Board

Bryan is a Chartered Accountant and is a Chief Financial Officer for a Vancouver based private investment company. His professional skills include treasury, finance, income taxation and management team leadership. Bryan is a Prostate Cancer survivor and has been cancer free since 2005. Prostate Cancer is in Bryan’s family; his dad was diagnosed at 58 and passed at 62; his brother was diagnosed at 46 (11 years ago) and is in fine health.

For years Bryan has been actively involved in Prostate Cancer fundraising including working with UBC VGH Foundation, Motorcycle Ride for Dad and Westcoast Motorcycle Ride to Live events.

Len is the Facilitator (Chair) of the Vancouver Prostate Support and Awareness Group known as Vancouver PSA Group. He is one of the founding members of Prostate Cancer Foundation BC. He is the founding member of the Canadian Prostate Cancer Network (CPCN) which is currently known as Prostate Cancer Canada Network and is a past member of the Advisory Board. Len has served on numerous other boards and advisory committees in the community. He is also a driver for Meals on Wheels and Gadabouts programs for seniors in Burnaby. Len was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in May of 1992, choose surgery as his treatment option and is currently experiencing a low level elevation in PSA reading and has been living with the side effects associated with the treatment.

Ted is a chartered accountant and currently the CFO of International Water-Guard, a global leader in aircraft water treatment and innovative water system solutions. Ted has significant experience in managing the financial and business operations of public companies. Prior to joining IWG in September 2000, he served as CFO and Director of Finance, Business or Performance Management with a public aerospace component manufacturer. He has also served as the senior financial officer of several other public and private companies in the manufacturing, distribution and financial sectors. Ted is a member of the North Shore Prostate Support Group and himself a Prostate Cancer survivor. Ted has recently volunteered with Operation Red Nose, and as a Director with both the Rotary club and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vancouver.

Judy is a professional accountant previously a partner with KPMG International in Vancouver. She has over 25 years of experience providing financial, tax, estate, investment and accounting advice to individuals and owner-managed businesses. Judy is also a board member for a number of other Canadian registered charities. She has been involved with the Foundation for many years in the areas of treasury, fundraising events and other functions.

Jeff Morgan has a business degree from Simon Fraser University, is a Chartered Accountant and has been a Vice President at the Adera Group of Companies since 1999. Jeff is responsible for the successful operations, financial and tax reporting for a group of commercial real estate investment companies including the mortgage investment company Terrapin Mortgage Investment Corp. Jeff brings his management skills to many areas of the board of Prostate Cancer Foundation BC including areas of Awareness, Fundraising, and events. Jeff joined PCFBC in 2008 to put his passion to fight cancer to work toward what Jeff believes is the most prominent cancer effecting men, that has a very low awareness rate, no known cause and where the research and treatment are underfunded relative to the incidents in our population.

After 12 years in his family’s business, Mark joined the security industry. He owned and operated an alarm company called Pacific Protective Systems from 1974 to 2006. While in business, he helped form the Alarm Association of B.C. and later served as President. He was instrumental in helping the BC group of companies amalgamate with the national association, which went on to become the Canadian Security Association. In the 1980s, Mark spent 10 years as a Director of “United Services Credit Union”. During that time he developed an extensive knowledge of Corporate Governance. Mark also volunteers for a number of Jewish organizations as well as the Canadian Cancer Society as a councilor with “Cancer Connection”. He assists in operating the Vancouver Prostate Group as well as serving on the BC Support Group Council.

Dan brings a solid knowledge of the business community to the Board. He spent many years as a salesman in the fields of giftware and insurance and also owned and operated a flower shop in Winnipeg.  At the age of 80, he is semi-retired, believing that an active mind aligns with good health. In the past, he has worked actively on the Boards of numerous organizations including Hillel, B'nai Brith and the Franco Canadian Chambre of Commerce. Dan understands and aligns with men who are reluctant to come forward with symptoms of Prostate Cancer. In 1993, at his wife's insistence, he consulted with his family doctor regarding symptoms which many men tend to ignore. Subsequent tests lead to a prostatectomy and Dan has been a survivor for 18 years. He joined the Vancouver Support Group in 1993 and arranged speakers for their meetings for 11 years. This role gave him the opportunity to connect with individuals in the Vancouver community who play active roles in the field of Prostate Cancer. He joined the Board in 2003 and has acted as Chair of the Scholarship committee for 7 years. He feels passionate in the need to channel financial support to bright students who are our future scientists. Dan trusts that their research and dedication to Prostate Cancer will bring a better quality of life to future prostate patients.

Dr. Michael Cox is an Associate Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia and the Senior Scientist at The Vancouver Prostate Centre. Dr. Cox is a molecular and cellular biologist who earned his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina for studies on how oncogenes impact neuronal growth and differentiation. He began his work on cell signalling networks in prostate cancer at the University of Virginia. His research program is dedicated to understanding how prostate cancer, the most frequently diagnosed male malignancy, initiates and progresses, and to finding ways of halting advanced disease progression.

Peter Fairey is a partner in Gowlings’ Vancouver office, practising in the Business Law Group. He brings a broad range of experience in corporate/commercial transactions, as well as a general knowledge of tax, securities, trusts, and immigration law to his other areas of practice on behalf of clients in the P3, life sciences, entertainment, publishing and IT and alternative energy industries. Peter is a past Director and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and a past Governor of the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

John is an Associate Partner in the KPMG tax group and has practiced in this area for over 25 years. He is a chartered accountant and has worked extensively with owner-managed businesses and is very familiar with the income tax and financial issues affecting those operating in an entrepreneurial environment. His areas of focus include estate planning, corporate reorganizations and tax minimization on operation and sale of businesses. John has provided clients with estate planning advice that incorporates charitable giving with the resulting tax benefits. He is past chair and director of the Richmond Community Foundation and is a member of the Vancouver Estate Planning Council and the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners.