Canada
General Counsel, Arbitrator, Corporate Solicitor, and Corporate Secretary for various public and private companies including EPC, Mining, Public Life Sciences, Public Engineered Woods Products, and the University of Victoria's Innovation & Development Corporation. Services included: • Intellectual property with focus on enhancement and protection of intellectual property, technology rights, internet law, privacy, and licensing • Corporate commercial law with a focus on mergers & acquisitions, financing, corporate commercial agreements, and corporate governance, privacy • Labour and employment law with focus on labour relations and human rights law including collective bargaining, labour arbitration, human rights and other administrative tribunal hearings for not - for - profit organizations and Aboriginal groups
• Reporting to the Board of Directors with operational and financial responsibility for all operations of business • Planned, developed, and implemented strategies for the television & multi - format world wide distribution of flagship production "Sanctuary" • Negotiated broadcast license and distribution agreements worldwide and for production financing • Managed twenty - five (25) employees
Provided management consulting to various public and private sector organizations, focusing on: • Planning, development, implementation & strategic management of intellectual property • Strategic and business planning • Human resources, labour relations, organizational restructuring and change management
Major Consulting projects during this time include: Public Sector • Ministry – Contracted Social Services Sector Project • Forest BC – Reorganization & Performance Management Project • BC – Reorganization & Performance Management Project Private Sector • Columbia – Strategic Planning Session & Strategy Development • Nature – Strategic Planning & Intellectual Property Strategy Project • Reliable Ltd. – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • Nature's – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • Vic - Tech – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • – Intellectual Property Strategy Project • – Intellectual Property Strategy Project
Law Society of British Columbia, Canadian Bar Association, ADRIC-BC (Qual.Arb)