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For the record, April 3, 2018

Email your For the Record information to: [email protected]. Please include a high-resolution, colour headshot where possible. Photos appear in the print edition only. Development/Construction Daniel Murphy has joined EllisDon Corp.
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Email your For the Record information to: [email protected]. Please include a high-resolution, colour headshot where possible. Photos appear in the print edition only.

Development/Construction

Daniel Murphy has joined EllisDon Corp.’s Vancouver office as vice-president of pre-construction services. Murphy was previously vice-president/co-area manager of the firm’s Middle East operation. Murphy has more than 15 years of experience across a variety of project types including commercial, residential and mixed-use, health care and recreational.

Education

Dr. Sonya Kashyap has been appointed reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) graduate fellowship program director at University of British Columbia. The role will see Kashyap direct, teach and mentor trainees in the fields of REI, in vitro fertilization and assisted reproductive technologies. Kashyap continues as full-time medical director of Genesis Fertility Centre in Vancouver.

Finance

Jackson Warren has been appointed to GAR Ltd. dba Netcoins Holding Corp.’s advisory board to help assist with the strategic expansion of the company’s virtual Bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) business. Warren was behind the world’s first physical Bitcoin brokerage and its first Bitcoin ATM in 2013. He founded and ran one of Canada’s early digital currency exchanges, Bitcoiniacs, and in recent years served as CEO of Xapcash Technologies Inc., director of Neptune Dash and COO of BTL Group Ltd., an enterprise-class blockchain solutions company that trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Health/Medical

Justin Kausel has joined Veritas Pharma Inc. as director of business development. Veritas Pharma is a pharmaceutical and intellectual property development company that is working on the science behind medical cannabis through its 80% owned subsidiary, Cannevert Therapeutics Ltd. Kausel has more than a decade of experience with developing startups, has a background in business development, marketing and operations management and has worked as a strategic consultant for tech companies in the dental, health care and blockchain fields.

Hospitality/Tourism/Convention

Cassandra (Cass) Darmanovic recently joined the team at Juke Fried Chicken as bar manager and has introduced a new list of signature cocktails at the chicken-and-rib eatery in Chinatown. Darmanovic previously worked at Hello Goodbye Bar and Mamie Taylor’s.

Legal

Blair G. McRadu has joined Lawson Lundell LLP’s Vancouver office as an associate in its insolvency and restructuring group.

Jennifer Barnard has been appointed controller at Boughton Law. Barnard is responsible for managing the firm’s accounting department, ensuring that accurate financial information is available to clients, lawyers, staff and management.

J. Reilly Pollard joins Lindsay Kenney LLP as an associate in the firm’s Vancouver litigation group, practising bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial litigation, fraud and real estate litigation.

Resources

Kieron McFadyen has been appointed senior vice-president, energy, at Teck Resources Ltd. McFadyen succeeds Ray Reipas, who began a phased retirement in 2016 and will retire from Teck, after 10 years with the company and 40 years in the industry, on April 30. McFadyen has more than 30 years of technical, operational and commercial experience, and most recently held the position of executive vice-president and president, upstream oil and gas, with Cenovus Energy. Prior to that, he held progressively senior roles with Royal Dutch Shell PLC during his nearly three decades with that company.

Michele Buchignani has been appointed to Westport Fuel Systems Inc.’s board of directors; she was previously a member of the company’s advisory board. Buchignani is currently CEO of McLean Drive Consulting Ltd., a consulting firm to private equity-owned and growth companies, and managing partner of McLane Drive Holdings LP, a U.S. real estate holding company. Previously, she has held positions with Teachers’ Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, CIBC Capital Partners and CIBC World Markets, practised corporate law in Toronto and London at Stikeman Elliott and was elected as a partner in 1995.

Companies on the move

Name change

Factory Brewing, B.C.’s first dedicated contract brewing company, is rebranding as Craft Collective Beerworks. The change comes as the company broadens its focus to incorporate proprietary brands into its portfolio. When Factory launched in 2017, it also launched a separate sales agency, Craft Collective Agency, that operated as a separate business. The two companies have now merged. In addition to contract brewing, Craft Collective will be launching several of its own brands throughout 2018 and 2019.

Hats Off

Business in Vancouver welcomes submissions from local small businesses and large corporations alike that demonstrate examples of corporate philanthropy and community involvement in the Vancouver area. High-resolution images are also welcome.

MAC AIDS Fund, the charitable arm of cosmetics company MAC, donated $30,000 to the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre Foundation. The funds will be directed to the peer support program led by BC Women’s Hospital’s Oak Tree Clinic.

Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Canada donated $48,010 to Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation to support the acquisition of vital respiratory equipment (a BiPAP or bi-level positive airway pressure ventilator, three AIRVOs and a Neopuff, for infants) benefiting patients at Eagle Ridge Hospital.

Unbounded Canada Foundation, on behalf of Rob Milne and his family, will donate $1 million over the next decade to the Pivot Foundation, the charitable partner of Pivot Legal Society, a human rights organization using the law to address the root causes of poverty and social exclusion in Canada. The donation will support projects and programs that sustain efforts to reform drug policy in Canada.

Fusion Projects donated $66,595.71 to Covenant House. The funds were raised through raffles and events such as the Covenant House Sleep Out. •