Russell Kalmacoff is President of Rockmount Financial Corporation and its affiliates. The group has engaged in investment management and corporate finance including origination, negotiation, and advising with respect to investments.

Rockmount is development coordinator of the proposed International Avenue Technology Centre (IATC) at 60th street S.E., close to the new east side freeway in Calgary. The intention is to link the IATC with the Alberta program for new commercialization centres.

Mr. Kalmacoff’s formal education includes: two years of engineering at the University of Calgary; Bachelor of Commerce, University of Manitoba, accounting major; Master of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, finance major; and doctoral studies at Berkeley and New York University. At Manitoba and Berkeley he wrote major papers on gasoline marketing and competition law in Canada. At Berkeley and NYU he was a Senior Fellow of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, studying the secondary mortgage market.

In his early career, Mr. Kalmacoff’s employment included: Salomon Brothers, New York; A.E. LePage Ltd., Toronto; Nu West Development, Calgary; and Nesbitt Thomson Securities, Toronto, in corporate finance where he was responsible for the formation of a public real estate investment trust and a public mortgage investment corporation. He co-authored Introduction to the Canadian Mortgage Market, a text used by the Investment Dealers Association for twenty years.

Mr. Kalmacoff is a director of Trafina Energy Ltd., an exploration and production company with significant interests in petroleum and natural gas in Central Alberta and Saskatchewan and is listed on the TSX Venture; and of Olympia Trust, a non-deposit taking Trust Company that provides corporate & shareholder services including acting as a transfer agent and trustee services, self-administered plans and foreign exchange services, listed on the TSX Venture.

Mr. Kalmacoff is President of the Berkeley Club of Canada in which capacity he co-chaired the campaign that established a Professorship of Canadian Studies at Berkeley and recently organized various events including: the Alberta-California Energy Conference in Berkeley and two alumni events with Chancellor Birgeneau in Toronto. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Studies Program.

In public service Mr. Kalmacoff recently served on the nominating committee for the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy and the Premier’s Task Force on Value Added and Technology Commercialization; he currently serves on the Finance Committee for the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (PCAA); the Board of Directors for the PCAA Calgary Elbow Constituency; and the Board of Directors for the Conservative Party of Canada Calgary Centre Constituency.

Mr. Kalmacoff’s recreational activities focus on the Glencoe Club in Calgary, Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, and vacations properties in Canmore, Alberta and Maui, Hawaii.

Mr. Kalmacoff resides in the Elboya neighbourhood of Calgary with his wife (of 35 years), Evelyn. Their daughter, Antonia, is a professional fundraiser in Toronto.