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David Huberman was appointed to the company's Board of Directors in September, 2003, as the lead independent director. In this position, Mr. Huberman's role is to ensure that the Board executes its mandate effectively, efficiently and independently of management.
Mr. Huberman is President of Coda Consulting Corp., a law and business consulting firm based in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Huberman practiced business law from 1972 until 1996, specializing in corporate, commercial, banking, securities and regulatory law. He has extensive domestic and international experience in the negotiation, structuring and financing of a variety of business enterprises.
Mr. Huberman is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.A. and LL.B.) and of Harvard Law School (LL.M.). Mr. Huberman was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1960 and was a full-time member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia from 1960 to 1972. Prior to establishing his own law and consultancy practice in April, 1993, Mr. Huberman was, for many years, a senior partner in the Vancouver law firm of Freeman and Company. From 1990 to 1993, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of Goodman, Freeman, Phillips and Vineberg (whose constituent law firms were based in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal), an international law firm with offices in New York, Hong Kong and Taipei.
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