Respected industry veteran Terry Sellwood was elected board chair of Magazines Canada at the association's annual general meeting, held Thursday as part of MagNet. Sellwood, general manager of Quarto Communications—publishers of Cottage Life and Explore— is a Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC) Marketer of the Year award recipient, a Magazines Canada Volunteer of the Year winner and a past chair of both the CMC and the National Magazine Awards Foundation.

“We need to attract the future generations who will drive the magazine renaissance of the 21^st century," Sellwood said. "Magazines Canada will be there to nurture, support, guide, educate, encourage, lobby for and generally stand tall for an industry that plays such a vital role in Canadians’ lives.”

Also elected to the 2009-2010 Magazines Canada Board of Directors:

 

Joyce Byrne, Alberta Venture

Michael Fox, Marketing

Robert Goyette, Sélection

Jacqueline Howe, Style at Home

Mark Jamison, Magazines Canada CEO

Samantha Legge, TV Week

Sharon McAuley, Toronto Life

Kirby Miller, Canadian House and Home

Deborah Morrison, The Beaver

Jocelyn Poirier, Clin d'œil

Melony Ward, Canadian Art

Derek Webster, Maisonneuve

Lisa Whittington-Hill, This

Grant Young, Downhome

 

The association has also adopted a 2009-2010 business plan dubbed a “toolkit for the times.”