Stornoway Announces Board Appointment
Stornoway Diamond Corporation announces the appointment of Michele S. Darling to the Corporation’s Board of Directors. Ms. Darling has over thirty years of global business experience with particular expertise in Human Resources Management and Corporate Governance.
Prior to establishing her management consulting practice, Michele Darling and Associates Inc., Ms. Darling served as Executive Vice President, Human Resources at CIBC from 1991 to 1996, and as Executive Vice President, Corporate Governance with Prudential Financial, Inc. from 1996 to 2002.
She currently serves on the boards of directors of Nickel Creek Platinum Corp., the Denihan Hospitality Group (New York) and Trillium Health Partners, and is a former director of Osisko Mining Corp. and Hewitt Equipment Ltd.
Ms. Darling is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) in partnership with the Rotman School of Management, and holds a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Toronto.
Ms. Darling joins the Stornoway board of directors as a nominee of Orion Mine Finance. In this capacity she replaces Mr. Doug Silver, who joined the board in 2014 and served through the construction and commissioning phases of the Renard Diamond Mine.
Mr. Ebe Scherkus, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Stornoway, stated: “On behalf of my fellow directors, I am very happy to welcome Michele to the Stornoway board. She brings to us a broad range of experiences in organizational development and corporate oversight at the most senior of levels, as well as specific familiarity with the Quebec mining and mining services sectors.
We would like to thank Doug for his enthusiastic participation with the Stornoway board over the last four years and wish him well in his future endeavours.”
