SPRING 2013 • VOLUME 33 • NO 1
A magazine for alumni and friends of the Sauder School of Business at UBC

It’s time for business to go global and change the world.
Dominykas M
Minsk, Belarus
Tomorrow’s leaders must be aware of their personal values to better serve their community.
Minerva F
Success is measured by one’s willingness to learn and their ambition.
Davy V
Manchester. United Kingdom
It’s time for business to focus on social and political issues that are central to business.
Punit L
Dehra Dun Area, India
It’s time for business to become more emotionally intelligent and focus on trust and respect.
James C
Hong Kong SAR of China
Success is measured by failing fast & designing ventures to solve problems people care about.
Paul C
Vancouver. Canada Area
Tomorrow’s leaders must be flexible enough to connect the dots to solve problems.
Catherine M
Toronto, Canada Area
Success is measured by how much employees rave about their company when they’re not at work.
Wade C
Saint Albert, Alberta
Tomorrow’s leaders must create change proactively, not try to manage it retrospectively.
Shaun C
Success is measured by the future generations you are able to shape and inspire.
Enzo W
Vancouver, Canada Area
It’s time for business to reward employees for good ideas and not just good service.
Fang Fang L
China
Tomorrow’s leaders must learn to care for the people they work with.
Felicia L
Selangor, Malaysia

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Tuum Est , UBC’s motto, is often translated as “It is yours” (A gift? A possession?), but also “It is up to you” (An admonition? An invitation?). This paradox is not just one of Latin translation; it is the paradox of knowledge and endeavour, indeed of life. We explore the paradox in this issue of Viewpoints.
The cairn on our cover was built at the conclusion of
The Great Trek, a parade from downtown Vancouver to Point Grey that took place on October 28, 1922 and marked the culmination of a campaign organized and led by UBC students to persuade the provincial government to complete the University’s Point Grey campus. It would be the fi rst completed structure at the University’s new home. At the dedication ceremony after The Great Trek, Campaign chairman A.E. Richards noted: “The building of the Cairn to me is full of meaning. It stands for the combined efforts of 1,178 students. Each rock represents a personal contribution in a worthy and just cause. As the mason with his trowel shapes and cements the rocks together into a complete and unifi ed whole so the Campaign has bound the student body together by a bond as strong as the very granite itself.”
The base and sides of the cairn, built of stones gathered from around the construction site, were completed before the ceremony. Into its hollow centre the students threw stones they had collected themselves before and during
The Great Trek. A written account of the publicity campaign was placed inside, the top was completed, and the monument sealed. The inscription on the north side of the cairn reads: “TO THE GLORY OF OUR ALMA
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Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and
PricewaterhouseCoopers support penthouse conference centre at
Sauder.
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New volunteer initiative, launched in
Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and
Hong Kong, gives alumni more than
40 ways to get involved with Sauder after graduation.
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Seven fl edgling ventures have been taken under the wing of Sauder’s
ISIS Research Centre, thanks to a
$1 million gift from Coast Capital
Savings. See how these enthusiastic, progressive social entrepreneurs are trying to change their lives and yours.
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Newly minted Sauder Business Club presidents in Toronto, Vancouver and
Hong Kong give alumni more than
40 ways to get involved with Sauder after graduation.
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During my fi rst year as dean of the
Sauder School, it has been my pleasure to travel extensively to connect with members of the School’s vibrant global community.
IN MY TRAVELS, I HAVE MADE IT A PRIORITY TO meet as many of Sauder’s alumni as I can. As our largest and most connected stakeholder group, our alumni are truly the extended family of the School. I’ve set out to explore and appreciate the lives of our graduates, whether they are in Vancouver or Hong Kong, Toronto or London, or in any one of the 77 countries around the globe our alumni call home.
The fi rst thing that struck me about the scores of graduates that I’ve met is the extraordinary level of professional excellence they strive for and achieve. They are leaders in their fi elds across almost every industry.
Career success seems to be a defi ning factor of a Sauder graduate.
However, I have also learned that there is a second important quality that defi nes our graduates—the desire to give back to the greater community.
Among the stories in this edition of
Viewpoints, which is guided by the theme Tuum
Est (“It is up to You” or “It is Yours”), are some outstanding examples of alumni who are making a meaningful contribution to improving civil society with the tools of business and management. One such profi le is of BCom graduate Nolan Watson, whom I met only a few weeks ago.
A remarkably successful young entrepreneur whose venture is making a tremendous impact in the mining industry, Watson sees himself as a humanitarian fi rst. He walked me through how he started his thriving Sierra Leone-based charity, Nations Cry, and it became immediately apparent that the strategic planning skills he used to drive his humanitarian achievements fi nd their roots in the perspectives gained from solving business problems.
He is joined in this issue by nine other alumni, including Jon Stettner, President and
CEO of Make-A-Wish International, a charity striving to bring joy to sick children; Julia Fan
Li, who is helping to create a new social venture fund to tackle infectious diseases in Africa; and
Ken Sim, whose in-home health care service focuses on compassion as the key to success.
It is extremely gratifying for me to know that Sauder is training people who understand and embrace their roles as agents of positive change, both in their professional and civic lives. They are following their hearts, doing what they love, and thriving personally and professionally.
As Steve Jobs said, “Your work is going to fi ll a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfi ed is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you do.” ■
Sincerely,
Robert Helsley, Dean
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NEWSWORTHY
A new study on offi ce politics lead by
Professor Karl Aquino made headlines in
The Wall Street Journal ,
The Globe and Mail and
The Times of India . The research suggests that bosses should pick favourites if they want top performing teams.
“Conventional wisdom tells us that we should treat everyone the same to create a collegial and productive work atmosphere,” says Aquino, who co-authored the study for the
Journal of Business Ethics .
“But our research shows this can be a disincentive for workers who would otherwise go above and beyond on behalf of the team with a little bit of extra attention.” ■
The UBC MBA program was highlighted in several feature articles in the national media. The Financial Post focused on how Sauder’s Robert
H. Lee Graduate School is supporting diversity. Canadian Business ’s 2012
MBA-focused issue included a feature Q&A with Associate Dean Murali
Chandrashekaran on the relevance of MBAs.
The Globe and Mail showcased the UBC MBA in numerous stories, including an interview with Associate Dean Chandrashekaran on the importance of creativity in the revamped UBC MBA. Other Globe articles included Assistant Professor Tim Silk discussing the use of case studies and
Associate Dean Chandrashekaran explaining the global immersion component of the UBC MBA. ■
Associate Professor James Tansey participated in a Globe and Mail Q&A about carbon offsets after California and Quebec became the fi rst jurisdictions in North America to adopt carbon cap-and-trade regulations under the Western Climate Initiative.
Tansey responds to the assumption that carbon offsets let industry and governments take a “business as usual” approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He further explains that there is a globally recognized standard for carbon offsets. ■
In an op-ed written for the National Post on Canada’s current marijuana policy,
Associate Professor
Werner Antweiler, of the Strategy and
Business Economics
Division, looks across the border.
Antweiler argues, with co-author Professor
Evan Wood of the Faculty of Medicine, that some
US states are leading the way on progressive drug policy, in particular with the move to legalize, control and tax marijuana use in
Colorado and Washington.
He also notes that Canada has fallen behind the US in terms of enforcing existing laws governing marijuana prohibition. ■
In “A Roundtable on Rebates,” which aired on National Public Radio on
August 28, Assistant Marketing Professor Tim Silk discussed his research on rebate behaviour.
Silk’s research investigates if people are infl uenced by rebates offered with a purchase and whether they follow through and redeem them.
After a study involving rebates for movie passes, he found that the more time people are given to redeem a rebate, the more attractive the offer looks. However, the more time people had, the less likely they were to actually follow through with collecting a rebate. ■
The Financial Post covered a new Sauder study which shows that giving customers a chance to complain can be a bad idea if customers believe they’re to blame for a product’s failure.
“It’s commonly assumed that giving customers a chance to voice grievances allows companies to maintain relationships,” says Marketing
Professor Darren Dahl, who co-authored the Journal of Marketing study with
PhD student Lea Dunn.
“But our research shows that when a person feels implicated in a product’s failure—think building Ikea furniture—they’re more likely to shift blame to the product when complaining and increase ill will towards it.” ■
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Professor Darren Dahl can refl ect on an impressive appearance in the fi nal round of the
Economist Intelligence Unit’s Business Professor of the Year Award.
The March 14 event involved a live contest that pitted the fi nal four contenders for the global award in a face-to-face teach-off in front of both an in-person and online audience.
Online viewers of the teach-off voted Dahl as their favourite professor and the four contest judges also gave him top marks for his lecture on creativity in business.
Chair of the judging panel William
Ridgers, Business Education Editor, The Economist, commented, “He [Dahl] particularly impressed the judges with his vibrancy and his enthusiasm and also the personal connections that he built up with all of his students, one of whom remarked that he brought an energy and life to the classroom that he’d never seen before.”
In addition to Ridgers, the judging panel included John Beck, Professor, Hult International
Business School, and Managing Director,
Hult Labs; Peter M. Felix, CBE, President,
Association of Executive Search Consultants;
Astrid S. Tuminez, Regional Director (Legal and Corporate Affairs), Microsoft, and Adjunct
Professor and former Vice-Dean, Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy; and Adrian Wooldridge,
Management Editor, The Economist.
The online vote results and the judges’ comments were presented to the in-room audience, who had the option of taking these into account when deciding which professor came out top. Their decision awarded the title to Vijay Sethi, Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Operations
Management at Nanyang Business School,
NTU, Singapore, who delivered a lecture on the subject of Digital Networks, Dynamics of
Network-Based Industries.
The other two fi nalists were Johanne Brunet,
Associate Professor, Director of the Marketing
Department and Associate Member of the
Screen shots from the video One Last Push .
To see the entire video, visit http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/News/2013/One_last_push_Dahl_up_for_The_Economists_
Prof_of_the_Year.
Carmelle and Rémi-Marcoux Chair in Arts
Management at HEC Montréal; and Kevin Kaiser,
Professor of Management Practice and Director of the Transition to General Management at
INSEAD.
The global search for world’s best began in October 2012, with a student-driven nomination process. In a second round of online voting, Dahl shot to the top 10 of 222 nominated professors from 31 universities around the world.
Dahl’s appearance in the fi nal four comes quickly after his recent naming as one of 10
Canadian professors to receive the 2013 3M
National Teaching Fellows Award—the country’s most prestigious prize for teaching excellence. ■
To learn more about Sauder in the news, visit www.sauder.ubc.ca
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ACTUALS
Students from the Sauder BCom course New Venture Design swept the top three spots in the recent Enterprize Canada National Business Plan
Competition, held February 8 to 10 in downtown Vancouver.
Agile Monitoring Equipment took fi rst with their technology aimed at solving the problem of leaks in oil pipelines. Developed in New Venture
Design, which partners business and engineering students, the device uses micro sensors inside a pipeline to map the size of holes and alert operators.
The team consists of Sauder BCom students Shaan Narang, Michal Luptak and Diana Hu and UBC Engineering students Daryl Pritchard, Brad Bycraft and Nathan Chan. Last month, the team also won fi rst place at the BMO
APEX Business Plan Competition.
Team Aasith, founded by BCom students Beverley Cheng, Monica
McMahen and Sean Fleming, and engineering students Davis Wuolle, Colin
Daw and André Herath, came in second. Their product Quick Dry Bag, a product that safely dries a suit within two hours, enables competitive swimmers to race in several heats during the course of a day using their fastest suit possible.
SoundIt, a mobile app using a ranking system to create a playlist for customers’ favorite bars, pubs and venues, grabbed third place. The product was created by BCom students Sonal Haria, Douglas Cheung and Eric Seto, and engineering students Anuj Mehta, Nick Adams and Samuel Chan.
Thirty schools from across Canada competed at the Enterprize Canada
Business Plan Competition, a part of Enterprize Canada’s Entrepreneurship
Conference, which connects young Canadian entrepreneurs with industry professionals. ■
Sauder’s International Business Conference celebrated its 20th anniversary on November 23 at its annual event at the Fairmont
Hotel Vancouver.
Over its 20-year history, the International Business Conference has established itself as a must-attend event for both students and business professionals due to its phenomenal speakers who highlight new international business trends and issues. It exposes young student minds to the insights and experiences of world-class business leaders while at the same time equipping members of the Vancouver business community with up-to-date knowledge about trends in the global economy. Every year, the conference brings speakers and panelists from a multitude of different industries and fi elds ranging from government operations and international relations to global strategists as CEOs of international corporations.
For its 20th anniversary, the conference, themed “G20: World
Economies,” explored the future of three of the most dynamic regions of the G20—European Union, the “Tiger Economies” of Southeast
Asia, and the US, looking at changes in each area and current events that will have pivotal impacts on the future.
Conference speakers included Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, Conference Board of Canada; Yuwa Hedrick-
Wong, Global Economic Advisor, Mastercard; Jeremy Kinsman, former Ambassador to EU and High Commissioner to UK; and Fiona
Macfarlane, Managing Partner and Chief Inclusiveness Offi cer, Ernst &
Young LLP. ■
BCom teams, both coached by Associate Professor Kin Lo, have nabbed fi rst and a second place wins in recent international business case competitions.
BCom students Conor Clarance, Jayden Jiang, Monique Wong and
Paulina Aksenova took fi rst at the Marshall International Case Competition, which was held from February 12 to 16. Hosted by the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, it is the world’s largest and longest running undergraduate case competition.
“It’s probably the most competitive event of its kind with 30 business schools participating by invitation only,” says Lo.
BCom students Dan Barak, Daria Panteleeva, Enrique Cacho and Winda
Fung placed second at the Champions Trophy Case Competition, hosted by the University of Auckland Business School from January 27 to February 2.
Twelve business schools, including University of California, Berkeley and the National University of Singapore, were invited based on winning or placing in a top-tier international competition in the past year. ■
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“Create an environment in which your staff doesn’t know whether they’re working or playing and stick to your core competencies,” says John
Stanton, describing how his retail chain the Running Room continues to surpass its competitors.
This philosophy helped make his family-owned Calgary-based business
North America’s largest specialty running and walking retailer. It has also earned him the spotlight at the 2012
Family Legacy Series Gala Dinner hosted by the Sauder School of Business’s Business
Families Centre on October 25, 2012 at the
Westin Bayshore. A major fundraiser for the
Business Families Centre, the annual dinner drew more than 400 guests.
The event gives Canada’s top performing business families the opportunity to share their experiences of how they work
When struggling to fi nd a shoe retailer with deep knowledge of running, Stanton got the idea to open a store that made expertise in the sport its hallmark. In 1984, the Running Room was born in Edmonton in a one-room store in an old house shared with a hairdressing shop.
The company now stands as one of Canada’s most successful familyowned businesses, with 114 stores across Canada and the US. In 2007, the
Running Room’s success was recognized with a “Canada’s 50 Best Managed
Companies” award, and it was inducted into both the Canadian Retail Hall of Fame and the Alberta Business Hall of Fame.
Since 2001, the Business Families Centre’s
Family Legacy Series Dinner has featured numerous leading Canadian business families, including the McLean family, owners of one of BC’s leading family-owned together and transfer knowledge across generations, providing a model for other family enterprises to emulate.
Stanton and his two sons, John and
Jason, his partners for the last seven years, took the stage at the event to provide insights into the inner workings of the
Running Room and their family dynamic
which has allowed it to thrive.
For Stanton, it all began with a three-kilometre fun run with his young sons. Inspired to change his lifestyle, he went from a 238-pound chain smoker to an accomplished runner, completing several marathons and triathlons, including the Hawaiian World Championship Ironman.
and operated conglomerates; the Beedie
Family, the largest landlord of industrial space in BC; the Foord family, owners of
Kal-Tire, Canada’s largest independent tire dealer; and the Molson family, owners of the
Molson family of beverages.
Sauder’s Business Families Centre was created in 2001 with the support of more than 30 founding business families. A leader in the fi eld, the Centre is known for its comprehensive research and academic programs, addressing issues such as succession planning, wealth management, family dynamics and governance. ■
The Sauder School of Business won silver in the “Education
Excellence” category at the Canada China Business Council’s (CCBC)
Business Excellence Awards held in Montreal on November 27.
Sauder received the award for demonstrating achievement in delivering success in areas including research partnerships, recruitment, student/faculty exchanges, alumni relations, institutional linkages and executive training.
Established in 1978, CCBC acts as a facilitator and catalyst for
Canada-China bilateral trade and investment. ■
Social entrepreneurs will benefi t from a $1 million contribution from
Coast Capital Savings to the Sauder School of Business. The funding, announced on September 26, will establish the Coast Capital Savings
Innovation Hub, an accelerator program supporting early stage ventures devoted to solving social and environmental problems using for-profi t business models.
Led by the ISIS Research Centre, the initiative will provide working space, mentoring from faculty, alumni and industry experts, and support from Sauder students paired with ventures as interns. ■
Read more about the Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub on page 36 >>
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ACTUALS
On February 21, 2013,
Scotiabank, in partnership with UBC Alumni Affairs and the Sauder School of Business, presented “In Conversation with Arlene Dickinson” at the
Scotiabank Theatre in downtown
Vancouver. Over 400 UBC alumni and members of the
Vancouver business community came together for the sold-out event featuring Arlene Dickinson,
Scotiabank Business Champion and CEO of Venture Communications.
In a conversation hosted by Darren Dahl, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty & Research at the Sauder School, Dickinson discussed the power of persuasion, the role it has played in getting her to where she is today, and where she hopes it will take her in the future. She argued that the most compelling persuasion is grounded in integrity and results in mutual benefi t. She noted that effective persuasion is based on infl uence rather than manipulation, uses motivation instead of harassment, and relies on information instead of deception.
One of Canada’s most renowned independent marketing communications entrepreneurs, Dickinson became a partner in Venture
Communications in 1988 and sole owner in 1998, and has grown the company into a strategic and creative powerhouse for a blue-chip client list, which includes Toyota (Prairie Region), Cenovus Energy, Travel Alberta,
Mayo Clinic, Brookfi eld Residential and Husky Energy. Since 2007, she has been featured on CBC Television’s award-winning show Dragons’ Den .
Dickinson’s accomplishments have earned her numerous honours and awards, including PROFIT and Chatelaine magazine’s TOP 100
Women Business Owners; the Pinnacle Award for Entrepreneurial
Excellence; Global Television Woman of Vision; and Canada’s Most
Powerful Women Top 100. Venture was also recognized as one of the 50
Best Managed Companies in Canada for three consecutive years. ■
A team of second-year UBC MBA candidates have won the prestigious
2013 National Investment Banking Competition (NIBC) at Sauder, beating a field of more than 150 others from across North America.
The team, competing under the name The Misers, a moniker borrowed from their former ice hockey team, was comprised of MBA students David
Tiedje, Greg Macdonald, Graeme Millen and Lewis Peattie.
The preliminary round consisted of a written case submission, with
25 teams (10 MBA and 15 undergraduate) making it through to the fi nals in Vancouver. Next, they received a fully functional fi nancial model along with summary fi nancial data, and were given just six hours to evaluate different fi nancing assumptions and prepare a pitch book. They presented to associates and vice presidents in the boardrooms of major Canadian investment banks.
In the fi nal round The Misers competed against an MBA team from the Rotman School of Management and presented their pitch to senior management directors during a gala dinner.
“You get a ton of information and you only have six hours to get everything ready, which is pretty tight,” says Tiedje. “We had to pick and choose what were the most important aspects to focus on. I think that the critical ability to prioritize our work and then to present it with confi dence are skills we learned at Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School.”
Tiedje says that his team got the advantage with a convincing pitch.
“Rather than trying to beat them with the best quantitative analysis, we differentiated ourselves by making sure we had a very polished presentation and by telling an engaging story. For the final round it was all about presenting your ideas effectively and that’s where I think we stood out.”
Even before officially graduating from the UBC MBA program, Tiedje secured a job at PH&N Investment Services, but he says the competition is a great career-builder for those who do well.
“This was an excellent opportunity to get exposure in terms of our own personal brands,” he says. “Here you have a group of the most senior people in the investment banking industry and a chance to really show them what you’re made of.” ■
On October 9, 2012, the annual Emeritus Lunch took place in the
Big 4 Conference Centre in the Sauder School of Business, following a tour of Sauder’s revitalized facilities. ■
Top row, left to right: Dean Robert Helsley, Roger Davis, Larry Moore, Stan
Hamilton, Peter Lusztig, Merle Ace, Larry Jones, Darren Dahl, Ken MacCrimmon,
Brian Bemmels. Bottom row, left to right: Trevor Heaver, Noel Hall, Ricco
Mattessich, Al Dexter, Mike Goldberg.
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MBA students from Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School have won the 2012 Schulich School of Business’ International Case Competition, focused on community engagement in the mining industry.
Preceding the two-day competition in Toronto, the UBC MBA team, of Kalpana Bisht, Lucie Cornish, Kurt McFee and Phil Wallace were assigned their case and tasked with building communication channels and generating support from local communities for new mining projects.
Each competition round required teams to hold a 15-minute presentation followed by questions from the judges, many of whom were representatives from the mining industry.
“What we delivered was essentially a community engagement plan,” says McFee. “Then we had to come up with a strategy to implement it, which included metrics for monitoring performance and determining the level of community consent for any given project.”
“It was important to have a global approach to the solutions we provided,” says Cornish. “They wanted something that could be applied in many different areas of the world.”
In preparation for the competition, which was held in early
December, the team conducted extensive research into the mining industry and sought the advice of a corporate social responsibility specialist from a local mining company. They also worked to hone their presentations in front of Blake Hanna, a Sauder professor and former partner at Accenture, and Mark McCoy, who leads case competition workshops for a not-for-profi t group called Vancouver Acumen.
“The most important thing about giving effective presentations is that you need to tell a well-constructed story,” says Bisht. “The theme we created for our presentation was called ‘bridging the gap’ and we used graphics and a powerful story ark to illustrate that.”
The team intend to split the $9,000 prize between them and use the money to cover their fl ights to Bangalore, Copenhagen and Singapore for the Global Immersion period of their UBC MBA program. ■
On October 30th, 2012, over 100 Sauder alumni—ranging from 1972
BComs to 2011 MBAs—and current MBA students from the Robert H.
Lee Graduate School gathered at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver to hear about the inspiring career of Ken Sim, BCom 1993, cofounder of Nurse
Next Door Home Healthcare Services.
This event was part of the ongoing Business Now! Student-Alumni
Speaker Series, hosted by the Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre, which highlights the careers of distinguished Sauder alumni.
Sim spoke about how, like many Commerce graduates, he was drawn into the lucrative, high-profile world of corporate finance. After holding various positions with KPMG, CIBC World Markets, and CIBC Capital
Partners, he decided to leave a career in investment banking in order to pursue a more personally fulfilling career as an entrepreneur. In doing so, Sim found a career that he is truly passionate about, and he has made a lasting contribution to communities across North America through the establishment of Nurse Next Door, a private in-home senior care franchise system with over 60 locations in Canada and the United States.
Sim encouraged students and alumni to take emotional and financial risks as he did, in order to lead more fulfilling lives and to find a career that makes them happy while also making a difference in the world.
To thank Sim for his time, the Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre made a donation to the Dream On Seniors Wish Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping fulfill the dreams of seniors. ■
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ACTUALS
In October, the Association for Consumer
Research (ACR) annual conference, co-sponsored by the Sauder School of Business, convened more than 1,000 top researchers from universities around the world along with industry insiders— from advertisers to manufacturers.
“The ACR conference is a tremendous opportunity for Sauder to share its leading consumer behaviour research on the world stage, while learning about the latest developments from international colleagues,” said Sauder Associate Professor Juliet Zhu, conference co-chair.
The conference ran between October 4 and
October 7, 2012. Topics included how consumers react to advertising and relate to brands; how social groups shape consumer desires; how food presentation and preparation shapes eating habits; and how living in a consumption-oriented culture infl uences emotional and fi nancial health. Many talks also refl ected how consumers embrace marketing practices aimed at improving individual and ecological well-being.
“This year’s conference theme is Appreciating
Diversity, which allows us to share some truly diverse areas of research. It’s a wonderful opportunity to showcase a variety of studies stemming from experiments carried out by some of the best consumer researchers in the world,” said Zhu.
Sauder consumer behaviour researchers played a prominent role at the conference, presenting on diverse fi ndings from how people view the morality of others based on their food choices to how room temperature can affect the purchases people make.
Zhu spoke on how the messiness of physical space affects consumer choices, and how temperature infl uences how consumers process information and make decisions.
Professor Darren Dahl detailed how consumers ascribe morality to others based on the food they eat; how people with high selfesteem may be overtly kinder to those they envy, but are more likely to covertly sabotage them; how the act of selecting one’s own ingredients in a consumer food product decreases its perceived healthiness; and how, when someone feels rejected by a brand they desire, they are more likely to want to consume it.
Assistant Professor Joey Hoegg explained that giving customers preferential treatment in a public setting is not always positive and may cause discomfort, and that creating a sales team with increased commonality in appearance can enhance customer satisfaction.
Associate Professor Katherine White noted that, when charities want to encourage people to give money, it is more effective to give them specifi c details of the cause; but when the aim is to attract contributions of time, then charities need to engage consumers with abstract ideas about the cause. ■
Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke about his time in the midst of global turmoil, in a conversation hosted by Sauder’s Canaccord Learning Commons on
September 18.
Annan became the first sub-Saharan African to hold the position as Secretary-General. His two terms saw the world faced with the terrorist attacks of September 11, the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon.
In December 2001, he received the Nobel
Peace Prize for his work toward creating a
“better organized and more peaceful world.”
Annan noted that, “we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire.”
In his biography, Interventions: A Life in War &
Peace , Annan discusses his time at the United
Nations and the geopolitical transformations that followed the end of the Cold War.
He shows the successes of the United
Nations but also points to the organization’s current challenges—the ongoing conflicts in the
Middle East and the endurance of global poverty.
Annan spent forty years working for the
United Nations. He joined in 1962, working for the World Health Organization and later the Office of the High Commissioner for
Refugees. He was the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping at a time when nearly 70,000 military and civilian personnel were deployed in
UN operations around the world.
He recently served as the United Nations/
League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for Syria. ■
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In January, a team of Sauder BCom students placed fi rst in the Manitoba
International Marketing Competition (MIMC)—the largest undergraduate marketing competition in Canada.
Held at the Asper School of Business, MIMC tests multiple skill sets, from completing a marketing simulation to creating a strategy statement.
In its 31st year, the competition attracts business students from around the world and this year included teams from Canada, Ghana, China,
Mexico and Belarus.
The Sauder team consisting of BCom students Joshua Tiong, Alice Guo and Laura Wong, met University of Alberta and Mexico’s Universidad
Panamericana Campus Bonaterra—last year’s winner—in the finals. Each team was given a case and placed in isolation for three hours before presenting their marketing plan to the entire delegation of the conference.
“It was an extremely competitive and high-pressure situation,” says
Associate Professor Katherine White, the team’s faculty adviser.
The team, coached by Sauder alumni Chad Embree and David Li, took home a $4,000 prize for the win. ■
With the US facing a much publicized fi scal cliff, and the EU budget talks breaking down, former US Secretary of the Treasury, Larry
Summers praised Canadian monetary policy in a talk at the Sauder
School of Business.
“You’ve done a bit better, which is a credit to your fi nancial regulation,” said Summers during “An insider’s view on economic policy in the US,” hosted by Sauder’s Canaccord Learning Commons last November.
Summers, president emeritus of Harvard University, has served as fi nancial adviser to two US administrations. He became Secretary of the Treasury, from 1999 to 2001, under President Clinton and led
President Obama’s National Economic Council, as the director from
2009 to 2011.
Speaking about his time with the Obama administration, Summers said that the most important accomplishment was getting the US economy growing again—especially as economic statistics were worse than during the stock market crash in 1929.
Despite the doom and gloom of current global markets, Summers marvelled at the economic development seen pre-fi nancial crisis, particularly in China. “It has only taken China six years to replicate the economic progress made between ancient Greece and the industrial revolution,” he said.
In order to build on that success, Summers stressed the importance of the relationship between economy and information technology. “A smartphone has more computing power than the Apollo program that sent a man to the moon,” he said. Summers added that, if he was asked to choose between access to his smartphone or to the library at Harvard
University, it would be an easy choice—he would pick his phone. ■
On February 25, Sauder’s Canaccord Learning Commons hosted renowned journalist and author Fareed Zakaria in a conversation about the forces and events shaping today’s world. Zakaria is the author of
The Post-American World , the host of the Emmy nominated CNN show GPS
(Global Public Square), and an editor-at-large for The Times . He’s been named by Foreign Policy one of the top 100 global thinkers. ■
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WHEN THE SAUDER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNVEILED ITS NEW FACILITIES ON
UBC campus, the literal crowning achievement was represented by the Big 4
Conference Centre, a glass-encased penthouse topping the School’s faculty offi ce tower. Providing 360-degree views of mountains and ocean, the
Centre offers a vital new space for faculty, staff and students to interact with alumni and members of the business community.
Supported by the “Big 4” international professional service fi rms—
Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers—the new conference centre has already become the hub of substantial activity at the
School, as well as the greater UBC community.
“The support of Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers

to create the Big 4 Conference Centre builds on a foundation of generosity constructed over many years,” says Sheila Biggers, Associate Dean,
Development and Alumni Engagement. “In addition to their key gifts to the
Opening Worlds Campaign that made Sauder’s new facilities a reality, the fi rms have played an important role in the life of the School, supporting research, professorships, scholarships and student activity.”
Sauder and UBC alumni fi ll the ranks of the Big 4 professional service fi rms and can be found in leadership positions all over the world. Over 100 students and graduates of Sauder are hired by the Big 4 each year. These and other employees at the fi rms devote signifi cant time volunteering in
Sauder mentorship programs, and as guest speakers in classes.
“On behalf of the CA profession, I would like to congratulate the
Sauder School of Business on opening their new state-of-the-art facility that includes the Big 4 Conference Centre,” said Richard Rees, FCA, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC.
“The accounting profession recognizes the excellence of Sauder’s students and values the relationships that have been built over the years with staff, academics, students and alumni—many of whom go on to successful careers at our accounting fi rms. As global business leaders, we are pleased to be associated with this world-class facility—education is the cornerstone of our profession, and we are proud to give something back to
Sauder, an innovative global leader in business knowledge.” ■
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Up 25 places over its 2012 ranking, the UBC MBA ranked 57th among the world’s top MBA programs in the 2013 Financial Times Global MBA
Ranking, published on January 28.
Now ranked third among Canadian schools, the UBC MBA, offered by
Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate
School, experienced the second largest increase in the ranking overall.
“While only one measure of a school’s success, the ranking refl ects
Robert Helsley our alumni’s strong career growth, the global reach and diversity of our MBA program, and the strength of our faculty members as leaders in business research,” says Robert Helsley, Dean of the Sauder School of Business. ■
From November 28 to 30,
2012, the Sauder School of
Business hosted the UNICON
Team Development Conference in Vancouver. Comprised of 105 member schools worldwide, UNICON is the world’s leading organization working to encourage best practices among business school executive education providers.
Bruce Wiesner conference brought together more than 200 participants from every continent to learn and share ideas in the areas of customer service and client relations.
Bruce Wiesner, Associate Dean, Executive Education hosted the conference together with Conference Chair Professor Darren Dahl and Co-chair Professor Moura Quayle. Speakers included Christine
Day, CEO of lululemon athletica; Mark Raham, Creative Director,
Vancouver Canucks; Associate Professor James Tansey; Assistant
Professor Tim Silk; and Associate Professor Mahesh Nagarajan. ■
Professor Kai Li of the Finance
Division and Professor Dale
Griffi n of the Marketing Division won the UBC-Sauder Research
Award in the Economics of
Pension Plans on November 19.
Li and Griffi n were awarded the grant of $40,000 for their research proposal “National
Culture, Corporate Governance
Practices and Firm Performance:
Implications for Canadian
Pension Plans.”
Kai Li
The two professors have previously worked together, looking at how a multinational company’s home culture tends to shape how it operates in China— something that can ultimately affect its level of profi tability in the country. ■
Dale Griffi n
A large number of international media, such as The Wall Street Journal,
TIME, China Daily and National Geographic , highlighted a new study by Professor
Maurice Levi which fi nds that babies born in June and July are less likely to climb to the top of the corporate ladder.
For the study, Levi and his co-authors collected birth-date information for the CEOs of S&P 500 companies between 1992 and 2009,
Maurice Levi and found that only 6.13 per cent of the sample was born in June and only 5.87 per cent of the sample was born in July.
By comparison, people born in March and April represented 12.53 per cent and 10.67 per cent of the sample of CEOs. ■
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Senior Associate Dean and Professor
Darren Dahl was announced on
February 8 as one of the 10 Canadian professors to receive the 2013 3M
National Teaching Fellows Award—the country’s most prestigious prize for teaching excellence.
The Fellowship, established by 3M
Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,
Darren Dahl recognizes exceptional achievements and contributions by teachers and scholars across Canada.
Dahl’s selection for the award was motivated by his ability to “awaken students’ imaginations” through engaging and often unconventional teaching strategies that allow for the exploration of different approaches to business.
This newest accolade comes quickly on the heels of an announcement on February 5 that Dahl had been named to the short list for the Economist
Intelligence Unit’s Business Professor of the Year Award, making the fi nal four of a pool of 222 nominated professors from 31 universities around the world. ■
Research from the Centre for
Operations Excellence (COE) and the
Operations and Logistics Division
(OPLOG) was featured at the Industrial
Engineering Students National
Conference in Peru, a prominent international conference, in August.
One of the plenary speakers was
Assistant Professor and COE Faculty
Advisor, Steven Shechter, who discussed several healthcare-related
Steven Shechter projects conducted by students of the
Master of Management in Operations
Research program (MMOR) and OPLOG PhD students.
MMOR alumna Valerie Quevedo was among the organizers of the conference, which attracted more than 2,000 participants from Peru,
Ecuador and Chile. ■
On September 29, the Northern Finance Association awarded Sauder
Assistant Professor Jason Chen their Chartered Business Valuators
Award for the Best Paper on Business Valuation. The Northern Finance
Association consists of fi nance academics from Canada and around the world.
In his paper, “Do Cash Flows of
Growth Stocks Really Grow Faster?,”
Chen questions a commonly held belief that growth stocks have substantially higher cash-fl ow growth rate compared to value stocks.
Chen’s research shows this assumption is not actually supported by data, and that often the opposite case is true. ■ Jason Chen
On October 11, the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Services (INFORMS) announced that Professor Daniel
Granot will receive the annual
INFORMS Fellows Award.
Granot was being recognized for his “groundbreaking research
Daniel Granot that has opened signifi cant pathways for inquiry within the fi elds of cooperative games and supply chain management.”
INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in advanced analytics, with
10,000 members, including a number of Nobel Prize laureates. ■
On February 26, Sauder Associate
Professor James Tansey was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond
Jubilee Medal by Premier Christy
Clark at a ceremony at the Fairmont
Empress Hotel in Victoria.
As an internationally recognized expert on sustainability and carbon offsets, Tansey received the medal for promoting sustainable practices in business.
The Diamond Jubilee Medal
James Tansey was created to mark Queen
Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary of her accession to the Throne as Queen. ■
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helicopter pilot and fi xed wing pilot, he has a
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics and Geography from Queen’s University and in 2008, he completed the Families in Business program at Harvard University. ■ member of the CIBC World Markets Board of Directors. He graduated from the
Sauder School of Business and is a Portfolio
Management Foundation (PMF) alumnus and Leslie Wong Fellow. ■
Sacha McLean is Vice Chair of Blackcomb
Aviation, a privately owned helicopter and jet charter company operating 26 aircraft out of permanent bases in Canada and the United
States. Prior to his appointment, McLean was
Chief Executive Offi cer of Blackcomb Aviation and Co-President of the McLean Group, a second-generation family business active in fi lm production services, real estate, construction and aviation. An accomplished business entrepreneur, he played a key role in the transformative growth of the McLean Group’s fl agship production facility, Vancouver Film Studios, from a group of locally managed warehouses into one of the largest modern sound stage facilities in
Western Canada. He then served as family lead on the expansion of the McLean Group’s aviation interests, which led to Blackcomb Aviation, a company co-owned with John Morris.
McLean is a Director of the McLean Group and a Director with the Vancouver Board of Trade where he serves as Vice Chair of the Company of Young Professionals. He is also Chair of the
Board of Advisors to the Business Families Centre at the Sauder School of Business. A commercial
Harry Culham, BCom 1990 , is Managing
Director and Group Co-Head, Wholesale
Banking, with CIBC World Markets Inc., in
Toronto, Ontario. He is responsible for all
Wholesale Banking Capital Markets businesses globally. Prior to joining CIBC in May 2008,
Culham was with a global US bank in London as the Managing Director of Fixed Income,
Currencies and Commodities. Previous to that, he was Managing Director and Head of Fixed
Income, Currencies and Commodities in London for a large German bank. He has also held senior roles in capital markets with other global banks in Europe and Asia.
Culham started his career with CIBC in the graduate training program, working in the foreign exchange business in Toronto from 1990 to 1994. He is a member of the Wholesale
Banking Management Committee and a
Richard Harris is President and CEO of Golden
Boy Foods Ltd., in Burnaby, BC. An accomplished
CEO with a strong background in consumer marketing, he has lived and worked in North
America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
Harris’ career includes four years as CEO at
Golden Boy Foods, a North American private label food manufacturer; three years as CEO of a Coca-Cola bottling company in Western
Europe; three years as Division Marketing and
Public Affairs Director for Central Europe and
Russia at The Coca-Cola Company; and six years in various brand marketing and marketing services roles at The Coca-Cola Company in
UK and Ireland. He earned his MA from the
University of Oxford and an MBA from the
University of London. ■
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ROBERTSON WENT INTO SCRAP METAL himself, and—in doing so—ended up in the Sauder MBA program.
In 2003, he joined a scrap metal company—a competitor of the family business—with the understanding he would take over after a few years. At fi rst, it was easy sailing. From evening classes in basic business, Robertson found himself well equipped to run the day-to-day side of the business.
“Most of what I was doing in the company was simple margins and things like that. It wasn’t a diffi cult business,” recalls
Robertson.
But on the strategic side,
Robertson needed more tools. The scrap metal business is fraught with regulatory and political pressures that require excellent PR and people skills. Robertson also wanted to make his operation the best scrap metal recycler in Vancouver—and that meant he needed advanced skills in operations effi ciency, inventory fl ow and supply chain management.
“I went to the owner and said
‘I need to go back to school, part
time, to get my MBA to get what I need to make this successful,’” says Robertson.
“And he said ‘You know, you will probably do a better job if you go back full time. We can talk about what to do when you get out.’”
Once at Sauder, Robertson immediately threw himself into activities other than just studies— and it is here he says much of his real learning took place.
He joined the Sauder Africa
Initiative in Nairobi in 2009.
Staffed by Sauder MBA students and instructors, the one-year program teaches critical business skills to young Kenyan would-be entrepreneurs.
“The Sauder Africa Initiative just immediately spoke to me,” says Robertson. “Volunteering
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TUUM EST has always felt better to me than working. So I was able to go to Kenya, learn more about entrepreneurship by teaching it.
And in doing so, help people. It was ridiculously rewarding.”
Nairobi was not the only
“away from books” program
Robertson took advantage of.
“Beyond the basic academics, the Sauder MBA pretty much gave me the chance to explore any avenue that I wanted to: the Sauder
African Initiative, MBA Games,
MBA Hockey Tournament, Net
Impact, Toastmasters, hanging out with international students, and traveling at every opportunity. I made sure there was nary a day when something was happening that I wasn’t at it.”
Playing for Sauder in the
MBA Hockey League, made up of business school students from across North America, was an invaluable source of informal networking, says Robertson
“It was great because you go to the Harvard MBA tournament in
Boston, with all these Ivy League schools and students. It’s really a great leveler… a great experience to network with all those guys just playing hockey rather than it being about the schools.”
Sauder to Rayne
The intertwined strands of the scrap yard, entrepreneurship and
Sauder is what brought Robertson to his position at Rayne Longboards.
“Graham Buksa (Founder of
Rayne) would come by the scrap yard, always looking for certain items, really looking for ecofriendly stuff. And he always had a skateboard under his arm, and I was into skateboards, too, so we started talking.”
At the time, Buksa was forming the Rayne concept: highperformance boards made from durable, natural, eco-friendly materials. Their shared interest in skateboarding and environmentallyresponsible recycling led to a friendship—and business—between
Buksa and Robertson. Robertson even arranged for Rayne to become the focus of his group work at Sauder, helping Rayne with marketing and business strategy.
Finally, Buksa asked him to come on board. Robertson was doubtful, he recalls.
“I wondered if the company was too small. I was doing a lot of consulting work, and I wondered if it was too risky. But Graham convinced me that I wanted to take that risk.”
Today, with Robertson as marketing and sponsorship manager, Rayne sells its unique boards around the world, which suits Robertson perfectly.
“I mean, I thought I was going into Big-Five consulting, but I ended up with skateboards. Which
I love, because it makes my ‘worklife thing’ simply a ‘life thing.’” ■ twitter.com/LesRobertsonMBA ca.linkedin.com/in/lesrobertson raynelongboards.com
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“I WAS PRETTY WELL-BEHAVED, A little boring to be honest! I did have a group of friends, but I was shy—I was petrifi ed of doing any performance-related thing, and meeting any new person was always scary.”
He remembers playing hockey and soccer, wakeboarding and swimming, but there was also a lot
Bowers also began working on websites in his free time, starting with one for a theatre that put the movie listings online. That’s when he decided to make computers a career. He studied at a college in
Salmon Arm for a year, and then enrolled in the computer science program at SFU. The freelance website work helped pay for his of video game playing. That’s what got him into computers.
Bowers ended up taking a number of computer-related classes in high school, and learned whatever he could on his own.
He might have become the stereotype of a socially awkward
After graduation in 2005, he moved to Kamloops, to be with his then-
computer geek, if not for a part-time job that changed his approach to life.
“I got a job at a marina pumping gas,
helping people load boats, that kind of education.
thing. My boss instilled the value of customer service and talking with girlfriend. He got a job as a computer technician with the people. I was completely out of my comfort zone, but he was right—I local school district. Within a few months he was in a management did have to talk to the people I was helping. Gradually it helped me position. Bowers liked the people he worked with, and had great open up, and become less shy. It’s a big reason why I’m at ease with benefi ts and employment security; he could have easily made a career out of it.
people now.”
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“It just didn’t seem like I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. I saw other people pursuing their ideas—and becoming quite successful—and wanted to do that too. The school district had a policy to support further education, so going for a graduate degree was an opportunity I couldn’t really turn down.”
His MBA studies at Sauder opened up the world of entrepreneurship and leadership.
It was a good thing he had made progress on tackling his youthful shyness, as the program required him to take part in lots of presentations and public speaking.
Bowers realized he wanted to create something from the ground up, and took a leap of faith that he was on the right path—he quit his job while still pursuing his studies.
“It was kind of dumb, really, but it was such a grind doing both, driving back and forth between
Kamloops and the Lower Mainland.
I calculated that over the course of the MBA I spent $3,000 to $4,000 on gas!”
He drew upon his family’s history with funeral homes—he grew up in one, his father had one, his father’s father had one—to begin work on MemoryLeaf.
The idea was for funeral

TUUM EST homes to offer an online memorial service, where people could share photos, memories and messages about someone who had died.
“Traditional obituaries, even those that are online, seem focused around the provider of the obit. For instance, the ones in newspapers are surrounded by ads. It just didn’t seem appropriate.”
Bowers hoped that funeral homes could provide a neutral space for people from different circles of someone’s life—work, school, family—to mingle and create an understanding of the person as a whole. The concept is still in development.
He entered the idea in the
BCIC—New Ventures competition and did well, enjoying the process so much that he created another startup just to compete again.
That’s when he met a Kelownabased entrepreneur working on a new company called FreshGrade. It creates educational software to help elementary school teachers assess their students.
How lucky that he already had a background in the education system and was based in Kamloops, rather than the more distant
Vancouver, a casual observer might remark.
“A lot of it’s luck, but you can maximize your luck if you increase your exposure to it! You can’t be lucky if you’re just sitting in a room all day. These things wouldn’t have happened without some deliberate action. Go off and do something interesting, and the chances someone will approach you about it go up. If you’re persistent the dice will eventually come up all sixes for you.”
Bowers says being based in a smaller region has many advantages, including a lifestyle involving lots of great recreation, and being the “go-to” guy for projects that come up. He says all of his choices to date have led to him being incredibly happy with where he currently is in life. ■
twitter.com/thejonotron memoryleaf.net
ca.linkedin.com/in/jbowers memoryleaf.net | freshgrade.com
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“EVEN IF YOU ARE RECOGNIZED IN the industry, it is one step forward, two steps back. I thought we’d do a lot of cool stuff really fast. But no, it takes two to three times longer to get the money we need and the product we want. And two to three times less reward in the end.
“Even though we create cool stuff, it’s really hard to do.”
Fresh out of Ryerson in
2000, Feldman worked as a graphic designer before joining
Ginch Gonch Fashion in 2004.
“I started as a designer at Ginch Gonch, but became responsible for the style’s development and ensuring a consistent brand message. That is where I realized I was interested in the clothing industry.”
Feldman’s next stop was lululemon athletica, joining in
2007 as trims developer and portfolio manager, and later becoming a sourcing manager.
His experience at lululemon helped Feldman focus.
“I decided I wanted to be a consultant in technical performance apparel: cycling, outdoor sports, extreme sports.
And I realized an MBA was the way to get there.”
Feldman entered Sauder as a part-time MBA student, while taking on greater responsibilities and achieving greater success at lululemon.
“It was a really exciting time. Looking ahead a few years,
I could see moving into a senior position with lululemon or another company.”
But Feldman was seduced by bike polo, a grassroots sport few people have heard of, and even fewer play.
“A good friend got me into bike polo,” he recalls. “I liked it.
I saw a really connected group of individuals, who used social and online channels to connect and share the sport and their enthusiasm. I saw a really cool sport that was growing immensely.
“For my practicum project at Sauder, I thought ‘why not write a business plan for a bike polo products company?’ My profs thought it was quite good. And I realized that maybe I could take a risk in this unknown sport.” continued on page 33 >>
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IN PERSON, SHE IS QUIETLY WARM, all too willing to make a joke at her own expense when a coffee shop owner pokes fun at her bright yellow shirt. You may notice her height fi rst (5’10” in fl ats), but it’s the liveliness and enthusiasm in her eyes that you’ll remember.
Li has had a bit of a nomadic existence. She was born in
Shanghai, moved to northern
England when she was six, and then came to Canada when she was 12. Her chemistry professor mother and metallurgist father brought her to their labs often, but never pushed her to specifi cally obtain a lot of higher education.
That just happened along the way after she decided she wanted to fi nd a cure for cancer.
The goal fi rst began to take shape after her grandmother’s death from leukemia when Li was six.
Two other grandparents died from cancer when Li was in high school.
“Sometimes my grandparents would wait for me to get back to
China; they were literally hanging on for my visit. You notice absences, how it affects your family to try and deal with death. That’s when
I thought ‘I should really fi nd out what is going on with this
(cancer).’”
She considered becoming an oncologist, but discovered something about herself while doing a dissection in biology class—she didn’t like blood. At all.
At summer camp, she was exposed to other aspects of science and research, and realized that she didn’t have to be a doctor to play a role in curing cancer. She could instead fi nd a way to commercialize scientifi c discoveries and then fund research. She also volunteered with organizations ranging from the
Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC, the Burnaby Policing Council, and
Habitat for Humanity.
Li entered what was then known as the Faculty of Commerce at UBC, but was determined to keep studying science. At the time, it was not possible to get a double major in such disparate disciplines.
“I went to see the Dean of
Science and said, ‘I really think you should let people get a double major if they can make their schedules work.’ I took as many science classes as I could. I always
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The rules changed in Li’s fourth year at UBC, which allowed her to major in both Finance and
Immunology. She received the
Dorothy Anne Dilworth Memorial
Prize as the outstanding female graduate of her year.
During her studies, Li took part in a business case competition, which helped put UBC onto the world stage. Sauder Professor
Daniel Gardiner became a mentor in the process, and they maintain frequent contact.
“I read a book once where people talked about ‘Level 5 leaders.’ The only other one I’ve seen is Bill Sauder,” says Gardiner.
“I think Julia either is there or will be there. She has an unbelievable sense of drive, and an unbelievable sense of humility.”
He believes that people tend to focus more on philanthropy and sensitivity as they get older, rather than purely competing for personal benefi t—he jokingly calls
Li a “young bloomer” because she’s already reached that level.
“One of my favourite questions to ask is what do you want to do when you grow up. She put her mind to it, saw this very altruistic thing that she wanted to do and is doing it. She walks the talk.”
After graduation, Li worked as a
CA in Vancouver for KPMG LLP. Her clients in the biotechnology sector reinforced her conviction that business and science could work together. In 2008, she decided to pursue her master’s degree in bioscience entrepreneurship.
The parameters of the Gates scholarship—which fully cover the cost of a postgraduate degree at Cambridge—could have been written specifi cally for Li. They are awarded to people with outstanding intellectual ability, leadership potential, and a commitment to improving the lives of others.
Li was about to graduate from
Cambridge when she attended a lecture delivered by Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda. He extended an open invitation for people to visit the country, and she actually took him up on it.
Li remembered how much fun she had had competing in business case competitions, and set up the African Innovation Prize.
It provides mentorship and seed grants for small businesses. Now in its third year, it operates in both
Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Last year more than 75 teams competed.
Li also believes she has now found her life’s work. In the Silicon
Valley model, venture capitalists give money even when they didn’t know exactly what a product might be or how it would work. Li believes that mindset needs to be applied to healthcare.
“The private sector responds to value creation and capture.
Profi t motivation tends to focus on high-income countries, but the aggregate purchasing powers of 15 Sub-Saharan countries, for example, could be equally or more signifi cant. That would create a pull incentive. A push incentive would be for governments to understand it’s important to deal with certain diseases—that could manifest as a certain percentage of budget being set aside annually for research and development.”
Last year, Li did an oncology course in the Netherlands. The country has a population of approximately 11 million people, and more than 10,000 medical professionals dealing with cancer alone. In Rwanda, a country of similar size, there is just one medical professional specializing in cancer treatment.
In 2012, Li chaired a roundtable at Cambridge bringing together academics, investors and innovators to talk about addressing such a huge imbalance in global health.
She is hoping a new social venture fund will tackle infectious diseases fi rst, and that it can then be leveraged to deal with cancer, diabetes, and chronic diseases like hypertension.
Li says she is encouraged every day by encountering individual people who are taking small steps forward within huge global issues.
She believes it’s possible for everyone to fi nd a way to change the world.
“It’s really important to ask and fi nd supporters for crazy ideas in your life! I like to surround myself with positive people, because
I’m pretty positive. Constructive criticism is totally okay. It’s also okay if you don’t always know how it’s going to happen, but it’s up to you to make it happen. If you see opportunities along the way, you have to go for it.”
In and amongst all of her lofty ideas, Li does have one more relatively mundane goal—she would like to at some point become a grandmother. It’s an homage to some of the amazing women she’s had in her life, and—perhaps—a potential tribute to the woman who sparked this journey to fi nd a cure for cancer. ■ twitter.com/juliafanli www.juliafanli.com
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“I DECIDED TO BE A HUMANITARIAN,”
Watson remembers, “but my father and others convinced me to stay in school and do humanitarian work after. That I would be much smarter at it after becoming a business person.”
Immediately after graduation,
Watson joined Arthur Andersen
(later merged with Deloitte) and its CPA program. After four years and earning his Chartered Public
Accountant designation, Watson was lured to Silver Wheaton, where he was employee number one.
Two years later he was CFO, and the youngest CFO of any multibillion dollar corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 2008, he left Silver Wheaton and, with David Awram, another
Silver Wheaton alumni, founded
Sandstorm Gold Ltd., a gold streaming company (see sidebar).
“We took control of a shell company,” remembers Watson.
“We started going out to raise money in the capital markets during the fi nancial crisis when the whole world was starting to fall apart. Everyone was consolidating and shutting their businesses down, while we went out and started one and started raising money. At the beginning of 2009, we launched Sandstorm with $50 million.”
Nations Cry, a small charitable organization aimed at doing two things many mainstream charities do not: ensure every dollar
donated goes to actual humanitarian work, not
administration, and to ensure its efforts help benefi ciaries become self-
suffi cient (see sidebar).
Nations
Cry’s fi rst project is in Waterloo,
Sierra Leone, where
Philanthropist at heart
While Sandstorm has been enormously successful, Watson’s heart lies in philanthropy. In 2006, he, along with his wife, friends and business associates founded the organization runs a small orphanage and is building a secondary school. They have also provided full university scholarships to eight students, the fi rst of whom graduated in January,
2013. For Watson, the desire to set up Nations Cry was born partly of a belief that many charities are ineffi cient and may even promote a cycle of dependency.
Breaking the cycle of dependency
“Outside of the great waste of money spent in administering charities, one of my great frustrations is that, although these charities are well-meaning and start with good intentions, they end up not solving the underlying problem and may end up actually perpetuating the problem.
“For example, many orphanages take kids in at a young age, so they won’t starve and die— which is great, there is nothing wrong with that. But they won’t focus on their education, they won’t focus on their development, and then one day they say ‘Ok, you are seventeen years old, we are kicking you out.’”
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According to Watson, children’s aid charities fail to support the orphan in becoming an educated, employable, self-suffi cient individual who can go out and raise educated, employable and self-suffi cient children. The result, according to Watson, is a vicious cycle of temporarily relieving pain and suffering without solving the underlying problem, and that is why Nations Cry strongly emphasizes education in its work.
“I do not believe it makes sense for a charity to try to make a difference in someone’s life if you do it in a way that does not lead them to eventually become independent of that charity,” says Watson. “So we focus on trying to get them independent and we believe education is the way to do it.”
Though he fi nds his spiritual reward in his philanthropy, Watson is perfectly content to let business and charity go hand in hand in his life.
“Fundamentally, what has always driven me is wanting to make a difference in the world. And to that extent, I would say the philanthropy side is key to who I am as a person.
I could live without the business side if I had to. But business helps me make money that can be used to help others, it helps me make contact with people who are willing to step up alongside of me in philanthropy, and it gives me the fi nancial and organizational skills to make a difference in philanthropy.” But business is also a passion for Watson.
“I will admit somewhere along the line, and I don’t know exactly when, I developed a deep passion for business, too. And now I don’t just do business as a means to an end. I really have fun and I really enjoy what I do.”
“For the rest of my life I will be in both philanthropy and in business. I want to get better and better at it and do more and more of it. And have more and more infl uence over it.”
Don’t wait: start today
Watson urges young people not to wait to start making a difference.
“You only live life once. Don’t make the mistake of saying ‘Well
I am going to go establish myself in my career, make some money and then one day I will be in a position to give back.’ Life doesn’t work that way. If you want to make a difference with your life, start today. Not later. Start at day one. With whatever you’ve got.
With extra time, with whatever small amount of money you have, just go do it.” ■ twitter.com/sandstormSSL
Sandstorm Gold fi nances gold mining projects through an arrangement called gold streaming. Sandstorm makes upfront payments to mining partners that need capital to build a mine, refi nance obligations, or make an acquisition, for example. In return, Sandstorm receives contracts that stipulate the purchase of a certain percentage of the gold produced from the mine, for the life of the mine, at a fi xed price per ounce.
Sandstorm Metals & Energy uses a similar model to fi nance and receive future streams from commodity and energy development projects.
Sandstorm Gold was founded in 2008 by Nolan Watson and David
Awram. It is traded on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges and has a market capitalization of over $1 billion.
www.sandstormgold.com
■
In 2005, Nolan Watson founded Nations Cry, a charitable organization focused on providing education to underprivileged children in Africa.
Unlike many charities, and in keeping with Watson’s beliefs, Nations Cry is structured so that 100 per cent of donations go directly to projects in the fi eld.
Nations Cry is most active in Sierra Leone, where it offers university scholarships, operates an orphanage, and is building a secondary school.
It also has activities in Central America.
Nations Cry oversees assets of over $800,000. www.nationscry.com ■
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“NOBODY IS OUT THERE WORKING for you,” says Smart. “Everything you get in life comes from you and your drive. And if you think otherwise, you will be disappointed. You learn that as an athlete for sure.”
Smart speaks from experience.
The Sauder graduate competed for Canada twice in the Winter
Olympics in freestyle skiing, and today combines his Sauder degree and his love of skiing by running a successful summer ski camp business on the Horstman Glacier in Whistler.
Skiing was and is Smart’s fi rst love, but he says good advice led him to Sauder and a degree.
“I knew I would go to university but didn’t know for what,” says Smart. “Then someone advised me to take a business degree because it gives you the most options in life. You can go wherever you want, once you fi gure out what you want.”
But Smart could not turn away from skiing for long.
“While I was at UBC, I ran into friends who were traveling the world for the
Canadian national team,” says Smart.“I couldn’t help but make a little comparison to my life.”
“So I did another stage left,” recalls Smart. “I continued my studies, but I juggled them with skiing. By competing and training, I worked my way onto the Canadian team. I took summer classes and was able to fi nish the fi ve-year program at
UBC in six years. I was committed to the degree; I wasn’t going to lose that. But I was also committed to my passion.”
Passion paid off for Smart.
Competing in men’s mogul freestyle, he represented
Canada in the 1992
Winter Olympics in Albertville and again in the
1994 Winter
Olympics in
Lillehammer.
Along the way, he picked up three Canadian championships and 13 World Cup medals. He is also a member of
Canada’s Ski
Hall of
Fame.
In
1992, he founded
Momentum
Camps, a freestyle ski camp on Blackcomb. From the start, Smart wanted the best instructors on the planet, so he insisted that all instructors be
World Cup medalists. Twenty one years later, the camp fl ourishes, offering seven and nine-day camps in slopestyle, halfpipe and moguls.
“The camp business is a passionate extension of what I do naturally,” says Smart. “It stays fun and it keeps my energy high. I am 48 now and
I am talking to the same age group as when I started out at 26.”
Some might call it an untraditional career, but Smart never yearned for a traditional path.
“I never saw myself working for another company,” he says.
“When we graduate we always have visions of grandeur about where we want to be. But nowhere on that path could I see working for someone else.”
Smart urges young people—and all of us—to keep an open mind.
“Look at it as an adventure, because it is. When you come out of school, it shouldn’t feel like work.
You should think ‘wow, where am I going to go, what route am I going to take?’ And don’t avoid challenges, because those are the most rewarding obstacles to get over. And anyone who runs a business or competes in sports knows the challenges are constant.” ■ twitter.com/JWSmarty ca.linkedin.com/pub/john-smart/
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IT’S NOT THAT THERE’S SOMETHING wrong with his Phoenix, AZ-based job. It’s because Stettner (MBA
2003) is the president and CEO of
Make-A-Wish International, which helps grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. For him, sharing deeply touching and inspiring stories— like that of the Indian boy whose greatest desire was a refrigerator so his mother wouldn’t have to walk miles daily to get his chemotherapy drugs—is a daily occurrence.
“It’s such a simple mission,” says Stettner of his organization, pointing out that the name of the charity says it all. “And you know what? Anyone can make a difference to help a child renew their interest in life, help them transcend their illness—that’s what a wish does.
“More and more doctors, especially in developing countries, are using the wish experience as part of the medical regimen, in a sense. When there’s a wish, the child’s mind isn’t on being sick anymore—the child’s mind is on
‘What’s going to happen with my wish? What can I do?’”
Some people might fi nd it depressing doing a job that routinely confronts them with the heartbreaking reality of desperately ill children.
Not Stettner, who is uplifted.
“You get the intellectual and you get the emotional—you get the entire spectrum,” he says.
“Every day when I go home, I feel better, because I know I’ve made a difference in a child’s life.”
Stettner, 58, could hardly have imagined as a boy that he’d wind up travelling the world, working with volunteers, affi liates and sponsors to give hope to families in 48 countries. A career in the arts was a much surer bet. As kids in Saskatchewan, Stettner and his four brothers often lent a hand at the University of Regina Darke Hall theatre, where their dad was the stage manager. They learned to be stagehands and ran the lights for local and visiting companies.
All those volunteer hours meant that by the time Jon Stettner was
18, he was touring the country working the lights for the Stratford
Festival. He went on to the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet, where he became technical director, production director and then assistant general manager over the course of 10 years. When the general manager fell ill, Stettner fi lled in, organizing tours for the company all over the world.
It was then that he realized he had plenty of not-for-profi t management experience along with his undergraduate degree in religious studies, but he lacked business acumen. He was admitted to UBC with a scholarship that covered his tuition, moved his young family west, and got his MBA. “I came here, and it changed my life.”
“What the MBA program did for me was give me an advanced education, an education focused on business,” says Stettner, a father of four and grandfather of two, and whose wife, Connie, was born and raised in Arizona. “Some people would argue that the not-for-profi t industry is not a business. I would argue the opposite: It is a business.
It needs to be run like a business, and it needs to be professionally managed.”
Any great not-for-profi t usually has an excellent administrator involved, he explains—someone who understands all the applicable regulations. They also have to understand that whatever their focus or mission may be, they must manage two bottom lines: fi nancial solvency and social benefi t.
“You still have to be entrepreneurial. There’s still the same sort of life cycles in a not-forprofi t as there is in a for-profi t.”
Stettner went on to work for a hospital foundation in
Manitoba and then for several arts organizations, one gig as the fi rst
general manager of Vancouver’s
Arts Club Theatre. That organization was branching out from its funky Granville Island space to a larger, more sophisticated venue called The Stanley, which quickly attracted plays that were new and in-demand.
Stettner’s success as general manager there brought him to the attention of Variety, the Children’s
Charity, which was in the process of revamping its staged telethon
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Wish International, Stettner says, its revenues have more than tripled, despite global economic troubles.
Stettner describes the role of President & CEO as “a lot of legalities, a lot of process, a lot of putting the infrastructure in place to allow the organization to grow in a sustainable way. Every individual who is the head of a charity has to spend part of the
time fundraising, liaising with high-end or large donors.”
A Zen Yoga master in his spare time, Stettner also chooses to volunteer locally as one of Make-A-
Wish Arizona’s wish-granters, and has watched his organization make children’s wishes come true in countries around the world.
One crucial change Stettner made to the organization was replacing a “weak” board. “We put in a governance model that was really looking for individuals who wanted to make a difference and were leveraged,” he explains.
“When I fi rst started, none of my board members were making a donation. This past year, the 13 board members, personally and through their companies, donated
$700,000. That’s a great board. It took me six years to get it there.
So that’s changing the governance structure and looking for people who are what we’d call ‘best in class’ board members, individuals who really want to make a difference for children around the world, who have a global focus.
That’s what I try to do—build quality relationships.”
Stettner adds, “UBC’s motto
Tuum Est is about how individual action can have great consequences, a philosophy that’s integral to
Make-A-Wish. For me, it means that if you take the power of one and you put many ones together, you can make an incredible difference.” ■ twitter.com/MakeAWishIntl linkedin.com/pub/jon-stettner/
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A BOOKISH CHILD WHOSE PARENTS read widely when they weren’t working in Macau’s garment manufacturing trade, Tai moved to
Vancouver at the age of 10. He says his key high school pursuits were watching cartoons and playing video games with an eclectic group of fellow outsiders. “I wouldn’t necessarily say I was creative,” the
28-year-old mused recently from his north London base in Finsbury
Park. “I think I just see things in a different way.”
Tai thought an artistic outlet might allow him to share his unconventional perspectives.
After getting his BCom (2007) in
Marketing at Sauder, he got into
London’s Central Saint Martins
College of Arts and Design, where one of the requirements of his
BA program was designing a graduation show.
Afterward, Tai extended his
2011 collection into two more shows featuring wan, bespectacled models—one of whom even wore braces on her teeth—who looked like they spent most weekends translating works of literature from the Greek.
The outfi ts from this fi rst collection were inspired, in part, by the idea of bookbinding.
“If you look at a lot of the
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Dazed Digital Video dubbed Tai’s collection “intellect chic.” The designer says the customer must understand the craftsmanship behind each garment in order to fully appreciate it. These clothes, he explains, celebrate awkwardness and “give the woman another sense of confi dence that isn’t usually offered, as opposed to just a very one-dimensional ‘You look skinny’ or ‘You look hot.’”
In fact, one model wore a dress with a bodice fl ashing 795 golden pen nibs mounted on minuscule motors that, wrote creative technologist John Nussey, were
“animated to create a hypnotic shimmer of movement which changes over time, varying the temp, pattern and the overall mood of the piece.”
Such experimentation is at the heart of his brand, says Tai. “If I didn’t get to experiment, I think I would lose interest quite quickly.
For me at that point, it was time to do something electronic.”
Tai’s debut post-graduate collection won the fi rst 15,000-Euro
Chloe design prize at 2012’s Hyères
International Festival of Fashion and Photography. He went on to bowl over style mavens at Mercedes
Benz Fashion Week Berlin.
The Canadian’s London shop is still a small one. He works with a small team and revolving interns to manage the production, pricing, orders, fabrics, press, and upcoming shows at the same time as he conceives, designs and fabricates each collection. The clothes are currently available in boutiques in London, Paris, Hong
Kong and Antwerp.
Tai’s vision has clearly set him apart from his peers, but he believes he has another advantage—his Sauder education.
He notes that the School is wellorganized, thorough, and teaches many business skills that he’s found to be crucial internationally.
As for UBC’s motto, Tuum
Est , Tai says, “I think when you go to Sauder you can take charge of whatever you want to do. And even in something as unconventional as the fashion industry, you can fi nd a way to use what you’ve learned there and it will give you the edge.” ■ twitter.com/steventaistudio steventai.co.uk
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“IT’S A FABULOUS PLACE TO RAISE a family,” says Mitchell, a personal injury lawyer with Pushor
Mitchell LLP and the father of three adult children. “You’ve got all of the attributes of a resort community. You’ve got a great lake, a great ski hill, orchards and wineries. There’s something about the Okanagan that’s just magical.
I’m a lifer.”
Mitchell eventually realized that there was one thing missing from his hometown—a university.
Okanagan University College offered a limited number of degrees, but few North American municipalities of Kelowna’s size had no full-fl edged university within a two-hour drive. This glaring absence made a postsecondary education prohibitively expensive for some, so the percentage of Kelowna high school graduates who did not further their education was extremely high.
“The next logical step was to get a full university,” says Mitchell, who cofounded the University
2000 Society to help do that.
The administration of Okanagan
University College, however, preferred the status quo. “It was a bit of a battle.”
Eventually UBC president
Martha Piper proposed that the new university become a part of the institution she headed.
Mitchell thought that a grand idea, and worked to help achieve that goal by 2004.
“It’s been awesome,” he says. “They fi gure the economic impact of the university is about
$500 million a year for the community.
That’s huge.”
Evidently
Mitchell, 59, isn’t the sort who likes to slam doors shut behind him; he seems to prefer swinging them open. Though he got experience early in his career in real estate, criminal, family and banking law, he wound up focusing his law practice on acting for plaintiffs in personal injury cases and trying to get them the best insurance settlements possible,
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“I found quite quickly that the personal injury practice is really a hybrid of many different factors that you have to deal with,”
Mitchell explains. “You’re part psychologist, you’re part coach, you’re risk manager. You’ve got families who are in absolute crisis and they’re just about to fall apart at the seams, so you’ve got this result that may happen three or four years from now and you’ve got to get the legal side done and, award for alumni achievement— the Blythe Eagles Volunteer
Leadership Award.
Mitchell’s other obsession is art. He and his wife, Tracy, began collecting investment-quality art early in their relationship.
His enthusiasms run the gamut from historical paintings by
Cornelius Krieghoff and canvases by members of Canada’s famous
Group of Seven to the comic strip-style works of pop artist Ray
Lichtenstein.
He now spends a couple of hours a day
working as an art dealer, using connections he has made around the art world to help clients track down exactly the
in the meantime, you’re trying to keep this family together.
“It’s very rewarding at the end when you can get a good result and the family’s still intact and they can pick themselves up and carry on. I really enjoy that part of it.”
It was the problem-solving sort of art they like. “Someone says ‘I want to buy a Picasso— or Monet, Rothko or other highend work of art—of a certain type, quality, genre, date,’ and I try and fi nd someone who owns one, or knows somebody who does, and you get them together.”
Mitchell interprets Tuum
Est as encouraging personal aspect of law that drew him to his profession in the fi rst place, says
Mitchell. It may also have lured him into the volunteer arena when he started giving free legal advice in the evenings to low-income clients through UBC’s Law Students
Legal Advice Program (LSLAP).
“That kind of got the bug going in me for helping people out.”
As a volunteer who has led dozens of organizations over the years and has been honoured many times for his efforts, Mitchell currently sits on UBC’s Capital
Campaign Cabinet, which is trying to raise $100 million for UBCO, and $1.5 billion for UBC Point
Grey. In 2012, he was presented with a UBC Alumni Association responsibility. “Once you graduate, it’s really up to you to forge your own path and help out the community,” he says. “You have to be the change agent. You can’t rely on other people to do the heavy lifting. You’ve got a degree, you’ve got an attitude about life from
UBC—it’s up to you to apply those tools and make your life a better life and to make the world a better place. Go ahead and do what you have to do—but it’s up to you to do it.” ■ ca.linkedin.com/pub/ paul-mitchell-q-c/12/8a3/9a8 pushormitchell.com
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Feldman established Northern
Standard Bike Polo after receiving his MBA in 2011. His aim was to develop and market gear for the sport.
Feldman bootstrapped the business with very little cash, traveling to bike polo tournaments and hawking his mallets and polo gloves from the back of a van.
“I learned from Jake Burton.
[founder and CEO of Burton, a maker of snowboards and apparel].
He started out doing the same thing. And I thought ‘Bike polo could be snowboarding in 10 years. If I move quickly, I could be at the cutting edge.’”
It is a risky business, according to Feldman. No one really knows how many people play bike polo.
There is no trade show and only a fl edgling organizing body.
Feldman’s fi rst attempt at a polo mallet failed. He then created the fi rst bike polo glove on the market, which became a success.
“We’ve become one of the most known companies in bike polo,” says Feldman, before chuckling
“Of course, there aren’t a lot of us in bike polo.”
Like many entrepreneurs,
Feldman says he was motivated by the chance of reaping the rewards of risk taking.
“As an entrepreneur, you get to be your own boss. You get to create all the value for yourself.
Everything you put into the business comes back to you, not someone else.”
Still, Feldman has found that being your own boss means stepping out of the corporate comfort zone.
“At lululemon, it was easy to get people to return calls,” Feldman says. “But in this, you have to go out there and fi ght for everything.
I have to sell my own product, ask for money, and make a lot of guesses. And then I have to promise
I will deliver when I don’t know if
I can.”
While bike polo has not yet given Feldman the fi nancial rewards he hoped for, he is glad he tried going on his own.
“What I’ve gained from this business, I just couldn’t have gotten any other way. If I were to go back to a company now, the value
I would bring would be much greater than had I not become an entrepreneur.
“And I know that if Northern
Standard fails, I know I can go back, and start up something again.
I know that if I keep at something,
I could be really successful.
You really gain a lot by doing a start-up.”
In March 2013, Feldman joined
Arc’teryx, a maker of outdoor clothing, as a cost and sourcing analyst. He still runs Northern
Standard part time. ■ twitter.com/nsbikepolo ca.linkedin.com/in/maxfeldman http://nsbikepolo.myshopify.com
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“I GOT AWAY WITH EVERYTHING under the sun,” the 42-year-old coowner of Nurse Next Door Home
Healthcare Services confesses. “Not that I was a bad kid or anything—I just had a lot of freedom.”
Luckily, Sim had a decent work ethic and natural abilities at math, social studies and PE. He squeaked into UBC with heady dreams of waltzing into a job as an investment banker right out of his undergraduate program.
“It’s almost embarrassing. As you get older, your views change,” says Sim. “But when I went to
UBC, I truly believed that I’d be a billionaire by the time I was 30.”
The relationships Sim established at UBC serve him well to this day. One of the most important was with his mentor, the late Milton Wong, a prominent
Vancouver businessman and philanthropist. With Wong’s encouragement, Sim became an accountant with KPMG while at
UBC and spent the next few years there, simultaneously earning his chartered accountancy. When he got offered an investment banking job at CIBC World Markets, he bit, and he spent the next fi ve years there, working in London,
Vancouver and Toronto.
“I thought it was absolutely amazing. I mean, you go from being an accountant to torts law and M & A transactions and equity deals and the numbers are a lot bigger. You’re working on multibillion dollar acquisitions,”
Sim recalls.
After Sim married Teena
Gupta in 1998, he found the time demands as a mining investment banker too great and he transferred to the Toronto offi ce of CIBC
Capital Partners. The fi t was bad. “I literally went from a hero to a zero in a matter of four months.”
Over Christmas in Mexico, he and his wife discovered that she was pregnant, and in 2001 they decided to move back to Vancouver.
During that period, Sim read the book Boom, Bust and Echo, which touched on the burgeoning market for home healthcare.
When Milton Wong introduced him to fellow Vancouverite John
DeHart, who was looking for new business opportunities, they liked each other and started looking at companies to buy or build. Then
Sim’s pregnant wife had to be put on emergency bed rest and needed home-care assistance.
The couple interviewed applicants and discovered that some hadn’t even been screened.
“My business partner and I thought, ‘Wow. That’s kind of crazy.’ So we did a bunch of research, wrote a business plan, raised money and we launched in
October of 2001.”
The demand continues. Nurse
Next Door now has 60 locations across Canada, and a dozen in the
US. It has 4,000 active employees at its corporate and franchise locations, and was named one of
BC’s Best Companies in 2012 by
BC Business magazine.
Sim says his and DeHart’s goal is to improve one million lives a year. “We’re actually not really in the business of healthcare—we’re in the business of caring. And that’s a big distinction.”
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Anybody can give clients baths or dole out medication, he explains. “What makes us really relevant and interesting is that we try and fi gure out what the dreams of all of our clients are, and then make them happen.”
Sim cites the example of an elderly woman who had swum in the Okanagan all the time as a child but, to her sorrow, was no longer strong enough to do that. Nurse
Next Door took her to the local
working with friend Parise Siegel, the owner of Siegel’s Bagels, to massively expand her market.
Sim says there’s a “cult-like following” for Siegel’s Montrealstyle product, and he’ll work with her and minority shareholders to take her brand, repackage it under the name Rosemary Rocksalt, and sell it at 200 outlets across the continent within 10 years.
Think the mix of home healthcare and bagel vending is to consciously consider his or her approach to life.
“I know that some day I’m going to die and everything’s going to reset to zero,” he says.
“So really, my choice is to have a safe and reasonable ride, or to have an incredibly unreasonable, big, nation-changing, crazy life. And that’s what I choose.” ■
pool every week until she was able, once again, to swim in the lake she loved.
Of course, Sim—a snowboarding, guitar-playing father of four kids, ranging in age from four to 11, has his own personal dreams. With one major business success under his belt, he’s moving into another, quite different, arena, odd? You’re not alone. But Sim no longer cares about others’ opinions of his choices. He’s independent minded, and to him, the slogan
Tuum Est encourages each individual ca.linkedin.com/in/kensim nursenextdoor.ca
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Tracy Redies
Dr. James Tansey
“BUSINESS CAN AND SHOULD BE A FORCE FOR positive social and environmental change,” said
Robert Helsley, dean of the Sauder School of
Business. “The Coast Capital Savings Innovation
Hub provides an ideal venue for Sauder students to learn from and contribute to this progressive new form of entrepreneurship.”
Fully funded to operate for fi ve years, the
Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub provides social ventures with a one-year program to accelerate their growth. The social venture space represents an emerging sector in North America.
Using revenue-generating business models, these organizations are committed to bringing positive social or environmental impacts to the community. In 2009, the BC-Alberta Social
Economy Research Alliance reported that social ventures provided paid employment to 4,500 workers. The sector generated annual revenues of $46 million, provided training to 10,450, and services to 678,000 British Columbians.
The program is “a great fi t for our organization, aligning with our commitment to help build a richer future for youth in our communities,” says Tracy Redies, Coast Capital
Savings President and CEO. “The Coast Capital
Savings Innovation Hub is a one-of-a-kind initiative that will propel the success of social entrepreneurs, and provide them with direction, mentoring, encouragement and resources that they would otherwise fi nd diffi cult to access.
“It’s our hope that the Coast Capital Savings
Innovation Hub will help put BC on the map as an international centre for social innovation. Over the next fi ve years, we anticipate seeing a number of brilliant, young creative out-of-the-box thinkers launch successful and viable businesses that will yield tangible social benefi ts, strengthen our community and boost the BC economy.”
The call for social ventures, which was put out last fall, attracted numerous applicants looking for a unique and collaborative community to thrive in. Seven social ventures were selected in December for the 2013 Coast
Capital Savings Innovation Hub program, through a competitive process assessing the viability of their business models, and their potential to have a positive social impact.
The ventures work in sectors ranging from healthcare to urban agriculture.
The Coast Capital Savings Innovation
Hub entrepreneurs are brought together in a shared supportive and collaborative working environment to attend regular thematic workshops on topics from pricing strategies to design thinking to personal health management while developing a start-up. Entrepreneurs have access to expert advisors from the Sauder community and industry leaders, and fellow ventures engaged in the program. The ventures receive support and expertise to fi ne-tune their business strategies, to fully defi ne their investment needs, and access networks to help them grow their businesses. Working closely with student interns for three to four months of the program, the ventures also gain a dedicated employee with extensive business training, while in turn providing students with an immersive work experience in an entrepreneurial environment. The Coast Capital
Savings Innovation Hub entrepreneurs also have frequent opportunities to interact with seasoned entrepreneurs and learn from their experiences in venture development, such as how to steer a
About ISIS
The ISIS Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business is focused on leveraging business tools to advance social innovation and sustainability, through research, incubation and application. The core research themes at ISIS are building the low carbon economy, social economy and economic development with First Nations. The Centre’s goal is to build intellectual and human capacity by linking knowledge with action to further the fi eld of sustainability and social innovation. www.isis.sauder.ubc.ca
About Coast Capital Savings
Coast Capital Savings Credit Union is Canada’s largest credit union by membership with 504,000 members, total assets under administration of $14.6 billion, and 50 branches in the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, and Vancouver Island regions of British Columbia. Product innovations include Canada’s fi rst free chequing account from a full-service fi nancial institution and the country’s most fl exible mortgage product, the You’re the Boss™ Mortgage, which was named 2010 Mortgage of the
Year by canadianmortgagetrends.com. Coast Capital offers one of Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures™. It is a member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies Platinum Club and an Imagine Canada Caring Company. To learn more, visit www.coastcapitalsavings.com.
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new venture through its critical pivot points and how to approach investors.
“Ultimately this program is designed to get social ventures investment-ready so that they are able to pitch for and accept investment, and move onto the next stage of growth,” says Dr.
James Tansey, Executive Director of ISIS. “The fi ve-year vision for the Coast Capital Savings
Innovation Hub is to establish British Columbia as a world-class centre for social venture development.”
Tansey adds, “We just think there’s a great niche in Vancouver. This has been the home of so many really interesting social ventures. What we see in the community is lots of start-ups that are bouncing along in the early stages of development.
“We think if we can wrap our support around the best of them, and at the end of that process introduce them to potential funders and investors, that’s a high-value role for the university and the business school to play.”
Redies says Coast Capital’s decision to invest in the Innovation Hub stems from the company’s recognition of the important role young social entrepreneurs play in challenging the traditional business model.
“We want to support innovative businesses that combine fi nancial sustainability with a commitment to improving our world.
“We are a strong champion of innovation in our own organization because it allows us to rethink new solutions to old problems, provide meaningful help to our customers, and to make a tangible, lasting contribution to the communities we serve.
“Ours is indeed a lofty goal for a fi nancial institution—it’s not just about cashing a cheque, or opening an account, or funding a mortgage. Our business is to change lives.
And we believe by fl ipping the orthodoxies of banking and supporting social innovation we have a great opportunity to help make a tangible difference.” ■
CHANGE HEROES
Change Heroes is an online fundraising platform that helps people engage their friends to fundraise for schools and libraries to support education in are designed to help children with severe communication diffi culties develop their communication and expression skills. www.shailahinteractive.com
developing countries. With customized and personalized videos, engagement through social media and a cause young people can relate to, Change Heroes aims
SHIFT URBAN CARGO DELIVERY
Shift is transforming the urban goods movement by using pedal-powered to increase the philanthropic activity in this demographic. www.
thechangeheroes.com
SEAMARKET
SeaMarket works to promote and increase the supply of sustainable seafood trike vehicles for last-mile deliveries in the downtown core, eliminating
congestion and pollution.
Shift is a worker co-op providing empowering employment for young people within the green economy. www.shift.coop
through branding, marketing, sales and
GREEN CHALLENGE WASTE
MANAGEMENT education. By focusing on the supply side of the seafood market,
Green Challenge Waste
Management is a waste and recycling
SeaMarket helps producers and catchers get their eco-friendly choices on the market.
management not-for-profi t society that provides employment opportunities to www.seamarket.ca
people with barriers to employment.
Green Challenge creates greener and more
CONNECT HEALTH
Connect Health is pioneering a model of integrative medicine, providing effective whole-person care by combining the best conventional medicine and complementary approaches. This approach is proactive, offering the best preventative strategies to maintain good health. www.connecthealthcare.ca
sustainable waste management solutions for
SROs and multi-dwelling home units, and provides solutions for sensitive hoarding management issues. www.takethegreenchallenge.ca
VICTORY GARDENS
SHAILAH INTERACTIVE
Shailah Interactive is developing affordable gesture-controlled tablet and mobile educational games designed for children with physical disabilities who cannot use a touch screen. The games
Victory Gardens is a one-stop-shop that helps people grow food in their urban spaces. The team offers a variety of services to their clients including building and providing food-growing infrastructure; full-service farming; and educational tools such as coaching, workshops and custom planting guides. www.victorygardensvancouver.ca
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EARNING INTEREST
BY
MANY PEOPLE DONATE GENEROUSLY to causes without knowing exactly how their funds are used, or without knowing what the ultimate goals are. That’s changed in recent years, with the advent of “venture philanthropy.” It takes principles of venture capital fi nancing and applies them to charitable pursuits.
That includes a focus on measurable results, and building capacity for growth. In venture philanthropy, human and intellectual capital have just as much value as fi nancial contributions, with many donors choosing to become highly involved with the organizations they fund. There is also an emphasis on multi-year commitments, to create a stable basis of funding. High-profi le venture philanthropists include fi gures like Warren Buffett and Bill and
Melinda Gates.
Here are some of their thoughts on when, how, and why to give.
“Concentrate your resources on needs that would not be met without your efforts. Conversely, avoid making small contributions to the multitude of worthwhile activities that have many possible funders and that would likely proceed without your help. Consider working with your siblings on important projects. Pay attention to your home community but favor a broader view.
Judge programs by how they fi t with your goals and their chances for success, not by who makes the request. Expect to make some mistakes; nothing important will be accomplished if you make only ‘safe’ decisions.”
~ Warren Buffett’s advice to his three children
“Some of the projects we fund will fail. We not only accept that, we expect it—because we think an essential role of philanthropy is to make bets on promising solutions that governments and businesses can’t afford to make.”
~ Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft
“Is it really needed? Does the thing work like it’s supposed to? Will it get to those who need it, and a lot of them? And will they use it right when they get it?”
~ Kevin Starr, Managing Director, The Mulago Foundation ■
FOOD IS MEDICINE.
1. Eat a cup of blueberries every day.
Promising new research indicates that eating blueberries can not only prevent age-related memory loss, it can actually reverse it.
2. Folic acid isn’t just for expectant mothers.
Vitamin B9, as it’s also known, promotes nerve cell regeneration in the brain and spine.
4. Fish is brain food.
and salmon contain Omega 3 acids, which are needed to build cell membranes in the brain.
Eating these fi sh three times a week could also help protect against heart disease and stroke.
5. Have a glass of sour cherry juice before bed.
It’s been shown to release melatonin, which can help you get a good night’s rest. ■
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3. Pop a teaspoonful of cinnamon into your next latte.
Cinnamon has powerful antioxidant properties, and may also help regulate insulin levels.

Here are some books aiming to have a big impact on the topic of work-life balance.
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON
Johnson was selected fi rst overall in the
1996 NFL draft, and went on to play wide receiver for 11 seasons. He does commentary for ESPN, but his talents aren’t limited to football. He hosted an
A&E series showing off his knowledge of interior design, and has served as a judge on Iron Chef America. His companies invest in real estate and restaurants across
North America, encompassing both franchise outlets and fi ne dining.
VIGGO MORTENSEN
He may be best known for his work in movies like A History of Violence and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the actor is also a talented photographer, poet and painter.
His artwork has been exhibited in galleries around the world. He composes music and speaks seven different languages.
BRIAN MAY
The lead guitarist of rock band Queen was working on degrees in math and physics when the band began to really take off. In 2007, he decided to complete his PhD in astrophysics, and is currently serving as the chancellor of a university in England. He’s also been selected as one of the top ten guitarists of all time in a number of different polls. ■
Live your Dreams, Change the World:
The Psychology of Personal
Fulfi llment for Women by Joanna Gavin, James
Quick, David Gavin.
(May 2013.) This book teaches strategies around playing to traditional female strengths, such as communication skills and emotional competence, while accurately deploying assertive behaviour.
Author Timothy Ferriss broke the mold with the bestseller The 4-Hour
Workweek . It included tips on eliminating pointless busy work, encouraging bosses to value performance over presence, streamlining information intake, and considering bursts of activity with mini-retirements, instead of a long-haul career.
The Balance Myth:
Rethinking Work-Life success by Teresa A. Taylor.
(April 2013)
In this book, the author shares her anecdotal experience of being a COO of a Fortune 200 company while raising two boys with her husband, with lessons learned about integrating personal and professional life, and remembering to celebrate accomplishments.
The Power of Doing Less:
How to Spend Your Valuable Time on Things That Really Matter by Fergus O’Connell
(Coming July 2013.)
This book discusses the social implications of overwork, as well as the value in learning when to say no.
HOCKEY RULES IN CANADA, RIGHT?
Not quite—the Sport Participation 2010
Research Paper, published by Heritage
Canada, cites golf as the number one sport by participation (and yes, hockey is number two).
What about soccer, you say? Demographics play a decisive role in participation—golf is ageless; soccer, not so much. Although sports participation in Canada has been decreasing over the past 20 years (because of the aging population, costs, and lack of time), soccer can be called the hot athletic pastime—it is the only sport in the Canadian top 10 to have experienced growth during this period.
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GLOBAL ALUMNI NETWORK
Teresa Faulkner, Associate Director, Alumni Relations, listens to the night’s keynote speaker
Fred Withers (BCom 1977).
THE SCHOOL RECENTLY LAUNCHED ITS VOLUNTEER program to engage the Sauder community through a variety of activities and initiatives that help connect alumni and students.
“There are a great number of initiatives that alumni can get involved in and volunteer their talent and time. We are hoping to double the number of alumni engaged by 2015,” said
Martina Valkovicova, Manager, Volunteer Program.
Offi cially launched on November 15, 2012 at receptions attended by a total of more than 150 alumni in Vancouver, Toronto,
Calgary and Hong Kong, the volunteer program is the result of a year of planning and development. It gives alumni more than
40 ways to get involved, including mentoring or coaching students, speaking in classes, organizing reunions, participating in Sauder
Business Clubs and regional networks, and
Alumni mingle at the volunteer program launch reception in Vancouver.
Alumni mingle at the Volunteer Program launch in Toronto.
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Alice Chacon (MBA 2010) talks to fellow alumni at the
Volunteer Program launch in Toronto.
partnering in community and international development initiatives. “Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Sauder brand, keeping our networks strong and connected,” said
Alice Chacon, MBA 2010, President of the
Sauder Business Club of Toronto. “We plan events, bring ideas to the table and connect fellow alumni and students. By helping each other succeed, we prove to employers, and the global communities that we work in, the quality of a Sauder education.” ■
Alumni mingle at the volunteer program launch reception in Vancouver.
Centre: Martina Valkovicova, Manager, Volunteer Program.
To learn more and get involved, please visit: www.sauder.ubc.ca/Alumni/Get_Involved
Anu Khanna (BCom 1987), receives his prize, a 256 GB MacBook Air computer, from
Teresa Faulkner, Associate Director of Alumni Engagement. Khanna completed his profi le on the Sauder Global Alumni Directory and entered the login to win contest.
EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAUDER GRADUATES, THE SECURE AND SEARCHABLE online directory makes it easier for alumni to connect and support one another around the globe. The directory lists every Sauder graduate with a UBC
Senate-recognized degree or diploma, and is the fi rst of its kind for UBC.
“We are excited to watch the directory develop into a valuable resource for the entire alumni community,” says Teresa Faulkner, Associate Director of
Alumni Engagement, who encourages alumni to login, update and publish their profi les to start connecting with fellow Sauder alumni worldwide.
So far, more than 4,000 alumni are participating in the directory. The tool is part of a larger package of benefi ts offered to Sauder alumni, which includes the Sauder Business Club network (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, London and
Greater China—Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing), career services and access to the Factiva news and information database, among others.
Alumni can access the directory on the Sauder Global Alumni Network website at www.sauderalumni.ca and from all Sauder Business Club websites. The Sauder School has more than 34,000 alumni in 77 countries around the world. ■
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GLOBAL ALUMNI NETWORK
Peter Lee, BCom 1989 (Finance), Leslie Wong
Fellow, President, Sauder Business Club of
Greater China—Hong Kong
Born in Hong Kong, Lee moved to Vancouver with his family at the age of 8. He was educated in Vancouver and entered UBC in 1984. During his third year of Commerce, he was accepted into the Portfolio Management Society (now known as PMF), and he majored in Finance,
Portfolio Management. During those two years at
Sauder, he held internship positions with Merrill
Lynch in Toronto and Citigroup in Hong Kong.
Lee graduated from UBC in 1989, and in
1990 he became a principal of a Vancouver based investment fi rm (recently founded by a group of investment industry executives and local prominent investors) specializing in trading and venture capital investments. He worked in the corporate fi nance department until 2001, when he sold his interest back to the fi rm to pursue outside investment interests. During his years at the fi rm, he assisted numerous entrepreneurs in small to medium-sized businesses raising capital, restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.
Since 2001, Lee has been an investor in various companies in technology, oil and gas, mineral extraction, and real estate developments.
His roles in these companies range from passive investment to advisory as a principal to controlling shareholder. He has continued his investment activities in Hong Kong and currently has investments in several companies based in
Hong Kong and China.
lifelong community among current and future
Sauder alumni by promoting connections and professional development and enhancing pride in Sauder.
Yassaman Nouri, BCom 2010 (Finance),
President, Sauder Business Club of
Vancouver
Nouri is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth
Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to communities in Canada and internationally. She has worked in Iran, UK, China, Malawi, Tajikistan and Canada in diverse sectors including manufacturing, post-secondary education, international trade, international development, social fi nance, credit unions, non-profi ts and government organizations. In 2010, while on a seven-month Canadian International
Development Agency internship, Nouri was placed by Canadian Co-operative Association in Malawi, where she served as credit union development offi cer for Malawi’s central credit union and three community-based credit unions.
In 2011-2012, Nouri did an eight-month micro-fi nance, micro-enterprise fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada, where she was placed with the Aga Khan
Development Network’s First MicroFinance Bank in Tajikistan. Integrating the SMART Campaign’s client protection principles into the culture and practices of the bank, she piloted the fi rst business-lending program for Afghan refugees in Tajikistan.
In 2012, Nouri joined Ernst & Young’s
Advisory team in Vancouver in the Performance
Improvement work stream, working on a variety of projects from governance, strategic planning, and transformation management to fi nancial institution advising.
As the new President of the Sauder Business
Club of Vancouver, Nouri leads a team of about 30 members dedicated to fostering a
Alice Chacon, MBA 2010 (Marketing),
President, Sauder Business Club of Toronto
Chacon completed her Sauder MBA in 2010, specializing in Marketing. Her keen interest in mobile technology and marketing led her to become one of the few MBA students from top
US and Canadian business schools to be selected as interns for Research in Motion’s Product and
Management Development Program in 2009.
After graduating, she used her strong marketing and communications skills in roles in the Cards Marketing teams at American
Express and most recently at CIBC, where she is a Marketing Manager heading Loyalty Rewards programs.
Before her MBA, Chacon worked in the media industry and at PepsiCo South America Foods in her native city of Caracas, Venezuela. She is passionate about mobile innovation, blogging and community involvement, currently mentoring
Sauder alumni and new immigrants to Canada.
As President of the Sauder Business Club of
Toronto, Chacon aims to give back to the alumni community by increasing alumni engagement and contributing to their career success with events and tools offered through the club. ■
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FORMALLY LAUNCHED IN SEPTEMBER 2011, THE program bolsters the Career Centre’s effectiveness by providing employers with meaningful opportunities to connect with highly qualifi ed candidates who offer a wide range of experience.
“At the Hari B. Varshney Business Career
Centre, we care passionately about our students’ and alumni’s careers—their goals, satisfaction and successes,” says Assistant Dean Denise Baker, adding, “Whether our alumni fi nd themselves looking for a new challenge, for an opportunity in another city, or want to change industries, we are here to help.”
Sauder alumna Merryl Edington-Hryb, BCom
2009 (Finance), welcomed the opportunity to work with the Centre’s alumni career coaches, who helped her manage her new-found career and the relocation from Vancouver to Calgary.
“They helped me realize what works best for me in terms of management styles and work environment,” she says. “They helped me understand what makes me tick.”
Edington-Hryb notes that many graduates need help navigating challenging job markets, or fi nding their calling. “If only they had someone who could help them realize what they’re looking for and what’s out there,” she says. “I highly recommend Sauder Alumni Career Services.”
The Career Centre relies heavily on participation from alumni, who volunteer as mentors, panellists and speakers, and offer support through student employment opportunities.
“As alumni advance in their career, they also have a unique opportunity to make a difference,” says Sauder School of Business Dean
Robert Helsley. “By advocating for their alma mater in the community and looking out for students and fellow alumni who share the Sauder experience as a common bond, they can both support the mission of the School and add value to their degree.”
Since the program’s launch, there have been more than 1,000 interactions between alumni and the Career Centre’s career coaches, in person or over the phone or e-mail. A record number of alumni have registered for career-related webinars hosted by Alumni Career Services. ■
www.sauderalumnicareers.ca.
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CLASS NOTES
1940
S
Don Chutter BCom 1944
Was honoured with the awarding of the Queen
Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to the Canadian construction community and to the Ottawa community throughout the 60 years of her reign. The presentation was made by
Hon. Mauril Belanger on Parliament Hill in
November 2012.
Ernest Anastasiou BCom 1949
Following WW2 service as a Navigator in the
RCAF I took my fi rst year at Victoria College in
1946-47. 1947 UBC Faculty of Commerce
Graduated BCom fall 1949 Convocation.
1950
S
Joined the Hudson’s Bay Company Sept. 1949 as a Management Trainee. 1955 married and promoted to Department Manager transferred to
The Bay store in Saskatoon. 1961 transferred to
The Bay store as a Department Manager at The
Bay Calgary. Retired Dec. 1988.
John Williams BCom 1958
Retire? That word is not in my vocabulary.
Going to the offi ce or travelling to clients is way too much fun—like having a different puzzle to solve each day. My company, J.C. Williams
Group, continues to grow its retail and shopping centre consulting-related work from our offi ces in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, and Ann Arbor,
Michigan. And we have joint ventures in Russia,
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, which take us to interesting places like Tehran, Dubai, Doha,
Riyadh, Saint Petersburg and Tunisia. Part of the enjoyment is trying (but not succeeding) to keep up with the technological advances that our young professionals treat as just normal.
On the academic side, I’ve just completed my third book. It’s an e-book entitled “The Strategic
Compass Model—Your Guide to Creating a
Legendary Business” and is available on www.jcwg.com.
But life is not all with clients. Maureen (York
University, 1975) and I enjoy a lot of major travel as well as visiting the two sons/daughtersin-law and family (three grandkids) in New York and Brookland, a daughter/son-in-law (two granddaughters) in Rome and daughter/sonin-law (three granddaughters) just three blocks from us in Toronto. And daily life is terrifi c, enjoying the local cultural and culinary sites, getting to the “Y” daily, and staying in touch with friends—especially the Class of 1958!
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ca/alumni/classnotes.
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1970
S
Alan Clarke BCom 1978
After being laid off in July 2004 from a controllership position, I have been living the life of an amateur athlete—training for and entering running races (5kms – marathons) and triathlons (sprint/Olympic/half-iron/and ironman distances), based in Penticton, BC. I have also become an amateur missionary, taking God’s gospel and end-time message to the Philippines with offi cials of the Seventh-day Adventist Church once per year. In 2008, I married a nice woman from the Philippines, and was able to bring her to
Canada in 2009.
1980
S
Derek Wiens BCom 1981
After earning my BCom and then my LLB at UBC, I entered the publishing business at
Commerce Clearing House (CCH) in Vancouver and Toronto and eventually at Real Estate Weekly in Vancouver. I practiced law for about 10 years, and thanks to a few good real estate investments,
I recently retired. I enjoy the freedom of early retirement, thanks to my education at UBC and various business pursuits.
Brian Coldwells BCom 1972
As a mature student, I towed three children through my years of learning and even had my preschooler sit in with me in one law class when other arrangements did not work out. The downside of my last year was getting hit with viral pneumonia during that winter. Bouncing back, while not easy, was accomplished with the much-appreciated understanding that I found with my professors. My trip through Commerce was probably as different from the average student as could be, not just because of age difference, but because of being a family man with wellentrenched responsibilities that most would not come to know for some years afterward.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed campus life as well as the involvement with our children in the various things they joined such as cubs, Kindercare, hockey, soccer and other sports. I went on to become a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and maintained a varied career path through until my retirement in 1999. Those three children, by the way, are all married and produced grandchildren for Anna and I... seven in total.
Lloyd Aasen MBA 1974
After 38 years of legal practice in the areas of corporation law and real estate development, I have decided to start a new life and have retired.
Priority will be given to obtaining a part-time teaching position, travel and adult education in areas not previously explored such as history and cosmology, and spending more time with my wife Virginia and daughter Laurel, as she pursues her master’s degree in counseling psychology.
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ca/alumni/classnotes.
Don Nataros MBA 1981
Always an adventure. And this may be the year where I combine the life sciences with business!
John Clark BCom 1979
John S. Clark was named a “Five Star Wealth
Manager” for the second consecutive year. To earn this award, wealth managers had to meet ten objective eligibility and evaluation criteria associated with outstanding client service. The evaluation process included a survey of 1 in 12 households who would use wealth management services. This is only the second time that this award has been given in Vancouver.
Douglas Querns MBA 1982
Have just started a new job as CFO of Family
Services of Greater Vancouver.
Dan Bednar BCom 1987
In May I was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Offi cer of the Eurofi ns
Scientifi c Group, and moved to Brussels to take up my new job. With revenues of over one billion dollars and 12,000 staff in more than 170 laboratories across 32 countries, Eurofi ns is the world leader in food and pharmaceutical products testing and environmental laboratory services.
Eurofi ns is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange, and is part of the SBF 120 index.
Amyn Khimji Bcom 1988
Amyn Khimji, CMA, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Director, Financial Accounting at JTB International (Canada) Ltd. Amyn has been with JTB since 1994 and previously held the position of Manager, Financial Accounting.
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CLASS NOTES
1990
S
Certifi ed Internal Auditor (CIA), working with publicly listed entities on internal controls compliance and internal audit projects in
Western Canada.
Teddy Lai DULE 1990
This year marks over 20 years that our fi rm,
GHL Consultants Ltd., has been providing specialist advisory services in building codes and fi re sciences in the construction industry. We develop alternative solutions to code compliance and facilitate regulatory coordination in fi re and life safety aspects for construction projects. We look forward to another 20 years of success.
Anjili Bahadoorsingh
The District of West Vancouver has appointed Anjili
I. Bahadoorsingh as a Board Trustee of the West
Vancouver Memorial Library for a two-year term.
Morgan Tam
BCom 1990
BCom 1991
Photo stop on Mount John Laurie in Alberta,
December 2012 shows Morgan enjoying her new hobby of winter scrambling. Professionally she continues to build on her experience as a Certifi ed General Accountant (CGA) and
Steven Chan MBA 1994
Was bemused to receive a Lifetime Service
Award from the Oracle Applications User
Group recently. This seems awfully premature but humbling, nonetheless. I’m still living in a mountain resort town in Central Oregon but will be spending March–July 2013 in
Manhattan. Would love to catch up with any fellow alums in the city. Saw 22 Broadway shows during a three-week NYC trip last year, and would be interested in connecting with fellow arts lovers, too.
Jan Masek BCom 1995
In late 2011 we moved from Frankfurt,
Germany, to Zurich, in Switzerland, where I head J.P. Morgan’s corporate fi nance and M&A business. After 20 years abroad, including four in Canada at UBC in the early 90s, it was a homecoming at last. In April last year, our third child, Julius, was born, so life is hectic all around: at work, and equally at home. Although
I miss Vancouver, being close to the Alps and the lakes again feels good. Cheers!
Richard Stackman PhD 1995
Became Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Programs in the School of Management at the
University of San Francisco in September 2012.
Eugen Klein BCom 1997
In 2012, Eugen Klein became President of the
Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the professional association of 11,500 REALTORS ® .
Recently, the National Quality Institute awarded REBGV (rebgv.org) the Canada Award of Excellence, their highest award of continued excellence. Eugen is privileged to be the youngest President of the Board in its
93-year history.
As principal of Klein Group, Royal LePage
City Centre (kleingroup.com), a real estate brokerage fi rm specializing in commercial, project marketing and residential real estate, his fi rm achieved Royal LePage’s National
Chairman’s Club (Top 100) in Canada and Top
Ten Provincial.
Eugen became a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (icd.ca) in 2012 and completed the ICD.D designation through the Directors Education Program (DEP). This program is jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and is the only professional designation for Canadian directors.
The personal highlight of this past year was spending time traveling through India and the UAE.
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house in Lynn Valley, we found a condo in New
Westminster. After a complete renovation, we moved in June of 2012. I continue to teach at
Douglas College in the Marketing Department and I have a ten minute walk to work. I sit on the New Westminster Economic Development
Advisory Committee with fellow DMSM grad
Gregus, who has opened his own local winery—
Pacifi c Breeze. Our daughter Sophia (also a UBC grad) is living with her husband Noah Phillips
(UBC grad) in Fredericton, NB as he pursues a
MA in geology. Our youngest will graduate in the spring from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. Marian is pursuing her Interior
Design degree at BCIT.
2000
S
Sophia Fu BCom 1997
Worked as an Internal Project Manager at
Sogeti US LLC in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Became familiar with the MIA, Walker Museum, music culture, and history of Saint Paul and
Minneapolis. Went to the Frank Lloyd Wright
Visitors Center in Wisconsin and a Wisconsin winery. Worked on some exciting application upgrade migration projects with some computer hardware clients. Spent a few years in Silicon
Valley, California as a Project Manager and worked with telecommunications, internet service provider, network service provider, retail, and ecommerce clients. Obtained a second degree
(BSc) and worked in clinical roles and as a consultant in healthcare software projects. In my spare time, I enjoy skiing, cooking, reading, wine, and travelling. I enjoy my carefree lifestyle and exposure to different cultures, food and people.
David Moulton DMSM 1999
My spouse Marian Toft and I have successfully transitioned to empty nesters. After selling our
B.J. Turner BCom 2000
In 2012 my wife Laurel, son Watson and I, welcomed another boy to the family: Bowen
Penn Turner, born October 19, 2012. I work with a real estate private equity fi rm in Los
Angeles where we had a successful 2012 by closing on six hotel and offi ce transactions in a market that is gaining solid momentum. While we love the California weather, we certainly miss
Vancouver and look forward to our regular trips back throughout the year.
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ca/alumni/classnotes.
James Chang MBA 2005
The two biggest highlights are that I am engaged to be married to the love of my life, Jennifer, and that we have relocated back to Vancouver!
Jennifer will be practicing optometry in the
Lower Mainland and I will be opening an offi ce for my software company, Mapagogo. We are both looking forward to reconnecting with all of our friends and classmates!
Jeremy Cook BCom 2006
2012 was a busy year for us... my oldest started kindergarten, my youngest started ballet and couldn’t be cuter at it, and my wife is running her own business (luvinthemommyhood.com)... all I did was pass the UFE... not a bad year.
Looking forward to 2013.
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CLASS NOTES
Abby Ong-Villeneuve BCom 2006
2012 was an eventful year with a major life change. I celebrated six years with TELUS as a
Senior Marketing Manager, using the 4P’s from
Marketing Strategy to look after the Atlantic region and the very small business customer segment. In November, we welcomed Xavier into our lives and have been enjoying my new career as a mom! Any parenting tips welcome!
Peter Rasquinha
With much delight, my wife and I welcomed our new baby girl Ruth Komal Rasquinha.
MBA 2006
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Lena Ding BCom 2007
After receiving a BCom in Accounting from
UBC, Lena started to work towards her CGA designation in a public accounting practice in
Vancouver. In 2009, she moved to Toronto and pursued her MBA at the University of Toronto.
Lena has received her MBA from the Rotman
School of Management and obtained her CGA designation in 2011. Lena is working as a Senior
Finance Analyst in CIBC in Toronto now.
Amar Kulkarni MBA 2008
Our Honeymoon in Africa
My wife and I, newly married, set out on an adventure of a lifetime to celebrate our journey together. As if a destination wedding in gorgeous
Punta Cana for seven days was not enough, we decided to explore Africa for fi ve weeks—it turned out to be the most amazing time of our lives as we started in Cairo and ended in
Johannesburg.
Bernard Lau BCom 2007
Bernard Lau recently celebrated the fi rst anniversary of the law fi rm that he cofounded,
Chak Lau and Co. LLP. After graduating from
Sauder, Bernard completed a law degree and earned his Juris Doctor at UBC in 2010. He is pleased to welcome the addition of Sophia
Xu, UBC Law alumna from 2010, to the fi rm.
Bernard practises in civil litigation with an emphasis on real estate and construction law.
First stop: Egypt
Ever since I was a child, I have dreamed of seeing the pyramids. Although I am well traveled (visited over 20 countries), Egypt has always been at the top of my list. Regardless of the political uprising that was taking place, we decided to “take a chance” to experience Egypt. After bringing in the
New Year (literally) under the pyramids, it was in fact many of the other sights outside of Cairo that impressed us the most. In many temples, tombs and libraries there were inscriptions that mapped out highly advanced science and engineering, such as medicines, remedies and architectural design. A tribute to the Ancient Library of
Alexandria that was destroyed, this information is now accessible in the modern museum of
Alexandria, the largest and most advanced library
I have seen. Aside from taking my breath away, sites such as Abu Simbel, Valley of the Kings,
Karnak and Luxor really brought attention to the value of life. The ancient Egyptians lived preparing
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for the afterlife. I purchased a painting of
Judgment
The Final
that emphasized this point, as the gods weigh a human heart versus a feather to evaluate the good and helpful deeds he/she has brought to this world in order to determine his/her fate.
Second stop: Tanzania
One of my biggest passions is wildlife, and there is no better place in the world to experience it in its natural state than Tanzania. We had the privilege of driving through the bush (Serengeti,
Ngorogoro crater and Manyara) and seeing the big fi ve (lions, cheetahs, leopards, wildebeest and black rhinos) and other species such as ostriches, fl amingos, hawks, vultures, monkeys and baboons.
One of the most thrilling rides was viewing the wildebeest migration—millions of wildebeest dashing through Lake Ndutu. In order to get to the other side of the reserve, we had to cross the migration, and as we did, the wildebeest literally stopped in their tracks and started to form a new path around our vehicle, while the rest of the herd waited patiently. The sheer determination and cooperation to travel to their intended destination was remarkable. In addition to the safari, we drove past the earliest fi ndings of our human ancestors near Arusha—human footprints nearly 3.6 million years old. Next, we fl ew to Zanzibar, also referred to as “spice town.” As a huge food enthusiast, tasting fresh fruits and tropical spices was a treat, along with the array of international fusion dishes.
In addition to the spice life, we were exhilarated to swim in the crystal clear waters of the Indian
Ocean at Kizimkazi, with wild dolphins and giant sea turtles.
wonder of the world) was a great spectacle and the views from the top were outstanding! Near
Jo-burg, we had the opportunity to go to a private wildlife farm where the trainer innovated a new way of training animals—through love and positive reinforcement (milk as a reward). I got to run with a cheetah, hang out with lion cubs and interact with snakes!
Attending the international exchange program at Sauder really instilled the importance of traveling as an educational tool and I regularly integrate travel as a critical component of knowledge development. Subjects of politics, culture, history, commerce, geography, biology and anthropology were constantly revealed. Aside from immersing ourselves in this natural utopia of Africa, our experience presented many opportunities to apply cost-conscious thinking and technology leapfrogging, such as agriculture, natural resource trade and mobile payments that could enable Africa as a highly emerging economy.
Modules 5 and 6 for the CA School of Business.
This year in 2013, I have begun running my own accounting practice and pursuing my own business venture. I could not have done it without learning these essential skills at the
Sauder School of Business—especially those from accounting, tax and New Venture Design.
The sky is the limit—for all of us.
Daniel Eby BCom 2009
I completed my third yoga teacher training course along with my group cycle course, and began teaching yoga and group cycle on a full time basis. In addition to this, I co-hosted my fi rst yoga retreat with a group of 14 on Gambier
Island. This gave way to the creation of my fi rst international yoga retreat I held at the beginning of 2013 in Maui.
Third stop: South Africa
The last country we visited was South Africa, which was a much more relaxing segment. The highlights included a wine tasting tour at a variety of farms near Cape Town in Paarl, Stellenbosch and Franschhoek, which really opened my eyes about the South African wine industry. We traveled to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held during the Apartheid and learned about the hardship and racial barriers that the country has recently overcome. Aside from visiting penguins, seals and sharks, Table Mountain (new natural
Brandon Jang BCom 2008
Every year after graduation has been rigorous, yet rewarding. I graduated in 2008 when everyone was entering the market crash and
I did not think I could secure a position at a
CA training offi ce with my sub-par academic average. However, I was offered a position immediately after convocation and I began to thrive after starting my life as a CA student.
I managed to obtain my CA in April 2011 and shortly began facilitating and marking
Mike Ford MBA 2009
This past year (2012) I started consulting for one of BC’s largest, vertically integrated, producer, processor and retailer of organic beef.
My last project for this fi rm was developing a business case for a new restaurant/retail concept in the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast region of BC.
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CLASS NOTES
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Ryan Fetterly BCom 2009
In early 2012 I quit my job to travel around the world and intern at social ventures in emerging markets. To date I’ve spent nine months in Africa and completed three projects traveling by land down the continent on public transit. I left for
Asia in February 2013 and alums can follow my adventures at 1yearentrepreneur.com.
Preeti Adhikary MBA 2010
After three years, we decided to settle here in
Singapore. I started my new job and love it! I also fi nished my fi rst half-marathon in December.
Manoj Singh MBA 2010
I was a part of a business delegation from Canada to India during a weeklong eventful time in India in November 2012. Apart from several satisfying business meetings and high-level corporate interactions, the most satisfying was a oneon-one meeting with Prime Minister Stephen
Harper to share my perspective as to how we can enhance our business with Indian companies.
Charles Voon BCom 2009
It has been a crazy few years after graduation.
I am very excited to join fellow Sauder alumni as I relocate to Shanghai! I have the honour of helping my advertising agency, Blast Radius, open up their fi rst Asia Pacifi c offi ce. Please come to Shanghai to visit—I cannot wait to show you around!
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Evelina Mannarino DULE 2010
In 2012, I fi nally published my fi rst book,
“Profi ts in Real Estate Rentals.” This was challenging to do as I was running my company, luxurycorporatesuites.com along with attending the Oprah show in Toronto in April (front row) and having a baby in June. In October, I started my fi rst build with my husband, a two-story residential home. It was a pretty busy 2012 for me with things looking up in 2013!
Zh DAP 2012
After completing the DAP program, I started working for the consulting fi rm Quantum Advisory
Partners LLP where I am currently pursuing my CGA designation. The highlight for the year was my trip to Europe. I discovered my love for traveling when I fi rst visited Europe in 2011. Since then I decided to make it an annual tradition to discover a new place every year; this year I went to
Nuremberg for Christmas, spent a week in Paris, and celebrated the New Year in Zurich. The picture was taken at the capital of Switzerland, Bern.
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CLASS NOTES
Justin Giroux BCom 2011
Upon graduating in 2012 and starting my career as a Market Analyst in the beautiful Okanagan,
I have found my true passion: Top Shelf
Autographs. I work my “career” job during the day, and when I come home, it’s all Top Shelf: quotes, sales, updating the website, and ensuring customers are happy. The most rewarding part of the business is working with fundraiser groups and providing items that will greatly help benefi t society, especially children. Whether it’s raising money for minor hockey associations or children with illness, it feels great to give back and help a worthy cause. The education I received from UBC helps me on a daily basis, both for Top Shelf Autographs and my day job. in memoriam
Prof. George Gorelik MBA 1960
George Gorelik, Sauder alumnus and Emeritus
Associate Professor of Accounting, died on
December 22, 2012 at age 86.
George, a Byelorussian émigré born in
Poland, worked as CGA-BC’s fi rst full-time employee and went on to become its president in 1976. He earned his CGA certifi cation and subsequently an MBA from the Faculty of
Commerce and Business Administration in
1960. George left CGA-BC in 1963 to follow his love of teaching and accounting as a lecturer in UBC’s Faculty of Commerce and
Business Administration. His academic ambition then took him stateside to the University of
California, Berkeley for his doctorate, which he received in 1970. He wrote many papers, including research on management accounting, fi nancial decision-making, international comparative accounting and organizational science, while studying and teaching as an
Associate in Berkeley. His connection to the
University of British Columbia would last
30 years.
George earned many awards and distinctions over the years. He was a FCGA, and a Life
Member; in 2008, CGA-Canada named him one of Canada’s top 100 CGAs of the past 100 years. George spent 28 years teaching at UBC.
Upon his retirement in 1991, the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration honoured him with an annual prize in his name. The George Gorelik Prize is awarded to the student obtaining the highest standing in fi nancial accounting.
His other great passion was his abiding love of the classical guitar and singing.
George Gorelik was born in Sienno,
Nowogrodek, Poland on May 5, 1926. Besides his loving wife Peggy, he is survived by his children Katherine, Peter, Stephen and Elizabeth, and six grandchildren, all of whom live in BC
Funeral services were held at Mountain
View Cemetery in Vancouver on Friday,
December 28.
David Woodman BCom 1959
David Woodman passed away in July 2012, from Alzheimer’s disease. He leaves behind his wife Roxanne of 53 years, three children and
11 grandchildren. ■
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Become a Sauder School of
Business alumni contact
Be a contact for Sauder School of Business and fellow alumni in your city, country or region.
Help counsel prospective students, advise new graduates, welcome summer interns and arrange alumni events.
To volunteer, contact us today!
We can be reached at:
Tel: 604-822-6801
Fax: 604-822-0592 e-mail: alumni@sauder.ubc.ca
We always appreciate your feedback on events and programs in support of alumni activities.
Mark your calendars for May, when Sauder alumni are invited to return to campus for UBC Alumni
Weekend 2013 and a number of BCom and MBA class reunions.
For the fi rst time, many of this year’s Sauder class reunions will coincide with Alumni Weekend to give alumni even more opportunities to renew old friendships, make new connections and have fun!
UBC Alumni Weekend, set for May 25, is a magnet for the fun-loving, the curious and those who secretly wish they were still students. It’s a “boot camp” for your brain, a place to fi nd your muse, and an occasion to celebrate community and relive some of the best years of your life. This is the one weekend where faculties and departments from across UBC come together to create a day of exciting programming no matter what your interests. This year’s event features Rick Mercer performing his hilarious talk “A Nation Worth
Ranting About.”
The Sauder School and its Robert H. Lee Graduate
School will host Beyond the Briefcase , an entertaining, family-friendly festival for alumni and friends. The two-hour event will showcase the innovative ways in which the School and our graduates are rewriting the rules of business.
Come meet and be inspired by some of our dynamic alumni—innovators, entrepreneurs, creative decision makers, problem solvers and global citizens—who are challenging accepted conventions and fi nding intriguing ways to combine their passion and business.
May 25, 2013, 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm,
CA Hall, Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall
All alumni from this year’s reunion classes –
BCom 1948, BCom 1953, BCom 1958, BCom 1963,
BCom 2008, MBA/MSc 1998, MBA 2003, and MBA
2008 – are invited to kick off Alumni Weekend with an exclusive pancake breakfast at 9 am at the
Big 4 Conference Centre, 9th Floor, Henry Angus
Building.
For more information and a complete schedule for
Alumni Weekend, please visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/ events/alumniweekend/
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POINTS OF VIEW
THESE DAYS, UBC’S MOTTO, “IT IS YOURS,” means something quite different. After all, a school is no more than the sum of the people who learn, and are inspired, there. The Sauder
School of Business is yours.
That’s why we recently set out to create an alumni and development strategy that would set us apart from other business schools.
Over a 12-month period, a task force comprised of alumni, staff and faculty worked on a strategic framework for the Sauder team that supports you.
Our vision is simple: “Sauder for Life.”
To us, this means giving you the opportunity to cultivate a life-long relationship with fellow graduates and your alma mater, based on shared interests and genuine engagement for the rest of your life.
As a graduate of the Sauder School of
Business or the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, you can expect you will be provided with:
• Access to your global alumni network,
• Access to relevant and unique knowledge, and
• Opportunities to build your relationships with the Sauder Community.
What does this mean to you if you are a student?
Alumni network: As a student you will have access to alumni and business leaders as mentors, guest lecturers and role models throughout your educational experience. Alumni will be on campus to greet you on your fi rst day of school, inspire you as you pass milestones and see you cross the stage at graduation.
Knowledge: You will learn from leaders in their fi elds and world-class researchers in an environment that accommodates and uses the newest and best technologies and methods.
Sauder community: You will have unique opportunities to develop deep connections with fellow students, alumni, faculty and staff by joining clubs, participating in case competitions, participating in student exchanges, or volunteering in the Alumni Student Ambassador Program.
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What does this mean to you if you are a recent graduate?
Alumni network: You will have all the rights and privileges of being a Sauder alum. You will have full membership privileges in the Sauder
Global Alumni Network with access to the alumni directory (just launched in November, so if you haven’t signed up, please do!) and alumni career services, including helpful webinars.
Knowledge: You are eligible for discounts for executive education courses, have access to our alumni career program, and, as an MBA alum, you have access to MBA courses for life.
Knowledge: You have all the benefi ts of
UBC and Sauder alumni, including a discount for executive education programs, career management support, and—if you are an MBA graduate—access to MBA courses for life. You have access to a constant source of new and relevant knowledge that is generated by the best research faculty in the world.
Sauder community: You can participate in one of the Sauder Business Clubs. You can attend or even plan your reunion. You can participate in student orientation or graduation. You can mentor or speak to students.
Sauder community: You can participate in activities organized by the Sauder Business Clubs in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, London, Beijing,
Shanghai or Hong Kong. You can attend or even help plan your fi ve-year reunion. You can participate in student orientation or volunteer in other ways.
What does this mean to you as an alum?
Alumni network: You can fi nd your fellow alumni on the Sauder Business Directory and search by location, industry, specialization, or graduation year. You can hire co-op students or interns from your alma mater. You can recruit graduates to fi ll your organization’s human resource needs.
Tuum Est.
This is your school. And if we do our job, your relationship with Sauder will continue to provide value to you at all stages of your life. Our hope is you will wish to stay in touch, become involved and help support those who graduate behind you.
Over this past year, the school managed to connect with more than 7,800 alumni around the world—25 per cent of you. If you would like to add yourself to the list of involved Sauder graduates, please reach out to us via any of the contacts listed on this page.
I look forward to crossing paths with you soon, as well-served and engaged alumni of the Sauder School of Business. ■
Sheila Biggers
ASSOCIATE DEAN
,
DEVELOPMENT AND
ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
Associate Director, Alumni
Teresa Faulkner teresa.faulkner@sauder.ubc.ca
Clubs and Regions
Bryan Ide bryan.ide@sauder.ubc.ca
Students and Young Alumni Program
Sharlene Cheu sharlene.cheu@sauder.ubc.ca
Volunteer Program or Reunions
Martina Valkovicova martina.valkovicova@sauder.ubcca
Alumni Career Services
Kristine Thody alumnicareers@sauder.ubc.ca
www.sauderalumnicareers.ca
Donations
Simone LeBlanc, Associate Director simone.leblanc@sauder.ubc.ca
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ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Ng
BCom 2011
New York, USA
Commerce Undergraduate Society Student Council,
International Business Club President
Morgan Stanley, High Yield Credit Strategist
Business motto or philosophy:
“Actions speak louder than words”–anyone can say they will do something, but those who follow through with actions will be the most successful over time.
Greatest achievement to date:
Being a part of the UBC Portfolio Management
Foundation, as a student and now a Leslie Wong
Fellow.
Greatest extravagance: Sony Google TV
In business today, it’s important to… listen to as many perspectives as possible. While you won’t agree with everything you hear, there’s something to gain from listening to each person’s unique experiences.
Most valuable thing learned since graduation:
Learn on your feet and adapt quickly to changing situations.
Person you admire most and why (living or historical fi gure):
Milton Wong. He was an extremely generous person who made a signifi cant impact in the
Vancouver community. Our PMF class had the opportunity to meet him a few years ago and he reminded us of the importance of ethics to a sustainable career in fi nance.
Most listened to:
Coldplay–saw them for the fi rst time in concert this past New Year’s at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Gadget of choice:
Nexus 7 tablet. It’s great for playing video and surfi ng the Internet, and portable enough to carry around comfortably.
Your best-kept secret (what most people don’t know about you):
Recently started running in organized races— especially around Central Park.
Favourite journey:
Travelling throughout Europe after graduation.
Went to London and Barcelona for the fi rst time.
Eureka moment:
In COMM 486R, learning how to analyze business challenges holistically and working with talented peers from different disciplines.
Trait you admire most in others:
Empathy–being able to understand the other person’s perspective is essential in business.
Talent you would most like to have:
Better singing ability (working on this).
Biggest risk you’ve ever taken:
Moving to the other side of the continent, and learning to get out of my comfort zone in a city where I didn’t know many people at fi rst.
Last book you couldn’t put down:
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.
Where will you be in 10 years?
Working in fi nance in a more senior role, probably in New York.
Please contact us at alumni@sauder.
ubc.ca and we’ll be in touch.
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