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Development/Construction
Marni Robinson has been appointed director of community and stakeholder engagement at HCMA Architecture + Design. Robinson has more than 20 years of experience in project management, stakeholder engagement and strategic communications. Prior to joining HCMA, she was director of client services at Context Research and led engagement strategies for municipal community infrastructure projects across Metro Vancouver and the City of Calgary.
Economy
Stephen Dooley, executive director, Simon Fraser University Surrey (SFU-Surrey), has been inducted as the Surrey Board of Trade’s 54th board chair. Greg Thomas, president, G3 Consulting, an aquatic environmental consulting firm, completed his two-year term as chair. Dooley, executive director of SFU-Surrey since 2013, sits on a number of community partnership tables and has been co-chair of the City of Surrey Innovation Summit; he also chairs the Surrey Board of Trade’s youth entrepreneur team.
Finance
Mike Greschner has been named the newest partner at George & Bell Consulting, a Vancouver-based pension benefit and investment consulting firm. Greschner had 14 years of benefits consulting experience before joining George & Bell Consulting in May 2017.
Health/Medical
Michael Mills has been appointed vice-president, communications, at Body and Mind Inc., a Nevada company traded on the Canadian Securities Exchange and investing in high-quality medical and recreational cannabis opportunities. Mills’ experience includes a long-term engagement with a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company and a previous career with the Financial Post and National Post newspapers.
Legal
Chelsea Flintoff, Jeff Hart, Megan O’Neill and Kyle Sandulescu have recently joined Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP. Flintoff and Sandulescu are litigation associates while Hart and O’Neill are corporate associates.
Drew Lawrenson has joined the business law group of Harper Grey LLP. Lawrenson acts for private and public companies, First Nations, non-profits, partnerships and sole proprietorships and draws on the experience he gained from working on the client side in the real estate development, commercial lending and private education industries.
Jennifer MacGregor-Greer has joined MEP Business Counsel as corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions counsel at the firm. MacGregor-Greer has significant commercial law experience from working at leading national business law firms in Vancouver and internationally in London, U.K. MacGregor-Greer is a guest lecturer both with the Law Society of BC’s professional legal training course and in the School of Legal Studies at Capilano University.
Public
Dr. Bryn Hyndman, former medical director of Qi Integrated Health, has joined BlissCo Cannabis Corp.’s advisory board. Hyndman is a board-certified medical doctor with the Canadian College of Family Physicians and a naturopath.
Transportation
William McKinnon has been appointed president at Canadian Alliance Terminals Inc., a third-party logistics, public warehousing, distribution, inventory management and transportation company. McKinnon’s record of leadership spans supply chain innovation, security and risk mitigation and the development of direct sales software delivery systems.
Companies on the move
Name change
Kivalliq Energy Corp., a Vancouver-based company with a portfolio of high-quality uranium and precious metal exploration projects in Canada, has changed its name to ValOre Metals Corp.
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.
Creative Energy, a local energy company, was recently presented with an award recognizing 50 years of reliable, sustainable energy distribution at the International District Energy Association’s annual conference. As owner and operator of one of the largest thermal energy networks in Canada, Creative Energy delivers sustainable energy to its customers in downtown Vancouver with a 99.9% reliability rate.
100 Women Who Care Vancouver donated $12,100 to BC & Alberta Guide Dogs, an organization that breeds, raises and professionally trains guide dogs for individuals who are blind/visually impaired, and autism support dogs for children with moderate to profound autism aged three to 10 and their families. It takes two years and upwards of $35,000 to produce one certified dog, provided free of charge to the recipient.
The Ames Family Foundation donated $5,000 to Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland. These funds will help the organization match at-risk girls with supportive mentors through its one-to-one mentoring program.
Richmond Hospital Foundation’s golf tournament, presented by 2 River Green, raised $318,000. Donations from donors at the tournament will enable the purchase of two new state-of-the-art ultrasound units for Richmond Hospital’s emergency department. This was the eighth consecutive year that Aspac was the tournament’s presenting sponsor. •
