Hired

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2004:

James Bias is the new president of the SPCA of Texas in
Dallas, succeeding Warren Cox, who left in November 2003. Bias
previously headed the Humane Society & SPCA of Bexar County in San
Antonio, Albuquerque Animal Services, and the Humane Society of
North Texas in Fort Worth, and was operations director for Citizens
for Animal Protection in Houston. Cox, running animal shelters
since 1952, is now interim chief at the Montgomery County Animal
Shelter in Dayton, Ohio.

Mike Russell, 59, was in June 2004 named president and CEO
of the World Wildlife Fund of Canada, succeeding Monte Hummel, the
head since 1978. Russell formerly chaired AADCO Automotive Inc.,
and held marketing posts with Sunoco, Petro Canada, and Shell
Canada.