2018 30 Under 30
Life Story: When Cicely Belle Blain launched her Vancouver-based diversity and inclusion consulting business early last year, it quickly attracted customers, thanks to connections they had made as an activist. Changing attitudes helped, too: “My clients are from so many different...
Sarah Stewart named her Vancouver store, which sells sustainable women’s clothing, after Joan of Arc. “Women are warriors trying to do everything, have the career, friendships, families, and try and make the world a better place,” she says. “So Joan of Arc just really resonated with our brand.”
Some 275 friends, family and past winners gathered at the Vancouver Club on April 12 to celebrate this year's exceptional young entrepreneurs *To view the remaining pictures of the BCBusiness 30 Under 30 event, please visit https://visionphoto.shootproof.com/gallery/30Under30...
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Life Story: Born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, and raised with a younger brother in Vancouver, Ilya Brotzky tends not to see borders. His parents moved the family first to Israel, in 1991, and to Vancouver two years later. In 2010, after earning a bachelor of business administration from Cornell University, Brotzky...
Life Story: Patrick Tolchard went back to school to help finance his business. A year after graduating from Medicine Hat College with a bachelor of science in ecotourism and outdoor leadership in 2013, Tolchard, who grew up in Pitt Meadows, moved to Radium Hot Springs. His boyfriend had bought the...
Life Story: Born in a landlocked town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to government worker parents, Samarth Mod was out of his element when he moved to Victoria at age 25 to pursue an MBA at UVic’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business. With experience developing mobile...
Life Story: For someone so young, Connor Meakin has led a few different lives. The Vancouver native played 45 games for Canada’s national field hockey team while completing a psychology degree at both UVic and UBC in 2012. When Meakin hung up his cleats, he took an internship at a...
Life Story: Brianna Blaney’s business acumen is evident from her first venture: a community newspaper she started with one of her five siblings and a couple of her cousins when she was 11 years old. The crew wrote the papers and forced them on their North Vancouver neighbours by dropping...
Life Story: Karine Samson has big plans for Optimal Efficiency, the Vancouver-based startup she founded in 2015. The company, which makes project management software for construction, mining and energy-sector firms, aims to capture a sizeable chunk of its multibillion-dollar market. It’s a bold ambition that is grounded in facts and...