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Development/Construction
Pauline Rupp has joined Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC in the newly created role of membership and committee liaison. Rupp has extensive experience in the residential construction industry, most recently with the Ontario Home Builders’ Association, where she was senior technical adviser.
Finance
Heidi Worthington and Matt Lievers have recently been promoted at Pacific Blue Cross. Worthington has been promoted to senior vice-president and chief revenue officer, as well as chief executive officer of BC Life, the Pacific Blue Cross work and wellness division. Lievers has been promoted to associate vice-president, group business, product and innovation. In addition to leading the product and innovation team, Lievers heads the group business leadership team. Under Lievers’ direction, the Pacific Blue Cross product and innovation team consults with advisers and members to revitalize existing products and develop new services to meet changing member needs.
Legal
Watson Goepel LLP welcomes new associate counsel Anita Boscariol and associates Jai Singh Sheikhupura and Adrianna Banaszek to the firm. Boscariol, recent past director general, treaties and Aboriginal government negotiations West, for the former Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, focuses her practice on Indigenous law. As past assistant deputy chair of the immigration appeal division of the immigration and refugee board, Boscariol also practises in the area of immigration law. Singh Sheikhupura practises Indigenous law and is counsel for the ongoing ‘60s Scoop class action and Indian residential school claims under the Independent Assessment Process; he also focuses on immigration and commercial cross-border issues. Banaszek practises in the area of personal injury law.
Public
Jacquie de Aguayo has been appointed chair of the B.C. Labour Relations Board and the Employment Standards Tribunal. De Aguayo served as acting chair for a five-month term, following the departure of the former chair in August 2017. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 1998 and practised labour relations, employment and constitutional law on behalf of unions and employees. In 2002, de Aguayo became in-house counsel for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, a national trade union. In 2010, de Aguayo moved to Vancouver, was called to the bar in B.C. and began working at the Hospital Employees’ Union as legal director. She was later appointed as its assistant secretary business manager and legal director.
Real estate
Jason Kiselbach has been promoted to sales manager for CBRE Vancouver and Victoria. Kiselbach is an industrial market expert with 12 years of experience. In 2016, Kiselbach received the NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) Vancouver Developing Leader Award and currently sits on NAIOP’s board of directors.
Technology
Roy Hart has been appointed chief information officer (CIO) at British Columbia Institute of Technology. Hart has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise information technology, strategy and leadership across multiple sectors, including education, health, justice, social service and infrastructure. Prior to this appointment, Hart was CIO for Alberta Transportation, Alberta Infrastructure, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology and the Durham Catholic District School Board.
Anish Mohammed has been appointed lead technical adviser to Glance Technologies Inc. Mohammed is currently the lead security architect at HSBC. He previously worked as lead security architect at Lloyds Bank, as part of the enterprise architecture and design team in security there, and also worked on blockchain initiatives as part of the cyber big data platform of Lloyds.
Aron Tremble, previously senior director of software experience and products at HP Inc. in Silicon Valley, has been appointed vice-president of marketing and partnerships at Wiivv and has relocated to Vancouver. Wiivv is a consumer technology company that creates custom footwear, apparel and other wearables using body-perfect capture technology and accessible with smartphones.
Transportation
Cheryl Yaremko has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) at GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. Prior to this appointment, Yaremko was executive vice-president, finance, technology, supply chain, and CFO at BC Hydro. Yaremko began her career at Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants, before joining Western Star Trucks, where she progressed to the role of corporate controller. In 2001, she was appointed group director of finance for the BC Railway Co. and was later promoted to CFO. In 2006, she moved to BC Hydro and rapidly rose through the organization. Yaremko also serves as a board member and audit committee chair for the BC Investment Management Corp. and previously served on the boards of the University of British Columbia Investment Management Trust, InTransit BC, Ballet BC and the national board of FEI Canada.
Companies on the move
New in town
Brigid Barriscale and Allison Savigny have partnered to form Inform Planning Inc., a strategic facilities planning consulting company. Barriscale and Savigny have experience with programming and planning services for health care, higher education, civic, non-profit and commercial clients. Both previously worked for Perkins + Will Architecture and Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning.
Jack Chen and Lee Cooper, chefs and co-owners of L’Abattoir, have opened Coquille Fine Seafood at 181 Carrall Street, along with partner Nin Rai, also of L’Abattoir as well as Truffles Fine Foods. The 4,100 square foot space includes a dining room, lounge, bar and patio overlooking Maple Tree Square.
Hats Off
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Pacific Salmon Foundation donors helped raise $199,466 during the foundation’s 2017 year-end appeal. The funds will support projects like the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, which will be entering its final year in 2018. The foundation’s scientists are currently working to analyze an unprecedented volume of data collected on the Strait of Georgia, and determine a path to recovery for wild coho, chinook and steelhead fisheries in the strait. Islander Reels donated a TR3 mooching rod and reel combo for the special draw for all who donated at least $100.
Members of the Chilliwack Elks donated $1,500 to Children of the Street Society. The funds will be used to support delivery of the society’s school-based workshops on prevention of sexual exploitation to children and youth in Chilliwack.
In 2017, OpenRoad Cares, an employee-run committee of OpenRoad Auto Group, donated $48,000 to non-profit groups that focus on programs for children. The groups include Adopt-A-School, an inner-city school program for underprivileged children; the Make-A-Wish Foundation; and Kidsport, dedicated to removing the financial barriers that prevent some children from playing organized sports. Funds were raised during the annual OpenRoad golf tournament.
At the recent Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) Roundup awards gala, $43,750 was raised and donated to BC Cancer’s OVCARE (Ovarian Cancer Research) program. Wheaton Precious Metals presented a matching gift challenge to attendees to match gifts up to $20,000. Randy Smallwood, president and CEO, Wheaton Precious Metals, made a personal donation of $10,000. The gala dinner also honoured a local, well-known geologist and mining expert, Barry Smee, whose wife, Susan Smee, died of ovarian cancer last year.
Football Hall of Famer Lui Passaglia teamed up with philanthropist Jack Gin and Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation in 2017 for Get Behind Lui, an effort to raise money for the purchase of a pediatric colonoscope for the hospital’s gastrointestinal clinic. Passaglia was diagnosed in 2013 and was subsequently treated for Stage 3 colon cancer. The Jack Gin Foundation matched donations during the campaign to enable the purchase of the pediatric colonoscope, which is thinner and more flexible than a regular colonoscope and can be a better choice for some adults; it is considered the gold-standard screening method for colorectal cancer.
Nicola Wealth Management donated $8,000 to the Take a Hike Foundation, which gives vulnerable youth the chance to overcome barriers and complete high school through a program that combines adventure-based learning, academics, therapy and community involvement. This funding will support 80 students in Vancouver, Burnaby and the West Kootenays, and will help lay the foundations for Take a Hike’s fifth classroom, in Surrey. •
