People Corporation announced that Paul Asmundson has recently been appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Development Officer of the company. Given the company's positive progress in the execution of its growth strategy over the past number of years, and its targets for continued growth through acquisition, the company determined that the creation of this new senior executive role was important to broaden its corporate development capabilities. In this role, Paul will lead the Corporate Development function, overseeing all initiatives and activities aimed at origination and execution of mergers, acquisitions and investments aligned with the Company's strategic plan. Paul has nearly 20 years of investment banking and corporate development experience, and brings extensive expertise on a broad range of strategic and financial transactions. Most recently, Paul was a Senior Managing Director in Deloitte LLP's Corporate Finance business based in Winnipeg, where he focused on origination and execution of merger and acquisition, financing and Board advisory mandates.