People on the Move
Development/Construction
Jeff Watt and Bill Partington of Ledcor Group of Companies were recently promoted to president, energy, mining and infrastructure, and president, Ledcor Pipeline Group, respectively. Watt has been with Ledcor for 16 years and has diverse construction experience. Partington has led numerous pipeline projects with significant degrees of complexity for more than 30 years.
Finance
Coast Capital Savings members re-elected incumbents Bill Cooke and Glenn Wong, and selected Bob Armstrong and Frank Leonard to join the credit union’s 10-member board of directors.
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Indu Brar has been appointed general manager at Fairmont Empress in Victoria. Brar is the first female to be appointed to this position since the property opened in 1908. Brar will oversee the hotel’s two-phase $30-million-plus renovation plan that will be completed in June 2017. Brar began her career on the switchboard at the Chateau Airport hotel in Calgary and has steadily moved up the hotel ladder, working at Fairmont properties in Edmonton, Lake Louise, Winnipeg, New York and Boston. Most recently, Brar served as general manager at the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver.
Arlene Schieven has been appointed president and CEO of Tourism Sun Peaks, the marketing organization for Canada’s second-largest ski resort, and will begin there later this summer. Schieven, currently president and chief marketing officer for Sun Valley Marketing Alliance in Idaho, replaces Christopher Nicolson, who recently joined the Canada West Ski Areas Association as president and CEO. Schieven was previously vice-president of marketing at Tourism Whistler, head of the tourism marketing management program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and an instructor at Royal Roads University.
Non-Profit
Kathleen Mullen has been appointed executive director at Doxa, Vancouver’s annual documentary film festival, replacing Kenji Maeda. Mullen has worked in the film industry for the past 20 years and is returning to Vancouver from Toronto, where she has been based for 16 years. Most recently she was the festival director for Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival.
Lynette DuJohn has joined Vancouver Airport Authority as vice-president, information technology (IT), and chief digital officer. DuJohn, a civil engineer with 16 years of IT experience, was previously with the BC Lottery Corp., where she held the position of chief information officer beginning in 2007.
Gisèle Yasmeen, senior fellow, University of British Columbia, has been appointed director of social protection at WIEGO, a global non-profit research, policy and advocacy network on the informal economy registered in the U.K. and with a secretariat at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Yasmeen has more than 20 years of experience in the field of higher education and research; she was previously vice-president, research and partnerships, at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Ottawa from 2007 to 2014.
Real estate
Rosario Setticasi has been appointed chief compliance officer (CCO) and managing broker at New Coast Realty. The CCO role was created as a voluntary measure to further protect consumers. Setticasi has 34 years of real estate experience and has been a licensed agent with Sutton West Coast Realty for the past 31 years. The company is co-operating with investigations by the Real Estate Council of British Columbia, which has approved Setticasi’s appointment as a managing broker.
Companies on the move
New in town
CastleBay Wealth Management Inc., a newly founded wealth management company, is now registered as a portfolio manager in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. Graeme Egan, president, has extensive experience in the wealth planning profession. CastleBay provides both discretionary portfolio management and personal financial planning to individuals on a fee-only basis.
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.
Canada Company donated $6,500 to the 19 Wing Padres Benevolent Fund. This fund is used for urgent unexpected financial assistance for members of 19 Wing Comox and their families, including such items as gas, ferries and meals when military members need to travel to hospital on the mainland with sick children or other family members. The chaplains at 19 Wing actively raise money for the fund throughout the year.
CIBC Children’s Foundation donated $25,000 to Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver. The funds will be used to help provide local children with mentors.
For the past six years, Coast Capital Savings has committed to donating $1 to a local charity for every ballot cast by its members when electing the credit union’s board of directors. This year, $35,500 will be donated to the Youth Futures Education Fund, which helps youth formerly living under the B.C. government’s care achieve economic independence and reach their potential by helping with the expenses of a post-secondary education.
Kison Inc., a Richmond-based professional services training, coaching and consulting firm, celebrated its 25th anniversary by donating $10,000 to Semiahmoo House Society. The funds will be used to support programs that encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities in the community.
Scotiabank donated $5,000 to Bard on the Beach. The funds are in support of Bard in Your Neighbourhood, a program that works with community partners to bring workshops to underserved children and youth at no cost.
Helping Hands of WorkSafeBC donated $34,642.86 to the Crisis Centre of BC to implement a school district suicide prevention capacity-building project. The donation is a result of all undesignated funds raised from WorkSafeBC employees throughout 2015. •
