Donald Hayes - Chair
Donald P. Hayes is President and principal shareholder of Hayes Group of Companies with interests in forestry, retail and real estate. Hayes is the third generation of his family involved in the forest industry. His grandfather founded Hayes Manufacturing, which designed and built some of the first logging trucks in British Columbia. Hayes received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UBC in 1982. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and maintains his designation. Hayes is currently a Director of the British Columbia Ferry Corporation and is Past Chairman, Cowichan Valley Economic Development Commission, Past Chairman, Associated Logging Congress, Past Vice Chairman, Truck Loggers Association and Past Director, Forest Renewal BC and the New Relationship Trust. |
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David McMillan - Past Chair
David McMillan became General Manager and CEO of Island Farms Dairies Co-operative Association in 1991 and retired in September 2004. As well as being Past Chair of the RBCM, he is currently a member of the Thrifty Foods Advisory Board, the AERS Board of Directors and the Boards of several other private corporations. He has also served on the Boards of the Salvation Army, the Victoria Hospice Society and the Victoria Hospice Foundation.
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Peter Gustavson
Peter Gustavson is the President & CEO of Gustavson Capital Corporation. He was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Custom House Global Foreign Exchange, the largest non-bank foreign exchange provider in North America. Custom House now has 50 branches in Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Previously, Mr. Gustavson was a Partner with Gustavon Shaffer, Chartered Accountants. Active in the community, he is a member of the UVic Faculty of Commerce Board of Advisors, Chair of the UVic Business Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner, and President and Chair of the Canadian Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC in 2006, a recipient of the Business Examiner Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, and Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. Mr. Gustavson holds his Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Accounting and Marketing from the University of Manitoba.
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Graham S. Lee
Graham Lee is president, CEO, founder and sole shareholder of RG Properties Ltd, an award-winning diversified real estate company that started as a university project and now employs more than 4,000. Lee’s major development projects include Planet Ice (Coquitlam, Delta and Maple Ridge), Capri Shopping Mall/Hotel and Prospera Place (Kelowna), Vector Aerospace Facility (Vancouver Airport) and the Save On Foods Memorial Centre (Victoria). In addition to holding past directorships with the Vancouver Board of Trade and the original Vancouver Olympic Bid Corporation, Lee serves as Governor for the Vancouver Aquarium; he’s a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate at UBC; and he is involved with several charitable causes.
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Kenneth Mahon
Ken was born and raised in Vancouver and graduated from U.B.C. in 1958 with a B.Com. degree. He entered articles to become a Chartered Accountant and received his degree in 1961. He was the gold medalist and valedictorian. He was made a fellow of the C.A. Institute in 1983. In 1961, Ken formed a partnership with Alan Wolrige, which still bears the name Wolrige Mahon. Today, Wolrige Mahon is a large local firm with a staff of 90. Ken retired from Wolrige Mahon in 1996 and moved to the Adera group of Companies, a family owned corporate group with annual revenues in excess of $200 million, where he is Chairman. Ken’s community activities have included Chairmanship or Presidency of The Vancouver Neurological Centre, The B.C. Neurological Foundation, The Vancouver Opera, The Vancouver Opera Foundation, The Cantata Singers Advisory Board, Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, The Order of St. John Palliative Care Foundation, The Thunderbird Golf Society, and The Kerrisdale Baseball Association. He has worked with numerous other professional and community organizations in various capacities. Other awards include an Honorary Life Directorship of The Vancouver Opera, a Big Block from U.B.C and the Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Award. Ken has been married to Ellen for 52 years and they have three grown children and six grandchildren.
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Allison McNeill
Allison McNeill is the proprietor of a communications company based in the Okanagan Valley specialising in Media, Public and Governmental relations. Ms. McNeill received the 2009 Sarah Treadgold Woman of the Year Award from the City of Kelowna. Top priorities for her are working with companies who have an environmental concious or are willing to work towards one. She is an advocate for special needs people, recently founding a housing development concept called Haven House, Chairing the Community Living Interior Council, and writing a column for local newspapers. She has volunteered her time & been nominated to many more not-for-profit organisations including: VP of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, Judging Chair Okanagan Wine Festivals, VP Okanagan Sun Football club, and has been media liaison for Special Olympics, Winter Games, Earthcare, Communities in Bloom, The Regimental Ball, MS Society, People in Motion and Measuring up Kelowna. Allison and husband Jack Acres love entertaining, appreciate fine wine and cuisine, gardening, exercising, and family and friends. They live in Kelowna and have a wonderful family with 6 children & 2 great dogs.
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Anna Nyarady
Anna Nyarady holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University and has received her Chartered Directors designation from McMaster University. She is a Certified Financial Planner and President of Vanseco Management Ltd., which, for the past 20 years, has provided business consulting, and regulatory reporting and compliance services for both public companies and private companies wishing to go public. Nyarady has served as director and officer on numerous private and public corporate boards including a publicly held trust company, and is currently a director of the BC Assessment Authority, the Richmond Olympic Oval Corporation and BC Cancer Foundation and the Past-Chair and Trustee of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. She also served as Chair of The Richmond Hospital Foundation.
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Barbara Rae
Barbara Rae is former president and CEO of ADECCO Canada Ltd. She has served on numerous boards of national and provincial companies in banking, telecommunications, mining and insurance, has worked on several public task forces and commissions and on advisory boards for the prime minister and premier. Ms. Rae has been Chair of United Way, Salvation Army, Simon Fraser University Annual appeals and has fundraising expertise. Currently, Rae serves as a director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, KCTS, and Pacific Coast Television, and as co-chair of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. A former Chancellor of Simon Fraser University, Rae has been awarded the Order of Canada; Order of British Columbia; Honourary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University, from which she also received a Distinguished Leadership Award; Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year for B.C., and Canadian Volunteer Award. Barbara was also named a lifetime achiever in March 2008 as part of Business in Vancouver's Influential Women in Business awards.
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Bud Smith
Bud Smith, QC, is a UVIC graduate who obtained his law degree from UBC in 1974. He is an active Kamloops-based businessman with ownership interests in engineering, construction, lending and travel companies operating in BC and Alberta. A former Attorney General, Smith brings experience as Kamloops MLA (1986 - 1991) and Cabinet Minister (Regional Economic Development, 1988 - 91). Smith has served on a number of Crown Corporation boards, including Canada Post Corporation (1991 – ‘94), BC Development Corporation (1979 - 1983), Prince Rupert Port Authority (2007 - 2009) and Ridley Terminals Inc. (2009 - present). Smith has given his time to a number of community services and programs, including the Diocese of Cariboo (Chancellor), the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce and the Western Canada Theatre Company (Trustee).
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Neil Sterritt
Neil Sterritt is Gitksan, a member of the Fireweed clan of Kispiox, B.C. He is president of Sterritt Consulting Ltd. and is a consultant specializing in aboriginal and indigenous issues in Canada, Southeast Asia and Australia. He was leader of the Gitksan-Wets’uwet’en Tribal Council from 1981 to 1987 and worked as a treaty negotiator for the Gitksan Treaty Office at Hazelton. Sterritt played a major role as a key strategist and spokesperson on constitutional issues for the Assembly of First Nations, and was appointed Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Table by the four national aboriginal organizations of Canada: the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, Metis National Council and Native Council of Canada. Sterritt is an authority on aboriginal governance provincially and nationally and author of the First Nations Governance Handbook: A Resource Guide for Effective Councils. He is past governor and current fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, and past director of the Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association. He has presented governance papers at two aboriginal governance conferences in Canberra, Australia. Mr. Sterritt was awarded an honorary degree June 11, 2008 from U of T in recognition of his lifetime contributions to the understanding and expression of aboriginal citizenship in Canada.
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Margaret Vandenberg
Ms. Vandenberg is the Executive Director of The Arthritis Society, BC & Yukon Division. She was the Director of Advancement in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University. Prior to working at SFU, Ms. Vandenberg was the Chairperson for the Employment Insurance Commission for the BC Regional Division, a marketing and fundraising consultant with MSV Consulting, and an Associate Campaign Director Consultant with Navion Financial Development Systems Inc. She was also the former Executive Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada; and the former Director of Development and Communications and Associate Executive Director with the Canadian Diabetes Association. She has been involved in a variety of community activities including a former Director on the CKNW Orphans Fund, former member on the City of Port Moody's Economic Development Committee, a member of the Eagle Ridge Hospital Capital Campaign Committee, and the former Vice Chair of the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.
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