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Marking the end of an era at BC Hydro, Jessica McDonald has been fired as president and CEO of the public utility. Her replacement: Chris Riley, promoted to president from deputy CEO. Board chair Brad Bennett, a onetime adviser to the BC...
As an undergrad business student at SFU in 2006, Sarah Lubik landed a co-op job in which she interviewed founders of new technology companies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. on the challenges they faced as they tried to take their products to market. Since then she has tackled...
Premier John Horgan has named the members of his cabinet, which contains 20 ministers and two ministers of state. Another six MLAs are parliamentary secretaries. The government is a mix of new and experienced MLAs and also includes: • Four ministers...
Just over 1,000 guests attended the BCBusiness Top 100 networking event at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on June 29, featuring special guest and Victoria native David Foster who is considered one of the most successful music producers in history. The...
Hawaii, my wife and kids were shopping, and I wandered into a music store. The fellow took a ukulele off the wall, and I almost immediately fell in love with it. I grew up on the North Shore in a...
Specialty: Concrete waterproofing products whose proprietary chemical technology creates crystals that grow into the materialFounded: 1973Exporting since: 1975Proportion of total sales from exports: More than 90 per centThe story so far: Ron Yuers, Kryton’s founder and chair, signed his first...
Georgiy Sekretaryuk works in the jewelry business, but not in the way you might think. The 18-year-old Coquitlam resident, who speaks Russian and Mandarin in addition to English and his native Ukrainian, also has Asian markets in his sights. Sekretaryuk...
On June 21, almost 200 guests filled the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver’s Roof Restaurant & Bar for Midsummer’s Eve, a cocktail party and auction in support of Diabetes Canada presented by the CRS Group of Companies. Guests enjoyed a stand-up reception...
More than 350 guests attended the Night at the Aquarium Gala at the Vancouver Aquarium on June 15. Presented by PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., the event raised over $370,000 in support of the Aquarium’s conservation, research and education programs. The evening...
There’s nothing like a bit of familial rivalry to fuel entrepreneurial ambitions. Freighted with growing up in a renowned B.C. real estate development family, Darryl Bosa admits taking off “to learn and make my own mistakes” overseas for nearly a...