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for the record People on the Move Email your For the Record information to: fortherecord@biv.com. Please include a high-resolution, colour headshot where possible. Development/ Construction Paul Klimczak Paul Klimczak has joined ZGF Cotter Architects as a senior project architect. Klimczak brings experience in all phases of building design, with a specific focus on health care and institutional work. Klimczak’s experience in the health-care sector includes serving as an editor and evaluator of RFP submittals advising public health authority clients and P3 procurements. Education Chantal Gionet Chantal Gionet has joined York House School as head of school. Gionet’s previous positions include assistant head of school at Pickering College and, prior to that, head of upper school at Havergal College. Gionet’s focus is on developing the whole student and preparing students to be courageous leaders and active global citizens.
Karen Keilty Karen Keilty has been appointed to the board of Quest University Canada; the new appointment expands the board to eight members. Keilty brings more than 30 years of experience in audit and advisory services; she spent 30 years at Deloitte, including 20 years as a partner. Keilty serves as a commissioner for the BC Utilities Commission and as a corporate director; she is a past president and a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, a past director of the BC Paraplegic Foundation, past chair of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, past board founding member of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, and past director of the BC Chamber of Commerce. Finance Dan Blue has been appointed chief financial officer at Central 1 Credit Union. Blue has been interim CFO since June 9, following the departure of previous CFO and SVP, strategy, Helen Blackburn. Blue also served as interim CFO from August 2013 to January 2014 while Blackburn was in the role of interim president and CEO. Blue joined Central 1 in 1999 and has been VP, finance, since 2012. Prior to joining Central 1, Blue was an audit manager with Grant Thornton LLP and managed audit engagements for a wide range of clients, including
both public companies and financial institutions. Health/Medical Bob Rai and Punit Dhillon have joined Venturi Ventures Inc.’s board of directors. Rai is an entrepreneur with 18 years of experience in operating a string of Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy outlets in Vancouver – the first in Canada to launch two new pilot programs: point-of-care HIV tests and screening for chronic kidney disease. Rai is also chairman and CEO of Canadian Pacific Global Pharmaceuticals and chairman of its subsidiary, PharmaCanada Inc. Dhillon is co-founder and CEO of OncoSec Medical Inc., a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company developing advancedstage immunotherapy to treat solid tumours. Punit previously served as vice-president of finance and operations at Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. David Raffa, Ron Palfery and Kirk Exner have resigned as directors of Venturi. Non-Profit Carey Price Carey Price, goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, has been appointed Breakfast Club of Canada’s First Nation ambassador. Price recently celebrated the launch of two school breakfast programs in his hometown of Anahim Lake.
siGnaTure evenTs OCTOBer 3 - 13, 2014
The 34th annual
Fall OkanaGan
Wine FesTival October 1, 7:00pm – 9:00pm BriTish COlumBia Wine aWards and reCepTiOn The laurel packinghouse, kelowna. price: $50 (all incl). October 3 & 4, 7:00pm – 9:30pm The WesTJeT Wine TasTinGs rotary Centre for the arts, kelowna. price $70 (all incl) or $120 (all incl) for both nights. October 8, 7:00pm – 9:00pm The Blind Wine & Cheese sOiree By valley FirsT The laurel packinghouse, kelowna. price: $50 (all incl). October 9, 6:30pm – 9:00pm alexis de pOrTneuF presenTs “The yOunG CheFs” “The atrium” Centre for learning Okanagan College, kelowna. price: $60 (all incl). October 9, 7:00 – 9:00pm OrGaniC Cheese and Wine - a naTural pairinG manteo resort, kelowna. price: $47 (all incl). TiCkeTs FOr all aBOve evenTs: www.selectyourtickets.com or 250.717.5304 October 10 & 11, 6:00pm – 9:00pm valley FirsT Grand Finale COnsumer TasTinGs penticton Trade and Convention Centre. price: $65 (all incl) or $110 (all incl) for both nights. TiCkeTs: www.valleyfirsttix.com or 877.763.2849
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Real estate Dave Harlos Dave Harlos has joined The Value Property Group, a privately held commercial real estate holding group, as director of finance. Harlos is a senior finance leader with significant experience in corporate structuring, amalgamations, tax planning and financial reporting in the real estate industry. Resources Tim Livesey and Tim Fletcher have been appointed COO and VP, exploration, respectively, at Reservoir Minerals Inc. Livesey will be responsible for managing Reservoir’s advanced projects including the Timok joint venture project with Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corp. and general operational activities. Livesey is a geologist and has been involved in the international exploration and mining industry for more than 25 years, including a three-year tenure as CEO of Tethyan Copper, where he is currently a director. Fletcher will be responsible for managing Reservoir’s portfolio of exploration projects throughout Europe and providing broad technical and management expertise to Reservoir’s team. Fletcher has more than 30 years of experience in international exploration with emphasis on exploration for porphyry and epithermal coppergold deposits. Fletcher recently focused on the Tethyan belt for Barrick Gold and prior to that worked in South America with Magma Copper, Homestake Mining and Mount Isa Mines. Technology Lewis J. “Lew” Shuster has been appointed chairman of Response Biomedical Corp.’s board of directors. Peter A. Thompson, outgoing chairman, will remain on the board. Shuster joined the board as director and chairman of the audit committee in 2011; he is currently CEO of Shuster Capital. From 2003 to 2007 he served as CEO of Kemia Inc., a drug discovery and development company, and has previously held executive positions with Invitrogen Corp., Pharmacopeia Inc., Human Genome Sciences and Microbiological Associates. Shuster currently serves as a board member and audit committee chairman for Cleave Biosciences Inc. as well as HTG Molecular Diagnostics Inc. and serves as a board member of TissueNetix Inc., Active Motif Inc. and Mast Therapeutics Inc.
Companies on the move Name change Kobex Minerals Inc. has changed its name to Kobex Capital Corp. and continues as a Tier 1 company on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol KXM. Kobex’s new ISIN is CA49989D1033 and its CUSIP number is 49989D103.
The Human Resources Management Association (HRMA) in British Columbia has dropped “BC” from its name and launched its new look, including its logo and colour palette, which can be viewed at www.hrma.ca. New in town Aburi Restaurants Canada has opened a new Japanese restaurant in downtown Vancouver. The modern teppan-style Gyoza Bar + Ramen is located at 622 West Pender. For more information, visit gyozabar.ca.
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. St. Michael’s Centre Auxiliary in Burnaby donated $12,000 from sales in its gift shop to Tapestry Foundation for Health Care, in support of St. Michael’s Centre residents. The gift is the largest donation by the auxiliary since it was first established in 1980 and will help support the purchase of a new combination oven for the site and fund resident activities. Coast Capital Savings donated $10,000 to Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver in support of the agency’s teen mentoring programs across the Lower Mainland. Steve Curtis, CEO of ZAG Global, and 33 other employees of the ZAG team had a front-end loader of ice water dumped on them as a part of the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) ice bucket challenge. Curtis donated $1,000, and for every staff member who participated, the company’s new charitable program, ZAG Heartbeats, donated $100. Including individual donations by ZAG staff members, the total contribution was more than $5,300. The City of Vancouver’s cultural infrastructure grant program donated $150,000 and the Department of Canadian Heritage’s cultural spaces fund donated $314,970, for a total of $464,970, to the Vancouver Opera for the installation of a new elevator. The addition of the elevator makes the O’Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera fully accessible. Pan Pacific Whistler sponsored the recent annual Whistler Animal Shelter (WAG) Doggy Wash Day and donated $2,545 to the shelter. WAG volunteers, along with Shampooch, washed dozens of dogs and sold hamburgers, raising a total of $3,816.80 for the shelter. Each time a pet stays in Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre, $5 is donated to WAG. Four-legged visitors to the hotel receive an amenity package that includes food and water bowls, a blanket, a pet card to hang outside the door for notification, dog treats and biodegradable poop bags. •