Where are they now?
What a difference a decade makes. Compare this year’s list of top CEOs with those from 1998 and you can’t help but notice a sea change in the top echelon of B.C. business leaders.Back then a fellow named Tom Stephens headed the province’s biggest forestry company – which also happened to be the No. 2 company overall. Today MacMillan Bloedel is history, and Stephens has long since returned to his home in Colorado. A lone forestry company cracks the top 10 this year – at No. 10. more...
Moving mountains
The internal shakeups at Intrawest ULC may have reached their peak as B.C.’s resort heavyweight announced its third CEO in just over two years.Long-time CEO and founder Joe Houssian retired in November 2006, shortly after the company was bought by New York-based Fortress Investment Group LLC, a sale that took the company off the stock markets and gave it some deep pockets to draw from to acquire new resorts. more...
Net Profits
Chris Zimmerman says he’ll invigorate the Canucks brand and keep the fans cheering. But it’s slippery out there on the ice and fans are a notoriously fickle bunch. Can he survive the public scrutiny as CEO of Orca Bay? more...
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