12 Local Leaders’ Professional Bucket Lists

Darlene Gering, 
President, Burnaby Organizing Committee, 2012 B.C. Seniors Games 


What’s on your professional bucket list? 

I’ve recently been in discussions with some people about establishing a social innovation centre in the L

Rick Antonson
, President & CEO, Tourism Vancouver


What’s on your professional 
bucket list?

We want to take some meaningful steps toward Vancouver being a “world city” by the year 2020. The world needs places to gathe

Dave Brownlie
, President & COO, Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc.


What is on your professional bucket list?

I would like to see the build-out of Whistler Blackcomb to its full potential in both winter and summer, and ultimately be recogni

Kathleen Bartels, Director, Vancouver Art Gallery 


What is on your professional bucket list?

Of course we have our eye on confirming our new site and working through that process with the city so we can move forward with our big goal to build a

Ryan Holmes
, CEO, HootSuite Media Inc.


What is on your professional bucket list?

I want to build a billion-dollar company and take it to an IPO exit, enable the financial independence of 50 people around me and build something disruptive, li

John Neate
, CEO, JJ Bean Inc.


What’s on your 
professional bucket list?

Continued growth. We’re looking to open probably two stores this year, one more downtown store and one in the Cambie-Broadway area. They’re two prett

Kyle Vucko
, CEO and co-founder, Indochino Apparel Inc.

What’s on your 
professional 
bucket list? 

I want to travel a lot less, ironically. Right now I spend about a third of my time in China, whereas I’d like to have a meaningf

Shahrzad Rafati
, Founder & CEO, 
BroadbandTV Corp.


What is on your professional bucket list?

The most important would be to find entrepreneurs and causes that I believe in and help them succeed. One of the main reasons BroadbandTV is s

Chris Obst, Principle, Jump Management Coaching 


What’s on your professional bucket list? 

I would love to have a TV show. You know how Gordon Ramsay goes in and saves people from themselves on Kitchen Nightmares? I’ve worked with a

Sean Heather
, Founder, Heather Hospitality Group


What is on your professional bucket list?

I’d like to stop opening new businesses and actually look at ways to make my existing businesses leaner and meaner. In the near term, though, we

Julio Montaner
, Director, B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS


What is on your professional bucket list?

My number-one priority would be to see that every British Columbian has an HIV test and if tested positive, be referred to corrective

Glenn Fawcett
, President, Black Hills Estate Winery 


What’s on your professional bucket list? 

I would love to see a wine from the Okanagan get 100 points on Wine Spectator. Whenever a region’s winery gets a 99-point or a 100-poi