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James Sharpe Joins Norsat’s Board of Directors |
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VANCOUVER, May 23, 2005/Satnews Daily/ ― Norsat International Inc. (TSX – NII.TO;OTC BB – NSATF.OB) has announced that James Sharpe of Seattle, Washington, has been appointed to the Board of Directors.
James Sharpe has almost twenty-five years of senior-level management experience in the public and private sectors as a chief executive officer and as a chief financial officer for small to large, complex organizations. He is currently the President of Sharpe Associates, a Washington State firm that provides a wide spectrum of financial management services to small and medium-sized private firms, and public entities.
Sharpe’s professional career includes a stop at the Boeing Co. in the mid-1960s where he performed liaison duties for Boeing with the U.S. Air Force on the Bomarc and Minuteman missile programs. He also served as the budget director for the State of Washington Community College System in the late 1960s and early 1970s, working very closely on behalf of the System with the legislative and executive branches of government.
Sharpe’s long career in finance includes almost eleven years in the 1980s and 1990s as the Chief Financial Officer of the North Slope Borough, Alaska, where he managed operating and capital budgets in excess of $500 million, an investment portfolio in excess of $1 billion, and a bond financing program that allowed the Borough to build $2.5 billion of facilities in eight communities.
Sharpe holds a BA in accounting from the University of Washington School of Business, an MBA from Pepperdine University with an emphasis in management and finance, and a MS in international business by research from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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