SAUDER FACULTY INSIDER INFORMATION
The Sauder School of Business is delighted to announce new Faculty Advisory Board members
Sacha McLean is Vice Chair of Blackcomb Aviation, a privately owned helicopter and jet charter company operating 26 aircraft out of permanent bases in Canada and the United States. Prior to his appointment, McLean was Chief Executive Officer of Blackcomb Aviation and Co-President of the McLean Group, a second-generation family business active in film production services, real estate, construction and aviation. An accomplished business entrepreneur, he played a key role in the transformative growth of the McLean Group’s flagship production facility, Vancouver Film Studios, from a group of locally managed warehouses into one of the largest modern sound stage facilities in Western Canada. He then served as family lead on the expansion of the McLean Group’s aviation interests, which led to Blackcomb Aviation, a company co-owned with John Morris. McLean is a Director of the McLean Group and a Director with the Vancouver Board of Trade where he serves as Vice Chair of the Company of Young Professionals. He is also Chair of the Board of Advisors to the Business Families Centre at the Sauder School of Business. A commercial
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helicopter pilot and fixed wing pilot, he has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics and Geography from Queen’s University and in 2008, he completed the Families in Business program at Harvard University. ■
member of the CIBC World Markets Board of Directors. He graduated from the Sauder School of Business and is a Portfolio Management Foundation (PMF) alumnus and Leslie Wong Fellow. ■
Harry Culham, BCom 1990, is Managing Director and Group Co-Head, Wholesale Banking, with CIBC World Markets Inc., in Toronto, Ontario. He is responsible for all Wholesale Banking Capital Markets businesses globally. Prior to joining CIBC in May 2008, Culham was with a global US bank in London as the Managing Director of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities. Previous to that, he was Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities in London for a large German bank. He has also held senior roles in capital markets with other global banks in Europe and Asia. Culham started his career with CIBC in the graduate training program, working in the foreign exchange business in Toronto from 1990 to 1994. He is a member of the Wholesale Banking Management Committee and a
Richard Harris is President and CEO of Golden Boy Foods Ltd., in Burnaby, BC. An accomplished CEO with a strong background in consumer marketing, he has lived and worked in North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Harris’ career includes four years as CEO at Golden Boy Foods, a North American private label food manufacturer; three years as CEO of a Coca-Cola bottling company in Western Europe; three years as Division Marketing and Public Affairs Director for Central Europe and Russia at The Coca-Cola Company; and six years in various brand marketing and marketing services roles at The Coca-Cola Company in UK and Ireland. He earned his MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the University of London. ■