The Saskatchewan Industrial and Mining Suppliers Association (SIMSA) held its 2025 AGM on May 14th in Saskatoon. It saw some new Board members added, a couple of Bylaw revisions, an update on SIMSA’s member health benefits plan – “Protecture,” and an amazing keynote speaker.
The election results saw 3 Board members leave due term limits and one deciding to not run again, with 4 new ones replacing them, plus 4 new faces.
And this year’s AG marked the transition of Ritu Malhotra as Board Chair, to Scott Bahr. SIMSA’s succession planning has Bobbylynn Stewart now as Vice Chair (replacing Scott Bahr). SIMSA is very grateful for the work Ritu did as chair, especially in the areas of policies, processes, and strategic planning!
The four persons departing from our Board this year are;
- Ritu Malhotra, March Consulting – completing term as Chair and now must step-off the Board
- Adam Logue, JNE Welding – has spent 6-years on the Board and must now step-down
- Darrin Craig, Dyna Industrial – has spent 6-years on the Board and must now step-down
- Kohl Currie, Allan Construction – decided to not run again
The 6 elected Board persons were:
- Andrea Crittenden, Sixteen Safety
- Bryan MacFadden (incumbent), Engcomp Engineering
- Curtis Gursky, Fortis Engineering and Manufacturing
- Jim Wilson, Wil-Tech Industries
- Marc Collette (incumbent), Mine Supply Company
- Marland Ottenbreit, DynaIndustrial
With a 97% approval, the AGM also some changes to SIMSA’s Bylaws. The revisions clarified that:
- The intent of having a broad representation of SIMSA’s membership on its Board, by limiting Board Director positions to one per member-company or affiliate.
- That Members and Directors must abide by SIMSA’s policies.
- That there can be up to three (3) Directors from the Open Member category, instead of a fixed number. This will depend on the votes secured by the Open Member nominees in comparison to Regular Member nominees. In short, the up to three (3) Director positions for Open Member candidates are “available”, but not “guaranteed” as it is dependent on the member votes during election.
Following the formal AGM portion, David Doerksen, Senior Vice-President & Chief Marketing Officer at Cameco gave a keynote address. David gave an overview of where the nuclear power sector and thus uranium markets are heading – which was very positive – and then tied it to Saskatchewan and SIMSA members.
David Doerksen addressing SIMSA members at AGM
