The late Dr. Don Rix, CM, OBC, Board of Trade governor (chair 2008-9); John Furlong, CEO, VANOC and former Whistler Fire Chief and JIBC board of governors chair Bruce Hall, will be the recipients of Honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees, to be conferred at the Justice Institute of BC’s Convocation, Tuesday, June 22. See media releaseDr. Donald Rix, John Furlong and Bruce Hall to receive honorary doctorates
The late Dr. Don Rix, CM, OBC, Board of Trade governor (chair 2008-9); John Furlong, CEO, VANOC and former Whistler Fire Chief and JIBC board of governors chair Bruce Hall, will be the recipients of Honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees, to be conferred at the Justice Institute of BC’s Convocation, Tuesday, June 22. See media releaseJUST IN! President Bill Clinton in conversation with Carole Taylor
The Vancouver Board of Trade’s Rix Center for Corporate Citizenship & Engaged Leadership is honoured to present this special event featuring President Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States in conversation with Carole Taylor, May 20. Register nowTaking YVR from basic to brilliant
Airport chairman Graham Clarke and Board of Trade governor (chair 1986-7) has stepped down as chairman of Vancouver Airport Authority after overseeing its transformation into Canada’s first airport authority. See Vancouver Sun, Apr. 30.John Furlong delivers first post-Olympic speech to standing ovation
A 1,000-strong crowd dusted off their Canada gear and gave a standing ovation to John Furlong, chief executive officer, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), at his first post-Olympic speech. Read more…Governors’ Banquet 2010 honours Dr. Don Rix, RBC Royal Bank and celebrates ‘The Jimmy Factor’
The late Dr. Don Rix, CM, OBC became the first Vancouver Board of Trade chairman to be inducted into the Council of Governors posthumously at the annual Governors’ Banquet and Rix Center Awards 2010 on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
His daughter, Laurie Rix Macrae, chair of the Rix Family Foundation, received a scroll, a commemorative album of his year as Board of Trade chairman 2008-09, and a gift of gold earrings and pin engraved with the Rix Center for Corporate Citizenship & Engaged Leadership emblem. Rix Macrae was also invested as an Honorary Fellow of the Rix Center. Read more…
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