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Education
Joanne MacLean has been appointed president and vice-chancellor of the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV); she is the first woman to hold the title in a non-interim role. MacLean is currently dean of the faculty of health sciences at UFV and will assume her new role on May 1, replacing Jackie Hogan, who has held the office on an interim basis since June 2017. With more than 30 years of experience as a professor and university administrator, MacLean held appointments at the University of Windsor and Brock University in southern Ontario before coming to UFV in 2012.
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Jens Moesker has been appointed regional vice-president for Fairmont Hotels Pacific Northwest and general manager of Fairmont Pacific Rim, while Cari Bower has been appointed director of leisure sales at Fairmont Vancouver Airport. Moesker has nearly 30 years of international experience in the hospitality industry, including positions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the U.S. Since 2000, he has been with Shangri-La, and most recently worked as area manager and general manager of the Shangri-La Hotel Toronto where he oversaw the North American properties. Bower began her hospitality career in 1990 and has worked in a variety of progressive sales and operation positions that include Fairmont Waterfront, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and Pan Pacific Vancouver. Bower relocated to Toronto in 2013 and became an agency sales executive with Hilton Worldwide; she will remain based in Toronto.
Legal
Chris Ferronato has been appointed in-house legal counsel at Bosa Properties Inc.
Ryan R. Lee has been welcomed as a partner at Watson Goepel LLP in the litigation and dispute resolution group. Lee assists clients in matters related to commercial and property disputes, construction law, transportation law, strata law and employment law.
Lawson Lundell LLP has announced the promotion of six associates who became partners as of January 1: Amaan Gangji, corporate commercial; Megan Kaneen, pensions and employee benefits; Ritu Mahil, labour, employment and human rights; Jennifer Nyland, regulatory law; and Chad Travis, real estate, who all practise in the firm’s Vancouver office. Sandra MacKenzie, who practises labour and employment law in the Yellowknife office, has also become a partner at the firm.
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP has welcomed two Vancouver-based additions to the partnership: Morgan Burris and Mike Mjanes. Burris has been practising commercial litigation, with a focus on construction and engineering disputes, in the firm’s Vancouver office since 2009. Prior to pursuing a career in law, Burris studied mechanical engineering and worked in manufacturing and mechanical building design. Mjanes has been advising clients in connection with real estate and corporate commercial matters since he joined the Vancouver office in 2008.
Non-profit
Warn Franklin, manager, biodiversity and closure, Teck Coal Ltd., has been appointed chair of the BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (TRCR). John Jackson has been appointed vice-chair. The TRCR holds the annual Mine Reclamation Symposium, scheduled to take place in Williams Lake this year September 17-20.
Hats Off
Dairy Farmers of Canada, through the 2017 Champions Fund, donated $5,000 to the Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Assocation.
Vancouver’s Diamond Foundation donated $75,000 to Coquitlam-based Children of the Street Society. The grant will be used over three years to support the society’s youth art engagement project, which works with small groups of children and youth at high risk for sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology & Entrepreneurship Council, or VIATEC, donated $53,523.82 in cash and 1,733 pounds of food to the nearly 100% community-funded Mustard Seed Street Church, which has been serving people living in poverty, as well as the working poor, in Greater Victoria since 1975.
The Port Moody Oldtimers Hockey Association held its annual Christmas Burger and Beer event at the Burrard Public House, with all proceeds from the dinner benefiting Crossroads Hospice Society. The dinner raised $1,000 through ticket sales.
Pacific Blue Cross donated $5,000 to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation in support of occupational therapy services for individuals with Down syndrome. •
