People on the Move
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Chris Perry has joined WhiteWater as executive vice-president of strategic partnerships. Perry has spent his entire career in the waterpark industry, starting as a teen doing everything from cleaning locker rooms and lifeguarding to serving food. He spent the past 15 years with Wild Wadi Waterpark, with eight of those years as a general manager. Perry is also known as the host of Travel Channel’s series, Epic Attractions, providing viewers with an all-access backstage pass to the best attractions in the world, including numerous WhiteWater attractions. Perry also hosted Mission Amusement, a turn-around show focused on providing major facelifts to struggling small and medium-sized family-run amusement facilities.
Legal
Gregory Pun, director of research at Alexander Holburn, has been appointed Queen’s counsel by the Minister of Justice and Attorney Generalfor B.C. Pun has made many contributions to the legal profession, particularly the authorship of several books, including texts on the law of nuisance, the law and equity act, the builders lien act and the unemployment insurance act. Pun also serves as a guest lecturer and occasional adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia law school and Thompson Rivers University.Maxwell J. Brunette has joined Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (soon to be Gowling WLG) as a partner in its employment and labour law group, while C. Warren Beil, Lisa Frey and Daniel Shouldice have joined the firm as associates. Brunette also has extensive experience in corporate immigration law, and was previously a partner at Blakes in Calgary. Beil has joined the business law group; his practice focuses on banking, corporate lending, acquisition and project finance, including secured and unsecured transactions. Prior to joining Gowlings, Beil served as the general counsel to a national restaurant operator. Frey represents individual and corporate clients in a wide variety of real estate law matters. Shouldice has joined the Vancouver advocacy department; his practice focuses on commercial disputes and financial services litigation, and also has experience assisting debtors, creditors, trustees and court-appointed monitors in insolvency proceedings.
Non-Profit
Jane Evans has joined Douglas College Foundation as major gifts officer. Evans recently served as manager, fund development, for Take a Hike Youth at Risk Foundation and prior to that, she was director, academic markets, for LexisNexis.
Hats Off
Business in Vancouver welcomes submissions from local small businesses and large corporations alike that demonstrate examples of corporate philanthropy and community involvement in the Vancouver area. High-resolution images are also welcome.
Dominion Lending Centres, along with fire departments across Canada and partners such as Walmart Canada, Runners Bikes, Giant Cycle, AMJ Campbell Van Lines, Global News and CORUS Radio, have donated more than 2,000 bicycles, helmets and locks to underprivileged Canadian children from coast to coast as part of its Bikes for Kids 2015 campaign. In 2014, Bikes for Kids donated 527 bikes to kids in B.C., and in 2015, expanded its campaign nationwide, with celebration events in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
Gateway Casinos & Entertainment donated $13,006 from GatewayGIVES to the CKNW Orphans’ Fund supporting special needs children in B.C.
RBC Foundation donated $15,000 to the Vancouver Writers Fest for Spreading the Word, the festival’s education outreach program that inspires children to read and write – at the festival and in the classroom.
Kryton International Inc. donated more than $4,500 to Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver. The funds will go toward building safe and affordable housing to deserving families in the Lower Mainland. In the Greater Vancouver area, there are 75,000 families with a core housing need, and one in four children in Vancouver lives in poverty.
Atomic Cartoons donated $11,000 to KidStart, part of the company’s three-year, $60,000 commitment to supporting KidStart.
AJ Insurance donated more than $10,000 for meals at Union Gospel Mission on December 22. It also provided 17 volunteers.
Students at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, as part of professor Kamal Masri’s project management class, raised more than $30,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Students managed nine fundraising events over the semester, which brought in $29,600 – $400 shy of the target. Students in the class contributed additional cash, bringing the total to $30,043. •
