Mark Mawhinney, Odlum Brown

Mark Mawhinney is an Associate Portfolio Manager and Investment Advisor with BC-based, employee-owned investment firm, Odlum Brown Limited (a Member-Canadian Investor Protection Fund). He...
Mandy Farmer CEO Accent Inns & Hotel Zed

Mandy Farmer, CEO Accent Inns & Hotel Zed

Mandy Farmer is President and CEO of Accent Inns and Hotel Zed, BC hotel brands renowned for their colourful personalities and customer-focused service, as...

Urban Grocer has an Innovative Mindset

Despite the notion that crises are bad times to launch businesses, a 2009 study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found 57 per cent...

Jarid Taylor, Brandigenous

Jarid Taylor founded Brandigenous in 2019, with the goal to elevate the way people buy branded merchandise. His focus is creating unique, quality brand designs...
Emilie de Rosenroll

SIPP CEO says Business Recovery at Forefront of Rising Economy Week

The brightest minds in Victoria, Canada and the U.S. come together November 16 – 20 for a comprehensive event focused on resilience and success...

Mary Lou Newbold, Mayfair Optometric Clinic

Mary Lou Newbold owns Mayfair Optometric Clinic, one of Victoria’s the leading eye care specialists, alongside her partner Dr. Stephen Taylor. As an alumna...
Janet Corey Fan Tan Home & Style

Janet Corey, Owner of Fan Tan Home & Style

Janet Corey owns Fan Tan Home & Style in downtown Victoria. She’s been in retail most of her life, first in her family’s men’s...

How the Victoria Tourism Industry is Coping with COVID-19

It’s a magical spring morning in the Inner Harbour. Above the Legislature, fluffy white clouds drift across the azure sky. The lawns of the...

Daisy Orser, The Root Cellar

Daisy Orser and her husband Adam are the co-founders and owners of The Root Cellar Village Grocer in Victoria, a market set apart by...
Two people working together at an office.

How to Develop your Corporate Financial Literacy

The pandemic is a global economic shock like no other. A bifurcated recovery is emerging from the country’s pandemic-driven economic contraction. Some workers, businesses...