The face of philanthropy is changing:
Vancouver Foundation Board appoints
new Chair and five new members
April 14 , 2011
Vancouver Foundation today announced some important changes to its Board of Directors. Gordon MacDougall has been appointed Board Chair, and five new members have been added (see below for short bios of each).
MacDougall has chaired Vancouver Foundation’s Investment Committee for three years, and was recently elected to fill the vacancy left by outgoing Chair Jake Kerr, who has served on the Foundation’s Board since 2007.
“It has been a privilege to work with Jake,” says Foundation President and CEO Faye Wightman. “He helped steer us through the most difficult economic times the Foundation has ever faced, and brought back the stability and growth that leaves us well-positioned for the future.”
“I can’t think of a more capable person to take over this important position than Gordon MacDougall,” says Wightman. “He has the financial acumen and the long-range vision that are essential for this leadership role. He also has a strong commitment to giving back to the community.”
MacDougall will officially assume the duties of Board Chair, and begin a two-year term as head of Canada’s largest community foundation, on May 1, 2011.
The five new members who join the Foundation Board effective May 1 are Tom Bradley, Tung Chan, Anna Fung, Paul Lacerte and Malik Talib. They replace outgoing Board members Ursula Botz and John Dustan.
The 14-member Board of Directors oversees the operation of Vancouver Foundation — Canada’s largest community foundation, with more than 1,400 funds and assets of $750 million. Since it was founded in 1943, Vancouver Foundation, in partnership with its donors, has distributed hundreds of millions of dollars to BC charities.
For more information:
Catherine Clement
VP Partnerships, Public Engagement and Communications
Vancouver Foundation
604-688-2204
Short bios of Vancouver Foundation’s new Chair and new Board members
Gordon MacDougall (incoming Board Chair of Vancouver Foundation Board of Directors) is Vice Chairman and Director of Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management. CC&L is an affiliate of Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group one of Canada's largest and fastest growing independent asset management firms in Canada, managing in excess of $40 billion.
MacDougall joined the company shortly after it was founded in 1982, and has been involved in investment management since 1969, serving variously with Yorkshire Trust, AGF Vancouver, Dominion Securities, and Sun Life Assurance. At the same time, he has raised funds and volunteered his time with numerous organizations, including Junior Achievement, BC Heart Association, St. George’s School, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Vancouver Foundation.
MacDougall has an MBA, a CFA designation, and is currently on the board of International Forest Products.
Tom Bradley is the President and co-founder of Steadyhand. He has 28 years of experience in the investment industry. He started his career in 1983 as an Equity Analyst at Richardson Greenshields, and spent eight years with the firm, the last three as Director of Institutional Sales. In 1991, he joined Phillips, Hager & North as a Research Analyst and Institutional Portfolio Manager, and was appointed to the Board of Directors of PH&N in 1996. He became COO in 1998, and was appointed President and CEO in 1999 — a role he held until he resigned from the firm in 2005.
Bradley writes a regular column in the Globe and Mail. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Tung Chan is the former CEO of SUCCESS (a group of registered charities dedicated to multiculturalism through building bridges and fostering social integration). He is currently an Honorary Captain of the Canadian Navy and the Vice Chair of the Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.
Since coming to Canada in 1974 at the age of 22, Chan has been a waiter, bartender, radio producer, Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the City of Vancouver, a branch manager of the Royal Bank, and a vice president of the TD Bank Financial Group. Chan has also volunteered his time at a long list of civic, cultural, business and educational organizations. In 2002, he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of this contribution to the community.
Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts from UBC and a General Management Diploma from the Institute of Canadian Bankers where he is also a Fellow.
Anna Fung Q.C. is Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Intrawest ULC. Fung has practiced law in BC for more than 25 years, specializing in corporate/commercial, aboriginal and administrative law.
Fung was an elected Bencher of the BC Law Society for 10 years and its President in 2007. She also served as President of the Association of Chinese Canadian Professionals and Chair of the People’s Law School. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2000.
In 2007, Fung received both the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch’s Equality and Diversity Award, and the Vancouver YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the Business & Professions category. In 2008, she was named one of the recipients of the BC Community Achievement Award and was a nominee for the UBC Alumni Award of Distinction.
Paul Lacerte is the Provincial Executive Director of the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, a position he has held for the past 15 years. The BCAAFC represents the largest Aboriginal service infrastructure in British Columbia and is engaged in social and community development for aboriginal peoples. He also serves as the CEO for the BC Centre of Excellence for Young Indigenous Leaders and has been instrumental in the establishment of an international Indigenous Youth Alliance.
Lacerte currently sits as one of the Canadian representatives at the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples in New York. He is a practitioner of traditional Aboriginal culture and ceremony and is a member of the Carrier First Nation in northern BC.
Malik Talib is a tax lawyer-turned-entrepreneur. In the past 16 years, he has started businesses in publishing, real estate, wireless technology and, most recently, mining and exploration.
His expertise includes acquisitions, tax planning, real estate planning, global market analysis, import and export, people and organizational change management, corporate governance, corporate strategy and business planning and operations. In 1999, Talib was named as one of Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40.
Talib has served at national and local levels on corporate and community boards, including: BC Children’s Hospital Foundation; Research Institute of BC; and Cabinet of the United Way of the Lower Mainland. He is currently Vice-President of the Aga Khan Council for Canada.
Biographies of other Vancouver Foundation Board members can be found on our website at www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca/about/leadersandadvisors.htm
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With more than 1,400 funds, and assets of $750 million, Vancouver Foundation is Canada's largest community foundation. Since it was founded in 1943, Vancouver Foundation, in partnership with its donors, has distributed hundreds of millions of dollars to BC charities.
