Jim Reed – Chair

 Mr. Reed is the principal of a management-consulting firm which concentrates on business development, strategy, governance, and change. His clients include a wide range of public and private organizations, such as major crown corporations, universities, colleges, and national companies in the retail and service sectors. He has been a senior advisor on strategy for national retail, major crown corporations, and several public post-secondary institutions. He has assisted these organizations by developing strategies to improve capacity, sustainability, partnership and market position. In addition, Mr. Reed provides strategic advice to corporations interested in major sponsorship opportunities with domestic or international events.

Elaine Dagg-Jackson, Ch.P.C.

Elaine Dagg-Jackson is a Chartered Professional Coach and has been leading the Canadian Women's Curling Team since 2003. An early coaching success in 1991 led her to make a career switch from a career in advertising and public relations to full time coaching, becoming one of the worlds' first professional curling coaches. Since that time, she has compiled a long list of accomplishments at home and abroad. She has been National Coach for Japan, including the 1998 Nagano Olympic and Paralympic Games, and National Coach for Korea. Ms. Dagg-Jackson has been running summer curling camps for adults and juniors for almost 30 years, and she has been coaching on the world stage for over 20 years. Vancouver 2010 was her 4th Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In the community Ms. Dagg-Jackson is the Chair of a committee that is building support for a new Regional Curling Facility and the Vice-Chair of the Victoria Curling Legacy Foundation which administrates profits from recent world and national curling events.

Married to Glen Jackson, with two adult children, Ms. Dagg-Jackson resides in Saanich and has been in this community since 1986.

Mandy Farmer

Mandy Farmer is a third generation Victorian, and the third generation to run her family business. She is currently president and CEO of Accent Inns, a hotel chain with six properties in BC which proudly has achieved a 4 Green Key Rating at all locations.  In addition to the environment, Ms. Farmer is passionate about community and sits on a number of boards including Tourism Victoria and CAFE (the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise). She was recently named one of Business in Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40, a YWCA Woman of Distinction and ranked #12 in Profit Magazines Top100 Canadian Women Entrepreneurs.

Kathryn Laurin

Kathryn Laurin has led Camosun College as its President since September 2009. With a 25-year career as a professor, senior academic administrator, and professional musician, she brings a wealth of experience and ability to the board. Prior to moving to Victoria to assume her role at Camosun, Ms. Laurin served for three years as President and Vice Chancellor of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, and held a professorship in the University's Faculty of Education. She also spent 21 years at the University of Regina.

Ms. Laurin holds a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from McGill University, and a Master of Music with Distinction in Choral Conducting from Indiana University, and attended the Hochschule fur Müsik in Frankfurt, Germany. She was a recipient of the Regina YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture in 2001, and in 2009 was named one of Atlantic Business Magazine's Top 50 CEOs. Her community involvement included serving as Chair of the Post-Secondary Division of the United Way of Halifax, and sitting as a member of the Heart Truth Council (a division of the National Heart and Stroke Foundation), and as a member of the Boards of the Scotia Festival, the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Saskatchewan Film Board.

Peter Lawless

BA - UVic 1997, DPSM - UVic 1998, LLB - UBC 2001; MA – RMC 2008; Called to the British Columbia Bar 2002. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Lawless is a graduate of the National Coaching Institute in Victoria with a diploma in High Performance Coaching and a Chartered Professional Coach. He has represented coaches, athletes and sports organizations in selection disputes, harassment claims and with CCES. Mr. Lawless also conducts anti-doping matters for CCES before the Doping Tribunal and has appeared before the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.  He currently coaches several elite athletes in both Track and Field and Cycling including World Championships and Paralympic Games medalists. Mr. Lawless is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association and the Trial Lawyers Association of BC.  He is also the Vice Chair of the Coaches Association of BC, and sits on the Board of Directors of Coaches of Canada (the national professional coaches association) and the Disabled Sailing Association of BC – Victoria Branch.

Margaret Lucas

Margaret Lucas is the General Manager of the Hotel Rialto. She has been involved in the hospitality Industry for over 25 years. For 16 years she was the General Manager of Olympic View Golf Club before moving to the Hotel Rialto (formerly Hotel Douglas). Her mandate at the hotel was to revitalize this heritage hotel, which in turn, has become a benefit to the vibrancy of Victoria's downtown core.  Ms. Lucas has sat on numerous boards including Governor on the Camosun College Board of Governors, past Chair of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce and also serves as a Board Member on the Downtown Victoria Business Association (DVBA), the Victoria Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation and a past Board Member of the Leadership Council for the Greater Victoria Commission to End Homelessness.  In 2008 Ms. Lucas was awarded the Victoria Business Person of the Year Award for her contributions and involvement in the ongoing revitalization of Victoria's downtown core.

Kelly Mann

Kelly Mann has worked in the BC sport system since 1992 and has been the President and CEO of the BC Games Society since March 1999.  Mr. Mann's collaborative approach to the business of sport has made the BC Winter and BC Summer Games a significant player in the development of sport and community across BC.  He has served on numerous sport and community based Boards, most notably he was an Ambassador for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and was Founding Chair of KidSport Greater Victoria. Mr. Mann resides in Victoria with his wife and two teen aged children.

Chris Trumpy

Chris Trumpy was born in British Columbia and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1978. He holds a Certified General Accountant designation.

He joined the provincial government in 1979, and after working in a number of areas in the Ministry of Finance, was appointed deputy minister in 1998. Between 2001 and 2007, Mr. Trumpy served as deputy minister in the Ministries of Provincial Revenue, Sustainable Resource Management and Environment before returning to the Ministry of Finance in 2007. He was also chair of the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation from 1998 to 2007.

In March 2008, he became chair of the Board of Directors for Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) and in January 2010, was appointed to the Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy boards.  He also serves on the Coast Opportunities Fund Board. Mr. Trumpy retired from the provincial government in March 2009 but continues his work with Pacific Carbon Trust.