Innovation-Nov-Dec-2023

2023/2024 BOARD NEW BOARD CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR ELECTED

2023/2024 BOARD

At their inaugural meeting on October 28, the Engineers and Geoscientists BC 2023/2024 Board elected the new Chair and Vice Chair. Michelle Mahovlich, MEng., P.Eng., P.Geo., FCSSE, who formerly served as Vice Chair, was appointed as Chair. Mark Porter, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., was appointed as Vice Chair. Mahovlich owns her own project management firm and was the Director of Engineering and Public Works for the City of Langford for 14 years. Previously, she was the Project Manager and Development Manager for the remediation of the former cement plant in Bamberton. Her 17 years of private sector work experience included geotechnical and contaminated sites engineering work. Mahovlich has served on Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Investigation Committee as Vice-Chair and as an executive member of the Municipal Engineers Division. (See full profile on Mahovlich on pages 8-9.) Porter is the Vice President of Engineering at Nexii Building Solutions and a designated structural engineer. A champion of sustainability, he has led and been part of cross-disciplinary structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams on award-winning and boundary-breaking projects. His sustainability and climate change work was recognized by the Fellowship in the Institution of Structural Engineers and Engineers Canada award. Porter was the founding Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Group at Engineers Geoscientists BC, and also serves on the Wood First Advisory Committee for the Forestry Innovation Investment Group as well as CSA Code Development Committees NEW BOARD MEMBERS In the online Board election, September 8 to October 13, Mahovlich was re-elected to the Board and two new registrants were elected for three-year terms on the Board: Veronica Knott, P.Eng. and Matthew Salmon, P.Eng. Board member Jessica Steeves, P.Eng., completed her term. Knott is the Underground Supervisor at Rio Tinto Diavik Diamond Mines in the Northwest Territories. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining Engineering from UBC. Knott has volunteered for various organizations advocating for youth, education, diversity and STEM, notably the UBC Board of Governors and Canadian Mining Games. After serving 24 years with the British Army in the Corps of Royal Engineers, Salmon moved to Canada in 2015 with his young family and started working for the District of Lake Country where he is the Director of Engineering and

Chair

Michelle Mahovlich, MEng, P.Eng., P.Geo., FCSSE

Vice Chair

Mark Porter, P.Eng.

Immediate Past Chair

Mark Adams, P.Eng.

Elected Board members

Karen Ling, P.Eng. Mahsoo Naderi-Dasoar, P.Eng, PMP, M.Sc. Victoria Knott, P.Eng. Matthew Salmon, P.Eng. Jens Weber, P.Eng. Bill Chan, MBA, CPA, CGA, ICD.D Leslie Hildebrandt, ICD.D, LLB Emily Lewis, CPA, CMA Cathy McIntyre, MBA, C.Dir.

Government appointed Board members

Environmental Services. Salmon’s area of interest is in raising standards and accountability and ensuring the Continuing Education requirements are relevant and appropriate. GOVERNMENT APPOINTEES On October 31, Bill Chan, CPA, CGA, MBA, ICD.D, and Cathy McIntyre, MBA, C.Dir, were appointed to the Board of Engineers and Geoscientists BC by the provincial government. They replace David Wells, JD, and Suky Cheema, CPA, CA, who have completed their terms. Bill Chan is a professional accountant and an experienced board director, with over 25 years of C-suite experience. He has experience in all areas of financial management, enterprise risk and board governance. He has served on private and public boards, and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Vancity and the Provincial Health Services Authority board. Cathy McIntyre has more than 30 years of business experience at the senior management level, and 20-plus years of board experience, including the board of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, the Certified Management Accountants Society of BC and the Canadian Real Estate Association’s Director Compensation Task Force.

(See all Board bios at: egbc.ca/About/About-Us/Board. )

INNOVATION

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023

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