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1986 • Since early 2007, Derek K. Miller has been on leave from his job as Communications Manager for Vancouver’s Navarik Corp. because of ongoing cancer treatment. The good news is that he’s still around, still hanging out with his wife Airdrie (née Hislop) and daughters, Marina and Lauren. He is still posting updates to his long-running blog at www.penmachine.com. He turns 40 this summer, and will be glad to.
• Joseph Ng writes that since leaving Saints, he has lived in over eight cities and completed his four years of work in China at a manufacturing joint venture. He has since moved on to finish his MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and has worked as a management consultant in Toronto. After traveling for 80% of the time with the Boston Consulting Group, he has now moved to the Bay Area to work in corporate strategy for a software company. 1999
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1987 • Mark Redcliffe opened Jordan Capital Markets Inc. on October 9, 2008, of which he is currently President and CEO. Jordan is the first new IIROC registered Investment Dealer in BC in the past 10 years. As Mark states, timing is everything! 1988 • Peter Bell has taken a year off from his job as legal counsel with the Department of Justice to deploy to Kosovo with the Canadian Forces. He is now a Lieutenant-Colonel in Pristina working as the Policy and Plans Advisor for the NATO Military-Civilian Advisory Division that is setting up the new Kosovo Security Force. His wife and four daughters are taking advantage of his absence by travelling the world. 1989 • Boris Bong has recently been promoted to Managing Director at Squadron Capital, a fund of Asia private equity funds, based in Hong Kong. • Chris Taylor is an award-winning journalist in New York City. 1991 • Paul Carpenter is married with three children and is living in Old Greenwich, CT. 1993
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• Scott MacKenzie is a litigation lawyer at Boughton Law Corporation in Vancouver and his wife, Sarah, is Director of Sales and Events at Culinary Capers Catering.
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1997 • Neil Chantler and Louisa Morris will be married on August 29, 2009. Neil also made a career move this year, transferring to the law firm Fiorillo Glavin & Gordon where he is practising labour and employment law.
• Jonathan Cooper has been promoted to Marketing and Franchise Director for Macdonald Realty Group. • Andrew Gardiner moved to Beijing China in April of 2008. Andrew hopes to improve his knack for the Chinese tongue. He hopes his time in China will allow him to seek further opportunities as a tri-lingual Canadian working overseas (he is also fluent in French from his studies at St. George’s). • Colin George graduated from NYU School of Law last year and is now working at the Manhattan offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a law firm. 2000 • Pasha Khamneipur writes that after a decade in the U.S. and away from Vancouver, he has obtained his MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore. He has recently moved to London, UK to work for consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He welcomes fellow Georgians in London to get together for a drink and reminisce about wood working class with “Daddy” Stancombe '62 or “Fridays” with Mr. Bauman. 2001 • Warren Miles-Pickup was recently interviewed by the Vancouver Sun. In the article, he was providing advice on how investors can get some security given the volatile financial markets. He recommended selling some of the portfolio and moving into incomeproducing securities, including high-yield corporate bonds, real-estate investment trusts, mortgages and preferred and dividend-paying shares. 2002 • Adam Braverman graduated from Ryerson University in 2006 with a BFA (Honours) in Film Production. He currently works in the film industry in Vancouver as a camera assistant.