TODD A. COUPLAND is a Managing Director of CIBC World Markets. He has
been in the industry as an investment analyst since 1988 and has been
with CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Inc. since April 1994. His area of
specialty is technology. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. From 1988
to 1991 he worked for McNeil Mantha Inc., Toronto, as a Financial
Analyst and from 1991 to 1994 he was with Sprott Securities Limited,
Toronto, as a Financial Analyst. He is a member of the Toronto Society
of Financial Analysts. He has a Bachelor of Science degree (Political
Economy) from Andrews University and a Bachelor of Arts degree (Business
Administration) from Andrews University. He also attended the Institute
of Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University.
