Community-minded executive with experience leading operations, finance, facilities, and boards in mission-driven organizations. Founder and operator with commercial banking depth, real estate finance experience, strong systems fluency, and twenty years of nonprofit governance.
Core Expertise
Finance & Revenue
Budget leadership, commercial lending, real estate finance, grants, and revenue growth. Former RBC commercial banker; independent broker on $400M+/yr in transactions.
Operations, People & Systems
Day-to-day operations, hiring, process design, reporting, and member-facing systems. Strong technical and spreadsheet skills; builds practical tools that reduce admin friction.
Board Governance
Twenty years of board service across youth, health, arts, agricultural, and community organizations. Comfortable with board operations, strategy, policy, and compliance.
Community Growth & Facilities
Built the Salt Spring Island Wellness Centre from a foreclosed shell into a 500-member, 50-staff health hub. Brings facility and partnership experience relevant to growing community organizations.
Experience
Built the Wellness Centre from the ground up in an empty, foreclosed building. Grew it into a 500-member, 50-staff community health hub. Lead strategy, budgets, staffing, facilities, policies, member communications, and day-to-day operations. ssiwellness.com
Independent commercial real estate financing specialist for projects $3M-$300M. Licensed in Alberta (RECA) and British Columbia (FICOMM). Co-brokered $400M+ in commercial mortgage transactions per year over a five-year stretch. Provided underwriting analytics, funding strategy, lender negotiations, and feasibility support through commitment and funding. Principal on several sub-$10M developments, solo and with partners.
Underwrote and managed commercial lending relationships for institutional clients. Foundational credit and lending experience that later underpinned independent brokerage work.
Elected executive representing 25,000 students at one of Canada's largest student-owned associations. Oversaw a 450,000 sq/ft building, commercial operations, and events. Led budgets, supplier negotiations, board reporting, and the SU's first strategic plan in more than a decade.
Selected Board & Community Service
DirectorBeaver Point Hall, Salt Spring Island
DirectorSalt Spring Chamber of Commerce
DirectorAgricultural Alliance, Salt Spring Island
CommitteeIncorporation Study, Salt Spring Island
PresidentCondo Board, Calgary
DirectorAIDS Calgary
DirectorDistress Centre Calgary
ChairRefugee Student Board, UCalgary
ChairCampus Recycling Board, UCalgary
DirectorCJSW 90.9 FM Radio Society
DirectorNew University Television (NUTV)
DirectorGauntlet Publications
DirectorStudent Legal Assistance
Education
Executive MBA · University of Liverpool
2007 – 2010
Bachelor of Commerce, Finance · Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
2002 – 2005