Delta Chamber of Commerce
2011/12 Board of Directors
Chair
Ian Tait
604-290-3971
taitconsulting@eastlink.ca
Ian Tait is the Managing Director of Tait Consulting Ltd, which works with individuals, businesses, communities and governments to help advance their relationships with First Nations and Aboriginal Peoples; and develops and implements branding, fundraising, event and communications strategies. Building on an extensive career with BC Hydro, including long-term assignments to Olympic-related organizations and multi-sport games, Ian was most recently general manager of Artiss Aminco ULC, an Official Licensee of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Ian established a Canada-wide retail network of 1,400 locations and generated nearly 20% of all licensed merchandise revenue for VANOC in just three years. Ian is a long time resident of North Delta, member of the Delta Chamber of Commerce and active with a number of community organizations and causes.
Vice Chair
Kelly Guichon
604.946.2025
kcwebb@dccnet.com
Kelly Guichon is President of KWG Enterprises, which assists new businesses in Delta. She served two, three-year terms as Chair, Vice Chair and Trustee for the Delta Board of Education.from 2002 to 2008. From 1999 to 2002 she was Executive Director of the Delta Chamber of Commerce. She has been a Director of the Ladner Business Association since 2002, in latter years as Vice President and President, and President of the Tsawwassen Business Association from 2004 to 2006. She is a Board Director with the Delta Earthwise Society, Past Member, British Columbia School Trustees Association, Director of the Delta Community Foundation 2004-2007, Delta Council Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission 2002 – 2004, and member Rotary Club of Ladner since 2002. She is completing a Master of Arts in Leadership program at Royal Roads University.
Treasurer
Phil Posehn
604-943-2203
PosehnP@CenturyGroup.ca
Phil Posehn is the Financial Controller for The Century Group in Delta B.C. Phil started his career in public practice and earned his Certified General Accountants’ designation in 1985. During the course of his career in public practice Phil spent many years as part of the external audit team working on the Century Group audit. In 2000 Phil left public practice to join Century Group as their Financial Controller. Phil has lived in Delta for almost twenty years and now lives in Tsawwassen with his wife and two children. Phil coaches baseball and soccer and is an avid hockey player, golfer and boater.
Immediate Past Chair
John Appleby
604 710 2836
jsapple@portsidegroup.ca
John Appleby is the Managing Partner of the Portside Group, which provides consulting and contract managerial services to the transportation industry, especially related to automated freight handling systems. He has been a member of the Delta Chamber of Commerce for 15 years, serving in many roles including long-standing member of the Transportation Committee and Chamber President in 2001. He also serves on the advisory board for the SITE Centre of Excellence in Transportation Studies at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. Having retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the Canadian Army Reserve, he is on the executive of the Regimental Association of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and of the Honour House Society, the developer of a hostel for the families of soldiers sent to the Lower Mainland for medical treatment.
Director
Michael Anderson
604.374.1171
michael@northernvisionrealty.com
Michael Anderson is the President and Managing Broker of Northern Vision Realty Advisors Inc. with head offices in Delta. He has over 20 years experience in commercial real estate, asset management and consulting and has a background in accounting, property management and brokerage. He is an active member of the community, with current and past board positions with the Tsawwassen Business Association, including three years as President, and membership in the Ladner Business Association. He is also affiliated with the International Council of Shopping Centres, the British Columbia Shopping Centre Association and the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia.
Director
Dave Hamilton
604-946-4451
DHamilton@delta-optimist.com
Dave Hamilton is a long time Tsawwassen resident and been around the business community of South Delta since 1986. He is currently advertising sales manager at the Delta Optimist and their sister paper, the Richmond News. He started working with the local merchants in 1986 spending a year as a sales rep for the Delta Optimist. He left the newspaper industry for a few years returning when he had the opportunity to be part of the management team that started the South Delta Today in 1989. The Today was a weekly community newspaper that competed with the Optimist. In 1990, the company bought the Optimist. Dave has also been a director of the Business Improvement Association of Tsawwassen since its inception, is a past president of the Rotary Club of Tsawwassen where he sits a variety of committees at the club and District level. Dave is on the membership committee at Beach Grove Golf Club and has recently agreed to chair the Delta Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament this year. He has a 25 year old son, Kirk and enjoys golf, curling and slopitch.
Director
Peter Harasymchuk
(604) 599-5288
peter@phcma.ca
Peter Harasymchuk. CMA, has been an accountant in both corporate and public practice for over 30 years, with clients in many industries and fields throughout the Lower Mainland. Peter and his staff have a broad range of knowledge and skills, and provide accounting, bookkeeping, personal tax, corporate tax, and negotiating services to his clients. He grew up and still lives in North Delta, with his wife and three children. He has volunteered in the local community as a coach and manager with North Delta hockey, ringette, softball and baseball associations, and also as an executive member with both North Delta minor hockey and Delta ringette associations. Peter is also a member and executive with the North Delta Rotary Club.
Director
Debbie Kemp
604-948-8056
debbie.kemp@telus.net
Debbie Kemp is a leadership coach, human resources consultant, and facilitator with her own Delta-based firm, Emerge Coaching and Consulting. She previously worked in human resources in the natural gas industry. She has a BA (Economics) from Carleton University and received her coach training from the Coaches Training Institute. She is a certified member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and current Past President of the Vancouver Chapter of the ICF. Her extensive volunteering has included her children’s schools, The Boys and Girls Club, Junior Achievement of Alberta and BC and the Minerva Foundation of BC. She enjoys outdoor sports including tennis and recreation on the water.
Director
Hugh Reynolds
604-946-7493
reyneldafarms@yahoo.ca
Hugh Reynolds is a fourth generation Delta farmer, whose family came from Ireland in the late 1800s to settle in this area. He and his wife, Terry, brother, Stanley, own and, with friends and family, operate Reynelda Farms, growing vegetable crops on Westham Island, in Ladner. He was appointed to the Delta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors as a representative of the Delta Farmers’ Institute, of which he is also a Director. He is a Director of the Delta Agricultural Society and a Commissioner on the BC Vegetable Marketing Commission. In the 1980s he was President of the Vancouver Branch of the BC Institute of Agrologists. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from the University of British Columbia.
Executive Director
Peter Roaf
604-946-4232
execdirector@deltachamber.ca
Peter Roaf, Executive Director of the Delta Chamber of Commerce since March 2007, works with the board, committees, other members and staff to provide member services and speak up as the voice of business at local, provincial and national levels. He has held senior management positions in corporate communication for the regional healthcare system, run his own communication consulting business, held communication positions in the industrial R&D field and worked in national and local CBC TV and radio. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University and a Master of Arts degree in Leadership from Royal Roads University, is accredited by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and received IABC’s national Master Communicator Award for career achievement.
Director
Chris Scurr
604-946-7641
chris@ladnerdeltatravel.com
Chris Scurr, who emigrated with his young family from England in 1974, in sales and branch management with Philips Computer Division then Hewlett Packard. He was also Director of Sales and Marketing for a Vancouver software company. He left the computer industry to concentrate on growing the family cruise ship wedding and events business, based in Delta. Today, Royal Ocean Events is now one of the worlds most prominent preferred suppliers to major cruise lines for coordinated wedding services. He continues to win significant exclusive contracts for the company. Having been associated with the travel industry for 15 years through the family business, he purchased the well established Ladner Travel Agency a year ago. His various volunteer positions are or have been with Ladner Business Association, Floating Home Association, Roberts Bank Lifeboat Delta Society and Fraserview Lions Club among others.
Director
David Turbitt
604-940-7172
dturbitt@telus.net
Dave Turbitt is C.E.O. of Revolution Engine Corporation, a high tech start-up, as well as a consultant in the business operations and technology management fields. Dave earned his M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Business in 1990. He is an accomplished executive with an insightful broad perspective worldview. As both an executive and a consultant, he has been consistently successful in developing and implementing, organizational improvements. Dave moved to Lander with his wife and two children in 2010. In his leisure time he enjoys sailing and gymnastics.
Director
Les Voros
778-998-5259
les@vorosfinancial.com
Les Voros runs his own financial services practice. Prior to setting up his own business, he served as a Director of Business Development, Financial Security Advisor and Investment Representative for Freedom 55 Financial (A Division of London Life Insurance Company). He has been in the client service industry for almost 20 years. Over the past 20 years, Les has overseen multimillion dollar operations of several regional districts for a high profile organization. With responsibilities that focused on client relations, business operations, and employee support, both professional and personal, his skills are diversified making him flexible in understanding a wide range of financial planning needs. Les has been married for over 20 years, has two children, and enjoys spending family time on the water, on the slopes and exploring new places.