"Linking: Sustainable Communities, Investment Capital, Technology, and Government"
October 5-6th, 2010
Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Advisory Board
Marc Andrew
Marc Andrew is the Director of Future Pacific, a Vancouver consulting firm dedicated to fostering intelligent economic policy design with a focus on clean energy development. Marc is also Director of The Energy Roundtable, an organization that fosters international dialogue in the energy sector. Prior to his current roles, Marc served as Ministerial Assistant to Colin Hansen in both the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance. During that time Marc played an integral role in the delivery of the 2010 Olympic Games, the Asia-Pacific Initiative, and three provincial budgets. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Marc’s prior work experience also includes a tenure in trade policy with the Canadian Mission to the European Union and experience as a writer and researcher with The Economist magazine.
Joe Van Belleghem, CA
Lend Lease Development
He has over 20 years of development and financing experience in all forms of real estate development and was responsible for the First LEED Gold project in Canada. Joe conceived and was the developer of the Dockside Green project in Victoria. Dockside Green was the first Leed Platinum ND project and includes the highest LEED platinum rating for LEED NC and Core and Shell.
Joe is a founder of the Canada Green Building Council and former director and vice-chair of the organization. He also served on the board of directors for the United States Green Building Council.
Joe is a recipient of the life time achievement award by the Canada Green Building Council and the Province of British Columbia 2007 Arbor Vitae Award for Environmental Leadership for dedication to environmental protection and stewardship. Joe was a member of the Provincial of BC climate action team.
Joe recently joined Lend Lease Development in 2010 to provide sustainable development advice throughout the Lend Lease Group with particular focus on Lend Lease’s large integrated urban regeneration precinct projects.
Greg Brophy
General Manager, Public Sector
IBM Canada
- Greg Brophy is IBM’s General Manager for British Columbia’s Public Sector business (Government, Healthcare and Education sectors). He is also the Senior Location Executive for the city of Victoria. Greg has served in these positions for the past five years.
- Previous to this, Greg was the National Healthcare Executive for IBM Canada responsible for IBM’s Healthcare Solutions portfolio -- a role which he held for over ten years.
- With 26 years of experience in the Government, Healthcare and Education technology fields, he and his team provide innovative business transformation, strategic outsourcing and technology solutions to the BC Public Sector.
- Greg has resided in Victoria for 26 years with his wife Leanne, son Sam, and stepdaughters Lauren and Meghan.
- Greg enjoys spending time with his family, golfing, and traveling.
- Over the past ten years, Greg has served as board member or chair for several not-for-profit associations. Greg is currently Past Chair for NIGEL Services for Adults with Disabilities Society, after having served the past four years as Chair.
Senator Larry Campbell
Born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Campbell became a steelworker in Hamilton in the 1960s. In his first career move, he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was transferred to Vancouver in 1969, later joining the RCMP drug squad in 1973.
With more than twelve years experience with the RCMP, Campbell transitioned into death investigation, establishing Vancouver’s first District Coroner’s Office in 1981 and becoming the Chief Coroner for British Columbia in 1996. In this capacity, he became the inspiration behind the popular CBC drama Da Vinci’s Inquest, as well as its spin-off, Da Vinci’s City Hall. Larry Campbell was intimately involved with the television programs, writing and collaborating on scripts for the series.
A huge proponent of the Four Pillars approach to ending drug abuse, Campbell ran for Mayor when he felt this strategy was being neglected. In 2002 he was elected by the citizens of Vancouver under the banner of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) in what was a landslide election. Carrying on the legacy of his predecessor Philip Owen, Mayor Campbell spearheaded the approval and establishment of North America’s first legal safe injection site and continued to champion the Four Pillars Drug strategy. In addition to drug and crime prevention, he was also instrumental in the successful Vancouver bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In August 2005, Campbell was summoned to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Paul Martin. As a Senator, Campbell has continued his work on drug policy, mental health, and aboriginal issues.
Senator Campbell is currently a member of the Senate Standing Committees on Aboriginal Peoples and Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration.
He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from City University in Vancouver.
Daniel B. Matthews
Founding Principal
Dan is Chairman of Saintsbury Holdings, LLC, a private equity fund with private and public interests throughout North America in pharmaceuticals, energy and structured real estate transactions. Particularly skilled in creative solutions to businesses dilemmas, restructuring and repositioning, Dan has over 15 years of experience in the private and public equity markets and has served as a director and officer of several companies in the USA and Canada. Saintsbury has also participated in many real estate syndicates and is currently in a joint venture with Townline Developments, one of Canada’s premier development companies. Dan is a partner in EcoUno Land Group, primarily involved in real estate transactions in the Baja of Mexico and is a founding member of the Canadian Green Building Council.
Richard Mimick
Director, Business Management & Technology
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
Richard is the Director responsible for the Business Management and Technology unit at the Division of Continuing Studies and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He has previously been a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). His previous academic appointments include: Professor (15 years) and Director (9 years) of the highly ranked Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, Professor and co-founding Director of the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University, Professor and Director at the Faculty of Business and Professor in Public Administration at the University of Victoria. He has co-authored eight books with a ninth in progress, and has authored and/or supervised over 300 management cases through the Ivey Business School and professional societies. He has also consulted, developed, and delivered management and executive programs for clients worldwide. Richard has extensive expertise in executive and management development, consulting and as an entrepreneurial businessman. He also sits on a number of Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees. He has served on the Board of Directors and Board Treasurer of The Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC) and is a member of the McKinsey Quarterly Executive Panel.
Greg Spievak
Greg Spievak is the founder and principal of Reboot Communications, a firm that specializes in creating and delivering conferences worldwide. For the last twelve years, Mr. Spievak has worked on conferences with government agencies and international corporations in the areas of: Information Technology, Privacy and Security, Biometrics, Electronic Games, Health, Counterterrorism and Public Safety.
For over twenty-five years, Mr. Spievak served in senior sales and marketing positions in the high-technology and telecommunications industries with companies such as AT&T, NCR, Xerox and 3M.
Carla Tadla
Carla oversees day to day operations including human resources, strategic planning, conference development, marketing, media and communications for Reboot.
Former General Manager for PacificSport - Fraser Valley, Carla has run major fundraising campaigns, co-ordinated large scale events and handled all media, PR, marketing and sponsor negotiations for PacificSport - FV. She was also a regular columnist for six years with two Fraser Valley newspapers. Prior to that she worked with the international public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, UK, in London, England.
Carla has a B.A. in Criminology from the University if Alberta, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia.
Francis A. Wong
Chairman & CEO
Genesis Hotel Development LLC
Francis A. Wong is the principal shareholder and chairman of Genesis Hotel Development, an international, full service international hotel development company with offices in Indian Wells, California. Mr. Wong, in partnership with others, developed and owned several hotels in Hawaii, including the 720 room Maui Marriott Resort and 450 room Fairmont Kea Lani Resort and Spa. Mr. Wong has had a distinguished political career, including being a member of the staff of U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and is a retired Hawaiian State Senator.
Mr. Wong was also a named partner in his Hawaiian law firm of Rice Lee & Wong. As an experienced professional in the fields of hotel development, law and politics, Mr. Wong understands all aspects of development and is able to lead his clients through the maze of the entitlement and development process and structure transactions and developments to maximize return on capital.
While residing in Whistler, B.C. Mr. Wong was chairman of the Whistler Centre for Business and the Arts, who founded the B.C. Council for Sustainability. Currently he is a founding director of the Palm Springs Institute for Environmental Sustainability at the Cal State San Bernadino Palm Desert Campus.
Recently, he has been the principal resort consultant for Avanterra, a mixed use development in Palm Desert, CA, which development includes a luxury 350 room Fairmont hotel and branded residences, the home of the PGA Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in 2007 and 2008, a retail center of about one million square feet and over 1000 dwelling units. His other recent and current projects include a 130 Homewood Suites by Hilton in La Quinta, CA and projects in the planning stages in Paradise Valley, CA, Whistler, B.C., Canada and La Paz, Mexico.
Mr. Wong is a member of the board of directors of the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation, one of the largest non profit organizations in the West and Allied Hotel Properties, Inc., a Canadian public hotel company based in Vancouver, B.C. Canada and owners of Crowne Plaza Hotels in Canada. He is also the past president of Legatus Palm Springs, an organization of Catholic CEO’s. He is the past chairman of the Architectural and Landscape Committee for the City of Indian Wells, CA and is currently the chairman of its Planning Commission. He was also a member of the Policy Board of the Fisher Institute, which is part of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Mr. Wong, a graduate of Georgetown College and Law School in Washington, D.C. , is a frequent speaker at hotel and hotel condominium conferences.
