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on the Move Mark DePietro has been hired as Vecima Networks’ senior VP of marketing. DePietro has 20 years of experience in complex technology product development, most recently as VP of product management and business development in video infrastructure at ARRIS. Oughtred Coffee & Tea has hired Nelson Tesky as director of manufacturing. Tesky was previously head roaster at Cafe Virtuoso in San Diego and lead roaster at Salt Spring Island Coffee. Oughtred has also hired JON PATTERSON as business development specialist. Patterson was roaster and QC team member, production at Level Ground Trading. Tourism Victoria has appointed Miranda Ji as director of sales for the Victoria Conference Centre and Business Events Victoria. For the past year, Ji has served as Tourism Victoria’s corporate sales manager stationed in Vancouver.
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Brian Pope has joined The Truffles Group as CEO, overseeing one of Vancouver Island’s leading hospitality, tourism and beverage retail companies. Pope has executive leadership experience in the hospitality industry, having worked with four-diamond hotels, resorts and private clubs in Canada and the U.S. shirley Vickers is the new president and CEO of the BC Innovation Council (BCIC), a provincial Crown agency. Vickers is a serial entrepreneur who has built several companies, developing technologies in the resources sector and working in senior-health-care and medicaltechnology-industry roles. With the recent launch of the #BCTECH Strategy, Vickers will work to fulfill the government’s vision for technology as the foundation for growth in every industry throughout the province. Mike Corrigan, president and CEO of BC Ferries, has announced he will step down, effective March 31, 2017, at the completion of his contract. Before becoming BC Ferries’ CEO five years ago, Corrigan was the corporation’s COO and, before that, VP of business development. An executive search has begun to find his successor from internal and external candidates.
Education News Liz Bicknell, a communications specialist with a 30-year career in B.C.’s public service, has been appointed by the provincial government to the Royal Roads University Board of Governors. Before retiring in 2015, Bicknell provided advice and issues management counsel at the most senior levels of the provincial government, working in public engagement, community
Arkady Vitrouk is the new CEO at AbeBooks, the online marketplace for books based in Victoria. Vitrouk was previously at Amazon where he worked as Director of Kindle Content in the company’s European headquarters in Luxembourg. Prior to joining Amazon, Vitrouk was CEO of Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, one of Russia’s largest publishers of general trade and children’s books, which he led for almost 10 years.
outreach and strategic planning positions. Before coming to Canada in 1984, she served with the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. Dr. Roy Janisch has been named Vancouver Island
University’s inaugural Fulbright Canada Jarislowsky Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies. His nine-month term at VIU begins in September 2016 and the research topic will be “Restorative Justice and Indigenous Communities.” Janisch is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and is an associate professor of Justice Studies at Pittsburg State University in Kansas.
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Achievements Starr McMichael, a recent graduate of the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program (DEP) has achieved the Institute of Corporate Directors designation (ICD.D). DEP provides education on the elements of effective governance, including: strategic performance, financial performance, human performance and risk management. She is first vice-chair, Tourism Victoria; director, Greater Victoria Harbour Authority; and director, Victoria Tall Ships Society.
For the third year in a row, Peter Cowan was nominated and listed in the annual IAM Strategy 300, which identifies the world’s leading IP strategists. Victoria-based Cowan’s name appears alongside the IP heads for Google, Amazon, Ford, Nike and Apple. The IAM Strategy 300 identifies professionals with established track records for developing and rolling out world-class IP value-creation programs.
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