Ms. Bonnie Chwartacki reports

PEOPLE CORPORATION EXPANDS ITS BENEFIT CONSULTING TEAM

People Corp. has expanded its benefit consulting team through the appointments of Ian Carpick, Don Hiltz, Patrick Malloy, Jean-Francois Roy and Ryan Warner.

"The recent addition of five new Benefit consultants in our Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan regions demonstrates the company's commitment to building the leading group benefit, group retirement and HR consulting firm in Canada," said Bonnie Chwartacki, executive vice-president. "We are proud to have these best-in-class benefit consultants join the People Corp. team."

Manitoba and Saskatchewan

With proven experience in the employee benefits industry, Mr. Carpick will support clients in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Prior to joining People, he was an adviser working with a Winnipeg advisory firm and, prior to that, was an account executive for the Selectpac division of Great West Life. Mr. Carpick is a certified financial planner, holds a group benefits associate designation and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Manitoba.

Southwestern Ontario and Greater Toronto Area

Mr. Hiltz has joined the company in the capacity of benefit consultant with Bencom Financial Services Group Inc., a People company, supporting clients in Southern Ontario. Mr. Hiltz comes with over 18 years of experience in the employee benefits industry. He began his career as a benefit analyst on the consulting side prior to 16 years with the Unum/UnumProvident/RBC Insurance organization. Within RBC Insurance he held progressive leadership positions as a group sales representative, group regional director and the regional vice-president of group sales operations. Mr. Hiltz holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Dalhousie University.

Mr. Warner has joined the company in the capacity of benefits consultant with Bencom Financial Services Group, a People company, serving its clients in Southwestern Ontario. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Warner successfully operated an independent practice in the Waterloo area, focused in the areas of group benefits consulting, group retirement solutions and individual insurance planning. Mr. Warner previously held multiple positions in the group retirement services division with Sun Life Financial.

Mr. Malloy has joined the company in the capacity of benefit consultant and will support clients in the GTA with HealthSource Plus and the Investment Guild, a People company. He previously worked for a third party administrator, starting out as a new business representative, from which he held progressive roles supporting both the sales and service functions. Mr. Malloy has a bachelor of business administration from Laurentian University and a marketing diploma from St. Lawrence College. He completed the CEBS Canadian primer course, Advocis Life, and recently passed his LLQP.

Quebec

Mr. Roy brings strong group benefit industry knowledge to People, gained from seven years in the group insurance division and claims and major accounts groups at Sun Life Financial. He will use his particular knowledge of plan design to support HealthSource Plus clients in the Montreal and Quebec regions. Mr. Roy holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Concordia University.

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