Canada’s High Liner Foods Inc will get a new chief financial officer (CFO ) this year. Mr Paul Jewer will replace Mr Kelly Nelson following the AGM in May.

Mr Jewer will transfer to High Liner from his position as CFO at Sobeys Inc, a leading Canadian grocery and food distributor.

He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and began his career with Ernst & Young LLP.

In May 2008, Mr Jewer was recognised as a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40(TM) award, which honours Canadians under the age of forty for vision, leadership and innovation.