Development/Construction
Kelly Scott has been appointed president of the BC Road Builders & Heavy Construction Association. Scott has held senior positions in the heavy equipment industry throughout Western Canada and the U.K. over the past 35 years. He joined the association in 2016 as vice-president and is replacing Jack Davidson, who recently retired.
Education
Landon Mackenzie, professor, Emily Carr University, has received a Governor General’s Award for the Visual Arts. Mackenzie is an abstract painter whose work is shown in museums and exhibits across Canada and globally, including the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Mackenzie has been a member of Emily Carr University’s visual arts faculty since 1986, and has played a pivotal role in the development of the university’s studio program.
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Michel Joncas and Ian M. Thorley, both with more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality sector, have been appointed vice-president of operations and vice-president of sales and marketing, respectively, at Bellstar Hotels & Resorts. The Calgary-based company’s B.C. locations are in Golden and on Vancouver Island. Joncas has worked for upscale hotel chains including Marriott, Hilton, Delta Hotels and Resorts and Intrawest Resort. Thorley’s experience includes time at Four Seasons and Delta Hotels and Resorts, as well as with independent brands like Skyline Hotels & Resorts.
Kieran Fanning has been appointed wine director for South Granville restaurant Farmer’s Apprentice and adjacent wine bar Grapes & Soda. Fanning has previously worked for Le Parisien and Bel Café, and most recently spent two years as assistant and then head sommelier at Chambar.
Health/Medical
Randal Chase, a member of Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Corp.’s board of directors since June 2015, has been appointed CEO and president of the company, replacing Allen (Alexander) Krantz, who will assume the newly created roles of chief scientific officer and chief operating officer. Chase’s prior appointments include acting as president and CEO of Immunovaccine from 2006 to 2011, serving as chair of Medicago from 2006 to 2013, and most recently serving as chair of Medimabs from January 2014 to July 2015.
Legal
In recognition of the years of effort she has spent developing her employment, labour and human rights law practice, Elizabeth Reid is Boughton Law’s newest shareholder.
Allison Godey has joined the team at Terra Law Corp. as an associate. Godey recently practised as an associate in the commercial property group of an established Vancouver law firm.
Resources
Duncan Middlemiss, president, CEO and a director of Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd., has been appointed to the board of directors at IDM Mining Ltd. Middlemiss previously served as president, CEO and a director of St. Andrew Goldfields Ltd. until its acquisition by Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. in January 2016.
Colin Sutherland has been appointed to the board of Amarillo Gold Corp. as an independent director. Sutherland is a chartered professional accountant with more than 20 years of financial and operational experience, most recently serving as president of McEwen Mining Inc.
Sales/Marketing
Tim Finegan has been appointed director of marketing at Aquatic Informatics, a software provider for water data management and analysis. Most recently, Finegan served as vertical market director for the surface water market at Xylem Inc. Prior to that, Finegan served as a global system engineer, environmental product manager and service co-ordinator for YSI Inc., and also served on the board of directors at YSI when the company merged with Xylem.
Technology
Nicholas Jeffery, a former director of the data centre solutions group at CBRE, has been appointed CEO at Uniserve Communications Corp., effective March 1. With more than 25 years of telecommunications, media and technology experience, Jeffery was previously the European managing director of PSINet Europe. Jeffery has also been a C-level executive at data centre and Internet service companies such as Hostmark, Worldport and Digital Realty.
Hats Off
ViaSport and the Province of British Columbia have donated a grant of $3,000 to the Vancouver Girls Ice Hockey Association, in support of the association’s Come Try Girls Hockey event on April 1, 2017, at Killarney Arena. The funds will be used to purchase hockey equipment for girls who wish to try hockey for the first time, and to lend equipment to newly registered players.
RBC donated $20,000 to Burnaby Hospital Foundation. The funds will go toward an urgently needed mini C-arm radiographic unit for Burnaby Hospital’s emergency department.
During the 2016 fall season, Langara College students and employees donated $35,036.45 to United Way of Lower Mainland. The funds were raised during the college’s annual fundraising initiative in autumn 2016. Three Langara students were also hired at the United Way as part of Langara’s co-operative education program. The three students – Jaskamal Singh, Argi Ahmadi and Jack Basterfield – were ambassadors for the United Way at various institutions, including Langara College.
Tony and Nancy Yurkovich recently made the single largest gift in the history of Richmond Hospital Foundation in support of a new acute-care tower at the hospital. Though the couple has declined to state the exact amount of the donation, they hope to inspire others to give: more than 10 families and organizations have made commitments totalling more than $25 million toward the new tower at Richmond Hospital. In recognition of the couple’s generosity, the original hospital tower, whose official opening they attended in 1966, will be named the Yurkovich Family Pavilion. In the future, when a new acute-care tower is approved by the provincial government, the naming will transfer to the new building.
More than $880,000 was recently donated to the Tapestry Foundation for Health Care. The funds were raised at the Scotiabank Feast of Fortune gala. The donation will be given to the surgical campaign at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital and will be used to support purchases of high-tech equipment necessary for specialized surgeries that include breast, ophthalmology, urology, plastic/reconstructive and gastrointestinal procedures.
The team at Rainmaker Studios, a division of Wow Unlimited Media Inc., donated approximately 400 person-hours to create an animated video guide for the B.C. and Yukon chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The production aims to help educate wish kids on how to decide what their wish will be. Recorded in Vancouver at KoKo Sound Studios, the three-minute animated video features the voice talent of North Vancouver-born actor Matt Hill, who is the voice and action behind behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character Raphael in the franchise’s early 1990s films. Wish recipients are now seeing this video appear in their welcoming package, and it is expected to be made available to other Make-A-Wish chapters in Canada in the near future. •
