Biography

The driving force and the spirit of my career has been built around developing projects that inspire and challenge me. The last twenty-five years my work has engendered a cross-industry experience that encompasses: marketing; branding, manufacturing, people & culture, public relations; finance; philanthropy; and business-to-business negotiations involving corporate, government, labour, and Coastal First Nations.

I was one of the co-founders of bioLytical Laboratories in 2003, a medical diagnostic company focusing on the rapid detection of the HIV virus. Today this company holds approvals for the INSTI assay platform in more than fifty-five countries worldwide including Canada, the EU and the United States. Over the last two decades the company has expanded into assays for hepatitis, covid, and other blood borne diseases. In helping to develop the overseas markets for bioLytical, I was fortunate to have worked with groups such as the Clinton Foundation, World Health Organization, and with Sir Richard Branson\'s initiatives around global health. BioLytical is active today as a privately held company and has firmly cemented itself as a global leader in the rapid diagnostics space.

In 2009 I began serving as an external consultant to the Haisla First Nation of Kitimat, British Columbia. This work involved creating, brokering, and managing the Nation\'s major partnerships, as well as the integration with the LNG proponents and their corresponding EPCs. These partnerships participated in business that has exceeded over one billion Canadian dollars, with the Nation seeing unemployment go from 60% to near zero at the height of activity. I was named as a member of the LNG working committee for BC under former Liberal Premier Christy Clark up until 2015 when I completed my tenure and service to the Haisla people.

An additional piece of my consulting and investment portfolio began in aviation at the start of 2016, when I helped form AV8 Partners LLC located in Kona, Hawaii USA. AV8 Partners is the proud owner of a 35-year ground lease in Kona, Hawaii, with the Department of Transportation and the State of Hawaii. The parcel of land is located at the south side of Ellison Onizuka International Airport, and spans 15.5 acres. The Big Island Jet Center opened on Dec 14th of 2023 and is home to 10 acres of private ramp, a temporary terminal and fuel services for all classifications of aircraft. In 2024 our group will conclude a 9000 square foot permanent terminal and a 100,000-gallon private fuel farm to service our customers.

I have served as the Executive Chairman of the Board and CEO of two publicly traded companies in Canada from 2019 to 2022. Loop-Share (LOOP) was a listed company on the TSXV in Canada and OTC in the United States, where it developed one of the world’s first fully electric scooter sharing platforms. The company was forced to shift its business during the covid crisis and eventually became The GoodFlour Milling Company (GFCO), a leading gluten-free dry and baked goods manufacturer with current distribution across North America.

In 2023, I was asked to join Farmer Construction as its Chief Executive Officer. Farmer is located in Victoria, British Columbia, and is the oldest standing construction company on Vancouver Island dating back to 1951. The company has manpower that fluctuates from one hundred and fifty to two hundred plus workers depending on the size and stage of the project pipeline. I have been responsible for the restructuring of the company’s senior leadership, finance division, corporate culture, and assisting President Gerrit Vink with moving Farmer into its next stage of development and growth. As of January of 2024, Farmer has approximately one thousand doors of multi-family construction underway in the Capital Regional District serving clients such as Nicola Wealth, Starlight Investments and the Greater Victoria Housing Society.