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Ramiz Charagh’s family came to Canada as refugees of the Kurdish genocide led by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein. Charagh’s dad, a well-respected civil engineer at home, found work at a KFC and the family of six settled into a BC...
You’ve been general manager of Nature’s Path Organic Foods for almost five years. Congratulations on your new role as president. How are you feeling about it? I'm super excited. It's a time of change in our company, but also one of continuity.
BCBusiness's annual Top 100 event once again celebrated the biggest companies in the province by revenue. Those in attendance were treated to a networking luncheon, followed by a keynote interview with Ian Gillespie, founder of real estate developer Westbank Corp. Gillespie...
We’ll be honest, it wasn’t exactly a hard sell to get us to pay up for the recent film BlackBerry. For starters, any story about a Canadian company is playing with house money when it comes to our interests. Add...
On paper, Chris Smith is the ideal candidate to run a fitness chain. Growing up in California, he played baseball and basketball and ran track and field before trying his luck at professional football as a young adult. “Leadership, I...
It was 1992 in Vancouver and Dan Hilton, a Royal Bank employee, started seeing green awnings everywhere and reevaluating what he wanted to do for a career. “Starbucks had 200 stores back then, and I thought [starting a coffee shop]...
Nancy McKinstry was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005. Over the past 18 years, the Vancouver business executive with a resume longer than most novels has lived what she calls her second life. Now the cancer has returned, and McKinstry...
Michelle Dunlea's family has a hard time wrapping their minds around what she does for a living. Her parents are confused beyond “I work in tech,” and her fiancé tells people that she “builds an app where lawyers speak to...
Let’s get something out of the way right off the top. When I first interviewed Kareem Allam in the confines of Vancouver City Hall, I had no idea he was going to resign from his post of chief of staff to...
Walking into Chris Quinn’s corner office, one can’t help but glance over at the autographed, framed Roberto Luongo and Trevor Linden jerseys and wonder if Quinn himself still thinks about the future that almost was. Raised in Kelowna to what he...