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BoardSuite® Corp. (www.boardsuitecorp.com), the freemium SaSS–based board portal, today announced the appointment of Melanie Kurzuk as Chief Marketing Officer responsible for leading BoardSuite's worldwide branding and driving the company's product, sales and marketing initiatives.

Kurzuk is an innovative leader who brings 20 years of demonstrated success in progressively senior roles in B2B within the media and information services industry. She has a deep knowledge of corporate governance, capital markets, disclosure, and investor relations. Prior to her appointment at BoardSuite, Kurzuk was Senior Vice President of News and Information Technology at CNW Group (formerly Canada NewsWire). 

"Melanie has extensive strategic and operational insight on mandated and trusted services that companies require to meet regulatory obligations. She will be invaluable in our business strategy to acquire these types of services for integration to the flagship board portal," said Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "In addition, she has a propensity to SaSS-based applications as she led the successful launch of a cloud offering in her last mandate."

BoardSuite® Corp. (www.boardsuitecorp.com), the freemium SaSS-based board portal, today announced the appointment of Greg Harper as Chief Operating Officer.

Harper is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of demonstrated proficiency in investment management, corporate finance, operations and administration. He founded Harles Management, a strategic management company, where he has advised businesses in areas of capital management, revenue growth and profitability. Harper began his career as a Securities Trader at Canada Life followed by a position in Private Placements. Harper then joined Colonia Life and at the time of the sale of the company he held the position of Senior Investment Officer responsible for all areas of investment and portfolio management. Following this Harper was Chief Operating Officer at FRI Corporation primarily responsible for restructuring.

"Greg's command of managing start-ups through growth stages is completely aligned to guiding BoardSuite's going public transaction and business plan," said Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "He will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of BoardSuite and will provide leadership in M&A activity, short-term and long-range planning and budget development to support strategic business goals."

BoardSuite® Corp. (www.boardsuitecorp.com), the freemium on-demand board portal, today announced the appointment of Jim Collins as Chief Financial Officer to lead the company in its going public transaction.

Collins, a seasoned financial executive, has a proven track record in raising capital through IPOs, private equity and venture capitalists. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years experience in building and growing both public and private companies. Prior to his appointment at BoardSuite, Collins held progressively senior roles as CFO at EnGlobe Corporation Inc., Vice President Finance at Insception Biosciences and Vice President Finance and Administration at Hydrogenics Corporation.

"Jim's demonstrated ability in taking companies public and his experience in mergers and acquisitions put him in the driver's seat for BoardSuite's going public transaction," said Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "He will be responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of BoardSuite to meet its business strategy to acquire financial and business services to be integrated into the flagship BoardSuite Portal."

BoardSuite® Corp. (www.BoardSuiteCorp.com), a freemium on-demand board portal, announced today that it has entered into a sponsorship and financing agreement with Kingsdale Capital Markets Inc. ("Kingsdale") to facilitate a Go Public Transaction.

Kingsdale has been engaged by BoardSuite to complete equity financing, to source an appropriate Capital Pool Company for the planned RTO and advise on other aspects of the Go Public process. Kingsdale Capital is an internationally recognized firm delivering corporate finance and capital market solutions for corporations, shareholders and investors.

"BoardSuite's technology platform provides a single point of entry for mandated and trusted services that supports good corporate governance for board managed entities", said Cameron Prange, President, Kingsdale Capital Markets Inc. "We feel their strategy to consolidate the corporate and financial services market in North America for small and medium enterprises (SME) and not-for-profits (NPO) will bring great value to BoardSuite's clients and investors."

BoardSuite® Corp. ("BoardSuite") today announced it has acquired HireCaliber.com (www.hirecaliber.com), a SaaS-based plug and play recruitment solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and not-for-profit organizations (NPOs). The acquisition supports BoardSuite's strategy to provide an ecosystem of mandated and trusted business services for this target market within its flagship freemium board portal.

HireCaliber.com is an entirely new approach to recruitment management systems. It provides job posting tools, a universal application profile, tools for online review and screening of applicant information, management reports, and tools for maintaining a company specific talent pool.

"HireCaliber.com fulfills a real need for BoardSuite's target market, SMEs and NPOs, to dramatically reduce the time and cost per hire, increase transparency of recruitment and gain access to a larger pool of candidates," said Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "It also supports our strategy to provide business solutions from the cloud for directors, officers and advisors of board managed entities directly from the BoardSuite portal."

BoardSuite® Corp. ("BoardSuite") is pleased to announce the closing of a subscription agreement with China Select Capital Partners Corp. The investment will allow BoardSuite to execute on its business strategy to acquire targeted corporate and financial service providers to integrate to the on-demand board portal.

"We believe BoardSuite has a strong business plan and strong management team to establish a foothold in the board portal software industry worldwide," said Min Kuang, President at China Select. "We will also be assisting BoardSuite on financing and acquisition activities in Asia and the United States."

"BoardSuite remains focused on expanding and enhancing its ecosystem of business services, content, and functionality for its core offering to make our board portal the de facto standard for good corporate governance and regulatory compliance for small and medium enterprises and not-for-profit organizations", said Oscar A. Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "Today, more than 6,000 users embrace BoardSuite to manage board communications, oversight and process."