Board of Directors
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Mr. Liu, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of the CorporationMr. Liu has been engaged in the chemical import and export trade, research and development, and construction of chemical projects for more than 15 years. Mr. Liu graduated from the Jianghan Petroleum Institute of China (formerly Changjiang University) in 1987 and also holds a Master’s Degree in economics from Liaoning University. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Liu was an Architectural Engineer, Interpreter at the Ministry of Petroleum Industry of PRC. Mr. Liu was the Vice General Manager of the Liaoning Chemical Industry Import and Export Company from 1993 to 2000. Since 2000, Mr. Liu has been the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Liaoning Yongcheng Economic & Trade Development Co., Ltd., and since 2003, Mr. Liu has also been the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Migao Group. |
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Mr. Keith Attoe, Director (1) (3)Mr. Attoe is a director of the Corporation and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cognitive Finance Inc., a company engaged in derivatives trading, corporate finance and independent director services. From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Attoe was the Chief Financial Officer and a Director of Eiger Technologies Inc., a TSX-listed company engaged in providing VoIP telecom services and manufacturing computer, Internet and telecommunications products. During the time Mr. Attoe was the Chief Financial Officer, Eiger Technologies Inc. successfully completed a number of global acquisitions in energy, digital media and telephony, in North America and Asia. Mr. Attoe founded The Attoe Foundation in 2000 and has been the Chairman, Settlor and Trustee of the family foundation, supporting Arts and Mental Health organizations in Canada. Mr. Attoe is experienced in the areas of public market corporate finance, investment banking, tax planning, risk management and public accounting and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick. Mr. Attoe is also a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers. |
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Mr. Robert C. Kay, J.D., B.L., Director (1) (2)Robert C. Kay was appointed to the Board of Directors of Migao Corporation on May 18, 2006. He currently serves as a Corporate Director in several other companies, both privately held and publicly listed, and is the Chairman of the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Corporation of the Government of Canada. Previous notable governance roles include Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce (Ontario Council) and Chairman of the Swiss Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kay was also a Board Member in the Integrative Thinking Practicum in the MBA degree program at the University of Toronto and has served as a Member and Adjudicator on the Ontario Municipal Board, a quasi-judicial body. Mr. Kay has spent many years working at the executive level providing advice and counsel to both corporations and governments, domestic and foreign, on international strategic commercial development. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the National Association of Administrative Law Judges, and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Mr. Kay maintains his professional status as a member in good standing of the Bar of Ontario. |
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Mr. Michael W. Manley, Director (1) (2)Mr. Manley, a barrister and solicitor by profession, is a director of the Corporation and has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wesbridge Capital Corporation, a company specializing in advising China-based companies since 2004. From 1997, Mr. Manley was the President of Wesbridge. Mr. Manley has extensive experience, both professionally and as a principal, in corporate restructuring, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development and international project acquisitions and management. Mr. Manley was a founding director of ClubLink Corporation, Canada’s largest golf course owner and operator. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Manley was President and Chief Executive Officer of Prague Airport Development Company and directed the initiative that resulted in the award of the contract to privatize and renovate the Prague International Airport. Mr. Manley also structured and was a principal in the acquisition of Armbro Enterprises Inc. (now Aecon Group Inc.), one of Canada’s largest road builders, and was its Vice Chairman from 1987 to 1991. Mr. Manley is, or has been, a director of a number of public companies including ClubLink Corporation, Armbro Enterprises, Hanfeng Evergreen Inc. and Cathay Forest Products Corp. |
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Mr. Peiwei Ni, Director (2)Peiwei Ni is a director of the Corporation and has been the President of Wesbridge Capital Corporation since 2004. Mr. Ni has organized investment forums and meetings for Canadian and Chinese business executives and government officials. Mr. Ni has taken Canadian companies to China and has helped win substantial international contracts for companies such as B+H Architects of Toronto. As an expatriate Chinese, he worked with the company founded by the former Canadian Ambassador to China to develop a hi-tech cinema venue in China. In Toronto, Mr. Ni has completed multi-million dollar real estate transactions for Chinese clients, some of whom Mr. Ni met while working as a producer at CBC covering business affairs from 1989-1999. Mr. Ni has also served as board member on a number of arts and charitable organizations in Toronto. A native of Beijing and a graduate of Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics, he maintains extensive business and social connections in China. Fluently bilingual and bi-cultural, Mr. Ni specializes in interpreting and communicating business values and expectations during negotiations involving Chinese and Western investors. |
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Mark D. Stauffer, DirectorDr. Stauffer, PhD, is a director of the Corporation and has been a consultant since his retirement in January 2005 to the Potash & Phosphate Institute of Canada (“PPIC”) on its agronomy-based market development program in China. From 1988 to December 2004, Dr. Stauffer was employed at the Potash & Phosphate Institute of Canada in a variety of senior management roles, including as President until his retirement in December 2004. During the course of his employment with PPIC, Dr. Stauffer conducted the business affairs of the Institute and coordinated its seven international programs. As well, Dr. Stauffer managed CIDA-supported soil fertility/fertilizer projects in China and Pakistan, and provided agronomic market development support to Canadian potash exporter, Canpotex Limited. |





