People on the Move
Development
Diane Wu has joined property development and investment company Grosvenor Americas as accounting and finance assistant for the Vancouver finance team.
Education
Cyndi Banks will join Capilano University as its first associate vice-president for student success, starting on July 4. Banks comes to Capilano University from Northern Arizona University, where she has served as dean, associate dean, associate vice-provost and as a professor of criminology.
Finance
Central 1 Credit Union recently re-elected Rick Hoevenaars as board chair and elected Bill Kiss as vice-chair. Other board members are Anita Braha, Keith Brain, Bill Cooke, Elmer Epp, Kerry Hadad, Angela Kaiser, Kelly McGiffin, Emmet McGrath, Penny-Lynn McPherson, Rob Paterson, Blaize Reich, Doug Stoddart and Rob Wellstood.
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Kris Groom has been appointed general manager at the Vancouver branch of Canadian Linen and Uniform Service. Groom most recently served as general manager of the company’s Victoria branch and will now have fiscal and operational oversight over the Vancouver processing facility and affiliated service centres. Groom has been with the company for 15 years and has also held roles as service centre manager and sales manager.
Media
John Lute has joined Longview Communications as senior counsel for special situations. Lute will advise on mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights and corporate reorganizations and restructurings, while continuing to operate his financial communications consulting firm, Lute & Co.
Non-Profit
Farzana Adatiya has been appointed senior vice-president, strategy and implementation, at Pacific Blue Cross. Adatiya has held several senior positions at Anthem Blue Cross, the largest Blue Cross Blue Shield organization in the U.S., and most recently worked as principal and senior adviser for BDC Advisors, a boutique health-care consultancy firm where she provided strategic counsel to academic medical centres, children’s hospitals and health plans.
Public
Cam Hui has been appointed to Imperial Ginseng Products Ltd.’s board of directors and will also serve on the board’s audit committee. Hui has more than 30 years of financial market experience and has worked for Wood Gundy Inc. (now CIBC World Markets) as a quantitative and special situations analyst, Batterymarch Financial Management as a quantitative global equity portfolio manager, Graham Capital Management as a long/short equity hedge fund portfolio manager and Merrill Lynch as a technical research analyst.
Resources
Western Forest Products Inc. recently elected its directors: James Arthurs, Jane Bird, Don Demens, Lee Doney, Daniel Nocente, Barrie Shineton and Michael T. Waites.
Technology
Martin Schmieg has been appointed to BriaCell Therapeutics Corp.’s board of directors. Schmieg has 35 years of business experience and has a diversified background in the global biotech, med-tech and pharmaceutical industries.
Companies on the move
Name change
Smythe LLP has expanded its practice to the Fraser Valley with the merger of Langley-based CPA firm David L. Simms Inc., which has provided accounting and tax services to owner-managed businesses in a variety of industries since 1991. Smythe also welcomes Graham Robertson to the Langley practice as principal. In addition, Shelley Koehli, licensed insolvency trustee, will be leading the Smythe Debt Advisors practice at this location providing debt counselling services.
New in town
Nasco Staffing Solutions and SLJ Productions, two event production firms, have merged to launch Nasco Productions. Shelley Johnson of SLJ Productions and David James of Nasco Staffing Solutions have more than 20 years of experience with fundraising galas, large-scale productions and tours, national arena shows, conferences and festivals.
Pinshape, a Vancouver-based 3D printing community and marketplace for 3D printing files, has recently been acquired by Formlabs, the Massachusetts-based designer and manufacturer of 3D printing systems.
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.
Telus Community Ambassadors donated $2,500 to Science World BC’s summer camp bursary program, helping kids experience camp who otherwise could not afford to participate.
Coast Capital Savings donated $19,636 to Mosaic’s Newcomer Youth (NuYu) Popular Theatre project. The project uses popular theatre, also known as the “Theatre of the Oppressed,” to help immigrant and refugee youth find solutions to the challenges they face, and to create awareness of issues that newcomer youth experience. This interactive project uses movement, storytelling and tableaux to explore how images of one’s personal experience reflect universal issues of power and social transformation.
The Warm Hearts Charitable Foundation, a FortisBC employee-run charitable group established in 1994, donated $7,500 to Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s Cardiac Care Campaign. The money raised is helping to upgrade the monitoring and imaging equipment in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization laboratory.
Scotiabank donated US$20,000 to the Red Cross of Uruguay to assist with the rescue and relief efforts in the country, following widespread flooding and tornados. Scotiabank is the only private bank in Uruguay with a presence in all 19 departments, with 38 branches, more than 1,665 employees and 157 automated banking machines across the country.
The recent City of Port Moody Dance-a-thon, led by fitness instructor Anita Siu, raised $880. The funds were donated to Crossroads Hospice. •
