Education
The Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business has announced its advisory board: Wally Oppal (chair); Wendy Bach, SVP, Methanex Corp.; Kim Baird, Kim Baird Strategic Consulting; Bev Briscoe, lead director, Goldcorp Inc.; Peter P. Dhillon (ex officio), CEO, Richberry Group; Dale Griffin (ex officio), interim academic director, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics; Philip B. Lind, vice-chairman, Rogers Communications Inc.; Graham MacLachlan, regional president, B.C., Royal Bank of Canada; Penny McIntyre; Sue Paish, CEO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services; Bob Rennie, Rennie Marketing Systems; Christie Stephenson (ex officio), executive director, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics; and Tamara Vrooman, CEO, Vancity.
Legal
Jessica Babineau has joined Richards Buell Sutton LLP as an associate and as a member of the firm’s wealth preservation group. She focuses on personal estate and incapacity planning, including the preparation of wills, powers of attorney, representation agreements and trusts, as well as estate and trust administration and succession planning.
Media
Kyle Marsh has joined FleishmanHillard Vancouver as associate vice-president. Prior to joining the communications and public affairs firm, Marsh established a Western Canada office for a public affairs firm based in Ontario and served as a senior adviser to a number of B.C. government ministers.
Non-profit
Jacqueline Taylor has been appointed executive director at Decoda Literacy Solutions. Taylor is the former superintendent of literacy for the B.C. Ministry of Education and also served as superintendent of School District 33 (Chilliwack). She brings a strong background in leadership in the provincial education and community-based literacy fields to the Decoda staff team.
Volunteer BC, the provincial association for promoting the value and impact of volunteerism in B.C., has elected its board of directors for 2016-17. Continuing board members include Lawrie Portigal (president); Stacy Ashton (vice-president), Community Volunteer Connections; Andy Telfer (vice-president and acting treasurer); Anne Marie Koeppen (secretary); Julie Robertson (director), BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres; Louise Howes (director), Volunteer Campbell River; Naomi Fleschhut (director), Community in Action and Sunshine Coast Community Services Society; and Tracey Davidson (director), Volunteer Terrace. New board members are Sarah Foot, general manager, Volunteer Prince George, and Shawn Bellamy, liason, Prince George Aboriginal Child and Family Commission.
Resources
N. Eric Fier, president, SilverCrest Metals Inc., will return from his partial leave of absence due to medical reasons and will resume full-time duties as chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2017. Dunham Craig, interim chief executive officer, will continue to assist with CEO responsibilities on an interim basis until January 1. Anne Yong, currently the company’s controller, will succeed Barney Magnusson as chief financial officer. Magnusson will become executive vice-president effective January 1, and will also remain as a director of SilverCrest. Yong has more than 10 years of accounting knowledge gained from industry, public practice and government regulatory work experience. Prior to her role as controller with the company, she was the corporate compliance and disclosure officer of SilverCrest Mines Inc.
Colin Macdonald, one of UEX Corp.’s founding board members and current chairman of the company’s board of directors, will retire from the board effective December 31. Macdonald has served as director of the company since 2002, and chairman since 2015. Toronto-based Catherine Stretch, chief commercial officer, Aguia Resources Ltd., has been appointed to the board effective January 1, 2017. Stretch has more than 15 years of experience in capital markets and in managing companies and investment funds focused in the resource industry. She is a director of TSX Venutre Exchange-listed Emerita Resources Corp. and AnalytixInsight Inc.
Hats Off
Ryan Beedie, a Simon Fraser University (SFU) alumnus, donated $500,000 to SFU’s Beedie School of Business. The funds will create five new annual student awards over the next five years beginning in September 2017. There will be 25 awards in total, each worth $20,000. The donation marks five years since Beedie and his family donated $22 million – the largest in SFU’s history – to establish the Beedie School of Business.
The Group of Five and Friends Benevolent Society, along with the Rotary Club of New Westminster, donated just over $7,500 to fund a play area and mural next to Royal Columbian Hospital’s ambulatory care department.
ICBC employees raised and donated more than $303,000 to the United Way of the Lower Mainland as part of the United Way’s 42nd annual campaign to help make a difference in communities across the province.
The SpencerCreo Foundation donated $90,000 to Children of the Street Society. The funds will be used to educate B.C.’s young people to keep them safe from sexual exploitation, intervene with youth identified at high risk for sexual exploitation and provide support and referral services for children and families who have already been affected by sexual exploitation.
In July 2016, Dolly Lee donated $500,000 to Tapestry Foundation for Health Care to help purchase life-saving respiratory equipment for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU), and to create a special isolation/trauma room within the hospital’s emergency department. The ICU was renamed the Yiu Nam Wong and Fung Kam Yu Wong Intensive Care Unit, to honour the memory of Lee’s parents, who were philanthropists and supported a number of hospitals and charities in Hong Kong.
Subway Canada donated $51,459 to Food Banks BC, to be divided across the province for the purchase of fresh food for the holiday season. The donation represents the equivalent of 154,377 fresh meals – enough to sustain all of B.C.’s food banks for almost a month and a half. •
