Peter Severinson


Canada is in desperate need of more highly skilled, educated immigrants. At least that’s what we’re told by studies such as the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global Talent Risk Report. Despite current concerns about persistently high unemployment, the study estimates...

Rob Pease helped usher in B.C.’s first new mine in over a decade: the Mount Milligan gold-copper project now under construction northwest of Prince George. He scooped up the site in 2006 during the breakup of Placer Dome – where...

This is what entrepreneurial success is supposed to look like. The decor is all blues, blacks and matte metals. The cubicles are all flat screens and headsets. The offices are all sports equipment and management books. The lobby’s triumphant corporate...

Congratulations to Mibroc, #19 in 2011's Most Innovative Companies in B.C. With building and selling homes arguably B.C.’s favourite business, pastime and obsession, it’s gratifying to include a medium-sized developer on this year’s list, even if it’s for its marketing, of all things. 


Congratulations to Digital Payment Technologies, #18 in 2011's Most Innovative Companies in B.C. Perhaps the truest endorsement for this company comes from one of our panellists, who says, “I hate their product, but I like the company.”


It’s tempting to imagine what the world would be like if every company operated under the same principles as Lunapads, a triple-bottom-line innovator that is changing the lives of women around the world. The company has been producing a reusable...

Congratulations to Annex Consulting Group, #14 in 2011's Most Innovative Companies in B.C. It’s the dream of hunched cubicle-dwellers everywhere to break that corporate ball-and-chain and earn their own way as an independent consultant. Nice idea, but the challenge of drumming up all your own business can be daunting. Annex Consulting, however, might have hit upon the solution.


Congratulations to Zymeworks, #12 in 2011's Most Innovative Companies in B.C. There are dozens of biotech companies in B.C. working feverishly to create the next groundbreaking new medicine, but it takes years to find out whether they’ll ever be a success. Zymeworks, however, is contributing to the field in a different way: creating a tool to help design drugs quicker and more effectively. 


The era of market researchers trying to gather a couple hundred survey responses using the telephone is, for the most part, dead, gone and unmourned. The world has moved on, and a Vancouver company has helped lead the way. Vision...

(More: 2011 BCBusiness Guide to Innovation) Some B.C. companies are working on products so advanced they’re difficult to understand until they’re put to use. That’s why when the Canadian military used 25 hand-held devices for sniffing out radioactive threats during the...

(More: 2011 BCBusiness Guide to Innovation) It’s nice to find a local company helping make the world a cleaner place, but when that’s combined with an innovative business plan, it’s truly something to celebrate. Such is the case with Ostara, whose...