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Board of Directors
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Lindalee Brougham, FCA. CGA, CFP, MA, ICD.DBoard Chair Lindalee Brougham is the President of LL Brougham Inc., Chartered Accountant, a company that works with business owners to help them achieve their goals. Services provided include general compliance work (year ends and tax) as well as consulting and coaching allowing clients to become informed decision makers. She is dedicated to developing informed decision makers. |
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Graeme RobertsBoard Vice-Chair and Chair, Airport Consultative Committee Graeme Roberts was born and raised in Victoria, B.C. and completed his education in the U.K. He has served in management capacities for major automobile manufacturers in Vancouver and Toronto, and is a retired automobile dealer having developed, owned and operated two successful new vehicle dealerships. |
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Mel RinaldBoard Secretary and Chair, Governance Committee Mel Rinald is currently retired and living in the Town of Sidney. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and worked 30 years in Canadian industry including 10 years at MacMillan Bloedel and 20 years at Xerox Canada Inc. Mel moved to Victoria in 1993 to assume ownership of Red Apple Foods Inc. He operated nine A&W franchise restaurants in greater Victoria as a family enterprise until selling the businesses in 2007. Mel has been an active participant in the communities, serving in numerous capacities in sports related activities while his family was young. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse and the Board of Advisors to the University of Victoria School of Business. Since moving to the Town of Sidney in 1999 Mel has served on the Economic Development Committee, three terms on the Advisory Planning Commission and was Chair of the Steering Committee for the Town’s Downtown and Waterfront, and Local Area Plan 2007-2008. |
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Peter D. Bray, M.B.A., C.G.A.Nominated by the City of Victoria Peter Bray recently worked in excess of 30 years with various ministries of the Province of British Columbia in a number of senior financial and auditing management positions. His final position was Legislative Comptroller. Prior experience involved banking and the Canadian Armed Forces. Mr. Bray is a Certified General Accountant. Mr. Bray has held a number of board positions with national and local non-profit organizations, including the Financial Management Institute of Canada, the Victoria Jazz Society, and the Literary Arts Festival Society of Victoria. |
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Glen Crawford, CA, CFP, CLUChair, Audit and Finance Committee Glen was born and raised in Victoria BC. He graduated from the University of Victoria with a BSc. He then entered articles and received his CA in 1968 with what is now known as KPMG. He was a partner from 1975-1999 when he retired. He received his CFP in 1988 and CLU in 2005. He was an advisor for ten years with two national brokerage organizations on the utilization of life insurance to assist clients in their corporate, estate and charitable planning. He is now enjoying retirement and doing some private consulting. He has been active in community matters with participation on a number of local charitable and other boards. He is currently a director of the Victoria Open Golf Society (sponsors the annual Canadian Tour event in Victoria), the Victoria Airport Authority, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, a past director of the Victoria Golf Club, was a founding director of the Vancouver Island chapter of CAFE (Canadian Association of Financial Enterprises) and a life member of the Victoria Fish and Game Protective Association. |
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Bob CoulterAppointed by the Federal Government of Canada Bob Coulter has 29 years flying experience in military and commercial flight operations. He is currently an Airbus A340 Senior Captain with Cathay Pacific Airways, based in Vancouver. |
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James P. CrowleyNominated by the District of North Saanich James (Jim) Crowley brings over fifty years of business, educational and flying experience to the VAA Board. His early professional career was as a faculty member first at Selkirk College and at the University of Calgary from 1969 through 1980. At Selkirk College, he was a co-founder of the Selkirk Aviation Technology program, the first college-based pilot training program in Canada and he supervised the first inter-disciplinary Ph.D. ever granted at the University of Calgary in 1974 which focused on the economic and environmental advantages of STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft in Canadian “short-haul” air corridors. He has also logged several thousand hours in military and civilian flying, the latter as a corporate pilot for a Calgary-based environmental research company. From the mid-1980s on, Jim’s primary focus has been on various forms of alternate energy development and he was employed for many years by one of Canada’s largest engineering firms as a project manager and corporate director in that field. Prior to settling permanently in North Saanich in October 2009, his efforts in the preceding ten years were devoted to the development of unconventional natural gas reserves in central Alberta. In various business related capacities, he has travelled extensively throughout all of North America, Central America, SE Asia, New Zealand and Australia. In stepping out of his roles as an inveterate commuter and exploration geologist in Calgary, Jim finally joined his wife, Gillian, a resident of North Saanich since early 2007. |
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Lynne HendersonNominated by the Province of British Columbia Lynne was born and raised in Victoria. She is a director and partner of Carolyn Developments Ltd., a property and development company in Victoria since 1983 and was a licensed realtor for 12 years. She also served as Special Assistant to the Honourable David Anderson P.C., MP from 2001 to 2006. |
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Bruce Knott, CMAAppointed by the Federal Government of Canada Mr. Bruce Knott has a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He operates as an independent consultant through his company BKMS Limited. |
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R. Chad RintoulChair, Planning and Development Committee Chad Rintoul is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors. With a background in project management, and management consulting, Mr. Rintoul relocated to the Victoria area following a decade living overseas with positions in Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, and the United Kingdom. Currently, Chad is a member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors, a member of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Planning Commission for the District of North Saanich. He is a Fellow serving on the Royal Roads University Fellows Council advising President Dr. Allan Cahoon. Mr. Rintoul is a Director of the Victoria Airport Authority where he is a member of the Governance Committee, Steering Committee, and Chairman of the Airport Planning and Development Committee. |
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Mel Satok, MRAICNominated by the Town of Sidney Mel Satok has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto and has over 40 years of diversified experience as an Architect. He was principal of his own firm for 26 years in Toronto specializing in land planning, recreational, industrial, residential and institutional projects including a number of award winning fire halls. In 1999 he returned to Canada, locating in Sidney. He has been very active in the community serving on the Advisory Planning Commission from 2000-2006, 2008 to present with 2 years as chair, Vision 2000 Committee 2000-2007 and Local Area Plan 2007-2008 as vice-chair. Mel has most recently been elected Chair of the Advisory Planning Commission 2011, Town of Sidney. Mel is an active volunteer on a number of societies and boards as well as maintaining a Consulting Design Practice. |
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Suromitra SanataniAppointed by the Victoria Airport Authority Board of Directors Suromitra Sanatani began her career in litigation before transitioning from the practice of law to senior corporate positions in the non-profit, public and private sectors. Serving as Strategic Counsel for Heenan Blaikie LLP, Suromitra led First Nations consultations around the province. She also worked with a major financial institution in the area of social finance. In her former role as Vice-President, Corporate and Government Relations, Suromitra played a pivotal role in establishing Partnerships BC, a Crown agency specializing in public-private partnerships. During that time, she headed up the pan-Canadian public-private partnership initiative which involved the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Through her role as the Vice-President, Canadian Federation of Independent Business (BC and Yukon), she represented the interests of small and medium-sized businesses locally, provincially and nationally. Suromitra is passionate about driving change within an organization that in turn benefits the social, cultural and economic development of society. Active in the community, she is Vice-Chair of the Royal BC Museum and a Director of the Telus Victoria Community Board. She also sits on the national panel for Responsible Conduct of Research. Past experience includes service as a council member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as a Director of the Industry Training Authority. |
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Colin Smith, P.Eng, FCAE, FEC, FCIMNominated by the Capital Regional District Mr. Smith received his BASc. In Mining Engineering from UBC in 1965; an MS in Mineral Engineering and an MBA from Stanford in 1972; and an Executive Program Diploma in International Business from the National University of Singapore in 1986. His career has included operations and corporate management responsibilities with major international mining companies in Nevada, California and British Columbia; private practice consulting; and over 15 years of public service with the Province of British Columbia in assistant and deputy minister equivalent positions including CEO of Forest Renewal BC; President and Project Director of Rapid Transit 2000 Limited (Millennium Line SkyTrain Project); and Corporate Secretary and CFO of the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project. |
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Geoff DicksonPresident and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Dickson became President and Chief Executive Officer of the Victoria Airport Authority January 2011. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Geoff is responsible for the strategic planning, operations and financial performance of Victoria International Airport. Geoff has over twenty five years experience in the airline and marine transportation industries with a background in marketing, business development, operations, customer service and finance. Geoff began his career with Canadian Airlines where he advanced through the organization where he led the international marketing team in the development and expansion of the Airline’s global network. He returned home to Victoria, BC where he joined BC Ferries as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and more recently as Vice President Catering and Retail Operations. Included in his responsibilities were onboard vessel design, franchising, food and retail development, terminal improvements and customer service. Geoff is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business. |















