singleton Neilson new roles within the company. With more than 16 years of senior management experience, including a decade of strategic development and plan execution with Aqua-Tech, Singleton has been promoted to president. Singleton served as the national sales manager. Neilson has been appointed as vicepre s i d e nt of op e r at i ons . Ne i l s on’s management experience within Aqua-Tech includes acting as the accounting manager and, for the last eight years, as the operations manager. OS&B has announced that Greg Gillespie has been promoted to business development manager (USA). Gillespie has over 30 years of experience in the industry and has demonstrated qualities in customer solutions, customer Greg service and effective commuGillespie nications.
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