Board service
I have served on the board of Hope Air since 2021, and am its Vice Chairman. Hope Air is the national charity that arranges free flights, accommodation, ground transportation and meals for Canadians in financial need who have to travel far from home for medical care — patients are never charged a cent. In 2025 it made 38,392 travel arrangements, covering 10,288 patient and caregiver trips to and from 710 communities, and it has now passed 277,681 arrangements since its first flight in 1986. Eighty-two cents of every dollar donated goes directly to getting patients to their care.
Since 2023 I have also sat on the board of Business Link, the government-funded non-profit that has been Alberta's front door for small business for more than 25 years. It gives entrepreneurs free one-on-one advice, training, market research and digital marketing support, whatever stage they are at. In 2024–25 it worked with 5,297 business owners across 203 Alberta communities, among them 462 Indigenous entrepreneurs and 1,367 newcomers to Canada.
Healthcare and public service
In May 2026 I joined a panel at the Canadian Bar Association's Health Law Summit in Québec City, on what happens when artificial intelligence arrives in health care faster than the rules meant to govern it. The session — Unregulated Intelligence: AI's Race Ahead of Regulation — put me alongside Alevtina Lapiy of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Kopiha Nathan of HIROC and Morgane Palau of McCarthy Tétrault. We worked through where consent and data governance break down in practice, how institutions are managing the risk today, and what accountability should look like when innovation outpaces oversight. Building compliant communications for clinicians is that same problem seen from the other end.
I accepted an appointment to the Life Sciences Sector Advisory Group for Global Affairs Canada. The group works with Canadian stakeholders to develop guidance and tools for the Trade Commissioner Service around the world and foster opportunities for Canadian business.
I joined the Conference Board of Canada after attending its committee on the Future of Health, where leaders from across Canada challenged assumptions about the direction of healthcare. I’m also proud to be a member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders.
Health technology leadership
Brightsquid received support from the City of Calgary to launch a health technology commercialization hub helping startups bring products to market. I continue to be inspired by innovators across the health technology sector and by citizens working to improve how people participate in their own health.
In 2018 I accepted the Outstanding Product Achievement Award in Canadian Healthcare in Ottawa. I remain thankful for Brightsquid’s co-founders, shareholders, advisors, employees and contractors.
Leadership, law and community
I’ve been part of a TEC Canada CEO group, gathering with leaders from many industries to discuss leadership, management and getting the most out of ourselves and our teams.
For more than 25 years I have been a member of both the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Alberta. Although I don’t actively practise law anymore, both remain important communities that I’m proud to be part of.
In the news
Health tech accelerator the latest recipient of a City of Calgary grant
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